Miniature Painters as Historiographers

Abstract

Artists are an integral part of the society and they have their own way of telling the history through their art works. For present research, five paintings have been selected that represent a unique way of telling the contemporary events of the troubled period of Sikh Rule, which have become a history now. But this has been done in such a subtle manner that it almost goes unnoticed. In current research the paintings will be studied not only from artistic perspective, but it will also deal with the socio political and historical dimensions present in paintings.