INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

GS History Modern India
Q.

Consider the following pairs

     Painter                             King

1. Abdul Samad                Humayun

2. Ustad Mansur               Jahangir

3. Daswant                        Akbar

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Explanation:

Abd al-Samad or Khwaja Abdus Samad was a 16th-century painter of Persian miniatures who moved to the Mughal Empire in South Asia and became one of the founding masters of the Mughal miniature tradition. Humayun patronized by him. Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth-century Mughal painter and court artist. He grew up during the reign of Jahangir and during his period he excelled at depicting plants and animals. Daswanth or Dasavant was a Mughal dynasty painter in the service of Akbar.

Thus, Option D is Correct.

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