A comparative study of three versions of Tuti nama of Indian Gurkani Court

In this paper, further to an overview of three versions of Tuti nama illustrated at Gurkani Court, some paintings of any of the aforesaid versions are reviewed to study the evolution of Mughal style painting style. The statistical population consists of two paintings of Tuti nama available at Bharat Kala Bhavan Museum and two paintings of its version at Clivland Museum as well as 2 paintings of its version at Chester Beatty Library. Research method is of descriptive type analyzing the paintings. The goal of this paper is to study the evolution of stylistics- Mughal style painting- in three versions of Tuti nama. The result of this study has revealed that the version of Clivland Museum with about 244 paintings with the works of transit period from local painting to development of Mughal style painting style in terms of stylistics belong to Royal Library of Gurkani Court. The version of Chester Beatty with 113 paintings and of completely Mughal style painting style is the next copy to Clivland Version, illustrated. It seems that if it does not belong to the Royal Library, it is attributed to the court of one of the most powerful provinces of Gurkani. Bharat Kala Bhavan Version has a great tendency toward local painting and it is limited by nine paintings belonging to the local court.