Match the persons linked with Indian art in the colonial period in Li…

Match the persons linked with Indian art in the colonial period in List-I with their descriptions in List-II.

List-I (Person)	List-II (Description)
A. Rabindranath Tagore	I. Travancore Court artist
B. Raja Ravi Varma	II. Principal of the Calcutta School of Art
C. E. B. Havell	III. Wrote about Swadeshi in art
D. Ananda Coomaraswamy	IV. Founded the Visva-Bharati University

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) Rabindranath Tagore	(IV) Founded the Visva-Bharati University	The poet founded Visva-Bharati at Shantiniketan; Kala Bhavana was part of it.
(B) Raja Ravi Varma	(I) Travancore Court artist	The self-taught Ravi Varma worked at the Travancore Court.
(C) E. B. Havell	(II) Principal of the Calcutta School of Art	Havell, a British administrator, headed the Calcutta School of Art and supported Abanindranath.
(D) Ananda Coomaraswamy	(III) Wrote about Swadeshi in art	Coomaraswamy wrote about Swadeshi in art and joined hands with Okakura.

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): “Raja Ravi Varma …The most successful examples of this type of painting were found away from these art schools. They are best seen in the works produced by self-taught artist, Raja Ravi Varma of the Travancore Court in Kerala.…”

“The Bengal School …Abanindranath enjoyed the support of British administrator and principal of the Calcutta School of Art, E. B. Havell (1861–1934).…”

“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.…”

“Pan-Asianism and Modernism …Ananda Coomaraswamy, an important art historian, wrote about Swadeshi in art and joined hands with a Japanese nationalist, Kakuzo Okakura, who was visiting Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta.…”