March
01
/ 2023
When we ask an average European family on a trip to India what they are hoping to see, their preference and plan, the answer we tend to get is: ‘the beautiful Taj Mahal, manifestation of a husband’s love for his wife’. But wait a minute, have you ever come across a red Taj Mahal, which is a manifestation of a wife’s love for her husband? Well in fact there is one in India, in the very city where the white Taj Mahal is located, Agra. But this Taj Mahal was made by a Dutch woman for her Dutch husband, the erstwhile governor of Agra under Maharaja Mahadji Scindia - Colonel John Hessing. The author having been associated as a research
