Observe the image and answer the following question.
Observe the Pahari painting in the image. Who is the central figure shown in this painting?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Balwant Singh
The painting is Balwant Singh in prayer by Nainsukh. Nainsukh painted his patron Balwant Singh of Jasrota on every possible occasion, here performing puja.
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): “Guler School …Nainsukh’s celebrated pictures of Balwant Singh are unique in the kind of visual record they offer of the patron’s life. Balwant Singh is portrayed engaged in various activities — performing puja, surveying a building site, sitting in a camp wrapped in a quilt because of the cold weather, and so on. The artist gratified his patron’s obsession by painting him on every possible occasion.”
“Balwant Singh in prayer, Nainsukh, 1750, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK” |
