The statements below are about the Pahari schools and the Shangri Ramayana.
(A) Pahari painting is broadly classified into three styles: Basohli, Guler and Kangra.
(B) In a Shangri Ramayana folio, Rama and Lakshmana accompany sage Vishvamitra to the forest to defeat the demons.
(C) The Shangri Ramayana set was painted in the Kangra Valley in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.
(D) In the Kullu style, figures had a prominent chin and narrow, half-closed eyes.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Two
A. Pahari painting is broadly classified into three styles: Basohli, Guler and Kangra. — Correct. These are the three broad styles, though scholars may use other terms for them.
B. In a Shangri Ramayana folio, Rama and Lakshmana accompany sage Vishvamitra to the forest to defeat the demons. — Correct. The demons disturbed the hermits’ meditation and rituals.
C. The Shangri Ramayana set was painted in the Kangra Valley in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. — Incorrect. The set was painted in the Kullu Valley.
D. In the Kullu style, figures had a prominent chin and narrow, half-closed eyes. — Incorrect. Kullu figures had wide open eyes, with grey and terracotta red used in the background.
NCERT (2026-27): “Kangra School …There is a broad classification of three styles — Basohli, Guler and Kangra, and scholars may have variant terms for the same. …Kullu emerged with a distinctive style, where figures had a prominent chin and wide open eyes, and lavish use of grey and terracotta red colours in the background was made. Shangri Ramayana is a well-known set painted in the Kullu Valley in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.…” “Basohli School …Another painting from the same set depicts Rama and Lakshmana accompanying sage Vishvamitra to the forest to defeat the demons, who would distress the hermits by disturbing their meditative practices and contaminating their rituals.…” |