Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is one of the panels Nandalal Bose painted, at the invitation of Mahatma Gandhi, for display at a Congress session. What did Bose understand that led Gandhi to invite him?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → the role of art in teaching new ideas
Option (1) the need to Indianise art education — Incorrect. It was Havell and Abanindranath Tagore who saw this need, at the Government Art School, Calcutta.
Option (2) the role of art in teaching new ideas — Correct. Bose illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood this role of art. For this reason, Gandhi invited him to paint the Haripura panels.
Option (3) the influence of Mughal and Pahari miniatures — Incorrect. This influence is shown in Abanindranath’s Journey’s End. It is not the reason for Gandhi’s invitation.
Option (4) the kind of style that the Bauhaus exhibition showed — Incorrect. Amrita Sher-Gil used this style to depict Indian scenes. It is not the reason for Gandhi’s invitation.
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): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism …At Kala Bhavana, Nandalal founded the intellectual and artistic milieu to create an Indian style in art. By paying attention to the folk art forms that he saw around in Shantiniketan, he began to focus on the language of art. He also illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood the role of art in teaching new ideas. For this reason, Mahatma Gandhi invited him to paint panels that were put on display at the Congress session at Haripura in 1937.”
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