Latifs "Agra, Historical and Descriptive;" and Edmund Smith's
"Fatehpur-Sikri." My acknowledgments are due to Babu Abanindro
Nath Tagore, Mr. A. Polwhele, Executive Engineer, Agra, and to
Mr. J.H. Marshall, Director-General of the Archæological Survey of
India, for kind assistance rendered. I am particularly indebted to
Messrs. Johnston and Hoffman, of Calcutta, for allowing me to make
use of their valuable collection of photographs for the illustrations.

In quoting from "Bernier's Travels," I have used Constable's
translation, with Messrs. A. Constable & Co.'s kind permission. To
the Editor of the _Nineteenth Century and After_ I owe permission to
make use of my article on "The Taj and its Designers," published in
that Review, June, 1903.

CALCUTTA,

_January_, 1904.



Contents

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

The Great Moguls--I. Babar--Babar's Connection with
Agra--II. Humayun--Interregnum: Shere Shah--III. Akbar--Akbar's
Connection with Agra--IV. Jahangir--Jahangir's Connection with
Agra--V. Shah Jahan--The Monuments of Shah Jahan's Reign at
Agra--VI. Aurangzîb--Agra and the Later Mogul Emperors--Agra in
the Mutiny.