Who painted Poet in a Garden of the Golconda School?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Muhammad Ali
Option (1) Muhammad Ali — Correct. Muhammad Ali painted Poet in a Garden at Golconda in 1605–1615.
Option (2) Farrukh Beg — Incorrect. Farrukh Beg painted Sultan Adil Shah II playing Tambura at Bijapur, not this Golconda work.
Option (3) Bihzad — Incorrect. Bihzad was a master painter of Persia. He has no link with the Golconda School.
Option (4) Nainsukh — Incorrect. Nainsukh was a painter of the Pahari schools in the hills of north India, far from the Deccan.
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):
“Poet in a Garden, Muhammad Ali, Golconda, 1605–1615, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA” |
