IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY

Is Basic Knowledge of history Necessary?

• The answer may differ now but after you watch this presentation we will have a common answer…..

Introduction

TAJ MAHAL

THE HIDDEN TRUTH

Aerial view of Taj Mahal

The Interior water well

Frontal view of Taj Mahal

Close up of Dome and Pinnacle

Close up of Pinnacle

Inlaid Pinnacle in courtyard

Red Lotus at the apex[Entrance]

Typical Vedic Style Corridors

The Music House : A Contradiction

The Locked Room At Upper Floor

Marble Apartment At

Ground Floor

OM in The Flowers

Staircase To The Lower Level

300 Foot Long Corridor

One Of The 22 Rooms

Inertior Of One Of The 22 Rooms

Inertior Of The Locked Room

Vedic Design on Ceiling

Ventilator Sealed With Bricks

Doors That Hides More Evidences

Barhanpur where Mumtaz Died

Pavilion where Mumtaz is saidTo be Buried

• No One Have Ever Challenged it except Prof P.N.Oak, who believes that the whole world has been duped. In his book of Taj Mahal : The True Story, Oak says that 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. • Oak’s inquiries began with

the name Taj Mahal

He says the term “Mahal” has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries from Afghanistan 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 women’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.

• Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan’s time corroborates

the love story. • Further more, 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……

• European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo, who visited Agra in 1638(only seven years after Mumtaz’s death), describes the life of the city 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 suggested the Taj Mahal was a note worthy building well before Shah Jahan’s time. Prof. Oak points out

a number of design and architectural inconsistencies that support that 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……..

VIEWS OF PROF. P.N.OAK BEING CRITICISED BY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF MCL SARASWATI BAL MANDIR

CHAR BAGH Char bagh is the basic feature of Tajmahal, which is not only the

surrounding of Tajmahal but also the surrounding of Red Fort , Shalimar Bagh, Which shows the feature of Mughal archtecture .

• It’s a sign of mughal architecture.• Only found in the monuments made by

mughal.

It’s a big evidence that Like

Red Fort and Shalimar Bagh ,

Taj Mahal is also made by a

muslim.

Controversy on architecture of Taj Mahal

• As far as the architecture of taj mahal is

concerned , it was made by thousands of

labours.

• Moreover all the labours were a mixture of

hindus and muslims. So we get lots of

evidence of hindu culture there.

Controversy on Oak’s Personality

• Oak was the member of British Corporation

Council . As he was a indo -christian ,a

product of Mculay’s theory ( To form a

group of people, who would be Indian in

blood and English in taste ).

• So we can say that he was very much

influenced by English culture

• Oak suggested on the basis of Carbon

Dating that “some doors inside the Taj

Mahal were more older than the reign of the

shahjahan “

MISUNDERSTANDING CAUSED

BY CARBON DATING

But here we can arise a question

That “ can’t we reuse the building

materials in any construction.”

TO SUM UP:-

• It can be concluded that we all must have at least the basic knowledge of indian history as the citizen of india.

• Incase we fail to study or understand the indian history , that may result communal riots inside the country like “Ayodhya Mamla”

• Taj mahal is the world heritage through out the world ,as we all know about it.

• If we have at least the basic knowledge then only we are able to argue on these kind of diplomatic controversies created by our surrounding.

The things to be remembered

• ON behalf of the 121crore population of INDIA I would like to request you that before believing on

any antisocial element we must use

our mind and the basic knowledge of

our history

HUMBLE REQUEST TO ALL INDIANS

Thank You

Presented by-Shivank

Pulkit