What are the unique features of Deccan Miniature Paintings? Choose from the given options.

A. Based on Ragmala series.

B. Three-dimensional effects, which can be seen in the delineation of buildings.

C. Based on Modern themes.

D. Flat Background and Dark Sky depiction.

E. The art work are based on portraiture, and religious themes.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B), (E) only

The correct answer is option 1- (A), (B), (E) only

A. Based on Ragmala series.
B. Three-dimensional effects, which can be seen in delineation of buildings.
E. The art work are based on portraiture, and religious themes.

An intriguing work in the collection of National Museum, New Delhi, titled Ragini Pathamsika of Raga Hindola, an important member of the Ragamala family of the Indian musical mode, dates back to around 1590–95. Some scholars believe it to be from Bijapur, an important state of Deccan.   The Ragamala are, as we have seen, Indian in their connections, with definite echoes of the Lepakshi style. They exemplify the luxuriant aestheticism of the Adil Shah court in their daring and brilliantly successful colouring and vigour of simplified compositions.

The Deccani style of Painting was placed under the Indo-Persian art for long. It was considered to be Middle Eastern, Safavid, Persian, Turkish and even Mughal in origin. Art historians acknowledged its uniqueness but failed to recognise it as a full-fledged school, which was sustained by a class of rulers, who had their peculiar political and cultural vision. They hired and nurtured artists and commissioned works that enhanced their artistic sensibilities and specific requirements of governance in their kingdoms. The art of portraiture and representation of historical and religious figures are seen elsewhere in other contemporary schools of painting. Mughal portraiture, in this sense, was not wholly unique. We see such artistic inclinations in the Safavid and Ottoman Schools of Painting. The highly documentary nature of portraits is a singularly unique development seen extensively in the Asian Islamic art as also in the Mughal art in India.