In ‘The Futurism of Young Asia’, Benoy Sarkar wrote on modernism. How did he regard the Oriental Bengal School of Art?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Regressive and anti-modern
Option (1) Progressive and modern — Incorrect. Sarkar sided with the anglicists. He saw the Bengal School as the opposite of progressive and modern.
Option (2) Regressive and anti-modern — Correct. For Sarkar, the Oriental Bengal School of Art was regressive and anti-modern.
Option (3) Traditional and authentic — Incorrect. Sarkar called the modernism growing in Europe authentic, not the Bengal School.
Option (4) Futuristic and experimental — Incorrect. “Futurism” is in the title of his article. He did not call the Bengal School futuristic.
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 to create a true modern Indian art.…” |