TAJ MAHAL… the hidden truth

No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the
whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak
says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz’s tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace
of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya). In the course of his research
Oak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan
from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court chronicle,
Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz’s burial . The ex-Maharaja of
Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for
surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as
a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers.

For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all
buried in such mansions. Oak’s inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He
says the term “Mahal” has never been used for a building in any Muslim
countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria. “The unusual explanation that the term
Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.

Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani, ” he
writes. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters ‘Mum’ from a woman’s
name to derive the remainder as the name for the building.”Taj Mahal,
he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva’s Palace .
Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale
created by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists . Not
a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan’s time corroborates the love
story.

Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal
predates Shah Jahan’s era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by
Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took
a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests
revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler
Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after
Mumtaz’s death), describes the life of the cit y in his memoirs. But he makes no
reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an
English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz’s death, also suggest
the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan’s time.

Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies
that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple rather
than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed
since Shah Jahan’s time and are still inaccessible to the public. Oak
asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects
commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples . Fearing political
backlash, Indira Gandhi’s government tried to have Prof. Oak’s book
withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of
the first edition dire consequences . There is only one way to discredit or
validate Oak’s research.

The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal
under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.

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