Hindustani music is taught person to person. Browse the traditions by voice, instrument or place, and open one to read who is documented within it.
The names of these traditions — gharana, bani, teaching line, regional style — describe different things, and each entry says which it is. Where a teaching link is shown, a sentence in a named source supports it. Where it is not, we say so, and the claim stays unpublished.
This is growing research rather than a complete map. Not every instrument organises itself into gharanas, many musicians here do not yet have a page of their own, and dates, founders and teaching links are left out wherever a source has not yet settled them. Additions are read by an editor before they appear. Carnatic traditions are a later phase.
3 traditions
Places recorded with a source: where a tradition grew, and the later centres it moved to. A musician's current home is never used.
Sitar, sarod, bansuri, sarangi, shehnai, santoor, violin and harmonium. Some are full gharanas with their own baaj; others are teaching lines, where the transmission is documented but no house name is claimed.
teaching lineage · Bansuri
A young tradition rather than a gharana: the bamboo flute became a full classical instrument within living memory, and its teaching lines are short and clear.
Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh · 21 musicians documented
teaching lineage · Violin
A borrowed instrument played in the singing style, taught in several unrelated family lines rather than one school.
Maharashtra, Varanasi, Bengal · 5 musicians documented
teaching lineage · Harmonium
An imported instrument that became indispensable to khayal accompaniment, with teaching lines running through accompanists rather than gharanas.
Maharashtra, Bengal · 3 musicians documented