Did Shah Jahan cut off the hands of the Taj Mahal’s builders? No 17th-century record says so
Tavernier saw 20,000 men build the Agra tomb over 22 years. The Taj's own supervisors and architect went on to build Delhi's Red Fort from 1639.
Mughal Empire
Akbar’s Rajput queen was never called ‘Jodha Bai’ in Mughal records: the name came from an 1829 British book
Akbar's chronicle calls her only Raja Bihari Mal's eldest daughter. Her son knew her as Mariam-uz-Zamani; 'Jodh Bai' was Jahangir's Jodhpur wife.