Arrange the following tasks in the chronological order of the year of their execution.

(A) Ragamala of Madho Das
(B) Ragamala of Sahibdin
(C) Jagannath's Bihari Satsai
(D) Manohar's Bal Kanda of Ramayana

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(B), (D), (A), (C)

The correct answer is Option (4) → (B), (D), (A), (C)

(B) Ragamala of Sahibdin: 1628
(D) Manohar's Bal Kanda of Ramayana: 1649
(A) Ragamala of Madho Das: 1680
(C) Jagannath's Bihari Satsai: 1719

Sahibdin painted the Ragamala (1628), Rasikapriya, Bhagvata Purana (1648) and the Yuddha Kanda of Ramayana (1652), a folio of which is discussed here. Manohar’s most significant work is that of Bal Kanda of Ramayana (1649). Another exceptionally gifted artist, Jagannath, painted the Bihari Satsai in 1719, which remains a unique contribution of the Mewar School. Other texts like Harivamsha and Sursagar were also illustrated in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

Unlike the specificity of Rajasthani schools that emerged and flourished in precise territorial kingdoms and courts of their respective kings, Malwa School defies a precise centre for its origin and instead suggests a vast territory of Central India, where it got articulated with a sporadic mention of few places, such as Mandu, Nusratgarh and Narsyang Sahar. Among the few early dated sets are an illustrated poetic text of Amaru Shataka dated 1652 CE and a Ragamala painting by Madho Das in 1680 CE.