Bibi Ka Maqbara

Bibi Ka Maqbara

MONUMENTS OF INDIA – BIBI KA MAQBARA

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Bibi Ka Maqbara is a maqbara built by Raja Azam Shah, son of Emperor Aurangzeb, in the late seventeenth century as a loving gesture to his mother Rabia Durrani alias Dilras Banu Begum. And the comparison to the Taj Mahal has resulted in a general ignorance of the monument. Bibi ka Maqbara is also called the Dakkhani Taj or the Taj of the Deccan.

This is situated in Aurangabad city in state of Maharashtra.The tomb in itself represents the transition from the ostentatious architecture of Akbar and Shah Jahan to the design and simple architecture of the later Mughal shaha.

This Bibi ka maqbara name translates to ‘Tomb of the Lady’, but it has earned the nickname ‘poor man’s Taj’ because it was originally planned to rival the Taj Mahal but it was prevented from doing so due to budgetary constraints. Taj Mahal’s cost was 32 million Rupees approximately.