Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is a folio of the Hamza Nama. What is the base surface of these paintings?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Cloth
The Hamza Nama folios were held up for view while a narrator read the stories aloud, so their format is large. Their base surface is cloth, with paper at the back carrying the narrative text.
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):
“Spies of Hamza attack the City of Kaymar, 1567–1582, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna” “Early Mughal Painting …The emperor took great interest in both pictorial narrative, as well as, recitation of Hamza Nama. Because of the peculiar function of these paintings, their format is large. The base surface is cloth with paper at the back, on which the narrative text is written to help the narrator and the technique applied is gouache, which is water-based and in opaque colours.” |
