Observe the painting and answer the following questions.
Which political ideas associated with the artist are used in folk themes?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Resistance to Colonial Rule
Jamini Roy painted village life in the style of the folk pats. He used the idea of the village community as a weapon of resistance to colonial rule, a political act that made the local stand for the national.
Option (1) Promotion of British Aesthetics — Incorrect. Roy gave up the academic art taught in the British art school. His folk themes stood against colonial taste, not for it.
Option (2) Resistance to Colonial Rule — Correct. By turning to Indian village art, he built an Indian identity apart from the colonial one.
Option (3) Industrial Development — Incorrect. Industry means factories and machine production. Roy’s themes come from village life and folk craft, far from industry.
Option (4) Westernization of Indian Art — Incorrect. Westernization means taking up Western ways. Roy did the opposite: he created an alternative vision of modern Indian identity from Indian folk art.
NCERT (2026-27): “Woman with Child …He used lamp black to outline the drawings and started making his own canvas with home-spun fabric (pats used paper or cloth or baked paper). Roy used the notion of village community as a weapon of resistance to colonial rule and a political act of making local signify national.”
Woman with Child |
