Makrana

Makrana is famous for the white marble quarried from the hills of central Rajasthan. Its stone can be cut and polished to a luminous finish, making it prized by builders and sculptors. In the seventeenth century marble from Makrana was carried to Agra for the Taj Mahal, the mausoleum commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. The journey of the stone connected these quarries with one of the most ambitious building projects of the Mughal court.