Observe the image and answer the following question.
Identify the painting in the image and its school.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Poet in a Garden, Golconda
Option (1) Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya and Amir Khusrau, Golconda — Incorrect. This painting shows the Sufi saint listening to music played by his disciple Amir Khusrau. It is a provincial painting from Hyderabad, and it is not the picture shown.
Option (2) Poet in a Garden, Hyderabad — Incorrect. The painting is Poet in a Garden, but its school is Golconda, not Hyderabad.
Option (3) Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya and Amir Khusrau, Hyderabad — Incorrect. This Hyderabad painting shows a Sufi saint listening to music. The picture shown is a poet seated in a garden.
Option (4) Poet in a Garden, Golconda — Correct. The painting is Poet in a Garden by Muhammad Ali, of the Golconda school.
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): “Poet in a Garden”
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