![]() The reign of Shah Jahan, known formally in his time as Shah-Jahan Padshah (emperor), was a troubled one. Shah Jahan, who assumed the throne in 1628, spent too much money on luxuries and wasted too much effort on war. In 1658, one of his sons overthrew and imprisoned him. During the last years of his life, the former emperor could see the Taj Mahal only as a reflection in a mirror held up to a window in his prison cell. On his death in 1666, Shah Jahan was buried in the Taj Mahal. |