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Schools, gurukuls & academies
A gurukul is not a gharana. These pages are about places and organisations — a building in a particular street, a founder, a curriculum, students who live there — kept separate from the teaching traditions the musicians belong to.
By year of founding, oldest first; undated entries last
Examining board · Mumbai and Miraj · Founded 1901
Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal
The examining body that grew out of Vishnu Digambar Paluskar's Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, and the reason a music certificate in India has a recognisable ladder of grades.
3 connected musicians in the archive
University · Lucknow · Founded 1926
Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya
The Lucknow music university founded in 1926 as the Marris College of Music, co-founded by Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande.
4 connected musicians in the archive
Examining board · Prayagraj (Allahabad) · Founded 1926
Prayag Sangeet Samiti
The Allahabad society whose graded diplomas — Prabhakar, Praveen, Sangeetacharya — are recognised across north India.
22 connected musicians in the archive
School · New Delhi · Founded 1939
Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi
Delhi's oldest music school, founded in 1939 in memory of Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.
2 connected musicians in the archive
Academy · Mumbai · Founded 1956
Sangit Mahabharati
The Mumbai music academy, teachers' training college and research centre founded by Pandit Nikhil Ghosh in 1956.
5 connected musicians in the archive
School · San Rafael · Founded 1967
Ali Akbar College of Music
The school Ustad Ali Akbar Khan founded to teach North Indian classical music, in San Rafael, California since 1968.
7 connected musicians in the archive
School · London · Founded 1972
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London
The West Kensington centre where a Londoner can begin Hindustani vocal music, sitar or tabla and work through a three-year diploma.
5 connected musicians in the archive
Academy · Kolkata · Founded 1977
ITC Sangeet Research Academy
The Kolkata academy founded in 1977 by the ITC group as a modern gurukul for Hindustani classical music.
17 connected musicians in the archive
School · Ahmedabad · Founded 1980
Saptak School of Music
The Ahmedabad school and festival trust founded in 1980, where teaching, an archive and a thirteen-night January festival grew from one initiative.
11 connected musicians in the archive
State training centre · Bhopal · Founded 1981
Dhrupad Kendra, Bhopal
A state-funded centre created in 1981 to train dhrupad singers by the guru-shishya method inside an institution.
7 connected musicians in the archive
Residential gurukul · Palaspe, near Panvel · Founded 1982
Dhrupad Gurukul, Palaspe
The Dagar family's residential teaching home outside Mumbai, where students live with the guru.
3 connected musicians in the archive
Gurukul · Mumbai · Founded 2002
Vrindaban Gurukul
The Mumbai gurukul Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia founded in 2002, with a second campus in Bhubaneswar.
3 connected musicians in the archive
School · Bhopal · Founded 2004
Dhrupad Sansthan
A residential dhrupad school on the edge of Bhopal, founded by the Gundecha brothers and run on guru-shishya lines.
8 connected musicians in the archive
Gurukul · Pune
Taalyogi Aashram
The residential percussion gurukul in Dhayari, Pune, where Pandit Suresh Talwalkar teaches.
3 connected musicians in the archive