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"A white marble tomb built in 1631-48 in Agra, seat of
the Mugal Empire, by Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum, the
monument sums up many of the formal themes that have played through Islamic
architecture. Its refined elegance is a conspicuous contrast both to the
Hindu architecture of pre-Islamic India, with its thick walls, corbeled
arches, and heavy lintels, and to the Indo-Islamic styles, in which Hindu
elements are combined with an eclectic assortment of motifs from Persian
and Turkish sources." .  
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