For three centuries, the Mughals shaped northern India with gardens built as images of paradise, tombs of white marble and court kitchens that gave India its richest cuisine.
Mughal · 1526–1857
the marble and the garden.
Delhi, Agra and the Taj Mahal
What they left behind
Monument
The Taj Mahal at first light, and Humayun's Tomb, which inspired it.
Food
Kormas, kebabs and biryani, from recipes kept by old Delhi families.
Craft
Marble inlay, practised in Agra by families who have done it for generations.
Music
Hindustani classical music, shaped in the Mughal courts.
By invitation
Dinner in an Old Delhi haveli, cooked by a family whose recipes go back to the Mughal court.
Your Saint: a historian of Mughal India
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