Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.166

c6.166

The time limit of this mediæval Western Indian painting is from the earliest miniatures in this style—our earliest dated examples being from the Nisīthachūrṇi, dated 1100 A.D. to about the end of the 16th century, when under the influence of the newly founded Mughal school the style disappeared. Examples of Western Indian miniatures follow in the 17th and 18th centuries, but their idioms of expression are seriously affected by the Rājpūt-Mughal complex, and their study forms a part of the development of Rājpūt and Mughal schools. In the present work we have confined ourselves to the study of the history of Western Indian miniatures, roughly extending from 1100 A.D. to the end of the 16th century.