Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is by Nihal Chand of the Kishangarh School. Which features make Radha’s face in this painting unique?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Deeply curved eyes, thin lips and a pronounced chin
Option (1) A round face, a receding forehead and full cheeks — Incorrect. A round face, receding forehead and full cheeks are part of the Bundi standard of feminine beauty, not of this Kishangarh face.
Option (2) Deeply curved eyes, thin lips and a pronounced chin — Correct. The painting is Bani Thani as Radha. Her face is unique in its deeply curved eyes, exaggerated arch of the eyebrows, pointed nose, serpentine curl of hair, thin lips and pronounced chin.
Option (3) Sharply penciled eyebrows, a sharp nose and thin lips — Incorrect. Thin lips are hers, but sharply penciled eyebrows and a sharp nose describe Bundi women. Radha here has an exaggerated arch of the eyebrows and a pointed nose.
Option (4) Deeply curved eyes, a receding forehead and full cheeks — Incorrect. Deeply curved eyes are hers, but a receding forehead and full cheeks belong to the Bundi type of women.
NCERT (2026-27): “Bani Thani …Artist Nihal Chand is attributed with the credit of contriving this exquisite and characteristic Kishangarh physiognomy that is perceived in figures of Sawant Singh and Bani Thani is always represented as Krishna and Radha in brilliantly coloured, panoramic landscapes. Radha’s face in Bani Thani as Radha is unique in her deeply curved eyes, exaggerated arch of the eyebrows, pointed nose, serpentine curl of hair spiralling down the cheek, thin lips and pronounced chin.…” “Bundi School of Painting …Bundi artists had their own standards of feminine beauty — women are petite with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses, full cheeks, sharply penciled eyebrows and a ‘pinched’ waist.…”
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