Obviously, there’s zero evidence of it being true historically, Had this been true, archaeologically, we would have found skeletal remains of the hands somewhere. This would have been mentioned somewhere in some book. Some court historians would have mentioned it. There were several travellers there during that era from foreign countries, they wrote books as well, something would have been mentioned somewhere at least. But there are no mentions of it.
In fact, the evidence that we have, are contrary to this claim. Shah Jahan had built a huge settlement known as Taj Ganj, it still exists today, thousands of masons, artisans, and workers assembled there from different regions of the empire, to work on the Taj Mahal together.
The descendants of those workers, still live there and work there, and practice the skill of their forefathers. Actually, after building the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan’s workers built an entirely new city. It was named ‘Shahjahanabad’. Later named Delhi.
So think about it logically, the Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Jama Masjid, were built around the same time. Had the hands of the workers being chopped off, how could the empire have built such enormous monuments?
