Basohli (formerly Vishwasthali) is the name of tehsil and town in Kathua district in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

The different themes of the paintings are religious (Gita Govinda and Ramayana), secular, historical, contemporary and literary.

Besides the paintings bring out extreme emotion combined with a lyrical sense of Basohli landscape.

The paintings are marked by strikingly blazing colours bold lines, rich symbols and peculiar features giving an accumulative impact of highly sensuous environs.

[7] The Battle of Basoli was fought in Basohli between the Sikhs and the Mughal Empire aided by the Rajputs of the hill states in 1702.