Match the paintings of the Mughal School in List-I with the collectio…

Match the paintings of the Mughal School in List-I with the collections that house them in List-II:

List-I	List-II
A. Dara Shikoh with Sages in a Garden	I. San Diego Museum of Art
B. The Marriage Procession of Dara Shikoh	II. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
C. Spies of Hamza attack the City of Kaymar	III. National Museum, New Delhi
D. Madonna and Child	IV. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) Dara Shikoh with Sages in a Garden	(IV) Chester Beatty Library, Dublin	Bichitra painted this portrait of Dara Shikoh. It is kept in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
(B) The Marriage Procession of Dara Shikoh	(III) National Museum, New Delhi	Haji Madni painted this procession in the time of Shah Jahan. It is in the National Museum, New Delhi.
(C) Spies of Hamza attack the City of Kaymar	(II) Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna	This is a Hamza Nama folio. Its folios are scattered over the world, and this one is in Vienna.
(D) Madonna and Child	(I) San Diego Museum of Art, California	Basawan’s Madonna and Child is in the San Diego Museum of Art, California.

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): Caption, p.46: “Dara Shikoh with Sages in a Garden, Bichitra, early seventeenth century. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin”

Caption, p.40: “Spies of Hamza attack the City of Kaymar, 1567–1582, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna”

Caption, p.42: “Madonna and Child, Basawan,1590, San Diego Museum of Art, California”

“The Marriage Procession of Dara Shikoh This painting, a work by artist Haji Madni, belongs to the period of Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal in Agra. …This painting is in the collection of the National Museum, New Delhi, India.”