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The Rajput school of painting was Mughal in style and Rajput in its content. Comment.

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  • Culture during Mughal Empire

Rajput (or Rajasthani) painting flourished in the courts of Rajputana from roughly the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, evolving from an earlier pre-Mughal Western Indian idiom before absorbing the imperial Mughal miniature tradition it later ran alongside.

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