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Love stories of India

From the Taj Mahal — the world's most famous monument to love — to the divine love of Radha and Krishna, India built the greatest declarations of love in marble and in myth.

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From the Taj Mahal — the world's most famous monument to love — to the divine love of Radha and Krishna, India built the greatest declarations of love in marble and in myth.

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Shah Jahan & Mumtaz Mahal
Mughal India · 1612–1631

Shah Jahan & Mumtaz Mahal

Eternal love carved in marble

The Mughal emperor who, when his favorite wife died bearing their fourteenth child, built the Taj Mahal as her tomb and the grandest declaration of eternal love ever raised.

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Radha & Krishna
Hindu myth

Radha & Krishna

Divine love made devotion

The love between the god Krishna and Radha, the milkmaid: an earthly romance that Hindu tradition reads as the supreme metaphor of the soul's longing for the divine.

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What are the great Indian love stories?

Some of the greatest are Shah Jahan & Mumtaz Mahal, Radha & Krishna.

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