Who was the influential art historian who wrote about Swadeshi in art during the Swadeshi movement?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Ananda Coomaraswamy
Option (1) Jamini Roy — Incorrect. Jamini Roy was a painter who took up the folk style of village painting.
Option (2) Ananda Coomaraswamy — Correct. Coomaraswamy was the important art historian who wrote about Swadeshi in art.
Option (3) Kakuzo Okakura — Incorrect. Okakura was the Japanese nationalist with whom Coomaraswamy joined hands.
Option (4) Rabindranath Tagore — Incorrect. Rabindranath Tagore was the poet and philosopher whom Okakura was visiting in Calcutta.
NCERT (2026-27): “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …But following the Partition of Bengal in 1905, the Swadeshi movement was at its peak and it reflected in ideas about art. Ananda Coomaraswamy, an important art historian, wrote about Swadeshi in art and joined hands with a Japanese nationalist, Kakuzo Okakura, who was visiting Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta. He came to India with his ideas about pan-Asianism, by which he wanted to unite India with other eastern nations and fight against western imperialism.” |