UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2012 · Q5(d) · 12 marks
Discuss the Caurapancashika and Jain styles of paintings. Can the Caurapancashika style truly be called the precursor of pothi format?
- Chapter
- Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Topic
- Architecture and Painting
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