Modern Indian art took many new turns from the 1930s onward. Arrange…

Modern Indian art took many new turns from the 1930s onward. Arrange the following in the order in which they took place:

(A) Amrita Sher-Gil contributed immensely to modern Indian art.

(B) Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury’s Triumph of Labour was installed at Marina Beach, Chennai.

(D) The tension between internationalism and indigenous art grew acute.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A), (B), (C), (D)

First: (A) Sher-Gil’s work belongs to the 1930s; she died in 1941.
Second: (B) Triumph of Labour was installed on the eve of the Republic Day in 1959.
Third: (C) Biren De, Santosh and Paniker turned to the past and local traditions in the 1960s.
Fourth: (D) The tension between internationalism and indigenous art grew acute by the late 1970s.

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): “Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), half Hungarian and half Indian, emerges as a unique female artist, who contributed immensely to modern Indian art through the 1930s.…”

“Triumph of Labour This is an open air large-scale sculpture in bronze made by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury (1899–1975). It was installed at Marina Beach, Chennai, on the eve of the Republic Day in 1959.…”

“Abstraction – A New Trend …However, the tension between internationalism (in which an artist could freely use the style of western modern trends like Cubism, Expressionism, Abstraction, etc.) and indigenous (in which artists turned to native arts) grew acute by the late 1970s.… In the 1960s, Biren De and G. R. Santosh in Delhi and K. C. S. Paniker in Madras moved in this direction when they turned to the past and local artistic traditions to create a unique Indian abstract art.…”