About Indian painting from the Company style to the Bengal School. Consider the following statements:
(A) The Company style declined with the entry of photography in India in the mid-nineteenth century.
(B) To capture village life in his Haripura panels, Nandalal Bose made pen-and-ink brush studies of local villagers.
(C) Ustad Ahmed, an ancestor of Abdul Rehman Chughtai, was the chief architect of Akbar.
(D) Ustad Ahmed designed the Jama Masjid and Red Fort in Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (D) only
(A) The Company style declined with the entry of photography in India in the mid-nineteenth century. — Correct. The camera offered a better way of documentation.
(B) To capture village life in his Haripura panels, Nandalal Bose made pen-and-ink brush studies of local villagers. — Correct. These studies helped him capture the essence of village life.
(C) Ustad Ahmed, an ancestor of Abdul Rehman Chughtai, was the chief architect of Akbar. — Incorrect. Ustad Ahmed was the chief architect of Shahjahan, not Akbar.
(D) Ustad Ahmed designed the Jama Masjid and Red Fort in Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra. — Correct. Ustad Ahmed, the chief architect of Shahjahan, also designed the Jama Masjid, Red Fort and Taj Mahal.
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): “Company Painting …It is this mixture of traditional and European style of painting that came to be known as the Company School of Painting. This style was not only popular among the British in India but even in Britain, where albums, consisting a set of paintings were much in demand. This style declined with the entry of photography in India in the mid–nineteenth century as camera offered a better way of documentation.…” “Tiller of the Soil …To capture the essence of village life in his Haripura panels, Bose made pen-and-ink brush studies of local villagers. He used thick tempera in a bold cursory style and broad brushwork.…” “Radhika This is a wash and tempera painting made on paper by Abdul Rehman Chughtai (1899 –1975). He was a descendant of Ustad Ahmed, the chief architect of Shahjahan. He was also the designer of the Jama Masjid and Red Fort in Delhi and Taj Mahal in Agra.…” |