Gopas and Gopis Approaching Krishna Malwa, late 17th c. The Rajasthani School of painting, a stylistic umbrella that includes both the Mewar and the Malwa Schools, is famous for its bold drawings and strong, contrasting colors. Each school of painting has its distinct facial types, costumes, landscape arrangements and colour schemes. In Malwa paintings, the treatment of figures is generally flat, with little attempt to employ perspective in a naturalistic way.
classic seventeenth-century Malwa school painting, one of the earliest and historically most important Rajput schools. At Mandu, the capital of Malwa, miniature painting can be traced back to the fifteenth century, when it developed as a variant of the Jain style of western India. By the seventeenth century, however, this purely Malwa style had evolved. Simple geometric compositions predominate, and colors are bold and highly symbolic, while naturalism and volume are negated.
Akbarnama Akbar (r.1556–1605) receiving the drums and standards captured from Abdullah Khan Uzbek, the Mughal governor of Malwa in north central India, who had rebelled against Akbar. by Mahesh & Anant ] V&A