Agra Canal headworks, at Okhla barrage, in Delhi, 1871.

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Shahanshah Shah Jahan erected many splendid monuments, the most famous of which is the Taj Mahal at Agra, built in 1632-1648 as a tomb for his beloved wife, Empress Mumtaz Mahal.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan also intended to construct his capitol at Agra as an urban center that would rival both Istanbul and Isfahan in all its wealth and cultural lifestyle. He even bestowed the title or surname " Chaudhury " to the family of Dutta Chaudhury, the very ancient Zamindar of Andul, which is situated in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

* June 11 – The Agra High Court is established ( later shifted to the Allahabad High Court ).

* The Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed at Agra.

He is believed to have died on or about 27 October 1605, after which his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra.

India was a large producer of textiles, from dyed cotton chintz, muslin to rich embroidery work using gold and silver thread, coloured sequins and beads is displayed, as are carpets from Agra and Lahore.

Agra is a city in Phillips County, Kansas, United States.

Agra is located at ( 39. 760686 ,-99. 119592 ).

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Agra is served by the Agra Independent School District.

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Taj Mahal, in Agra, India is the world's most famous and most photographed mausoleum.

The course is one of the first of its kind out of India and is being taught by the Head Professor, Dr. Ruby Malik of the Agra Gharana and studied under Gurus Ustad Shabbir Ahmed Khan, Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, Ustad Latafat Hussaun Khan ( ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata ) and was awarded her Ph. D in Music by Agra University.

The Taj Mahal in Agra, India built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife, represents the pinnacle of Mughal Islamic architecture in India and is one of the most recognisable buildings in the world.

The Red Fort at Agra ( 1565 – 74 ) and the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri ( 1569 – 74 ) are among the architectural achievements of this time — as is the Taj Mahal, built as a tomb for Queen Mumtaz Mahal by Shah Jahan ( 1628 – 58 ).

Considered to be an " unrivaled architectural wonder ", the Taj Mahal in Agra is a prime example of Indo-Islamic architecture.

Now the Agra Fort is one of the World Heritage Sites of India.

In the east, the Persian garden gave rise to the Mughal gardens of India, a late example of which is the grounds of the Taj Mahal at Agra.

Fatehpur Sikri (, ) is a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

However apart from the imperial buildings complex few other buildings stand in the area, which is mostly barren, except of ruins of the bazaars of the old city near the Naubat Khana, the ' drum-house ' entrance at Agra Road.

Indira Nehru was born on 19 November 1917 at the Anand Bhavan in the historically important town of Allahabad, in what was then the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, into the politically influential Nehru family.

It occupies an important place in the history of Persian Architecture as the precursor and model for later great Mughal architecture tombs, including Humayun's Tomb in Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra, built by Timur's descendants, the ruling Mughal dynasty of North India.

Shah Jahan built several important mosques in Delhi, Agra, Ajmer and Lahore.

Aurangzeb ’ s rule of excluding Rajputs from the administration was now abandoned by the later Mughals — Jai Singh was appointed to govern the important provinces of Agra and Malwa.

In Agra, an important Mughal stronghold, the commander of Mughal forces Iskander Khan Uzbeg fled after hearing about Hemu's invasion, without a fight.

Well connected with the Indo-Gangetic plain by road ( to New Delhi, Dehradun and Lucknow ) and rail ( New Delhi, DehraDun, Lucknow and Agra ), Haldwani is an important commercial hub.

The paper ‘ Ganesh ’ published by him from Agra also played an important role in farmers ’ movement.

An inscription ( dated 1181 ) from his reign documents the beginning of the adoption of animal names for important officials, such as Kbo Salawah, Menjangan Puguh, Lembu Agra, Gajah Kuning, and Macan Putih.

They reputedly occurred in the Indian subcontinent from Peshawar to Dhaka, and at important centers of Mughal powers, including Murshidabad, Patna, Agra, and Delhi.

At its zenith, the Mughal Empire, which covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent ( including present day Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh ), was ruled from Delhi, Agra, and Allahabad during different periods.

Madhusudan joshi of Agra gharana ) of historic Maharaja Sayajirao university of Baroda ( India ) also visited frequently and promoted Indian classical music in various villages.

There are palaces in Allahabad and Agra which served as giant Chaupar boards for the Indian Emperor Akbar I from the Mogul Empire in the 16th century.

Wary of India's growing involvement in the Bengali rebellion, the Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) launched a preemptive strike on 10 Indian air bases at Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Agra, Adampur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Uttarlai and Sirsa at 1745 hours on 3 December.

James Rennell, now known as the Father of Indian Geography, laboured in Bengal and elsewhere for a period of 13 years, during which he surveyed an area of about, stretching from the eastern boundaries of Lower Bengal to Agra, and from the Himalayas to the borders of Bundelkhand and Chota Nagpur.

Baron Meston, of Agra in the Indian Empire and Dunnottar in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was created in 1919 for the Indian civil servant and former Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Sir James Meston.

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Aakash Chopra ( born September 19, 1977, in Agra, Uttar Pradesh ) is an Indian cricketer, who played for the Indian cricket team from late 2003 until late 2004 as a defensive opening batsman and close catcher in Test matches who evoked comparisons with Eknath Solkar.

Because the Indian military ( the Parachute Brigade in particular ) is still using the northern portion of the Agra Fort, the Delhi Gate cannot be used by the public.

* In the second expansion pack for the videogame Age of Empires 3, the Asian Dynasties, Agra fort is one of five wonders for the Indian civilization.

Cornelius was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh in British Indian Empire, to a Urdu-speaking Christian family, who raised in secular mode.

Alvin Robert Cornelius was born on May 8, 1903, in Agra, United Provinces of British Indian Empire, to a Christian Urdu-speaking class.

from Agra University in 1964. He received PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1966 under Supervision of Prof. M. S.

* Agra division, an administrative unit of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Flights are available to all major Indian cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Agra, Bangalore, Chennai, Patna, Khajuraho, Hyderabad, Gaya etc. International connections are Bangkok, Colombo, Hong Kong, Macca and Kathmandu ).

The British administration, which had taken over as a Colony the Indian holdings of the East India Company in the aftermath of the1857 rebellion, created Muzaffarnagar district in 1901, which was carved out of Saharanpur district, and both became part of the Meerut Division of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

Agra Division is an administrative unit of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

By June 1857, the Indian rebellion had spread to several areas near Cawnpore, namely Meerut, Agra, Mathura, and Lucknow.

The mosque should specially be noted for its four axially projected frontons with bordering ornamental turrets, a device which must have been borrowed from the four axial iwan-type gateways of the Persian influenced north Indian Mughal standard mosques of Fathpur, Agra and Delhi.

Itmad-ud-Daula's Tomb (, I ' timād-ud-Daulah kā Maqbara ) is a Mughal mausoleum in the city of Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.