In 1526, Babur defeated his predecessor Afghans and seized the green plains of northern India from them. The plains of these plains on the banks of the Ganges-Yamuna were called paddy bowls and milch animals grazing green grass in these plains, provided unlimited milk equivalent to the holy water flowing in the Ganges-Yamuna. Colorful birds used to fly in the sky above and the sun and the moon used to come in turn and look at this crocodile earth with an enchanted sense. Delhi was the ancient capital of Hindus who lived happily in these plains for thousands of years.
When Delhi became under the Turks in AD 1193, they built a fort for themselves which was called the fort of Siri. When Salim Shah, the ruler of Sur dynasty became the emperor of Delhi, he built a new fort for himself in Delhi which was called Salimgarh. The Mughals who came from Fargana and Samarkand left Delhi and made Agra their capital and built a small ugly fort at Fatehpur Sikri.
When the generations of Babur ruled over India for over a hundred years, the Mughal Emperor Khurram, in 1628, killed 18 of his brothers and uncles and became the lord of India's lush green plains, uninterrupted flowing rivers and skyscrapers. He was the fourth descendant of Babur, he was known as Shah Jahan in the history of India.
Shah Jahan had got a rich empire of his fathers and grandfathers. Therefore, the challenges were very few in front of him. The vast armies of the Sultanate fought on the fronts of Afghanistan, China, Bengal and South India and continuously increased the boundaries of the Sultanate. Due to this, gold-silver and diamond-jewels were piled up in the treasury of the Sultanate.
Using this money, Shah Jahan built a huge throne for himself called Takht-e-Taus, which means the Peacock Throne. This throne was built in the shape of a dancing peacock.
The planks were 3.5 yards long, 2 yards wide and 5 yards high. The entire throne was made of solid gold with precious gems weighing 454 Ser. Several hundred artisans worked continuously for 7 years in the meenakari and mosaic of these gems. The cost of the planks came to Rs 2 crore 14 lakh 50 thousand. European historian Tavernier has written that Kohinoor was also rooted in this throne.
After sitting on the plankton, Shah Jahan did not feel in the forts of the old design made by Akbar in Agra and Fatehpur Sikri. He settled on the banks of the Yamuna and decided to build a new fort for himself in Delhi, the capital of Hindus for thousands of years. Even before Shah Jahan, Delhi had been the capital of Turkish and Afghan Muslims for about 125 years.
Shah Jahan tasked a clever engineer named Ustad Ahmad Lahori to build the Red Fort, which had expertise in building buildings of Mughal architecture. The same Ahmad Lahori later built the Taj Mahal of Agra.
On 12 May 1638, the Red Fort was laid on the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi. By the time the Red Fort was ready, Shah Jahan lived in a hundred year old fort named Salimgarh near it, which was built by Salimshah Suri in 1546 AD.
Shah Jahan would stand on the banks of the Yamuna for hours and would see the construction of this new fort and would see the shadows of the rapidly rising fort walls moving in the black waves of the Yamuna.
Shah Jahan built this fort with red and white stones of his choice. Both these colors were very dear to Shah Jahan. Shah Jahan then did not know that these walls of the Red Fort would continue to be washed with red colored human blood until Babur's last descendant was tied with chains and sent to Rangoon.
A city called Shahjahanabad was established in the middle of the Red Fort and in the middle of it was built the royal palace where Shahjahan himself and his future generations were to live. Several small canals were built from the Yamuna river to the Red Fort, through which the holy water of the Yamuna was drawn and brought to the palaces of the Red Fort.
These canals were so beautiful that they were called Canal-e-Bahisht. By drinking the water of these canals, such beautiful flowers bloomed in the gardens spread far and wide in the Red Fort, which competed with the flowers of heaven. However, the walls of the Red Fort saw the blood of Shah Jahan's descendants flowing in these canals as time changed.
Hindus believe that Shah Jahan did not build any new fort in the form of Red Fort. There was already an old fort in which the Hindu rulers resided for hundreds of years. Shah Jahan got the same fort rebuilt.
Finally, after a full nine years of g-break construction, the Red Fort was completed on 6 April 1648 and Shah Jahan entered the fort with his huge harem. Just the same day, the walls of the Red Fort started getting wet with human red blood.
Shah Jahan was 56 years old when he entered the Red Fort, but his body still had a lot of life. He was a man of high-handedness, so new women used to come and go in his harem.
Shah Jahan had spoiled the women of many of his emir-umrao and generals by calling them women in his harem. Because of this some women have committed suicide
This was the reason why no one in Shah Jahan's own family loved him. His harem was full of conspiracies. Many rich emperors of the Sultanate were thirsty for their blood.
Shah Jahan, growing increasingly old, could clearly see the blood of descending blood in his eyes to obtain the Red Fort's throne. Due to which the wrinkles of his face were becoming increasingly deep.
Shah Jahan had nine Begums proclaimed among which Mumtaz Mahal was of the third number. She married Shah Jahan at the age of only 10 years. 13 children were born from the belly of Mumtaz Mahal and died during the 14th childbirth.
Shah Jahan also had many children from other Begums of Shah Jahan, most of whom died during Shah Jahan's lifetime.
When Shah Jahan was arrested by his son Aurangzeb, eight sons of Shah Jahan were alive, out of which four sons - Dara Shikoh, Shah Shuja, Aurangzeb and Murad Bakhsh and four Shahzadians - Purhunar Begum, Jahanara Begum, Roshanara Begum and Gauhra Begum. .
In the eyes of these eight children of Shah Jahan, the red color of the walls of the Red Fort became shadowy, lalai. Shahjahan's four princesses and all four princesses were thirsty for each other's blood. Each princess started laying chess pieces to make one of her brothers the king.
For this reason, Shah Jahan did not allow his eldest son Dara Shikoh to stay in his capital Delhi. Yet one day, one of his sons Aurangzeb was captured and taken captive by Shah Jahan.
Modern historians may have described Shah Jahan as the god of love because of the construction of the Taj Mahal, but the bitter truth of history is that his personal conduct was so bad that when his son Aurangzeb imprisoned him, neither a member of the harem nor the sultanate Only a rich or commander of the army came forward to help the emperor.
The walls of the Red Fort were astonished to see this plight of its creator and master. She was even more disappointed when the old Shah Jahan was taken out of the Red Fort in Delhi and locked in the Red Fort of Agra. Look at the sequel - Mughal princesses started spreading rumors from the walls of the Red Fort!
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