Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A mosque on the Delhi Ridge
Option (1) Four solitary figures within a desolate place — Incorrect. These four figures stand in Secundrah Bagh, Lucknow, in Beato's photograph of 1858.
Option (2) A mosque on the Delhi Ridge — Correct. This is the odd one. The mosque on the Delhi Ridge is a separate Beato photograph of 1857-58. The other three describe his picture of Secundrah Bagh.
Option (3) Skeletons strewn on the ground — Incorrect. The skeletons lie in the same Secundrah Bagh photograph. They were meant as a cold warning of the futility of rebellion.
Option (4) The ruins of a pleasure garden built by a Nawab — Incorrect. Secundrah Bagh was once a pleasure garden built by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. The photograph shows its ruins.
NCERT (2026-27): “4. Repression … “desolation and ruin.” “Fig. 10.9 Secundrah Bagh, Lucknow, photograph by Felice Beato, 1858 Here we see four solitary figures within a desolate place that was once the pleasure garden built by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. British forces led by Campbell killed over 2000 rebel sepoys who held the place in 1857. The skeletons strewn on the ground are meant to be a cold warning of the futility of rebellion.” |