Pahari painting (literal meaning a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar means a mountain in Hindi) is a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms [1].
Pahari school developed and flourished during 17th-19th centuries stretching from Jammu to Almora, in the sub-HimalayanIndia, through Himachal Pradesh, and each creating stark variations within th egenra, ranging from bold intense Basohli Painting to the delicate and lyrical Kangra paintings.
It gave birth to a new idiom in Indian painting, and grew out of the Mughal painting, though this was patronized mostly by the Rajput kings who ruled many parts of the region [2].
Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India by B. N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol. 38, Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India (1992), pp. 3-391 http://www.jstor.org/pss/1522698
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