Was the Taj Mahal built over a Hindu Temple?
The British created and perpetrated the myth of “building” by ‘taking down and re-arranging’ temples because they hated Hindu architects to give their due credit! This ludicrous idea of ‘pulling down a temple and “re-building” a mosque by ‘re-arranging the same material’ was conceived and perpetuated by gullible-and-cunning “experts” on Architecture of the ‘Imperial British’, who had dynamited marble bath tubs from palaces –and had once put ‘Taj Mahal’ on auction at a reserve price of Rs 1.25 lakh –to be ‘broken down and quarried away to Europe by the successful bidder’! Lucky for Hinnd –& for World Architectural Heritage– that there was no bidder. “The celebrated mosque at Canouge is undoubtedly a Jaina temple… another mosque at Dhar, …without doubt, …of a Jaina temple, …Jaunpur, many other mosques at Ahmedabad and elsewhere show the same system of ‘taking down and re-arranging’** the materials on a different plan (!*!)” James Fergusson: “History of Indian & Eastern Architecture”,
