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The tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah at Agra, called the Baby Taj, was built by Nur Jahan for whom?

  1. A.Her husband Jahangir
  2. B.Her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg
  3. C.Her brother Asaf Khan
  4. D.Her son Shahryar

Correct answer

B. Her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg

Explanation

The correct answer is B, her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg. Ghiyas Beg, a Persian noble who rose to be Jahangir's treasurer with the title Itmad-ud-Daulah, was buried in a garden tomb across the Yamuna that Nur Jahan completed in the 1620s. It is the first Mughal building faced entirely in white marble and decorated with pietra dura inlay, techniques later used on a far larger scale on the Taj Mahal, hence the nickname Baby Taj.

Option A is wrong because Jahangir's own tomb is at Shahdara near Lahore. Option C is wrong because Asaf Khan, Nur Jahan's brother and Mumtaz Mahal's father, was buried at Lahore. Option D is wrong because Shahryar was Jahangir's son and Nur Jahan's son-in-law, not the person commemorated here. Examiners often ask which Mughal building first used marble facing and inlay work, and the answer is this tomb at Agra.

Read the full article: Architecture and Monuments of Uttar Pradesh: Full Notes

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Q1.Uttar PradeshEasy

The Taj Mahal was built by which ruler, and for whom?

  1. A.Akbar, for Jodha Bai
  2. B.Shah Jahan, for Mumtaz Mahal
  3. C.Jahangir, for Nur Jahan
  4. D.Aurangzeb, for Dilras Banu Begum
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Correct answer: B. Shah Jahan, for Mumtaz Mahal

Work on the tomb began in 1632, a year after Mumtaz Mahal's death, on the right bank of the Yamuna at Agra, in white marble brought from Makrana in Rajasthan; tradition names Ustad Ahmad Lahauri as its chief architect, and the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List…

Q3.Uttar PradeshEasy

The Bara Imambara of Lucknow was built in 1784 by which Nawab, and with what purpose?

  1. A.Shuja-ud-Daula, as a victory memorial
  2. B.Asaf-ud-Daula, as famine relief work
  3. C.Muhammad Ali Shah, as a royal tomb
  4. D.Wajid Ali Shah, as a theatre hall
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Correct answer: B. Asaf-ud-Daula, as famine relief work

A severe famine struck Awadh, and the Nawab set thousands to work on the Bara Imambara in 1784 so that wages reached the hungry, with the story that nobles worked at night to pull down part of the day's building and keep the work going.