Observe the image and answer the following question.
For which event did Nandalal Bose paint the panel in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Haripura Congress session
Option (1) Partition of Bengal in 1905 — Incorrect. After the Partition of Bengal, the Swadeshi movement was at its peak and it reflected in ideas about art. Bose’s drummer panel was not made for it.
Option (2) Haripura Congress session — Correct. Mahatma Gandhi invited Bose to paint panels for the Congress session at Haripura. This drummer, Dhaki, is one of the Haripura Posters.
Option (3) Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta — Incorrect. This exhibition brought works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other Bauhaus artists to Calcutta. It showed European art, not Bose’s panels.
Option (4) Decoration of the Indian House in London — Incorrect. The Indian House in London was decorated by Bengal School artists under close British supervision. This panel was not made for it.
NCERT (2026-27): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana. …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. Famously called the ‘Haripura Posters’, they depicted ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — a musician drumming, a farmer tilling, a woman churning milk, and so on.…”
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