(a) The artist has enveloped the target in a dark cloud to suggest:

Question

Study this Mughal painting entitled 'Jahangir Shooting the Figure of Poverty' carefully and answer any three of the following questions by choosing the correct option:

(a) The artist has enveloped the target in a dark cloud to suggest: 

(i) The person is of bad character. 

(ii) The person is a slave. 

(iii) The person is not real rather it is symbolic of an abstract quality. 

(iv) The person is a woman. 

(b) The animals seen in the painting underneath the feet of the emperor stand for: 

(i) a realm in which both the strong(lion) and the weak(lamb) exist in harmony 

(ii) an ideal world where animals and humans live together 

(iii) Both (i) and (ii) 

(iv) None of the above 

(c) The chain descending from the heaven is a symbol of: 

(i) Divinity. 

(ii) Justice. 

(iii) Power. 

(iv) All of the above. 

(d) The ‘halo’ shown around the face of Jehangir indicates: 

(i)The Mughal concept of Kingship. 

(ii) The Mughal concept of Sulh-i-kul. 

(iii) Both (i) and(ii) 

(iv) None of the above

Answer 1

(a) iii - Dark cloud is the symbol of abstract evil/problem/injustice.

(b) i - In most of the Mughal paintings lion and the lamb have been shown together in order to state that in Mughal realm weak and the strong could live together.

(c) ii - Justice- Mughal rulers were depicted in the paintings as justice loving monarchs.

(d) i- The Mughal rulers were always depicted with a halo to justify the Mughal concept of Kingship.