Modern Indian art grew alongside events in India’s history. Arrange the following events in the order in which they took place:
(A) The Indian Revolt, after which nationalism arose as a political movement
(B) Gaganendranath and Jamini Roy begin to be considered modern artists
(C) J. Swaminathan forms Group 1890 and writes its manifesto
(D) The Indo-Pakistan war and the birth of Bangladesh
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A), (B), (C), (D)
(A) The Indian Revolt comes first. Nationalism arose as a political movement following the Indian Revolt of 1857, and later gave rise to cultural nationalism.
(B) Gaganendranath and Jamini Roy come second. With Amrita Sher-Gil, they began to be considered modern as early as the 1930s.
(C) Group 1890 comes third. It was formed in 1963 under J. Swaminathan. The number in its name is not the year it was formed.
(D) The Indo-Pakistan war comes last. It took place in 1971, along with the birth of Bangladesh. After it, artists turned to figures and stories that are easy to recognise.
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): “Modern Ideologies and Political Art in India …Since the time of the Bombay Progressive Artist’s Group, artists began to write their own manifestos or writings, in which they declared the main aims of their art and how it differed from others. In 1963, another group was formed under the leadership of J. Swaminathan, named Group 1890. Swaminathan also wrote a manifesto for the group, in which the artists claimed being free from any ideology.…” “Tracing the Modern Indian Art Modern art in India may have drawn some ideas from the West but it differed from it significantly. The fact that modernism as an art movement came to India when it was still a British colony is hard to deny. This is clear when we turn to artists like Gaganendranath, Amrita Sher-Gil and Jamini Roy, who began to be considered as modern during as early as 1930s. …What made a big difference in the story of modern Indian art is that modernity and colonialism were closely connected. Nationalism was not only a political movement that arose following the Indian Revolt of 1857 but it gave rise to cultural nationalism.…” “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s Since the 1970s, many artists began to move towards the use of figures and stories that are easy to recognise. Perhaps, this was a way to express their concern towards social problems, following the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh.…” |