Observe the image and answer the following question.
The folio in the image comes from which illustrated manuscript?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Baburnama
Option (1) Hamza Nama — Incorrect. It tells the heroic deeds of Hamza, painted large on cloth, as in Spies of Hamza attack the City of Kaymar.
Option (2) Baburnama — Correct. The folio is Babur inspecting the fort of Gwalior by Bhure. The Baburnama is Babur’s autobiography.
Option (3) Jahangirnama — Incorrect. Its folio in the chapter is Jahangir in Darbar by Abul Hasan and Manohar, a court scene of Jahangir.
Option (4) Padshahnama — Incorrect. It is The Chronicles of the King, a project of Shah Jahan’s court atelier.
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):
“Babur inspecting the fort of Gwalior, Bhure, Baburnama, 1598, National Museum, New Delhi” “Early Mughal Painting …Babur had a dynamic taste for a variety of arts. He is reputed to be a man of letters and a keen patron of art, manuscripts, architecture, gardening, etc. Babur’s detailed accounts in Baburnama, his autobiography, are narratives of the emperor’s political carrier and artistic passion.” |
