Artists and institutions of early modern Indian art are described below. Consider the following statements:
(A) Nandalal Bose illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts.
(B) Kshitindranath Majumdar’s expressive power came from his religious understanding as a follower of the Bhakti Marga.
(C) Jamini Roy trained in the colonial Art School before adopting the style of folk painting.
(D) Kala Bhavana was part of the Visva-Bharati University founded by Abanindranath Tagore.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A), (B) and (C) only
(A) Nandalal Bose illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts. — Correct. He also understood the role of art in teaching new ideas.
(B) Kshitindranath Majumdar’s expressive power came from his religious understanding as a follower of the Bhakti Marga. — Correct. His works such as Man Bhanjan of Radha show this power of expression.
(C) Jamini Roy trained in the colonial Art School before adopting the style of folk painting. — Correct. He rejected that training and adopted the flat and colourful style of folk painting.
(D) Kala Bhavana was part of the Visva-Bharati University founded by Abanindranath Tagore. — Incorrect. The Visva-Bharati University was founded by Rabindranath Tagore. Abanindranath was the teacher of Nandalal Bose.
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): “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. Kala Bhavana was India’s first national art school. It was part of the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan. At Kala Bhavana, Nandalal founded the intellectual and artistic milieu to create an Indian style in art. By paying attention to the folk art forms that he saw around in Shantiniketan, he began to focus on the language of art. He also illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood the role of art in teaching new ideas.” “Rasa-Lila …He has painted mythological and religious subjects. Man Bhanjan of Radha, Sakhi and Radha, Lakshmi and Birth of Sri Chaitanya are few examples of his extraordinary power of expression inspired by his understanding of religious concepts as a follower of the Bhakti Marga.” “Shantiniketan — Early modernism …Jamini Roy is a unique example of modern Indian artist, who after undergoing academic training in the colonial Art School rejected it only to adopt the flat and colourful style of folk painting seen in villages.” |