Hindustani violin lineages

Type

teaching lineage

Voice or instrument

Violin

Where it grew

Maharashtra, Varanasi, Bengal

Musicians documented

5

The violin entered Hindustani music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; no single gharana claims it.

Ordered oldest first, so the list reads down the generations: the earliest documented musicians of the tradition, then the players who carried it on, then those active today. The second view shows only the teacher-to-student links the archive can source.

• Gajananrao Joshi1911–1987Violin and khayal vocalNo page yet

  Sang and played violin at the highest level in more than one gharana.

  Taught by Anant Manohar Joshi

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Gajananrao Joshi — Wikipedia

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• V. G. Jog1922–2004ViolinNo page yet

  Established the violin as a Hindustani solo instrument.

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: V. G. Jog — Wikipedia · Pandit V.G. Jog

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• N. Rajamborn 1938Violin

  Brought the gayaki ang, the singing style, fully onto the violin.

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: N. Rajam — Wikipedia · Dr N. Rajam

• Sangeeta Shankarborn 1967ViolinNo page yet

  Continues the gayaki-ang violin line.

  Taught by N. Rajam

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Sangeeta Shankar — Wikipedia · Sangeeta Shankar

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• Kala Ramnathborn 1967Violin

  Violinist with training from her own family and from more than one senior musician.

  Taught by Narayan Iyer, Jasraj, N. Rajam

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Kala Ramnath — Wikipedia · Kala Ramnath

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