Several persons shaped art in the Bengal School period. Match the persons in List-I with their role in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Mahatma Gandhi | I. Caricatures mocking Europe-aping rich Bengalis |
| B. Rabindranath Tagore | II. Invited Nandalal Bose to Haripura |
| C. Gaganendranath Tagore | III. Critic of colonial Art Schools |
| D. E. B. Havell | IV. Invited Nandalal Bose to Kala Bhavana |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Mahatma Gandhi | (II) Invited Nandalal Bose to paint panels for the Congress session at Haripura | Bose understood the role of art in teaching new ideas, so Gandhi invited him to paint the Haripura panels. |
| (B) Rabindranath Tagore | (IV) Invited Nandalal Bose to head the painting department in Kala Bhavana | The poet Rabindranath Tagore founded Visva-Bharati and invited Bose to head its painting department. |
| (C) Gaganendranath Tagore | (I) Made caricatures that made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living | Besides his Cubist paintings, he was deeply interested in making caricatures. |
| (D) E. B. Havell | (III) Was critical, with Abanindranath, of the way colonial Art Schools imposed European taste on Indians | Havell and Abanindranath were both critical of colonial Art Schools. |
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. …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.” “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …It is in the paintings by Gaganendranath Tagore, brother of Abanindranath Tagore, that the influence of modern western style of paintings can be clearly seen. He made several paintings using Cubist style, in which building interiors were created out of geometric patterns. Besides, he was deeply interested in making caricatures, in which he often made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living.” “The Bengal School …Abanindranath enjoyed the support of British administrator and principal of the Calcutta School of Art, E. B. Havell (1861–1934). Both Abanindranath and Havell were critical of colonial Art Schools and the manner in which European taste in art was being imposed on Indians.” |