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My exploratory efforts in tracing the extant source material have enabled me to reach the conclusion that the traditional music of Kashmir during the Hindu period was more of less a shadow of Indian music. The slender evidences in Nilamata Purana and Kalhana’s chronicles are also suggestive that the Ancient Music of Kashmir was a version of India music. Ancient Kashmir had been a prominent center for learning art. A rich culture flourished in the region during ...
Senia Gharana, takes its origin from the great exponent of Indian Classical music Mian Tansen. The great Mugal emperor Akbar proclaimed Tansen to be greatest musician of India after the age of Bharata and history bears witness that such a musician was not born since. Tansen’s inexhuastable ability to innovate, invent, systematise music has enriched Hindustani music. The Gharana system is perhaps Tansen’s greatest ...