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Taj Mahal Reflection, Agra, India, 1996

"Reflecting the passions of Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, the Taj Mahal in Agra was built in the mid-1600s as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Later he was buried beside her. Covering most of India—and known under Shah Jahan's grandfather Akbar for religious tolerance—the Mogul Empire collapsed in the early 1700s."

—From "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Steve McCurry