Jodhpur painting under Jaswant Singh (1638–1678) and Man Singh (1803–…

Jodhpur painting under Jaswant Singh (1638–1678) and Man Singh (1803–1843). Consider the following statements:

(A) A trend for documentary painting through portraiture and depiction of court life started under Jaswant Singh around 1640.

(B) Numerous portraits of Jaswant Singh survive.

(D) The Dhola-Maru set was painted during Jaswant Singh’s time.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (C) only

(A) A trend for documentary painting through portraiture and depiction of court life started under Jaswant Singh around 1640. — Correct. It lasted till photography took over the recording of events in the nineteenth century.

(B) Numerous portraits of Jaswant Singh survive. — Correct. Many portraits of Jaswant Singh have come down to us.

(C) The Panchatantra was one of the significant sets painted during Man Singh’s time. — Correct. The Panchatantra (1804) is named among the significant sets of his reign.

(D) The Dhola-Maru set was painted during Jaswant Singh’s time. — Incorrect. Dhola-Maru was painted during the reign of Man Singh, not Jaswant Singh.

Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.

NCERT (2026-27): “Jodhpur School of Painting …A productive period of painting was ushered in by Maharaja Jaswant Singh (1638–1678) in the mid–seventeenth century. A trend for documentary painting through portraiture and depiction of court life started under his patronage around 1640 and enjoyed prominence till the advent of photography in the nineteenth century when it substituted painting for recording events. Numerous portraits of Jaswant Singh survive.…”

“Jodhpur School of Painting …The last phase innovative of Jodhpur painting coincided with the reign of Man Singh (1803–1843). Significant sets painted during his time are the Ramayana (1804), Dhola-Maru, Panchatantra (1804) and Shiva Purana.…”