Match List-I (Term) with List-II (Meaning).List-IList-II(A) Paharias(…

Match List-I (Term) with List-II (Meaning).

List-I	List-II
(A) Paharias	(I) A tradition of thought that celebrated nature and admired its magnificence and power
(B) Mahua	(II) A flower collected from the forests for food
(C) Aquatint	(III) A picture produced by cutting into a copper sheet with acid and then printing it
(D) Romanticism	(IV) Hill folk who lived around the Rajmahal hills

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Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) Paharias	(IV) Hill folk who lived around the Rajmahal hills	Late-eighteenth-century revenue records name the hill folk of the Rajmahal hills as Paharias. They lived on forest produce and practised shifting cultivation.
(B) Mahua	(II) A flower collected from the forests for food	Mahua is a flower. The Paharias collected it from the forests for food.
(C) Aquatint	(III) A picture produced by cutting into a copper sheet with acid and then printing it	An aquatint is a kind of print. The picture is cut into a copper sheet with acid and then printed; Hodges made a set of them in the Jangal Mahals.
(D) Romanticism	(I) A tradition of thought that celebrated nature and admired its magnificence and power	Romanticism was a tradition of thought that celebrated nature. Painters in search of the picturesque, like Hodges, followed its ideals.

NCERT (2026-27): “2.1 In the hills of Rajmahal …
If we look at late-eighteenth-century revenue records, we learn that these hill folk were known as Paharias. They lived around the Rajmahal hills, subsisting on forest produce and practising shifting cultivation. They cleared patches of forest by cutting bushes and burning the undergrowth. On these patches, enriched by the potash from the ash, the Paharias grew a variety of pulses and millets for consumption. They scratched the ground lightly with hoes, cultivated the cleared land for a few years, then left it fallow so that it could recover its fertility, and moved to a new area.”

“From the forests they collected mahua (a flower) for food, silk cocoons and resin for sale, and wood for charcoal production. …”

“… On the invitation of Cleveland, Hodges accompanied him to the Jangal Mahals in 1782, and painted a set of aquatints. Like many other British painters of the time, Hodges searched for the picturesque. Artists in search of the picturesque were inspired by the ideals of Romanticism, a tradition of thought that celebrated nature and admired its magnificence and power. …”

“Aquatint is a picture produced by cutting into a copper sheet with acid and then printing it.”