August 3, 2026

The royal court in Bikaner (a city in Rajasthan, India) had around 500 tiny-detailed 'miniature' painters working for it in the late 1600s. Art scholars think another related style of painting was made at a place called Bahu, in which Indian city that gave its name to a kingdom in Kashmir?

A Begun
B Ghanerao
C Jaipur
D Jammu

Jammu was the home of the Dogra kings, who ruled all of Jammu and Kashmir starting in 1846 under King Gulab Singh. Bahu, near Jammu, is thought to be the source of a related style of Rajput painting. Meanwhile, around 500 tiny-detailed 'miniature' painters worked for the royal court in Bikaner (in Rajasthan) in the late 1600s.

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