Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Instruments | Artists | ||
| (A) | Guitar | (I) | Dr. Smt. N. Rajam |
| (B) | Flute | (II) | Bismillah Khan |
| (C) | Shehnai | (III) | Hari Prasad Chaurasia |
| (D) | Violin | (IV) | Brij Bhushan Kabra |
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. However, the answer given by NTA appears to be incorrect: Bismillah Khan played the shehnai and N. Rajam plays the violin, so the correct match is (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I), which is Option (2), as explained below. NTA’s key hands Bismillah Khan a violin, but the shehnai never left his hands.
Each instrument is matched with the musician best known for playing it:
(A) Guitar — this matches (IV) Brij Bhushan Kabra. He was the first to play Hindustani classical music on the slide (Hawaiian) guitar; his album Call of the Valley (1967) with Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia made the instrument known in classical circles.
(B) Flute — this matches (III) Hari Prasad Chaurasia. He is India’s best-known player of the bansuri, the bamboo flute of Hindustani music.
(C) Shehnai — this matches (II) Bismillah Khan. The shehnai maestro of Varanasi played it from the Red Fort on 15 August 1947 and received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
(D) Violin — this matches (I) Dr. Smt. N. Rajam. She is a leading Hindustani violinist, known for making the violin sing like the human voice (the gayaki ang).
Option (2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I) — Should have been correct. It pairs every instrument with its own musician.
Option (3) (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II) — Correct as per NTA; however, only the flute pair is right: it gives the guitar to N. Rajam, the shehnai to Brij Bhushan Kabra and the violin to Bismillah Khan.