This artwork depicts the charitable world Shah Jahan built alongside the Taj Mahal. The hospitals and rest houses that served ordinary people while the marble monument rose for an empress.
Shah Jahan is remembered almost entirely for the Taj Mahal. His welfare infrastructure is almost never mentioned. He funded free hospitals in Agra and Delhi, established rest houses along major roads for travellers and pilgrims, and maintained a system of daily distributions of food and medicine to the poor. The Mughal welfare tradition he inherited from Akbar and Jahangir was, under his reign, administratively embedded in ways that outlasted the individuals who created it.
A ruler can build the most beautiful building in the world. He can also build the systems that keep poor people alive. Shah Jahan did both. Only one gets on the postcards.
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