Edited by: Surendra Ghaskadbi and Vidyanand Nanjundiah
The Taj Mahal, literally “Crown of the Palace”, located in the Indian city of Agra, represents the apogee of Indo-Islamic architecture. It was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal and later came to house his own remains. Its construction, beginning in 1632 lasted over 16 years. More than one architect was associated with its design, with Ustad Ahmed Lahauri and Mir Abdul Karim being prominent among them. Much of the fabrication was done on site, with the scaffolding and final structure (apart from a veneer of marble and stone inlay) made of the same basic material, brick and lime. That, the pleasing symmetries broken by the two tombs, and the fact that the Taj, unlike a multicellular organism, was built according to a blueprint, are points of note for developmental biologists.
The orange lettering stands for Embryology in the Kannada language and the green lettering for Developmental Biology in Marathi or Hindi. There are 22 official languages in India which can be classified into six distinct families.
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