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He commissioned the building of the Taj Mahal in Agra, as a burial place for his first wife Empress Mumtaz Mahal (meaning 'the first lady of the palace').
But for the last five years of his life he was imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb in a room of Agra Fort, tended only by his eldest daughter Jahanara Begum, with a direct view of the Taj Mahal. This was punishment for his endorsing Dara ShikohDara Shikoh ( 1615 1659) was the eldest son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. He was noted for his religious tolerance and was favored as a successor by his father and his sister Jahanara Begum, but was defeated and beheaded by h, Aurangzeb's older brother in the fight for succession, but it was a better fate than he might have expected; most Mughal Emperors killed their fathers upon succession.
Shah Jahan is buried in the Taj Mahal, next to his first wife.
| Preceded by: JahangirNuruddin Jahangir ( August 31, 1569 October 28, 1627) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1605 until 1627. He signed a treaty with the British East India Company promising their merchants preferential treatment, opening India to Britain for the first | Mughal Emperor | Succeeded by: Aurangzeb |