Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Rebels and the Raj

Question:

Match List I with List II :

 LIST I 
  Imageries of Revolt of 1857  
 LIST II 
Painters And Publishers
 (A) Execution of Mutineers in Peshawar   (I) Joseph Noel Paton
 (B) Relief of Lucknow  (II) Punch 
 (C) The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger    (III) Thomas Jones Barker
 (D) "In Memoriam"   (IV) Illustrated London News  

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

(A)- (IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

The correct match is:

 LIST I 
  Imageries of Revolt of 1857  
 LIST II 
Painters And Publishers
 (A) Execution of Mutineers in Peshawar   (IV) Illustrated London News 
 (B) Relief of Lucknow  (III) Thomas Jones Barker
 (C) The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger    (II) Punch
 (D) "In Memoriam"   (I) Joseph Noel Paton

"Execution of mutinous sepoys in Peshawar", Illustrated London News, 3 October 1857: In this scene of execution 12 rebels hang in a row, with cannons all around them. What you see is not routine punishment: it is the performance of terror. For it to instil fear among people, punishment could not be discreetly meted out in enclosed spaces. It had to be theatrically performed in the open.

“Relief of Lucknow”, painted by Thomas Jones Barker in 1859, is an example of a painting commemorating the British heroes who saved the English and repressed the rebels. Barker’s painting celebrates the moment of Campbell’s entry. At the centre of the canvas are the British heroes – Campbell, Outram and Havelock. The gestures of the hands of those around lead the spectator’s eyes towards the center.

The caption at the bottom of an image of the revolt of the 1857 reads “The British Lion’s Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger”, Punch, 1857.

"In Memoriam” was painted by Joseph Noel Paton two years after the mutiny. In the painting, one can see English women and children huddled in a circle, looking helpless and innocent, seemingly waiting for the inevitable – dishonour, violence and death. “In Memoriam” does not show gory violence; it only suggests it. It stirs up the spectator’s imagination and seeks to provoke anger and fury. It represents the rebels as violent and brutish, even though they remain invisible in the picture. In the background, you can see the British rescue forces arriving as saviours.