What article did Benoy Sarkar write to express his views on modernism and the Oriental Bengal School of Art?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → 'The Futurism of Young Asia'
Option (1) 'The Authenticity of Oriental Art' — Incorrect. No article of this name is mentioned. Sarkar held European modernism, not Oriental art, to be authentic.
Option (2) 'The Futurism of Young Asia' — Correct. In ‘The Futurism of Young Asia’, Benoy Sarkar sided with the anglicists and called the Oriental Bengal School regressive and anti-modern.
Option (3) 'The Bauhaus Influence in India' — Incorrect. No article of this name is mentioned. The Bauhaus works reached Calcutta as an exhibition in 1922.
Option (4) 'The Return to Native Art' — Incorrect. A return to native art was E. B. Havell’s view, the opposite of Sarkar’s.
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): “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian The divide between anglicists and orientalists, as mentioned earlier, was not based on race. Take the case of the Bengali intellectual, Benoy Sarkar, who sided with the anglicists and considered modernism that was growing in Europe as authentic in an article, ‘The Futurism of Young Asia’. For him, the Oriental Bengal School of Art was regressive and anti-modern. On the other hand, it was E. B. Havell, an Englishman, who was in favour of return to native art…” |