Each modern Indian artist below chose a different subject for a well-known work. Match the artists in List-I with the subjects of their works in List-II.
List-I (Artist) | List-II (Subject) |
A. Benode Behari Mukherjee | I. A water current |
B. Krishna Reddy | II. Lives of Tulsi Das, Kabir |
C. M. F. Husain | III. Women grinding dry turmeric |
D. Amrita Sher-Gil | IV. Healing and nursing the helpless |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Benode Behari Mukherjee | (II) Lives of Tulsi Das, Kabir | His mural Medieval Saints charts a history of medieval India through the saints’ lives. |
| (B) Krishna Reddy | (I) A water current | His print Whirlpool deals with a water current, which suits a technique based on water and oil. |
| (C) M. F. Husain | (IV) Healing and nursing the helpless | In Mother Teresa, a kneeling woman hints that the story of healing and nursing is set in India. |
| (D) Amrita Sher-Gil | (III) Women grinding dry turmeric | Her Haldi Grinder shows a traditional rural activity, grinding dry turmeric. |
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): “Rather than making paintings around well-known epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata, Benode Behari Mukherjee was drawn to the lives of medieval saints. On the walls of Hindi Bhavana in Shantiniketan, he made a mural called Medieval Saints, in which he charts a history of medieval India through the lives of Tulsi Das, Kabir and others, and focuses on their humane teachings.” “Whirlpool This was a print made by India’s celebrated printmaker Krishna Reddy in 1963. It is a captivating composition created out of various shades of blues. … The print’s subject matter, dealing with water current, aptly captures the technique based on understanding how water and oil behave with each other.” “Mother Teresa This painting by M. F. Husain of the saintly figure, Mother Teresa, belongs to the 1980s. … It is the kneeling figure of the woman on one side that gives us a hint that the story about healing and nursing the helpless is unfolding in India.” “Haldi Grinder Amrita Sher-Gil painted Haldi Grinder in 1940. This was the time when she was seeking inspiration from India’s idyllic rural scene. Such a scene, depicting Indian women busy in a traditional activity of grinding dry turmeric, had to be painted in Indian style.” |