Benode Behari Mukherjee painted the mural The Lives of Medieval Saints. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Many of the saints in the mural belonged to the profession of tapestry weaving.
Statement II: The mural reminds us of the syncretic and tolerant tradition found in the teachings of the Bhakti poets.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
Statement I. Many of the saints in the mural belonged to the profession of tapestry weaving. — Correct. The mural recalls a painted woven cloth, and many of these saints were weavers by profession.
Statement II. The mural reminds us of the syncretic and tolerant tradition found in the teachings of the Bhakti poets. — Correct. Mukherjee draws on the teachings of Bhakti poets such as Ramanuja, Kabir, Tulsidas and Surdas.
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): “The Lives of Medieval Saints …Mukherjee skillfully reminds us of the syncretic and tolerant tradition of Indian life as found in the teachings of great Bhakti poets like Ramanuja, Kabir, Tulsidas, Surdas and others. …In some ways, the mural reminds us of a painted woven tapestry, a profession that many of these saints belonged to.…”
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