Mahatma Gandhi invited Nandalal Bose to paint panels for the Congress session at Haripura. What did these ‘Haripura Posters’ depict?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Ordinary rural folks busy in various activities
Option (1) Ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — Correct. The posters showed ordinary rural folks at work, such as a musician drumming, a farmer tilling and a woman churning milk.
Option (2) Scenes from the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata — Incorrect. Scenes from the epics belong to Raja Ravi Varma, who painted mythological subjects in oil. The Haripura Posters showed village life.
Option (3) Rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living — Incorrect. Gaganendranath Tagore made fun of such Bengalis in his caricatures. They are not the subject of these posters.
Option (4) Building interiors created out of geometric patterns — Incorrect. Building interiors made of geometric patterns are in Gaganendranath Tagore’s Cubist paintings, not in the posters.
NCERT (2026-27): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana.…He also illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood the role of art in teaching new ideas. For this reason, Mahatma Gandhi invited him to paint panels that were put on display at the Congress session at Haripura in 1937. Famously called the ‘Haripura Posters’, they depicted ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — a musician drumming, a farmer tilling, a woman churning milk, and so on.…”
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