Match the Bengal School figures in List-I with their work in List-II.
List-I (Person) | List-II (What they did) |
A. Abanindranath Tagore | I. Favoured return to native art |
B. Nandalal Bose | II. Joined hands with Kakuzo Okakura |
C. Ananda Coomaraswamy | III. Painted the Haripura Posters |
D. E. B. Havell | IV. Creator of the journal Indian Society of Oriental Art |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Abanindranath Tagore | (IV) Main artist and creator of the journal Indian Society of Oriental Art | He created this journal so that modern Indians could learn from the rich past of Indian art. |
| (B) Nandalal Bose | (III) Painted the Haripura Posters | Mahatma Gandhi invited him to paint panels for the Congress session at Haripura. |
| (C) Ananda Coomaraswamy | (II) Joined hands with a Japanese nationalist, Kakuzo Okakura | This art historian wrote about Swadeshi in art. He worked with Okakura, who was visiting Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta. |
| (D) E. B. Havell | (I) Favoured a return to native art to create a true modern Indian art | This Englishman wanted a return to native art. He worked with Abanindranath to Indianise art education. |
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): “Abanindranath Tagore and E. B. Havell …Art historian Partha Mitter writes, “The first generation of the students of Abanindranath engaged in recovering the lost language of Indian art.” To create awareness that modern Indians could benefit from this rich past, Abanindranath was the main artist and creator of an important journal, Indian Society of Oriental Art.…” “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana. …He also illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood the role of art in teaching new ideas. For this reason, Mahatma Gandhi invited him to paint panels that were put on display at the Congress session at Haripura in 1937. Famously called the ‘Haripura Posters’, they depicted ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — a musician drumming, a farmer tilling, a woman churning milk, and so on.…” “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …But following the Partition of Bengal in 1905, the Swadeshi movement was at its peak and it reflected in ideas about art. Ananda Coomaraswamy, an important art historian, wrote about Swadeshi in art and joined hands with a Japanese nationalist, Kakuzo Okakura, who was visiting Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta.…” “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian …On the other hand, it was E. B. Havell, an Englishman, who was in favour of return to native art to create a true modern Indian art.…” |