gharana · Pakhawaj
Nathdwara pakhawaj lineage
Temple pakhawaj playing that became a concert tradition, and one of the main sources of dhrupad accompaniment today.
Nathdwara, Rajasthan · 2 musicians documented
Gharanas & musical lineages
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.
About this guide
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 Where it is not, we say so, and the claim stays unpublished.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.
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Dhrupad, been and pakhawaj traditions
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.
teaching lineage · Pakhawaj
Kudau Singh pakhawaj lineage
A pakhawaj line remembered for sheer power, and still taught through the Dagar circle and Bundelkhand families.
Bundelkhand, Datia, Madhya Pradesh · 1 musicians documented
Tabla gharanas
Drumming lineages, each with its own bols, hand technique and solo repertoire. A city name here belongs to a tabla line, not to the vocal gharana of the same town.
gharana · Tabla
Punjab gharana (tabla)
Powerful tabla with pakhawaj in its language, made famous worldwide by Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain.
Punjab · 6 musicians documented