Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who painted the poster in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Nandalal Bose
The poster is Dhaki, one of the Haripura Posters painted by Nandalal Bose at Mahatma Gandhi’s invitation. It shows a drummer, one of the ordinary rural folks these posters depicted.
NCERT (2026-27): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana. …He also illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood the role of art in teaching new ideas. For this reason, Mahatma Gandhi invited him to paint panels that were put on display at the Congress session at Haripura in 1937. Famously called the ‘Haripura Posters’, they depicted ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — a musician drumming, a farmer tilling, a woman churning milk, and so on.…”
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