Marble stone used for the construction of the Taj Mahal was brought from the…

A passage-based factual question is settled by the text itself, not by general association with the topic. The governing rule is simple: fix the exact relation the stem asks about, then find the one sentence in the passage that states that relation, and accept only the name that appears in it. Outside knowledge may support the reading, but it can never displace an explicit statement in the passage.

The relation asked for here has three parts: a place with marble mines, lying inside Raja Jai Singh's ancestral domain, from which stone was carried to Agra.

1. Locate the paragraph that deals with Jai Singh's cooperation. It is the second paragraph of the passage, which describes the imperial orders issued between 1632 and 1637.

2. Read the clause that states the relation: those orders demanded that he provide stone masons and carts to transport marble from the mines at Makrana, within his ancestral domain, to Agra.

3. Match the clause to the stem. Mines of marble - yes; lying inside Jai Singh's ancestral domain - yes; stone carried to Agra - yes. All three parts of the relation are satisfied by Makrana, and by no other name in the passage.

Cross-check the other names against what the passage and the wider history actually say about them:

• Burhanpur - the passage places the Mughal court there in 1631 and records Mumtaz Mahal's temporary burial in the Zainabad garden on the Tapti. It is a Deccan city, far outside the Kachhwaha lands, and no quarry is attached to it anywhere in the text.

• Amber - the Kachhwaha seat of power, so it genuinely belongs to Jai Singh's house, but the passage never names it. The imperial orders speak of mines lying inside the domain, not of the capital that governed the domain.

• Jaipur - laid out only in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh II, almost a century after the mausoleum was finished, so it did not yet exist when the stone was being carted in the 1630s.

Hence the marble used for the Taj Mahal came from the mines at Makrana, in central Rajasthan, which the passage places within Raja Jai Singh's ancestral domain.