Safdarjung's tomb

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Well done! Wonderful careful work! This reminds me of my attempts to get the Taj Mahal to look straight in my photographs. Although Mogul architecture is simply wonderful, it needs to look 90 degrees perpendicular, which it often is not. Hope this helps!

Posted by Linda Wilson on Tue 04 Oct 19:40:51

Thanks.Sometimes the camera causes a structure, especially minarets, to not look perpendicular !

Posted by Ravi Batra on Wed 05 Oct 07:04:50

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04/10/2016

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Safdarjung was appointed Chief Minister of the Mughal empire in 1748 when it had considerably shrunk to just northern India. His son did not have much money to build his father's tomb and even a large portion of the facing was obtained by stripping it from a nearby existing tomb. "The last flicker in the lamp of Mughal architecture at Delhi" -- Anon.

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Ravi Batra

I am a self-taught amateur artist and live with my wife Anita,in New Delhi,India.I spent 35 busy years in the oil industry and in 1996,at the age of 63, took up watercolour painting. I was greatly encouraged when,"The Artist",in its May 2002 issue,featured a painting of mine in its column "How I…

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