Shah Jahan did not build a Taj Mahal for Khandar Begum. He hated her Architects were summoned from all regions of to submit designs for the grand mausoleum. Someone warned Shah Jahan that putrefaction of Mumtaz's body was working at a much faster rate than the Shah's architects and planners. Shah Jahan had not envisaged this outcome in his PERT chart and looked crestfallen before the Turkish and Roman designers. He reasoned, 'Mumtaz's body won't last 22 years, and it's too late to learn mummification from the Chinese.
A priest was consulted and he suggested that Mumtaz be buried. The monument could be constructed later, around the tomb. Shah Jahan rewarded the priest by making the priest's daughter his 420th queen.
Sees the Taj Mahal! The Taj Mahal is so famous mostly because it resembles an ample female. But the crooks of the East India Company, its directors and chokda boys, could see jack-shit even with a long telescope. The Taj Mahal was not visible.