Detail: Rajasthan, the «Land of Kings», is located in the northwestern part of India, between Delhi and today's Pakistan. The area of influence of the king's sons (the Rajput warrior caste) used to be much vaster.
The Hindu courts in Rajasthan had no choice but to forge an alliance with the Muslim Mughal rulers that had invaded India in the 16th century. The artists working in the workshops at the royal courts of Bundi, Kota, Udaipur, Jaipur and Jodhpur were thus confronted with the stylistic innovations of painting in the Mughal capitals. The artists were stimulated by the new trends in painting and mostly produced religious series of paintings which combined their local style of painting with the more naturalistic approach of the Mughal artists.