Indian Mughal Art - Bikaner Ram Singh Jodhpur - Miniature Painting

Maharaja Ram Singh (28 July 1730 – September 1772), was the Raja of Marwar Kingdom, also called Jodhpur State, (First Reign 18 June 1749 – July 1751 and Second Reign 31 January 1753 – September 1772).He succeeded on the death of his father, 18 June 1749. But he was defeated in battle by his uncle Bakht Singh at Luniawas, 27 November 1750 and was expelled from Jodhpur and sought refuge in Jaipur, July 1751 He reascended the gadi for the second time after deposing Maharaja Vijay Singh, 1753.He died at Jaipur, September 1772. Mughal paintings are a particular style of South Asian painting, generally confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums, which emerged from Persian miniature painting (itself largely of Chinese origin), with Indian Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist influences, and developed largely in the court of the Mughal Empire of the 16th to 18th centuries.