Observe the painting and read the passage given below.
The theme of this Deccani painting is Yogini — one who believes in yoga, leads a disciplined life of physical and emotional training, pursues spiritual and intellectual explorations, and is famous for renunciation of worldly attachments. But such an attitude was not usual, and therefore, extraordinary in practice.
Who painted this Deccani work?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → An artist about whom we have no record
Option (1) An artist about whom we have no record — Correct. The Yogini is credited to an artist of whom no record survives.
Option (2) Farrukh Beg, a painter from Bijapur — Incorrect. Farrukh Beg painted Sultan Adil Shah II playing Tambura at Bijapur. The Yogini is not credited to him.
Option (3) Muhammad Ali, a painter from Golconda — Incorrect. Muhammad Ali painted Poet in a Garden at Golconda. The Yogini is a Bijapur work and is not credited to him.
Option (4) A Bukhara artist working in the Deccan — Incorrect. Bukhara artists are linked with the Gulistan of 1567 and may have worked in the Deccan. The Yogini is not linked with them.
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): “Bijapur School of Painting …The theme of another Deccani painting is Yogini … This work is attributed to an artist, about whom we do not have any record. It is to be noted that the artist prefers a vertical composition, where the long standing figure of the Yogini is complimented by a group of white structures right at the top, as a tapering, visual note.”
“Yogini, Bijapur, seventeenth century, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland” |
