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Pandit Ravi Shankar

Sitar · Maihar

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Ustad Zakir Hussain

Tabla · Punjab

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia

Bansuri · Maihar (disciple of Annapurna Devi)

Ustad Bismillah Khan

Shehnai · Benares temple and Dumraon court lineage

Gangubai Hangal

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

Sarod · Maihar

KA

Kishori Amonkar

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

Sarod · Senia Bangash

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma

Santoor · Jammu lineage

Ustad Vilayat Khan

Sitar · Imdadkhani (Etawah)

Begum Parveen Sultana

Khayal vocal · Patiala

Ustad Alla Rakha

Tabla · Punjab

Ustad Allauddin Khan

Sarod · Senia-Maihar

Kesarbai Kerkar

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan

Sitar · Etawah (Imdadkhani) gharana

AD

Annapurna Devi

Surbahar · Senia-Maihar

Ustad Abdul Karim Khan

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Girija Devi

Khayal and thumri vocal · Benares (Seniya)

Pandit Ram Narayan

Sarangi · Kirana influence

Pandit Jasraj

Khayal vocal · Mewati gharana

Kumar Gandharva

Khayal vocal · Trained in the Gwalior tradition; later independent

MD

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar

Rudra veena · Dagar vani

Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty

Khayal vocal · Patiala gharana

Bade Ghulam Ali Khan

Khayal vocal · Kasur Patiala

DR

Dr. N. Rajam

Violin

Pandit Nikhil Banerjee

Sitar · Maihar

Kaushiki Chakraborty

Khayal vocal · Patiala gharana

Ustad Alladiya Khan

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Anoushka Shankar

Sitar

Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa

Tabla · Farrukhabad (Laliyana lineage)

Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Ustad Rashid Khan

Khayal vocal · Rampur-Sahaswan

Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar

Rudra veena · Dagar vani

Dr Prabha Atre

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Amir Khan

Khayal vocal · Indore

Rakesh Chaurasia

Bansuri

Ustad Sultan Khan

Sarangi · Sikar

UB

Pandit Uday Bhawalkar

Voice (dhrupad)

Bombay Jayashri

Carnatic vocal

Pandit Pannalal Ghosh

Bansuri · Maihar

Sharan Rani

Sarod · Senia-Maihar

Jayanthi Kumaresh

Saraswati veena

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri

Tabla · Lucknow

Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan

Sitar · Imdadkhani (Etawah)

Mogubai Kurdikar

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Ustad Asad Ali Khan

Rudra veena · Jaipur beenkar gharana (Khandarbani)

Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar

Khayal vocal · Mewati gharana

RS

Pandit Ram Sahai

Tabla · Benares

Ustad Bande Ali Khan

Rudra veena

Ustad Imdad Khan

Sitar and surbahar · Imdadkhani (Etawah)

WK

Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Ustad Enayat Khan

Sitar and surbahar · Imdadkhani (Etawah)

HK

Ustad Habibuddin Khan

Tabla · Ajrara

Vidushi Hirabai Barodekar

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh

Tabla · Farrukhabad

Pandit Anokhelal Mishra

Tabla · Benares

Pandit Basavaraj Rajguru

Khayal vocal

SP

Pandit Samta Prasad

Tabla · Benares

Pandit Kishan Maharaj

Tabla · Benares

PV

Pandit C. R. Vyas

Khayal vocal · Kirana, Gwalior and Agra training

Pandit Chatur Lal

Tabla

Ustad Sabri Khan

Sarangi · Senia gharana (contested)

Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan

Sitar · Beenkar tradition of Indore; creator of the Jafferkhani baaj

Pandit Arvind Parikh

Sitar · Imdadkhani (Etawah)

Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki

Khayal vocal · Agra

MB

Manik Bhide

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Pandit Debu Chaudhuri

Sitar · Senia tradition of Mushtaq Ali Khan (described in some accounts as Jaipur-Senia)

KM

Pandit Kanthe Maharaj

Tabla · Benares

Pandit Sawai Gandharva

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Ustad Manji Khan

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

BK

Ustad Bhurji Khan

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

PG

Ganayogi Panchakshara Gawai

Khayal vocal

KD

Nasiruddin Khan Dagar

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani

HK

Nissar Hussain Khan

Khayal vocal · Rampur-Sahaswan

NG

Pandit Nikhil Ghosh

Tabla

BP

Pandit Bholanath Prasanna

Bansuri

Pandit Firoz Dastur

Khayal vocal · Kirana

AD

Nasir Aminuddin Dagar

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani

AK

Ustad Inam Ali Khan

Tabla · Delhi

RR

Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao

Bansuri

AL

Pandit Anant Lal

Shehnai · Benares

FD

Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar

Voice (dhrupad) · Dagar vani

Pandit Rajeev Taranath

Sarod · Senia Maihar

Pandit Manilal Nag

Sitar · Bishnupur gharana

Ustad Aashish Khan

Sarod · Senia Maihar

Pandit Prabhakar Karekar

Khayal vocal · Agra and Gwalior training

Pandit Suresh Talwalkar

Tabla · No single gharana; training and repertoire drawn from Delhi, Ajrada, Farrukhabad, Benares and Lucknow, with Carnatic laya theory

Pandit Nityanand Haldipur

Bansuri · Senia-Maihar

PT

Padma Talwalkar

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Shruti Sadolikar Katkar

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Pandit Kumar Bose

Tabla · Benares

Pandit Anindo Chatterjee

Tabla · Farrukhabad

BM

Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee

Sitar and surbahar · Imdadkhani

Shubha Mudgal

Khayal vocal

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Pandit Ramakant Gundecha

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani (trained, not hereditary)

Pandit Ronu Majumdar

Bansuri · Maihar

Pandit Yogesh Samsi

Tabla · Punjab gharana (tabla)

Shashank Subramanyam

Carnatic flute

KR

Kala Ramnath

Violin (Hindustani)

Pandit Umakant Gundecha

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani (trained, not hereditary)

Faiyaz Khan

Khayal vocal · Agra

Ustad Wahid Khan

Surbahar and sitar · Imdadkhani (Etawah)

AK

Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan

Sitar and surbahar · Senia tradition descending from Masit Khan, through Barkatullah Khan and Ashiq Ali Khan

SJ

Raja Chhatrapati Singh Judeo

Pakhawaj

MD

Nasir Moinuddin Dagar

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani

Pandit Balaram Pathak

Sitar and surbahar · Pathak family tradition (Banaras region)

DK

Dhondutai Kulkarni

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

RS

Pandit Raghunath Seth

Bansuri

Ustad Imrat Khan

Surbahar and sitar · Imdadkhani (Etawah)

KK

Pandit Kartick Kumar

Sitar and surbahar · Maihar teaching line, through Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi

MG

Pandit Madhav Gudi

Khayal vocal

SV

Pandit Satish Vyas

Santoor

Pandit Bhavani Shankar

Pakhawaj

Pandit Rajendra Prasanna

Bansuri · Benares

DG

Pandit Dhruba Ghosh

Sarangi

KD

Pandit Kushal Das

Sitar and surbahar · Maihar tradition

Vidushi Jyoti Hegde

Rudra veena · Jaipur beenkar gharana (Khandarbani)

Pandit Vijay Ghate

Tabla

Devaki Pandit

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Ustad Akram Khan

Tabla · Ajrara

AP

Pandit Ajay Prasanna

Bansuri · Banaras

Pandit Rahul Sharma

Santoor

Purbayan Chatterjee

Sitar · Maihar (Senia-Maihar) gharana

Rimpa Siva

Tabla · Farrukhabad

Pandit Chetan Joshi

Bansuri

Pandit Pravin Godkhindi

Bansuri

Pandit Shounak Abhisheki

Khayal vocal · Agra and Jaipur

BK

Behram Khan

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani

Niladri Kumar

Sitar

DC

Debopriya Chatterjee

Bansuri

OA

Ojas Adhiya

Tabla · Ajrada gharana (tabla), through Shri Mridangraj

Vidushi Anuradha Pal

Tabla · Punjab

Pandit Ramdas Palsule

Tabla

Pandit Anand Bhate

Khayal vocal

Mahesh Kale

Khayal vocal · Agra (through Jitendra Abhisheki)

IG

Ishaan Ghosh

Tabla · Farrukhabad

CP

Charudatta Phadke

Tabla

ST

Savani Talwalkar

Tabla

VS

Vishwanath Shirodkar

Tabla

BK

Ustad Bundu Khan

Sarangi · Delhi lineage (contested)

SM

Pandit Sureshbabu Mane

Khayal vocal · Kirana

Pandit Raghunath Prasanna

Bansuri · Benares

Vidushi Saraswati Rane

Khayal vocal · Kirana

DM

Devendra Murdeshwar

Bansuri · Maihar (bansuri line of Pannalal Ghosh)

BM

Pandit Bimalendu Mukherjee

Sitar, surbahar and sursringar · Imdadkhani, with training from several other lineages

SH

Pandit Suresh Haldankar

Khayal vocal

AK

Munawar Ali Khan

Khayal vocal · Kasur Patiala

Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra

Lap slide guitar

Ustad Rais Khan

Sitar · Family tradition of Mohammed Khan; associated with Mewati and Indore beenkar lineages

AD

Pandit Arun Dravid

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Vidushi Manju Mehta

Sitar · Maihar / Senia-Maihar teaching line, through Ravi Shankar and Damodar Lal Kabra

NG

Pandit Nayan Ghosh

Tabla, Sitar · Farrukhabad gharana

Ustad Nishat Khan

Sitar · Imdadkhani (Etawah) gharana

FQ

Ustad Fazal Qureshi

Tabla

Ustad Taufiq Qureshi

Djembe and percussion

Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Pandit Raghunandan Panshikar

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

Pandit Prateek Chaudhuri

Sitar · Senia tradition, through Debu Chaudhuri and Mushtaq Ali Khan

Pandit Akhilesh Gundecha

Pakhawaj

AB

Anupama Bhagwat

Sitar · Imdadkhani gharana, through Bimalendu Mukherjee

Pandit Rupak Kulkarni

Bansuri · Maihar

ST

Satyajit Talwalkar

Tabla

AP

Pandit Ashok Pathak

Sitar and surbahar · Pathak family tradition

Carsten Wicke

Rudra veena · Jaipur beenkar gharana (Khandarbani)

Gauri Pathare

Khayal vocal · Jaipur-Atrauli

SC

Suchismita Chatterjee

Bansuri

GN

Sangeetacharya Gokul Nag

Sitar, surbahar and veena · Bishnupur (Vishnupur) gharana

AK

Ustad Alam Khan

Sarod · Senia Maihar

AK

Allabande Khan

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani

AS

Ashish Sankrityayan

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar tradition (Dagarvani)

JB

Vidushi Jaya Biswas

Sitar · Maihar teaching line, through Ravi Shankar

KS

Krushna Salunke

Pakhawaj

MN

Mita Nag

Sitar · Bishnupur (Vishnupur) gharana

SB

Pandit Shailesh Bhagwat

Shehnai · Benares

VS

Vivek Sonar

Bansuri · Maihar

ZK

Zakiruddin Khan

Dhrupad vocal · Dagar vani

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