Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c10.49

c10.49

After the establishment of the Mughal school, however, the indigenous technique in painting was greatly improved and gradually the aristocratic phase of Western Indian art was submerged into the general current of Mughal art. Its folk expression, however, survived, though its technique was greatly modified in Rājpūt and later Gujarātī painting. A study of this phase of Western Indian painting, properly speaking, belongs to the sphere of Rājpūt and Mughal arts. But as Western Indian school continued to flourish even in this period, it would not be out of place here to give a brief description of the changed technique.