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 Where it is not, we say so, and the claim stays unpublished.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.
2 traditions
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
gharana · Sitar, Sarod, Surbahar, Bansuri, Violin
The twentieth century's most far-reaching instrumental school: dhrupad-like alap, a strict practice regime, and students across several different instruments.
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh · 17 musicians documented