Art & Culture Quiz: Indian Paintings and Schools

Madhubani painting, also called Mithila painting, belongs to the Mithila region of northern Bihar around the districts of Madhubani and Darbhanga.

Bani Thani was painted by Nihal Chand in the eighteenth century at Kishangarh in Rajasthan, under Raja Savant Singh, who wrote devotional poetry under the name Nagari Das.

The Bodhisattva Padmapani, holding a blue lotus, is painted on the left wall of the antechamber of Cave 1 at Ajanta in Maharashtra, with the Bodhisattva Vajrapani facing him.

The Warli are a tribal community of the Palghar and Thane districts of northern Maharashtra, on the border of Gujarat.

He was a playwright, director and actor of the modern Indian theatre, best known for Charandas Chor and for working with folk performers of Chhattisgarh in his company Naya Theatre.

Painting in oil on canvas was unknown in India before European artists and the colonial art schools brought it in during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Jahangir was a close observer of nature and asked his artists to record unusual birds, animals and flowers, so the single study replaced the crowded manuscript page.

Kangra painting is the most lyrical of the Pahari styles and reached its height in the late eighteenth century under Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra in present day Himachal Pradesh.

He painted Bharat Mata in 1905, during the Swadeshi movement against the partition of Bengal, showing a saffron clad four armed figure holding sheaves of paddy, a white cloth, a book and a rosary, the gifts of food, clothing, learning and faith.

The Hamzanama, the romance of the adventures of Amir Hamza, was the first great project of Akbar's imperial atelier and took about fifteen years, its large folios painted on cloth by a team under Mir Sayyid Ali and Abdus Samad.

Kalamkari takes its name from kalam, a pen, and kari, work. Its two centres are Srikalahasti, where the design is drawn freehand with a bamboo pen and the subjects come from temple mythology, and Machilipatnam, where carved wooden blocks print repeated floral and Persian derived patterns.

Francis Newton Souza founded the Progressive Artists Group at Bombay in 1947 along with S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, S. K. Bakre and H. A. Gade.