A town in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, near to the Himachal Pradesh border, west of Jammu.
Basohli was the capital of a tiny kingdom in the Shiwalik Hills in the seventeenth century, despite its insignificance today.
- The earliest appearance of the Pahari style of miniature painting was in Basohli.
- Highly defined features, severely flattened perspective, and wide bands of a single strong hue for backdrops distinguish the Basohli variant of that style.
- It acts as a bridge between the so-called Rajasthani and the Pahari schools' more evolved methods.
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