In Jodhpur, Ajit Singh succeeded Maharaja Jaswant Singh. Given below…

In Jodhpur, Ajit Singh succeeded Maharaja Jaswant Singh. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Ajit Singh (1679–1724) became the king after 25 years of war with Aurangzeb.

Reason (R): Equestrian portraits of Veer Durgadas Rathore became popular in Ajit Singh’s period.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).

Assertion (A): Ajit Singh (1679–1724) became the king after 25 years of war with Aurangzeb. — True. He came to the throne only after a 25-year war with Aurangzeb.

Reason (R): Equestrian portraits of Veer Durgadas Rathore became popular in Ajit Singh’s period. — True. Durgadas’s heroism was celebrated in the poems and court paintings of that period, and his horse riding portraits became popular.

Why R does not explain A? R is about paintings made in Ajit Singh’s reign. Portraits made later cannot bring about his becoming king. The correct reason for A: the war was fought by the warrior Veer Durgadas Rathore, who successfully recaptured Marwar, and Ajit Singh then became king.

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): “Jodhpur School of Painting …A productive period of painting was ushered in by Maharaja Jaswant Singh (1638–1678) in the mid–seventeenth century.… His successor Ajit Singh (1679–1724) became the king after 25 years of war with Aurangzeb, which was fought by legendary warrior Veer Durgadas Rathore, who successfully recaptured Marwar. Durgadas and his heroism got popularly celebrated in poems and court paintings of Ajit Singh’s period. Durgadas’s equestrian (horse riding) portraits became popular.”