A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . AGRA AND ENVIRONS. Londou John Mottav, iVlbonijiplr Sirviii ROUTE 13. AGRA—HISTORY—MUTINY 1857 171 period. The house of Lodi was the firstMohammedan dynasty which choseAgra for a settled residence. Beforetheir time Agra was a district of Lodi died at Agra in , but was buried at Delhi; he builtthe Barahdari Palace, near Sikandara,which suburb received its name fromhim. Babar is said to have had agarden-palace on the E. bank of theJumna, nearly opposite the Taj, andthere is a mosque near the spot, withan inscription
A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . AGRA AND ENVIRONS. Londou John Mottav, iVlbonijiplr Sirviii ROUTE 13. AGRA—HISTORY—MUTINY 1857 171 period. The house of Lodi was the firstMohammedan dynasty which choseAgra for a settled residence. Beforetheir time Agra was a district of Lodi died at Agra in , but was buried at Delhi; he builtthe Barahdari Palace, near Sikandara,which suburb received its name fromhim. Babar is said to have had agarden-palace on the E. bank of theJumna, nearly opposite the Taj, andthere is a mosque near the spot, withan inscription which shows that itwas built by Babars son, Humayan,in 1530 The Emperor Akbar resided at Agrain the early years of his reign, andremoved there from Fatehpur-Sikriabout 1568. The only buildings thatcan now be attributed to him are thewalls and the red palace in the died at Agra in 1605. Jahangirleft Agra in 1618, and never Jahan resided at Agra from 1632to 1637, and built much of the Fort andconstructed the principal buildings ofthe Palace a
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