Observe the image and answer the following question.
To which school of Rajasthani painting does this painting belong?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Bikaner
The painting is Krishna playing Flute surrounded by Cows, a Bikaner painting of 1777 now in the National Museum, New Delhi. Master artists of the Mughal atelier worked at Bikaner, and its style carries Mughal elegance and a subdued colour palette.
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): “Bikaner School of Painting …According to inscriptional evidence, several master artists of the Mughal atelier visited and worked in Bikaner in the seventeenth century. Karan Singh had employed Ustad Ali Raza, who was a master painter from Delhi. His earliest work represents the beginnings of Bikaner School, which can be dated back to around 1650.”
“Krishna playing Flute surrounded by Cows, Bikaner, 1777, National Museum, New Delhi” |
