Kshitindranath Majumdar, an early student of Abanindranath Tagore, painted mythological and religious subjects. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Kshitindranath Majumdar’s works such as Man Bhanjan of Radha and Birth of Sri Chaitanya show an extraordinary power of expression.
Reason (R): Kshitindranath Majumdar understood religious concepts as a follower of the Bhakti Marga.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Assertion (A): Kshitindranath Majumdar’s works such as Man Bhanjan of Radha and Birth of Sri Chaitanya show an extraordinary power of expression. — True. These works, with Sakhi and Radha and Lakshmi, are named as examples of his power of expression.
Reason (R): Kshitindranath Majumdar understood religious concepts as a follower of the Bhakti Marga. — True. He was a follower of the Bhakti Marga.
Why R explains A? His power of expression was inspired by his understanding of religious concepts as a Bhakti follower. So R gives the source of what A describes.
NCERT (2026-27): “Rasa-Lila This is a watercolour painting in wash technique portraying the divine life of Sri Krishna made by Kshitindranath Majumdar (1891–1975). He was one of the early students of Abanindranath Tagore, who carried forward the wash tradition with some deviations. …He has painted mythological and religious subjects. Man Bhanjan of Radha, Sakhi and Radha, Lakshmi and Birth of Sri Chaitanya are few examples of his extraordinary power of expression inspired by his understanding of religious concepts as a follower of the Bhakti Marga.” |