CONTENTS: Director's Note-Ashish Anand, Introduction-Rana Safvi, * The Taj Mahal: Imperial and Family Glory-Ursula Weekes, * The Taj Mahal and its Gardens: The Sacred and the Sublime-Amita Baig, * The Everyday Extraordinary: The Taj and its Life in the City-Sarthak Malhotra, * A Cartography of the Feminine Presences Around the Taj-Ira Mukhoty, * Shah Jahan's Quran: The Epigraphic Programme of the Taj Mahal-Michael Calabria, * The Flowery Meadow: The Floral Decorations in the Taj Mahal-Rana Safvi, * Romantic Perspectives in Images of the Taj Mahal from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century-Emily Shovelton, Catalogue, Acknowledgements.