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 Where it is not, we say so, and the claim stays unpublished.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.
The oldest surviving layer: dhrupad singing, the rudra veena that shadows it, and the pakhawaj that keeps its time. These pass down as banis and family lines rather than as city-named houses.
gharana · Rudra veena, Dhrupad
The rudra veena players of the Rajput courts, whose teaching later fed into Rampur and into several twentieth-century instrumental lines.
Jaipur, Alwar, Rajasthan · 2 musicians documented
teaching lineage · Rudra veena, Sitar, Sursringar
The court lineage at Rampur that taught Allauddin Khan and others, and so stands behind much of modern instrumental music.
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh · 1 musicians documented
Khayal and the lighter classical forms. A gharana here is recognised by how it opens a raga, shapes a taan and treats the words — usually named after the town where its founding family settled.
gharana · Khayal vocal
Rounded, open-throated khayal that keeps Gwalior's clarity while adding a smoother line and carefully shaped taans.
Rampur, Sahaswan, Uttar Pradesh · 6 musicians documented