At the end of the nineteenth century, two men with very different visions--V.N. Bhatkhande and V.D. Paluskar--worked to give Indian classical music its distinctive shape and identity. Where previously no particular ideology, religious group, or ethnic identity had dominated, in the hands of Paluskar, a devotionalist nationalist music was to be cleansed of its bawdy associations and put in the service of Hindu proselytizing. Bhatkhande, on the other hand, hoped ...
