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If anyone knows the story of the Taj Mahal, then brace yourself for this

Mughal Ruler Shah Jahan Married His Own Daughter.

The Mughal king Shah Jahan, who built the TajMahal, married his own daughter, yes incest!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan

Source: Mughal rule in India
By Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Herbert Leonard Offley Garrett · 1995

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...page&q&f=false


This is another portion:

Niccolao Manucci, a Venetian traveler, visited India
during the reign of Shah Jahan and regarding Shah
Jahan, he in his memoirs ‘Storia do Mogor’, wrote,
“Numerous scandals connected with the private life of Shah
Jahan depict him as a man of despicable character, whose only
concern in life was how to indulge in bestial sensuality and
monstrous lewdness.”[6] Manucci also wrote, “It would seem
as if the only thing Shah Jahan cared for was the search for
women to serve his pleasure.”[6] He also mentioned that
Shah Jahan had illicit relations with the wives of his
court ministers Jafar Khan and Khalilullah Khan.[6]
Another European traveler Francois Bernier, in his
‘Travels in the Mughal Empire’, wrote, “The frequent fancy
(mina) bazar in the palace, where hundreds of abducted Hindu
women were bought and sold and presented with Emperor, the
maintenance of a large number of dancing girls (prostitutes)
by the state, the presence of hundreds of (castrated) male
servants (khojas) in the harem were the objects for the
satisfaction of Shah Jahan’s lust.”[6]. Sebastian Manrique,
another traveler from Europe, in his ‘Travels of Sebastian
Manrique’, wrote that Shah Jahan had illicit relation with
the wife of his brother in law Shayesta Khan. He also
mentioned that whenever the wife of Jafar Khan was on
her trip to the palace, the onlookers used shout, “Shah
Jahan’s breakfast is going to the palace”. In a similar
manner, whenever the wife of Khalilullah Khan was seen
to move towards the palace, the onlookers used to shout,
“Shah Jahan’s lunch is going”.[7]
It is well known that Shah Jahan used to have regular
sex with his eldest daughter Jahan Ara. To defend
himself, Shah Jahan used to say that, it was the privilege
of a planter to taste the fruit of the tree he had planted.
[7] While commenting on this matter, Francois Bernier
wrote, “Begum Sahiba, the elder daughter of Shah Jahan,
was very handsome and of lively parts, and passionately
beloved by her father. Remour has it that his attachment
reached a point which it is difficult to believe, the
justification of which rests on the decision of Mullahs or
the doctors of Islamic law. According to them, it would
have been unique to deny the king the privilege of
gathering fruits from the tree he had himself planted.”
[7] According to Peter Mundy, another European
traveler, Shah Jahan had illicit sexual relation with his
younger daughter Chamni Brgum.[7]
From the above mentioned facts it becomes difficult to
believe that a passionate love could have developed
between Arjumand Banu and the monstrously lecherous
Shah Jahan, who used to cohabit with so many married
wives, 6000 concubines in his harem, wives of several
nobles of his court and above all, who used to have sex
with his own daughters. When commenting on this
aspect, P N Oak, in his ‘Tajmahal: The True Story’ writes,
“Stories of Shahjahan’s exclusive infatuation for
Mumtaz’s are concoctions. They have no basis in history
nor has any book ever written on their fancied love
affairs. Those stories have been invented as an
afterthought to make Shahjahan’s authorship of the Taj
look plausible.” [8]

Source: https://vediclibrary.in/storage/data...ppeasement.pdf

and: https://archive.org/details/travelsinmogulem00bernuoft