Observe the image and answer the following question.
What does the collapsed camel shown in the painting personify?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → The end of a journey through the end of a day
Option (1) The daily activity of a common man in a village — Incorrect. This is what the farmer ploughing a field shows in Nandalal Bose’s Tiller of the Soil.
Option (2) The local made to signify the national — Incorrect. Jamini Roy used the village community as a political act of making local signify national; the camel does not stand for this.
Option (3) The end of a journey through the end of a day — Correct. The painting is Abanindranath Tagore’s Journey’s End. The collapsed camel in the red dusk personifies the end of a journey through the end of a day.
Option (4) Resistance to colonial rule — Incorrect. Jamini Roy used the village community as a weapon of resistance to colonial rule; this is not what the camel stands for.
NCERT (2026-27): “Journey’s End Made by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951) in 1913, this painting is in watercolour. …The wash technique yields a soft, misty and impressionistic landscape. This quality of hazy and atmospheric effects of the wash are utilised to be suggestive or evocative of an end of a life. In this painting, a collapsed camel is shown in red background of dusk and in that sense it personifies the end of a journey through the end of a day.…”
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