Which of the following cities is NOT a court where the Mughal School of painting flourished?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Golconda
The Mughal School dominated the scene from the sixteenth century through the courts of Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Lahore.
Option (1) Delhi — A court of the Mughal School.
Option (2) Agra — A court of the Mughal School.
Option (3) Fatehpur Sikri — A court of the Mughal School.
Option (4) Golconda — Not a court of the Mughal School. Golconda was a centre of the Deccani School, with Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Hyderabad.
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): “Malwa School of Painting …The Mughal School dominates the scene from the sixteenth century through the courts of Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Lahore. … The Deccani School flourished in centres, such as Ahmednagar, Bijapur, Golconda and Hyderabad from the sixteenth century. The Rajasthani Schools came into prominence in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, with the Pahari School following in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.” |