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INDIAN TREASURE RESTORED - 2003-06-21
Posted July 10th, 2007 by heritage
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Saturday, 2003, June 21Location:
The 30-acre site contains more than 100 graves and was the first Mughal tomb with a 'chahar-bagh' or four-part paradise garden on the Indian subcontinent. But when the capital was moved from Delhi to Agra, site of the Taj Mahal, the tomb was neglected and the water dried up. It now gets about 1,000 visitors a day and officials said they are hoping to double or triple that figure now that the gardens have been spruced up.
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