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Mohatta Palace Museum bespeaks India’s Taj Mahal-kind love story in Pakistan

Mohatta Palace in Pakistan bespeaks India’s Taj Mahal’s kind story in Pakistan, however, there is one difference; While Taj Mahal was built on orders of the Mughal emperor Shah Jehan in ‘loving memory of his wife’, Mohatta Palace was built to save Mohatta’s wife from dying.

This Palace in Pak has used Rajasthani architecture to ensure free winds of sea get into the palace for the ailing wife of the then successful Marwari entrepreneur, Shivratan Mohatta.

Usman Damohi, Karachi historian, in his book Karachi Taareekh Kay Aaeenay Main says

*”In 1927, Shivratan Mohatta, a successful Marwari entrepreneur, commissioned a palatial house in the affluent seaside neighbourhood of Clifton. The architect commissioned for the assignment was Ahmed Hussein Agha, one of the first Muslim architects of India. He came from Jaipur to take up the assignment.

“Working in a Mughal revival style with a combination of locally available yellow Gizri stone and pink stone from Jodhpur, he sought to recreate the Anglo-Mughal palaces of the Rajput princes.”*

The reason behind the commissioning of the project was a serious illness that Mohatta’s wife suffered from. Doctors told Mohatta that sea’s refreshing winds of the sea can cure his wife’s illness. Hence, Shivratan built this fascinating bungalow in the previous century in Clifton, covering a very large area.

When it was handed over to Fatima Jinnah

After Partition, the palace was handed over to Fatima Jinnah, sister of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. After her demise, the Government of Sindh took over the building

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