Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is one of a famous set of panels. For what were the panels of this set made?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Display at the Congress session at Haripura
Option (1) Display at the Congress session at Haripura — Correct. This is Nandalal Bose’s Dhaki. Gandhi invited Bose to paint these panels for display at the Haripura Congress session.
Option (2) Illustrating primers in Bengali — Incorrect. Bose illustrated Bengali primers with woodcuts. That work led Gandhi to invite him, but the panels were not made for it.
Option (3) Decorating the Indian House in London — Incorrect. Bengal School artists decorated the Indian House under close British supervision; these panels were not part of it.
Option (4) Showing in the Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta — Incorrect. That exhibition showed works of Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other European artists.
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. Famously called the ‘Haripura Posters’, they depicted ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — a musician drumming, a farmer tilling, a woman churning milk, and so on.”
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