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Jahangir Mahal, Agra
Undoubtedly,
the most noteworthy building inside Agra Fort is the Jahangir Mahal (Jahangir's
Palace), which was the principal zenana palace (palace for women belonging to
the royal household), used mainly by the Rajput wives of Akbar. A splendid gateway
leads to an interior courtyard surrounded by grand halls covered with profuse
carvings on stone, heavily fashioned brackets, piers, and crossbeams. One can
still spot remnants of decoration in gold and blue done in the prevalent Persian
style. Jahangiri Mahal mixes Transoxanian (Central Asian) features, such as
the verandah on the east front with its high slender columns (a translation
into stone of the timber iwan of vernacular Transoxanian architecture), with
courtyard halls styled in the broader Gujarat-Malwa-Rajasthan tradition as it
had been passed onto the Mughals by the early 16th-century architecture of Raja
Man Singh of Gwalior. This exotic medley and adventurous eclecticism suggests
a daring approach in architecture. The typically Gujarati brackets-fabulously
carved animal and floral motifs-register a dominating effect on the few Islamic
features such as the verandah on the eastern front with exquisitely slender
pillars facing the riverfront. Jahangiri Mahal is the most important building
of the Akbari period in the Agra Fort.
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