The Decline of Mughal Empire and their Contribution 5.1 Timeline Timelines (CE) Image Description 1565-73 Akbar built Redfort at Agra but it was only during the reign of Akbar’s grandson, Shah Jahan, that the site took on its current state 1569-70 HamidaBanuBegum,widow of Humayun built a mausoleum, with the help of a Persian architect, Malik Mirza Ghiyas Akbar builds his new palace of 1571 FatehpurSikri close to the shrine of a Sufi saint Akbar himself planned his own tomb and selected a suitable site for it. After his 1605-1613 death, Akbar’s son Jahangir completed the construction Mughal school of painting reaches peak of c. 1615 perfection under Jahangir. Shah Jahan begins building the Taj Mahal 1632 as a memorial for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal In 1639, when Mughal ruler Shah Jahan transferred his capital from Agra to Delhi, the construction of Red Fort was ordered 1639 by him in the north-eastern side of the newly founded city of Shahjahanabad. Shahjahanabad in present day is known as Old Delhi. The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb begins 1673 building the great Badshahi Mosque in Lahore It was built by Azam Shah,[1] son of Aurangzeb, in 1678 in memory of his 1678 mother, DilrasBanu Begum (posthumously known as Rabia- ud-Daurani) 5.2Web links Web links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_architecture http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Mughalar.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_painting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire https://www.scribd.com/doc/274562048/Cultural-Contribution-of-Mughal-Empire http://indiapicks.com/annapurna/S_Mughal.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra_Fort http://www.redfortdelhi.co.in/history.htm 5.3Bibliography Chandra, Satish.,Mughal Empire (1526-1748),Haranand publication, 2007 Davies, Philip. The Penguin guide to the monuments of India, Vol II. London: Viking, 1989 Habib, Irfan. The Agrarian System of Mughal India. London, 1963. Habib, Irfan. An Atlas of the Mughal Empire. Delhi, 1982 Mitchell, George and Amit Pasricha, Mughal Architecture and Gardens,ACC Art Books,2011 Mukhia, Harbans. The Mughals of India, New Delhi: Wiley-Blackwell (2004). Nath, R., Indigenous Mughal Architecture, D.K. Print World Ltd; 2004 Richard, John F. The Mughal Empire. Vol. I, Part 5, of the New Cambridge History of India, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Tadgell, Christopher. The History of Architecture in India. London: Phaidon Press, 1990 Verma, Som Prakash,Interpreting Mughal Painting: Essays on Art, Society and Culture, OUP, 2009 .