Chittoprasad sketched in villages worst hit by the Bengal Famine. At whose request did he do this?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → The Communist Party of India
Option (1) The Indian National Congress — Incorrect. The Congress did not send him to the famine villages. Like other young Calcutta artists, he was drawn to Marxism.
Option (2) The Progressive Artists’ Group of Bombay — Incorrect. This group was formed in Bombay in 1946, with Francis Newton Souza as its outspoken leader. It did not send Chittoprasad to the famine villages.
Option (3) The Communist Party of India — Correct. The Communist Party of India asked him to travel to the worst-affected villages and make sketches.
Option (4) Group 1890 — Incorrect. This group was formed in 1963 under the leadership of J. Swaminathan. It did not send Chittoprasad to the famine villages.
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): “Modern Ideologies and Political Art in India …Seeing abject poverty around them and the plight of people in villages and cities, many young artists in Calcutta were drawn to socialism, especially Marxism. … Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore, the two political artists of India, found printmaking to be a strong medium to express these social concerns. … Chittoprasad’s etchings, linocuts and lithographs showed the deplorable condition of the poor. It is not surprising that he was asked by the Communist Party of India to travel to villages worst affected by the Bengal Famine and make sketches. These were later published as pamphlets under the name, Hungry Bengal, much to the annoyance of the British.” |