The beginnings of the Mewar School are traced to a dated set. Given below are two statements:
Assertion (A): Although Mewar is conjectured to be a significant early centre of painting in Rajasthan, the emergence of the Mewar School is widely associated with an early dated set of Ragamala paintings painted at Chawand in 1605 by Nisardin.
Reason (R): Long wars with the Mughals have wiped out most early examples of Mewar painting.
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Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Assertion (A): Although Mewar is conjectured to be a significant early centre of painting in Rajasthan, the emergence of the Mewar School is widely associated with an early dated set of Ragamala paintings painted at Chawand in 1605 by Nisardin. — True. Mewar is thought to be an early centre, yet the school’s emergence is linked with Nisardin’s Ragamala set of 1605.
Reason (R): Long wars with the Mughals have wiped out most early examples of Mewar painting. — True. The long wars wiped out most of the early works.
Why R explains A? R says the early works of Mewar were lost in the wars. So they cannot show how the school began, and its emergence is traced to the early dated set of 1605 instead.
NCERT (2026-27): “Mewar School of Painting Mewar is conjectured to be a significant early centre of painting in Rajasthan, from where, hypothetically, one would have been able to formalise a continuous stylistic tradition of painting — from pre-seventeenth century bold, indigenous styles to the subsequent refined and finer style post Karan Singh’s contact with the Mughals. However, long wars with the Mughals have wiped out most early examples. Therefore, the emergence of the Mewar School is widely associated with an early dated set of Ragamala paintings painted at Chawand in 1605 by an artist named Nisardin.” |