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Emperor, of the fifth generation of the mughal empire,
Shahjahan, who was very fond of making tombs besides ruling
over India, had a desire in his heart to make a beautiful
tomb, in the memory of his wife, Mumtaj.
For this purpose, he asked the king of Jaipur (Amer) where
the white marble is found in his kingdom. So the king
of Jaipur found the white marble of makrana of good quality
and chose the same for making the TajMahal.
Then shahjahan asked the carving of which place was famous.
For this, he chose the engravers of Iran and it was Sheeraji,
master of carving, to make the architecture of Tajmahal.
After the architecture was made master Sheeraji sent 1800
engravers to Makrana,under the leadership of Pahar khan.In
around 16th century this work began. For this purpose,
600 elephant were made to carry the stones. And after
22 years of work,Tajmahal was made ready.
After that, the engravers who came from Iran were asked
to stay in Makrana, by Shahajahan. Shahajahan
Asked the king of Jaipur to issue orders to let the engravers
from Iran to stay in Makrana and earn the livelihood,
as the rewards to the engravers. Since then, for about373
years the engravers have been residing in Makrana , and
till today they have done the carving of thousand of temples.mosques,
gurudwaras , but today, there is no one to acknowledge
The hands of those engravers, who made the beautiful tombs
of history. They face many problems now and then. They
are not getting any kind of rebate from govt. on the business
of Marbles.
And stats govt is getting this money as a royalty. Inspite
of this,the govt. of makrana is not bothered. Every now
and then ,for some or the other reason the govt is creating
the trouble for the mine owners
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