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title: "Kishangarh School of Painting: Bani Thani Art"
description: "The Kishangarh School of Painting is an 18th-century Rajput tradition known for its idealized facial types, often featured in UPSC art and culture studies."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The Kishangarh School is an eighteenth-century Rajput miniature painting tradition from the Kishangarh princely state of Rajasthan, renowned for its idealized, elongated facial type.
- Who was the principal patron and the principal artist of the Kishangarh School?
- What is the Bani Thani and why is it significant?
- How does Kishangarh painting differ from the Kangra School?
- What are the key visual markers used to identify a Kishangarh painting?

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The Kishangarh School is an eighteenth-century Rajput miniature painting tradition from the Kishangarh princely state of Rajasthan, renowned for its idealized, elongated facial type.

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In 1973 the Government of India issued a commemorative postage stamp reproducing Nihal Chand's "Bani Thani," the iconic Kishangarh portrait that art historian Eric Dickinson had earlier called the "Indian Mona Lisa."

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