Match the names from the Bengal School period in List-I with their descriptions in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Haripura Posters | I. Part of Visva-Bharati University |
| B. Jamini Roy | II. Where Havell began Indianising art education |
| C. Government Art School, Calcutta | III. Echoed Gandhi’s socialist vision |
| D. Kala Bhavana | IV. Used village community as resistance |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Haripura Posters | (III) Echoed Gandhi’s socialist vision | Nandalal Bose’s posters of rural folk echoed Gandhi’s socialist vision of including marginalised sections of Indian society through art. |
| (B) Jamini Roy | (IV) Used village community as resistance | Roy used the notion of village community as a weapon of resistance to colonial rule. |
| (C) Government Art School, Calcutta | (II) Where Havell began Indianising art education | Havell and Abanindranath began to Indianise art education here. It is now the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. |
| (D) Kala Bhavana | (I) Part of Visva-Bharati University | Kala Bhavana, India’s first national art school, was part of the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore. |
NCERT (2026-27): “Abanindranath Tagore and E. B. Havell The year 1896 was important in the Indian history of visual arts. E. B. Havell and Abanindranath Tagore saw a need to Indianise art education in the country. This began in the Government Art School, Calcutta, now, Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. …” “Shantiniketan — Early modernism … Kala Bhavana was India’s first national art school. It was part of the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan. … 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. They were painted as lively colourful sketchy figures and shown as contributing their labour to nation building. These posters echoed with Gandhi’s socialist vision of including marginalised sections of Indian society through art.” “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940. … Roy used the notion of village community as a weapon of resistance to colonial rule and a political act of making local signify national.” |