Which of the following is NOT a famous painter of Madhya Pradesh?

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Correct — C, Nana Saheb Panse. Panse was a celebrated pakhawaj (classical percussion) player of the Indore gharana, not a painter — his fame is in music, not visual art. The other three are genuine painters associated with Madhya Pradesh: N.S. Bendre (Indore-born pioneer of Indian modern painting), Vishnu Chinchalkar (trained at the Indore School of Art, known for his assemblage/'junk' art) and Amritlal Begad/Vegad (Jabalpur-based painter-writer known for the travel sketches in his Narmada travelogues).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Wrong — Bendre, born in Indore, is one of Madhya Pradesh's most celebrated modern painters, so he IS a painter.  (b) Wrong — Chinchalkar, trained at the Indore School of Art alongside Bendre and M.F. Husain, was a genuine painter/assemblage artist.  (d) Wrong — Begad (Vegad), based in Jabalpur, was a painter-writer whose books carry his own travel sketches; he IS a painter.

Concept: This is a name-recognition question: MPPSC lists genuine MP painters alongside one name from a different field (classical music) to test whether the candidate can tell them apart. All three real 'painter' options trace to the Indore school of modern art; the odd one out belongs to classical percussion music.

State PCS 2021 Q32 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2021 Q32 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer