The Pahari style travelled from a few main centres to other hill states. Which of the following pairs of hill centre and the style linked with it is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Jasrota – Guler style
Option (1) Jasrota – Guler style — Correct. Jasrota is categorised under the Guler School, as one of its centres.
Option (2) Chamba – Guler style — Incorrect. Portraits of the rulers of Chamba were painted in the Basohli style.
Option (3) Mankot – Kangra style — Incorrect. Artists from Basohli shifted to Mankot and developed a school similar to Basohli.
Option (4) Garhwal – Basohli style — Incorrect. The Garhwal School of Molaram was influenced by the Kangra style of the Sansar Chand phase.
NCERT (2026-27): “Kangra School …There is a broad classification of three styles — Basohli, Guler and Kangra, and scholars may have variant terms for the same. However, these are indicative centres from where the style travels elsewhere. Hence, in Jasrota, as one observes the Guler style, it becomes categorised under the Guler School with Jasrota as one of its centres. Briefly mentioning the aspects of the other centres, one finds portraits of the rulers of Chamba in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century in the Basohli style. …Due to marital relations between Basohli and Mankot, few artists from Basohli seem to have shifted to Mankot, thereby, developing a similar school of painting. …An artist named Molaram is associated with the Garhwal School. Several signed paintings by him have been discovered. This school was influenced by the Kangra style of Sansar Chand phase.” |