Indian painting changed in many ways under colonial rule. Arrange the following events in the correct order:
(A) The Bengal School of Art emerged amidst nationalist thinking.
(B) The Company style declined with the entry of photography in India.
(C) English officers commissioned local artists to paint scenes around them.
(D) Raja Ravi Varma’s academic style came to be looked down upon as foreign.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (C), (B), (D), (A)
(C) first Around the eighteenth century, under colonial rule, English officers commissioned local artists to paint scenes around them. This began Company Painting.
(B) second The Company style declined with the entry of photography in the mid-nineteenth century. The camera offered a better way of documentation.
(D) third By the end of the nineteenth century, with the rise of nationalism, Raja Ravi Varma’s academic style was looked down upon as foreign and too western.
(A) fourth Amidst this nationalist thinking, the Bengal School of Art emerged in the first decade of the twentieth century.
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): “Company Painting …With the colonial rule around the eighteenth century, the English were charmed by different manners and customs of people of all ranks, tropical flora and fauna, and varying locales. Partly for documentation and partly for artistic reasons, many English officers commissioned local artists to paint scenes around them to get a better idea of the natives. …It is this mixture of traditional and European style of painting that came to be known as the Company School of Painting. …This style declined with the entry of photography in India in the mid–nineteenth century as camera offered a better way of documentation.…” “Raja Ravi Varma …With the rise of nationalism in India by the end of the nineteenth century, this academic style embraced by Raja Ravi Varma came to be looked down upon as foreign and too western to show Indian myths and history. It is amidst such nationalist thinking that the Bengal School of Art emerged in the first decade of the twentieth century.” |