t is said that Shah Jahan was very impressed by the completed consctruction and wanted to make sure that there would never be another monument as beautiful as the Taj Mahal. This drove him to commit one of the most horrific crimes recorded in history, he chopped off the hands of all the 20,000 craftsmen. This sadly implies that he ruined at least 20,000 families as the craftsmen could never work again. Most reports and tourist publications skim over this senseless crime and instead present the physical features of the Taj Mahal