| Artist | genre | based in | influenced by | influence on | biographical data | bibliography |
| A. Lazman Rao | sitar | |||||
| A. T. Kanan | khayal | |||||
| A.N. Kashalkar | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Aban E. Mistry | tabla, sitar | Laxmanrao Bodas, Amir Hussain Khan | ||||
| Abdul Aziz Khan, Ustad | sarangi, vichitra vina | Patiala | Habib Ali Khan Bhatti Beenkar(younger brother), Ahmed Reza Khan | early 20th cent., coined the name vichitra vina ("Batta been"?) | (Neuman '90) | |
| Abdul Ghani | tumbaknari | Kashmir | ||||
| Abdul Ghani Khan(Sangi Khan), Ustad | sarangi | Delhi | Mamman Khan(son) Bundu Khan Chand Khan(grandsons) | 2nd half 19th cent. Delhi Gharana | ||
| Abdul Haj Khan | ||||||
| Abdul Halim Jaffar Khan, Ustad | sitar | Jawra(born) | Jaffer Khan, Mehboob Khan | born 1929 Jaffarkhani bhaj(based on Masitkhani bhai)/Indore gharana of Beenkars Padmashri | ||
| Abdul Hameed Khan | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Abdul Haq, Ustad | khayal | Kale Khan(father) Abdul Karim Khan(brother) | Roshan Ara Begum (daughter) | early 20th cent. | ||
| Abdul Karim | tabla | |||||
| Abdul Karim Khan | sarangi | Liaqat Ali Khan | Sikar Gharana | |||
| Abdul Karim Khan, Ustad | khayal | Kirana/Bombay | Kale Khan(father), Abdullah Khan(uncle), Nanhe Khan(uncle), Rahmat Khan(influence) | Abdul Haq(brother), Dilip Kumar Roy, Tara Bai(2nd wife)Kapileshwari Bua, Sawai Ghandarva, Bahre Bua, Roshan Ara Begum (niece), Suresh Babu Mane(son), Hirabai Barodekar(daughter) | (1872-1937 )Kirana Gharana, married to Gafooran Bibi, brother in law of Hyder Bux(sarangi) | |
| Abdul Latif Khan | sarangi | Bhopal | Haidar Khan(grandfather), Chhote Khan(father), Udai Khan(uncle), Bade Ghulam Ali Khan(infl.) | |||
| Abdul Latif Khan, Ustad | bin | late Indore Gharana of Beenkars | ||||
| Abdul Majid Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Abdul Rasheed Beenkar, Ustad | bin | late | ||||
| Abdul Rashid Khan | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Abdul Rehman Khan | khayal | Lakshmi Shankar, Nirmala Devi | ||||
| Abdul Sakartani (Sattar Tari?) | tabla | Pakistan | Shaukat Hussain | Punjab Gharana | ||
| Abdul Samad Khan | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Abdul Waheed Khan, Ustad | khayal | Haider Baksh(uncle), Bande Ali Khan | Basavaraj Rajaguru, Begum Akhtar | died 1949 Kirana Gharana, sister Gafooran Bai was 1st wife of Abdul Karim Khan, much strife between the two. | ||
| Abdullah Khan, Ustad | sarod | Murad Ali (stepfather) | Mohammed Amir Khan (son), Radhika Mohan Moitra | |||
| Abdullah Khan, Ustad | khayal | Abdul Karim Khan(nephew) | brother of Kale Khan, 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Abhay Narayan Mallick, Pt. | dhrupad | Ramchatur Mallick(grand-uncle) | Sanjay Kumar(son) | born 1937,Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | |
| Abhijit Banerjee | tabla | Calcutta | Tushi Kanti Bose, Manik Pal, Gyan Prakash Ghosh, Annapurna Devi | born 1963, Farrukkhabad Gharana | ||
| Abhik Sarkar | sarod | New Delhi | ||||
| Abhimaan Kaushal | tabla | Sheikh Dawood | Lucknow Gharana | |||
| Abid Husain, Ustad | tabla | Lucknow/Calcutta | Mammad Khan (father, died when son was 7), Moonek Khan (brother) | Wajid Husain (son-in-law), Hirendra Ganguly | Khalifa of Lucknow Gharana, (1866-1836, brother of Munne Khan, Nadir Husain, taght at Bhatkhande Music College at the end of his life | Kippen p. 72 |
| Abid Hussain Khan, Ustad | bin | late | ||||
| Abid Hussain, Ustad | sarangi | Rampur | Haider Bux of Rampur(father-in-law) | Hamid Hussain, Zahid Hussain(sons) | (late) Rampur Gharana | ALPC 9 |
| Abida Parveen | thumri | |||||
| Abir Singh | esraj | Calcutta | Ranadhir Roy, Budhadev Das, Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhry | born 1976 | ||
| Achchan Maharaj(Jagannath Maharaj), Pt. | kathak | Kalika Prasad(father), Bindadin Prasad(uncle) | Vikram Singh | Lucknow Gharana,died 1950.eldest son, only one to receive real training from his father | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Achlan Bai | thumri | late | ||||
| Achrikar, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Achyut Abyankar | khayal | Bombay | Firoz Sastur | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Afaq Husain, Ustad | tabla | Lucknow | Abid Husain (grandfather), Wajid Husain (father) | Ilmas Husain, Ilyas Husain (sons) | Khalifa of Lucknow Gharana, (1930-199#), staff of Sangeet Natak Acad. Lucknow | Kippen p. 72 |
| Afaq Hussain Khan | harmonium | |||||
| Aftar Nawas | harmonium | |||||
| Afzal Hussain Jaipuri, Ustad | thumri | Mamma Ismael(uncle), Bashir Khan, Barkat Ali Khan (mostly) | late Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Agashe Buva | khayal | Shobha Joshi | late | |||
| Aginu Sarkar | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Ahmad Hussain | tabla/sarangi | Rahim Bakhsh Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Mehdi Husain, Inayat Husain, Mohammad Husain | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Ahmad Reza Khan, Ustad | sarangi, vichitra vina | Moradabad | Abdul Aziz Khan(guru) | late | ||
| Ahmed Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | late. Patiala Gharana, jugalbandi with Azad Amanat Khan | ||||
| Ahmed Hussain | khayal | Benares | Bismillah Khan | 1st half 2Oth cent. | ||
| Ahmedjan Thirakwa, Ustad | tabla | Munir Khan, Nanne Khan | Lalji Gokhale (Madhusudhan Ragunath), Nikhil Ghosh, Nizamuddhin Khan, Rashid Mustafa Tirakwa | (-1975), Farukkabad Gharana | ||
| Ahmidjan Mahajar | sitar | AIR staff artist | ||||
| Ajani Mukherjee | khayal | |||||
| Ajay Pohankar | khayal | Janardan Pohankar(father), Dr. Sushila Pohankar | ||||
| Ajay Prasanna | flute | New Delhi | ||||
| Ajit Singh | sitar | Varanasi | ||||
| Ajoy Chakravorti | khayal | Calcutta | Ajit Chakrabarty(father), Pannalal Samanta, Kanai Das Bairagi, Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Munawar Ali Khan | born 1953, teaches at Sangeet Research Academy | ||
| Ajoy Krishnana, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Akbar Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Raza Hussain (father), Chuttan Khan (Lucknow Gharana) | Kothiwal Gharana, staff of AIR Lucknow and Bombay, only important living member of this gharana | Kippen p.83 | |
| Akbar Khan | dhrupad | Behram Khan(Satshashtri) | Dagarbani | |||
| Akhil Bandhu Ghosh | ||||||
| Akhishesh Gundecha | pakhawaj | |||||
| Akhtar Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Sham Chorasi | late | |||
| Akhtar Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Fatheh Ali Khan(father) | Amanat, Fateh Ali Khan(sons) | late, Patiala Gharana | ||
| Akram Khan | tabla | New Delhi | Niazu Khan | Ajrapa Gharana | ||
| Akshyakumar Ghosh | sitar | Barisal (Bangla Desh) | Pannalal Ghosh, Nikhil Ghosh(sons) | early 20th cent. | ||
| Akud Ali Khan | sarod | |||||
| Alam Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Alban Mistry | tabla/pakhawaj | Vidya Parab Sawant | fem. | Pakhawaj and tabla, history, schools and traditions (1984) | ||
| Ali Ahmed Hussain, Ustad | shenai | Ali Jan Khan(father) Wazir Ali(grandfather), Nazir Hussain, Imdad Hussain(uncles) | born1939, attached to Kashi Vishwanath temple | |||
| Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad | sarod | San Anselmo, Ca. | Ashish Khan (son), Brij Bushan Kabra, Damodarlal Kabra, Nikhil Banerjee, Mrinal Sen Gupta, Sharan Rani, Sisarkana Dhar Chaudhury | |||
| Ali Bux Khan, Ustad | khayal | Kasoorwale | Mohammed Ida Khan(father), Behram Khan(dhrupad), Haddu, Hassu Khan, Tanras Khan, Bade Mubarak Ali Khan | Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Barkat Ali Khan(sons) | early 20th cent. Patiala Gharana, Purbi ang | |
| Ali Bux, Ustad | khayal | Akhtar Hussain Khan(son),Fateh Ali, Amanat Ali Khan(grandsons) | 19th cent.,Patiala Gharana, jugalbandi with Fateh Ali ("Alliya-Fattu") | ALPC 12 | ||
| Ali Bux, Ustad | shenai | Benares | Bismillah Khan | late, early 20th cent. | ||
| Ali Jan Khan | shenai | Wazir Ali(father) | Ali Ahmed Hussain(son) | |||
| Ali Jan, Ustad | sarangi | Rampur | Haider Bux of Rampur | Hamid Hussain | late | ALPC 9 |
| Ali Qadar Suleiman Khan, Ustad | tabla | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Alla Bande Khan, Ustad | drupad | Alwar | Mohammed Ali Khan(father) | Nasiruddhin, Rahimuddhin, Imauddhin, Hussainuddin Dagar(sons), grandfather of Dagar bros. | (1845-1927) Dagarbani | |
| Alla Ditta Khan | tabla | tabla | ||||
| Alla Zilai | khayal | "Patnawali" | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Alladin Khan | vichitra vina | |||||
| Alladiya Khan | tabla | Hyderabad | Sheikh Dawood | |||
| Alladiya Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Jaora-Indore | Rajabali Khan | uncle of Amir Khan | ||
| Alladiya Khan, Ustad | khayal | Dilip Chandra Vedi, Kesarbai Kerkar, Mogubai Kurdikar | late, Jaipur Atrauli Gharana, "Gayan Samrat", brother of Hyder Khan | |||
| Allah Bakhsh Khan | tabla | Modhu Khan (father) | Ghulam Haider, Noori Khan (sons) | Kothiwal Gharana, late | Kippen p.70 | |
| Allah Ditta | tabla | |||||
| Allah Rakha | sarangi | |||||
| Allah Rakha, Ustad | tabla | Kader Bax, Ashiq Ali Khan | Zakir Hussain, Fasal Quereshi(sons), Yogesh Shansi, Anuradha Pal, Nishikant Barodekar, Divyang Vakil | Punjab Gharana(1919- 5/02/00) | obituary by Amjad Ali Khan(HT 6-02-00) | |
| Allaudhin | violin | |||||
| Allaudhin Khan | dilruba, esraj | |||||
| Allaudhin Khan, Ustad | sarod, violin etc. | Maihar | Nanu Gopal, Nandlal, Mohammed Wazir Khan | Ali Akbar Khan(son), Annapurna Devi(daughter), Ashish Khan(grandson)Indraneel Bhattacharya, Nikhil Banerjee, Ravi Shankar(son-in-law), Sharan Rani, Vasant Rai, Timir Baran | Padmabushan(1958) Padma Vibushan(1971) (1862-1972) | |
| Aloke Nath | flute | |||||
| Altaf Hussain Jhan | tabla | Lahore | late | |||
| Altaf Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | late, Khurja Gharana (U.P) | ||||
| Amaan Ali Bangash | sarod | New Delhi | Amjad Ali Khan(father) | |||
| Aman Ali Khan | khayal | Ali Bax Khan(father) | first half 20th cent. | |||
| Aman Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Bombay | Amir Khan | late, Bhendibazar Gharana | ||
| Amanali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Lata Mangeshkar, Vasantrao Deshpande | late | |||
| Amanat Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal/ghazal | Akhtar Hussain Khan(father) | Lata Mangeshkar | late, Patiala Gharana | ||
| Amanat Ali, Ustad | khayal | Rajabali Khan | Lata Mageshkar | late | ||
| Amar Dey | tabla | |||||
| Amar Nath | khayal | |||||
| Amarnath Misra | sitar | |||||
| Amba Sanyal | religious/khayal | |||||
| Ambar Kumar | bhajan | |||||
| Amir Hussain Khan, Ustad | tabla | Munir Khan, Nanne Khan | Nikhil Ghosh | born 1901, Farukkabad Gharana | ||
| Amir Khan, Ustad | khayal | Indore | Shamir Khan(father), Aman Ali Khan, Abdul Karim Khan(indirectly), Abdul Waheed Khan(indirectly) | Munir Khan, Singh Bandu | (1912-) | NRCD 0091 |
| Amir Khan, Ustad | sarod | Calcutta | 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Amir Khusrau Dihlavi | khayal | (1251-1326), founding father of Hindustani music | ||||
| Amit Bhattacharya | sarod | Jotin Bhattacharya(father) | ||||
| Amitara Mitra | tabla | Jnan Prakesh Ghosh | ||||
| Amiuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | born in Calcutta | Naziruddhin Khan Dagar (father) | Born 1923/4 jugalbhandi with Mohiuddhib Dagar, known as (senior) Dagar Brothers, Dagarbani | ||
| Amiya Chakravorty | vichitra vina | Narayan Chakravorty | ||||
| Amjad Ali Dipalpuri | tabla | Lahore | Altaf Hussain Khan | Qamar Ali(son) | died 2000 while playing at Data Ganj Bux Shrine in Lahore, longtime accopianist of Meher Ali/sher Ali(Quawali) | |
| Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad | sarod | New Delhi | Hafiz Ali Khan(father) | Amaan, Ayaan Ali Bangash(sons) | born 1945, Padma Shree(1975) | |
| Amjad Amanat Ali Khan | khayal | Pakistan | ||||
| Amjad Khan | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Amlesh Chaterjee | tabla | Samir Chaterjee | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Amman Khan | tabla | Calcutta | Mammad Khan | mid 19th cent., served in exiled Nawab Wajid Ali Shah's court in Calcutta | Kippen p. 74 | |
| Amrit Sen | bin, sitar | Rahim Sen(father?) | Mustaq Ali Khan(via disciple) | late | ||
| Anad Bedekar | tabla | |||||
| Anand Badamikar | tabla | |||||
| Anand Bobas | tabla | |||||
| Anand Kumar | khayal | |||||
| Anand Kumar Mallick | pakhawaj | Darbhanga Gharana | ||||
| Anand Kunthe | sarangi | Bombay | ||||
| Anand Manohar Joshi | khayal | Poona | Vasantrao Kulkarni, Gajananrao Joshi | Gwalior Gharana | ||
| Ananda Gopal Bandhopadhyay | tabla | Mahadeo Prasad Mishra | Benares Gharana | |||
| Anandkumar Mallick | pakhawaj | Bidur Mallick(father) | Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | ||
| Anant Damle | stage/khayal | Bombay | Bapurao Pendharkar, Monohar Bhave | (1915-) | ||
| Anant Lal, Pt. | shenai | New Delhi | Daya Shankar(son) | |||
| Anant Rane | harmonium | P. Madhukar | ||||
| Anant Rane | tabla | |||||
| Anantrao Kurlekar | tabla | Vipulkumar Kurlekar(son) | husband of Shakuntalabai Kurlekar | |||
| Anaradha Pal | tabla | Mumbai | ||||
| Andid A. Prasad | pakhawaj | |||||
| Aneesh Pradha | tabla | Nikhil Ghosh | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Aneesuddhin Dagar | dhrupad | Dagarbani | ||||
| Angeli Todi | khayal | |||||
| Anil Bhattacharya | tabla | Calcutta | ||||
| Anil Palit | tabla | Kishan Maharaj, Kanthe Maharaj | Benares Gharana | |||
| Anindo Chatterjee | tabla | Calcutta | Biswanath Chaterjee (uncle) Jnan Prakash Ghosh | born 1954 Farukkabad Gharana | ||
| Anindya Chaterjee, prof. | tabla | |||||
| Anirban Dasgupta | sarod | |||||
| Anis-ud-daula | tabla | Calcutta | Mammad Khan | mid 19th cent., served in exiled Nawab Wajid Ali Shah's court in Calcutta | Kippen p. 74 | |
| Anita Sen | thumri | |||||
| Anjali Banerjee | ghazal | |||||
| Anjani Shur | thumri | |||||
| Anjanibai Lolekar | khayal | |||||
| Anjanibai Malpekar | khayal | Bombay | Kumar Ghandarva | Bhindi Bazar Gharana | ||
| Annapurna Shankar | surbahar | Allauddhin Khan(father) | Hariprasad Chaurasia | married Ravi Shankar | ||
| Anokhe Lal, Pt. | tabla | Benares | Baldev Sahai | Mahapurush Mishra | late, Benares Gharana | |
| Ansar Hussain | harmonium | |||||
| Anup Dutta | tabla | |||||
| Anupriya Deotale | violin | New Delhi | ||||
| Anurda Pal | tabla | Zakir Hussain | Punjab Gharana | |||
| Anwar Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | M.R. Gautam | late | |||
| Aparna Chakraborty | khayal | |||||
| Apooch Pathak, Pt. | sitar | Raj Kumar Pathak(father) | Rameshwar Pathak(son) | late | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | |
| Appa Jalgaonkar | harmonium | |||||
| Appayya Swami | khayal | Mallikarjun Mansur | late | |||
| Apurbo Mukherjee | tabla | Calcutta | Shankar Ghosh | born 1971 | ||
| Arati Ankalikar | khayal | |||||
| Archana Keshari Prasad Mishra | sarangi | |||||
| Arif Khan | flute | |||||
| Arjun Shewal | pakhawaj | |||||
| Arjuni Vaidya | bin/rebab/sursingar | Benares(orig. Punjab) | early 20th cent., died ±1932, prehistory of stage songs | Rai Anand Krishna, The musical setting In Banaras | ||
| Arjunsa Nakod | khayal | Jayateerth Mevundi | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Arun Ghosal | tabla | |||||
| Arunkanti Ghosh | tabla | |||||
| Arvind Apte | khayal | Bombay | Firoz Sastur | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Arvind Gajendragadkar | flute | Murlidkar Shastri, Omkarnath Thakur, B.R. Deodar, Swami Patvartikar | ||||
| Arvind Parikh | sitar | Vilayat Khan(guru) | born 1927 | |||
| Arvind Thatte | harmonium | |||||
| Asad Ali Khan | harmonium | |||||
| Asad Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Pakistan | late. Agra Gharana | |||
| Asad Ali Khan, Ustad | rudra vina, vichitra vina | New Delhi | born 1937 | |||
| Asad Amanat Ali Khan | khayal | |||||
| Asaf Ali Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Asgar Hussain Khan, Ustad | harmonium | |||||
| Asha Bosle | khayal, film | Ali Akbar Khan(recently) | sister of Lata Mangeshkar | |||
| Asha Sharma | ghazal | |||||
| Ashalata Wabgaonkar | stage | |||||
| Ashawalkar | flute | |||||
| Asheesh Banerjee | esraj | |||||
| Ashfaque Hussain Khan | harmonium | |||||
| Ashiq Ali Khan | drupad | Benares | Mustaq Ali Khan (son), Sudarshanacharya(sitar) | early 20th cent | ||
| Ashiq Ali Khan | sarangi | Agra | Agra Gharana | |||
| Ashiq Ali Khan Senia | sursingar, sitar | Benares | Barkatullah Khan(uncle) | |||
| Ashiq Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Fateh Ali Khan(father) | Ali Bux, Kale Khan, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | Patiala Gharana, late... | ||
| Ashiq Hussain | kathak | late. Janki Das Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Ashir Bindo | khayal | |||||
| Ashish Khan, Ustad | sarod | Allauddhin Khan(grandfather), Ali Akbar Khan(father) | Ranajit SenGupta | born 1939 | ||
| Ashish Kumar Barari | tabla | |||||
| Ashish Pradhan | tabla | |||||
| Ashok Ingle | sitar | |||||
| Ashok Pathak | sitar | Ballaram Pathak(father) | born 1949 | |||
| Ashok Roy | sarod | Ali Akbar Khan | born 1936 | |||
| Ashraf Khan, Ustad | tabla | Hidayat Khan | ||||
| Ashrami Pankajam Dass | bhajan | |||||
| Ashutosh Bhattacharya | tabla | Kante Maharaj | Benares Gharana, First half 20th cent. | |||
| Ashwini Bhide | khayal | |||||
| Asif Ali Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Asit Pal | tabla | |||||
| Askar Hussain | violin | |||||
| Aslam Khan, Ustad | khayal | Azmat Hussain Khan(brother-in-law), Khadim Hussain Khan | Hapue Gharana | |||
| Ata Hussain Khan | khayal | Sharafat Hussain Khan | Agra Gharana | |||
| Ata Mohammed Khan | khayal | Patiala | Begum Akhtar | Tanras Khan Gharana/ Patiala Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Athar Husain | sarangi | Patna | Bahadur Husain (father) | Kothiwal Gharana, late | Kippen p.70 | |
| Atma Ram, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Atul Desai | khayal | Benares | Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | |||
| Ayaan Ali Bangash | sarod | Amjad Ali Khan(father) | ||||
| Ayodya Prasad | pakhawaj | Rampur | Gopal Das | late. Nana Panse Gharana | ||
| Azim Khan of Jawra, Ustad | tabla | Jawra | Hidayat Khan, Nizamuddhin Khan | late, Delhi Gharana | ||
| Azimuddhin Khan | tabla | |||||
| Aziz Ali Khan, Ustad | vichitra vina | late.gurubai of Rajabali Khan | ||||
| Azizuddhin Khan, Ustad | khayal | Jitendra Abhisheki | late. Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Azmat Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Jitendra Abhisheki, Aslam Khan(brother-in-law) | late. Atrauli and Agra Gharana | |||
| B. Shankar Karakar | tabla | |||||
| B.L. Kabra | sarod, guitar | Ali Akbar Khan | brother of D.L. Kabra, (Kabra Brothers) | |||
| B.R. Deodar, Prof. | khayal, musicologist | Bombay | Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Shende Khan | Arvind Gajendragadkar, Kumar Ghandarva, Lakshmi Shankar, Sarasvati Rane | (1902-), Gwalior Gharana | |
| B.V. Keskar | drupad | Hari Mohan Ghoshal | 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Baba Gopal Das/ Imam Baksh Khan | dhrupad | Delhi | Haider Khan, Behram Khan(sons) | mid 18th cent. founder of Dagarbani | ||
| Baba Thakur Das | pakhawaj | Swami Pagal Das | ||||
| Babalal Sitarwala, Pt. | sitar | Indore | late | |||
| Baban Manjrekar | harmonium | |||||
| Babanrao Haldankar | khayal | Agra Gharana, head of Music dept. of Goa Kala Academy | ||||
| Babu Lal | pakhawaj | |||||
| Babu Nandam Pathak, Pt. | dhrupad | Balia(U.P) | Dinanath Pathak(father) | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | ||
| Babu Shivendra Nath Basu (Santu Babu) | bin | Benares | First half 2Oth cent. head of Bharat Kala Parishad | Musical setting in Benares p. 21 | ||
| Babulal Andharia | khayal | Rasiklal Andharia(brother) | late. Kirana Gharana | |||
| Babur Ali Khan | flute | |||||
| Baburao Kulkarni, Pt. | sitar | Shashank Katti | ||||
| Baccha Lal Mishra | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Bachchu Pathak, Pt. | dhrupad | Balia(U.P) | Dinanath Pathak(father) | Ganesh Pathak, Babu Nandam Pathak, Ram Govind Pathak(sons) | 19th cent. | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 |
| Bachumia | piano | Vistasp Balsara | ||||
| Badal Khan | khayal | Vishmadev Chatterjee | early 20th cent. | |||
| Badal Khan | sarangi | Dholpur | ||||
| Badda Miyan | shenai | Benares | attached to Lakshman Bala temple of the Scindas at Bala Ghat | |||
| Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Pt. | khayal | Ali Bux Khan(father), Kale Khan(uncle), Aashiq Ali Khan | Meera Banerjee, Munawar Ali Khan(son), Prasun Banerjee, Sanddya Mukherjee | (1902-1968). Patiala Gharana (Kasoor Gharana), Padmabushan 1962, "Sabrangi" | ||
| Bade Mohammed Khan | khayal | Gwalior | Gwalior Gharana (qawwal bache), founded Gwalior Gharana | Wade(p.37) | ||
| Bade Ramdas | khayal | Banares | Sidhiswari Devi, Umadutt Sharma | late. | ||
| Bader-uz Zaman | khayal | Pakistan | ||||
| Badi Malka Jan | thumri | Benares | Gauhar Jan(daughter) | mid 19th cent. | ||
| Badi Moti Bai | thumri | Benares | Siyaji Mishra, Mitan Lal, Miozuddhin Khan | |||
| Badri Maharaj | tabla | Benares | Kante Maharaj | Giuseppe Fiore | Benares Gharana | |
| Baggar Prasad Mishra | thumri | Benares | Bari Moti Bai | late | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Bahachandra Tihandi | khayal | Maharashtra | ||||
| Bahadur Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Nadir Husain (father) | Nayab Khan (son) | Lucknow Gharana, late | Kippen p. 72 |
| Bahadur Husain | tabla/sarangi | Patna | Noori Khan (father) | Atkar Husain (son) | Kothiwal Gharana, late | Kippen p.70 |
| Bahadur Hussain Khan | bin, khayal, drupad | Jaipur Seni Gharana of Beenkars 19th century, inventor of tarana | ||||
| Bahadur Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Mustaq Hussain Khan, Manilal Nag(indirectly) | 2nd half 19th cent., Bishupur Gharana, patron: Maharaja Ragunath Singh Bahadur of Mallabhum(Bishupur), Faiyaz Khan married his daughter | |||
| Bahadur Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Bahadur Khan, Ustad | sarod | Calcutta | Allaudhin Khan | Tejendra Narayan Majumdar | (1933-1989) | |
| Bahauddhin Dagar | rudravina | Zia Mohiuddhin Dagar | Dagarbani | |||
| Bahir Ahmed | bhajan | |||||
| Bajju Khan | sarangi | Saadat Ali Khan (father) | Sarfraz Husain, Iqbal Husain | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Raza Husain, Chutke Khan | Kippen p.70 | |
| Bakshu Khan | tabla | Hussain Khan (father) | Delhi/lucknow Gharana, mid 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Bakul Pandit | stage | |||||
| Bal Ghandarva (Naranrao Rajhans) | khayal/stage | (1880-1967) | ||||
| Bala Sahab Poochawala | khayal | |||||
| Baladevji Mishra | kathak | Benares | Benares (Mishra) tradition, teacher at Bharat Kala Parishad, first half 20th cent. | Musical setting in Benares p. 21 | ||
| Balakrishnabua Kapileshwari | khayal | Firoz Dashtur | 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Balawal Belgiumwala | ||||||
| Baldeo Tewari | drupad | Siyaram Tiwari | late, Darbhanga Gharana | |||
| Baldeo Upadhyaya | pakhawaj | Gaya | (1915-1958), | text in MC 17 | ||
| Baldev Sahai | tabla | Anokelal Mishra, Kashinath Maharaj, Vikku Maharaj | late, Benares Gharana | |||
| Bale Khan | sitar | Dharwar | Rahimat Khan(grandfather) Karim Khan(father) | Rais Khan(son | Times of India 2 dec. 1999 | |
| Balkrishna Bua Ichalkaranjikar, Pt. | khayal | Mirashibuva | late. | |||
| Balkrishna Iyer | tabla | |||||
| Balkrishna Sharma | pakhawaj | |||||
| Ballaram Pathak, Pt. | sitar | Ram Govind Pathak(father) | Ashok Pathak, Vinod Pathak, Pramod Pathak, Vinay Pathak(sons) | late, born 1923 | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc 558672 73 | |
| Baluji Shrivastav | dilruba | |||||
| Balwant Rai Bhatt, Pt. | khayal | Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Kashinath Bodas | ||||
| Balwantrao Abhisheki | khayal | Agra Gharana | ||||
| Bamacharan Banerjee, Pt. | khayal | Dilip Kumar Roy | early 20th cent. | |||
| Bande Ali Khan, Ustad | bin | Indore | Jaffer Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan | late, Indore Gharana Anecdote: BAK used to play the bin for forteen years beside a holy man who never acknowledge his presence. One day while he was playing the holy man went into transe. After this he told Bande Ali Khan to leave(Neuman 1990) | ||
| Bandez Hussain Khan | khayal | |||||
| Bando Khan | tabla | Ghulam Sarwar Sabri | Ajrapa Gharana | |||
| Bankim Pal | sitar | Enayat Khan | Indrajit Banerjee (son) | |||
| Banney Khan, Ustad | khayal | Jamal Khan, Piarey Khan, Saindhey Khan, Misri Khan | late. Patiala Gharana, see Ummeed Khan | |||
| Bapu Lal | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Bapurao Pendharkar | khayal | Anant Damle | ||||
| Bapurao Pendharkar | stage | (1892-1937) | ||||
| Barat Kamat | tabla | |||||
| Bare Kale Khan | tabla | Makkhu Khan (father) | Wali Bakhsh Khan (son) | Delhi Gharana, late 19th cent. brotehr of Nazar Ali Khan | Kippen p.68 | |
| Bari Moti Bai | thumri/ khayal | Darbangha(born), Benares | Bari Moti Bai(father) | (1891-?) | ||
| Barkat Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal/thumri | Ali Baksh(father) | Afzal Hussain Khan Jaipuri | (1907-1963) Patiala Gharana, brother of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | ||
| Barkatullah Khan, Ustad | bin/rebab/sursingar | Benares | Ashiq Ali Khan Senia(nephew) | late 19th/early 20th cent. | Rai Anand Krishna, The musical setting In Banaras | |
| Baru Kumar Pal | guitar | |||||
| Basavaraj Rajaguru, Pt. | khayal | Dharwad | Panchakshar Gawai (father), Sawai Ghandarva, Panchakshari Buva, Nilakantha Buva, Suresh Babu Mane, Mubarak Ali, Abdul Wahid Khan, Inayatullah Khan, Roshan Ara Begum, Govindrao Tembe | Ganapati Bhat, Parameshwar Hegde, Shataram Hegde, Nachiketa Sharma | born 1920, late. Kirana Gharana (Gwalior, Patiala) Padmashree (1975) | leaflet Dharwad, text by Dr. H.A. Katti, article by Nachiketa Sharma |
| Basha Mishra, Pt. | tabla | Benares | Samta Prasad (son) | died 1926, Benares Gharana | ||
| Bashir Ahmed Khan | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Bashir Khan | sarangi | Bhopal | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Bashir Khan, Ustad | khayal/thumri | Afzal Hussain Jaipuri, Basavraj RajaguruDipali Nag, Vidyadhari Devi, | Kirana Gharana, late | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Bashir Mohammed | khayal | Jyotsna Bohle | ||||
| Basit Khan | rabab/surshringar | born 1787. invented the surshringar | Kippen p. 21 | |||
| Basudeo Upadhyaya | pakhawaj | Gaya | died 1942, | text in MC 17 | ||
| Beeru Mishra | tabla | Wajid Hussain Khan | Benares Gharana | |||
| Begum Akhtar | thumri/ghazal | Faizabad(birth) | Imdad Khan(sarangi), Ghulam Mohammed Khan, Sakhawat Hussain Khan, Ata Muhammed Khan, Waheed Khan | M.R. Gautam | late. (1910/14-1974)"Queen of Ghazal" | |
| Behere Buwa Ganesh Ramchandra, Pt. | khayal | Abdul Karim Khan | late. Kirana Gharana | |||
| Behram Khan | dhrupad | Jaipur | Baba Gopal Das (father) | Akbar Khan, Saddu Khan | (1753-1878 ?!), Dagarbani | |
| Behram Khan Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | Gopal Das(father) | 19th Century, Dagarbani | |||
| Beraz Khan | khayal | |||||
| Beshu Mishra of Kabirchaura, Pt. | thumri | Benares | Gauhar Jan | Patiala Gharana, mid 19th cent. | ||
| Bhagat-ji | tabla | Ram Saray | Benares Gharana, late 19th cent. | |||
| Bhagvati Sahai, Pt. | tabla | Benares | Sharda Sahai(son) | Benares Baj | ||
| Bhagwan Das Mishra | sarangi | |||||
| Bhagwan Das Mridangacharya | pakhawaj | Swami Pagal Das | ||||
| Bhagwan Dass Sharma | santur | |||||
| Bhai Gopal Singh | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Bhai Gurdit Singh | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Bhai Lal Mohammed | khayal | Ghulam Hussain Shaggan(son) | Kampurthala Gharana) | |||
| Bhairon Sahay | tabla | Ram Saray | Benares Gharana, late 19th cent. | |||
| Bhaiya Sahib | harmonium/thumri/dadra | Benares | Bismillah Khan | first half 20th cent. stayed long time in Ganga Mahal(Benares) | Musical setting in Benares p. 21 | |
| Bhaiyasahib Ganpatrao, Pt. | thumri, harmonium | Calcutta | Sadiq Ali Khan | Gauhar Jan | late 19th cent. | |
| Bharat Bushan Goswami | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Bhaskar Chandravarkar | sitar | |||||
| Bhaskarbua Bakhale | Kesarbai Kerkar, Krishnarao | |||||
| Bhaskarbuva Bakhale, Pt. | khayal | Dilip Chandra Vedi | early 20th cent. Agra, Gwalior, Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Bhawani Das | shyam sangeet | |||||
| Bhilal Mahmod | khayal | |||||
| Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. | khayal | Puna | Sawai Ghandarva | born 1922, Kirana Gharana | ||
| Bhimshankar Rao | khayal | Baroda | ||||
| Bhishmadev Vedi | Zarin Daruwala | |||||
| Bhola Nath Mishra | sarangi/vocal | |||||
| Bhola Nath, Pt. | flute | Hariprasad Chaurasia, Manik Varma | ||||
| Bhola Ram | pakhawaj | Gopal Das(son) | Nana Panse Gharana | |||
| Bholanath Bhat, Pt. | khayal | Darbhanga | Ramashreya Jha | Rajan P. Parrikar, reflexions on raag Hamir | ||
| Bhupender Singh | khayal | |||||
| Bhurji Khan | khayal | Gajananrao Joshi | ||||
| Bhurji Khan, Ustad | khayal | Mallikarjun Mansur | younger brother of Manji Khan | |||
| Bhuvaneshwar Mishra | violin | AIR Cuttack, plays both Carnatic and hindustani music, national award of sangeet Natak Academy | ||||
| Bibdadib Maharaj | kathak | Lucknow | Durga Prasad (father) | mid 19th cent. | ||
| Bibhas Das Purakayasthan | tabla | Jnan Prakesh Ghosh | ||||
| Bidur Mallick | dhrupad | Sukdeo Mallick(father) | Anandkumar Mallick, Ramkumar Mallick, Premkumar Mallick(sons) | Darbhanga Gharana | born 1936, text in MC 17 | |
| Bijonbala Ghosh Dastidar | khayal | Benares | Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | |||
| Bikram Ghosh | tabla | Shankar Ghosh | ||||
| Biku Mishra, Pt. | tabla | Benares | Samta Prasad | Benares Gharana | ||
| Bilapani Mishra | khayal | |||||
| Bilas Khan | vocal | Mian Tan Sen (father) | ||||
| Bilawal Beljium | banjo | |||||
| Bilayat Hossain | shenai | |||||
| Bimal Ch. Das | esraj | Calcutta | Sailen Das, Santany Das (sons) | late | booklet acc. CD: C 560154 | |
| Bimalendu Mukherjee | sitar, surbahar | Bhilai | Budhaditya Mukherjee | born 1925 | ||
| Bindadin Maharaj | kathak, thumri | Lucknow | Durga Prsad(father), Thakur Prasad(uncle) | Gauhar Jan, Zohra Bai, Jhande Khan | (1830-1918) founder of Lucknow Gharana, brother of Kalika Prasad | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Birendra Kishore Roy | sitar | Calcutta | Sobroto Roy Chaudhuri | |||
| Birju Maharaj | khayal | |||||
| Birju Maharaj Mishra | tabla | Benares | first half 20th cent. Teacher at Bharat Kala Parishad, Benares Gharana | Musical setting in Benares p. 22 | ||
| Birju Maharaj(Brijmohan Maharaj) | kathak, tabla, pakhawaj, nus | New Delhi | Achchan Maharaj(father), Lunchu Maharaj, Sambhu Maharaj(uncles) | Rani Karna, Pramila Pande, Tirath Ajmani, Rekha Shankar, Kavita(daughter), Jai Krishna(son),Nirmala Nandu, Sharda Dabhada, Malavika Sarkar, Shobhana Narayan | head of dance dept of Kathak Kendra, "torch-bearer of Kalka-Bindadin Gharana" | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Biru Mishra | tabla | Benares | Benares Gharana, 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Bismillah Khan, Ustad | shenai | Benares | Ali Bux, Ahmed Hussain(khayal), Badda Miyan and Vilayat Miyan | born 1918, Padmabushan 1968, attached to Lakshman Bala temple of the Scindas at Bala Ghat | ||
| Biswajit Roy Chaudhuri | sarod | New Delhi | ||||
| Biswanath Bose | tabla | Kumar Bose | Benares Gharana | |||
| Bitchuwant Bharthi | khayal | |||||
| Bithaldas Gujrati | pakhawaj | |||||
| Boorey Khan, Ustad | khayal | Meeran Bux(son) | Patiala Gharana. Brought khayal music to the Punjab from Gwalior, see Ummeed Khan | |||
| Brij Bushan Kabra, Pt. | guitar | Shah Goverhan Kabra(father), D.L. Kabra(brother), Ali Akbar Khan | born 1937 | |||
| Brij Narayan, Pt. | sarod | Bombay | Ram Narayan(father), Chatur Lal(uncle) | born 1952 | ||
| Buddhadev Das | esraj | Santiniketan | Ranadhir Roy | Abir Singh | ||
| Budhadev Das Gupta, Pt. | sarod | Radhika Mohan Maitra (guru) | born 1933 | |||
| Budhaditya Mukherjee | sitar | Calcutta | Bimalendu Mukherjee(father) | born 1955 | ||
| Bugara Khan | tabla | Chote Khan (father) | Delhi Gharana early 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Bundi Maharaj, Pt. | tabla | Madan Mishra | Benares Gharana, late | |||
| Bundu Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Pakistan | Umrao Bundu Khan(son) | Indore Durbar, Delhi Gharana, first half 20th cent. | ||
| Buparao Shaligram | khayal | Padmavati Gokhale | ||||
| Burdishimah Ragernath | sitar | on AIR staff | ||||
| C. Anandkumar | Gujarati bhajan | |||||
| C.D. Kerkare | khayal | |||||
| C.H. Atma | bhajan | Hyderabad(Sind) born | (1923-late), popular singer of the 40sand 50s | |||
| C.R. Vyas, Pt. | khayal | Osmanabad | Govindrao Batambrekar,Rajarambuva Paradkar, Yeshwantbuva Mirashi, Jagannathbuva Purohit(Gunidas), S.N. Ratanjankar | Kunda Weling, Prabhakar Karekar | born 1924, worked on Sangeet Shiksha-Peeth of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Bombay) Tansen Samman (1999) Penname: Gunijaan | ECSD 2974 |
| Chajju Khan | bin | Gwalior | Shamir Khan | |||
| Chajju Khan | khayal | Bombay | Mamman Khan(sarangi) | founder of Bendhibazar Gharana | ||
| Chajju Khan | tabla | Hussain Khan (father) | Delhi Gharana, mid 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Chakravarty | tabla | |||||
| Chakravorty | sitar | |||||
| Chamma Khan | tabla | Shaafat Ahmed | Delhi Gharana | |||
| Chamma Khan | tabla | Delhi Gharana | ||||
| Chand Khan | tabla | Chote Khan (father) | Delhi Gharana early 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Chand Khan, Ustad | khayal, sursagar | Mamman Khan(father), Bundu Khan(cousin) | Nasir Ahmed Khan(nephew), Umrao Bundu Khan, Zahoor Khan(son-in-law, nephew) | Delhi Gharana, title: Sangeet Martand | ||
| Chand Mishra, Sri | thumri | Girja Devi | Benares Gharana | |||
| Chand Prasad | kathak | Narayan Prasad(father) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Chanda Bai | khayal | Patna/Azimabad | Roshan Ara Begum(daughter) | married Abdul Haq, mother of Roshan Ara Begum | ||
| Chanda Khan | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Chandra Mohan | tabla | |||||
| Chandra Sekhar | esraj | |||||
| Chandrakant Kamat | tabla | |||||
| Chandrakant Sardesh Mukherjee | sitar | |||||
| Chandrani Mukherjee | bhajan | |||||
| Chandrashekar Naringekar | surbahar, sitar | Zia Mohiuddhin Dagar | Dagarbani | |||
| Channu Khan | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Charanjit Lal Kathak, Pt. | tabla | Hidayat Khan | ||||
| Chatur Lal, Pt. | tabla | Nathu Prasad, Hafiz Mia | Ramnarayan(brother) | 1926-1967 | ||
| Chauri Upadhyaya | dhrupad | Gaya | text in MC 17 | |||
| Chhabi Banerjee, geetashree | kirtan | |||||
| Chhammi Bebum | dadra | |||||
| Chhota Gandarva | stage | |||||
| Chhote Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Haider Khan(father) | Abdul Latif Khan(son) | late | ||
| Chhote Muhammed Khan Beenkar, Ustad | bin | Rajabali Khan | Rais Khan(son) | late, guribai of Rajabali Khan | ||
| Chhote Rahimat Khan | sitar | Dharwar | Rahimat Khan(grandfather) Karim Khan(father) | |||
| Chhotey Ghulam Ali Khan | khayal | Qawwal Bacon ka Gharana | ||||
| Chikra Bose | dadra | |||||
| Chimmoy Lahari | khayal | Calcutta | Parveen Sultana | |||
| Chimote, Pt. | harmonium | |||||
| Chinmoy Lahari | khayal, ragprodhan | Khurshed Ali Khan, Chote Khan | born 1921 | |||
| Chintamani Jain | jaltarang | |||||
| Chintamanrao Paluskar, Pt. | khayal | D.V. Paluskar(cousin) | ||||
| Chiranji Lal | kathak, pakhawaj | Lucknow, Delhi | Hanuman Prasad(father), Bindadin Maharaj | late. Jaipur Gharana, excelled in Bhava | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Chitresh Das | kathak | Ram Narain Mishra | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Chitta Ranjan Jyotisha | khayal | Benares | at BHU | |||
| Chote Khan | khayal | Chinmoy Lahari | ||||
| Chote Khan | tabla | Muhammed Khan (father) | Gamay Khan, Munnu Khan(sons), Natthu Khan(son-in law) | Delhi Gharana, early 20th cent. | Kippen p.68 | |
| Chote Khan | tabla | Sudhar Khan (father) | Buggara Khan, Chand Khan, Lalle Masit Khan (sons) | Delhi Gharana, early 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | |
| Chote Khan | tabla | Kanpur | Gasita Khan (father) | Nisar Abbas Khan, Saadat Ali Khan (sons) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Ghulam Imam Khan, Rahim Baksh Khan | Kippen p.70 |
| Chotey Lal | tabla | Delhi Gharana | ||||
| Chotte Narayan Mallick | pakhawaj | Bal Dev Uppadya | Pannalal Uppadhya | daughter married Ballaram Pathak | late text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | |
| Choube Maharaj | tabla | |||||
| Chutke Khan | sarangi | Saadat Ali Khan (father) | Munowarusain (son) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Raza Husain, Bajju Khan | Kippen p.70 | |
| Chuttan Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Najju Khan (father), Haider Husain (probably) | Nayab Khan, Akbar Husain | Lucknow Gharana, late | Kippen p. 72 |
| Chuttan Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Haider Husain | Akbar Khan | Lucknow Gharana, 1st half 20th cent. | |
| D. Aita wadekar | tabla | |||||
| D. Amel | flute | |||||
| D. Rijam | jaltarang | |||||
| D. Rijram | jaltarang | |||||
| D.H. Thakar | flute | |||||
| D.K. Chaterjee | tabla | |||||
| D.K. Datar | violin | Narayanrao Datar(brother) Pt. D.V.Paluskar(uncle)Vighneshwar Shastri | studied at Prof. Deodar's School of Indian Music, accompanied D.V.Paluskar | |||
| D.K. Kabra | sarod | Ali Akbar Khan | Brij Bushan Kabra(brother), Mrinal Sen Gupta | |||
| D.K. Thakur | flute | |||||
| D.R. Narurkar, Pt. | tabla | Deepak Nerurkar(son) | late | |||
| D.V. Paluskar, Pt. | khayal | Vishnu Digambar Paluskar(father), Chintamanrao Paluskar(cousin),Narayanrao Vyas, Vinayakrao Patwardhan, Mirashi Buva(Gwalior) | Gwalior Gharana(1921-1955) | |||
| D.V. Parvartikar, Swami | bin, dattatreya vina, rudra vina | Arvind Gajendragadkar | born 1916 | |||
| Dabir Khan / Dayal Singh | bin, khayal, drupad | Jaipur Seni Gharana of Beenkars 19th century | ||||
| Dabishish Chakravorty | tabla | |||||
| Dahajudaulah Dhari | sarod | Lucknow | mid 19th cent | |||
| Dalia Rahut | thumri, Purabibi gayaki | PT.A. Kannan, Girija Devi | Benares Gharana, studied at Sangeet Research Academy | |||
| Damodar Adhikari | sitar maker | Calcutta | Kannailal, Nityananda Lal (sons) | late 19th century | S. Landsberg, Kanailal and brother | |
| Damodarlal Kabra | sarod | Ali Akbar Khan | born 1926 | |||
| Damodarlal Kabra | sarod, guitar | Ali Akbar Khan | born 1926, brother of B.L. Kabra (Kabra Brothers) | |||
| Dargah Quli Khan | khayal | 18th cent. wrote memoirs | ||||
| Dargahi Maharaj | khayal | Benares | Vidyadhari Devi | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Darshan Singh | clarinet | |||||
| Daud Khan | sarangi | Indore | ||||
| Daya Halim Kabra | tabla | |||||
| Daya Shankar | shenai | |||||
| Dayan Ali Quadri | tabla | Mehboob Shah Warsi | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Dayaram Mishra | sarangi | |||||
| Debasish Sarkar | tabla | |||||
| Debendra Krishna Chattopadhyay | sitar | Panubabu (father) | ||||
| Debu Battacharyee | flute | Pakistan | ||||
| Debu Chaudhuri | sitar | New Delhi | Mustaq Ali Khan(guru) | born 1935, Padmabushan | ||
| Deepa Ranganath | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Deepak Nerurkar | tabla | D.R? Narurkar(father) | AIR Bombay | |||
| Deodar Joshi | khayal | |||||
| Devendra Murdeshwar | flute | Pannalal Ghosh | Nityanand Haldipur | Pt. son in law of Pannalal Ghosh | ||
| Dhanodar Surdas | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Dhirendranath Bose | Shyam Gangoly | late | ||||
| Dhondutai Kulkarni | khayal | |||||
| Dhruba Ghosh | sarangi | Bombay | Nikhil Ghosh(father) Bundu Khan(influence), Sagiruddhin Khan | |||
| Dhumani Madhukar | shenai | |||||
| Digambarbua Kulkarni | khayal | Prabdudev Sardar | late, Kirana Gharana | |||
| Dikdar Khan | sarangi | Jhansi | ||||
| Dildar Hussain Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Dilip Chandra Vedi, Pt | khayal, musicologist | Bhaskar Rao Bakhle, Faiyaz Khan, Alladiya Khan, Hyder Bux, Uttam Singh | (1901-late) | |||
| Dilip Kumar Roy | bhajan | Abdul Karim Khan, Faiyaz Khan, Bamcharan Banerjee | Uma Bose of Hashi | (1897-late), associated with Sri Aurobindo | ||
| Dilshad Hussain | shenai | |||||
| Dilshad Khan | tabla | |||||
| Dilshad Khan, Ustad | khayal | Faiyaz and Niaz Ahmed Khan(gurus), Bade Ghulam Ali Khan(mentor), N.C. Chakravorty, N. Banerjee, J.P. Ghosh | ECSD 2919 became disiple of Niaz and Fiayaz Ahmed in 1964 | |||
| Dinanath Mangeshkar | stage | Lata Mangeshkar | late, elder of Mangeshkar family(Lata, Hridaynath, Meena, Usha Mangeshkar, Asha Bosle | |||
| Dinanath Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Dinanath Pathak, Pt. | dhrupad | Balia(U.P) | Bachchu Pathak | 19th cent. | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | |
| Dinendranath Tagore | ghazal | Pankaj Kumar Mullick | ||||
| Dinesh Ch. Chandra | sitar | |||||
| Dinesh Patel | tabla | |||||
| Dinkar Kaikini Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Nagesh Rao, Omkarnath Thakur, S.N. Ratanjankar(mainly), Faiyaz Khan(inspired by) | Lalit Rao | Born 1927, head of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Bharatiya Sangeet and Narthan Shikshapeeth in Bombay | |
| Dinkarrao Jadhav(Shri) | khayal | Habib Khan, Nathan Khan | Vijaja Jadhav Gatlewar(daughter) | Atrauli-Jaipur Gharana | ||
| Dipak Nerurkar | tabla | |||||
| Dipali Nag Talukdar | khayal | Bashir Khan, Faiyaz Khan(guru), Tasaduq Hussain Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan | born 1922, Agra, Rangeele Gharana | |||
| Dipar Chatterjee | khayal | |||||
| Diuyang Vakil | tabla | Latif Ahmed Khan, Sudhir Kumar Sazena, Alla Rakha | Delhi Gharana | |||
| Diyanath Mishra | khayal | |||||
| Dr. Chaukla | khayal | |||||
| Dulal Roy | jaltarang, santur | |||||
| Durga Prasad | kathak | Lucknow | Bindadin Maharaj(son) | head of Lucknow Gharana mid 19th cent. | ||
| Durga Prasad | shenai | Kanhaiya Lal | ||||
| Durgadas Banerjee | ghazal | Pankaj Kumar Mullick | ||||
| Durgesh Muntani | khayal | |||||
| Eid Mohammed Ajmeri | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Eknath Pandit | khayal | Sharadchandra Arolkar | early 20th cent. | |||
| Eknath Thakurdas | harmonium | |||||
| Eldo Aimeri | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Enayat Hussain | tabla | |||||
| Enayat Hussain Khan | khayal | Rampur | ||||
| Enayat Khan | sitar, surbahar, sursaptak | Imdad Khan(father) | Bankim Pal, Vilayat Khan(son) | (1894-1938) State Musician at Gauripur | ||
| Esmail Sheikh | tabla | born in Kenya, Africa | ||||
| Fahimuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | born in Delhi | Rahimuddhin Dagar(father) | born 1927, Dagarbani | ||
| Faiyaz Ahmed Khan, Ustad | khayal | Benares | Bashir Khan(father) | jugalbandi with Niaz Ahmed Khan | ||
| Faiyaz Khan | tabla | Hidayat Khan, Iman Ali Khan | uncle of Zamir Ahmed Khan, brother of Munir Khan(sarangi), Delhi Gharana | |||
| Faiyaz Khan, Ustad | khayal | Baroda | Ghulam Hussain Khan (grandfather), Kallan Khan(uncle) | Dilip Chandra Vedi, Dilip Kumar Roy, Dipali Nag, Jnanendra Prasad Goswami, Latafat Hussain Khan, Sharafat Hussain Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan, Vishwadev Chatterjee | (1881-1950) Agra Gharana, "Aftab-e-Mausiqi" title in 1911 | |
| Faiyaz Khan, Ustad | tabla | Nazir Khan, Hidayat Khan | Zamir Ahmed Khan(nephew) | born 1935 in Jaipur, brother of Munir Khan | ||
| Faiyzazuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | Mohiuddhin Dagar (elder brother) | (1933/4-1989)jugalbandi with Zahiruddhin Dagar(brother) known as younger Dagar bros. Dagarbani | |||
| Faqir Mohammed Achar | shenai | Pakistan | ||||
| Farida Khanum | khayal ghazal | |||||
| Farukh Khan | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Fasal Hussain | sitar | |||||
| Fatah Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Fateh Ali Khan | khayal | Gwalior Gharana | ||||
| Fateh Ali Khan | sitar | Pakistan | ||||
| Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Pakistan | Fateh Ali Khan(grandfather), Akhtar Hussain Khan(father) | also sings with Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan | ||
| Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Behram Khan(dhrupad), Haddu, Hassu Khan, Tanras Khan, Bade Mubarak | Aashiq Ali Khan(son) | Early 20th cent.,Patiala Gharana, jugalbandhi with Fateh Ali ("Alliya-Fattu") | ||
| Fateh Singh | tabla | |||||
| Fayaz Khan | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Fazal Qureshi | tabla | Allah Rakha(father) | ||||
| Feroz Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Fida Hussan Khan, Ustad | khayal | Inayat Khan | Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Nissar Hussain Khan(son) | late. Sahaswan-Rampur Gharana | ||
| Firdausi Begum | ghazal | |||||
| Firdous Khan | sarod | |||||
| Firdus Khan | tabla | |||||
| Firoz Dastur, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Balakrishnabua Kapileshwari, Sawai Ghandarva | Millind Chittal, Sandhya Rao, Sudha Divekar, Achyut Abyankar, Arvind Apte | Kirana Gharana, teacher at Dept. of Music Bombay Univ. sonce 1969 | |
| G. Fiore | tabla | Italy | ||||
| G. Jaywant | guitar | |||||
| G.N. Joshi | khayal | Jagannathbua Purohit | born 1909, producer at HMV | Down Melody Lane (memories) | ||
| G.N. Nat | khayal | |||||
| G.S. Sachdev | flute | USA | Ravi Shankar | born 1934 | ||
| G.S. Sardar | khayal | Singh Bandhu | ||||
| Gaffar Hyder Khan | tabla | |||||
| Gajanan Karnad | violin | |||||
| Gajanan Thakur | khayal | |||||
| Gajananrao Joshi, Prof. | khayal, violin | Anant Manohar Joshi, Ramkrishna Bua Vaze, Bhurji Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan | Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Shubhada Paradkar, Padma Talwalkar | born 1911, Gwalior/ Atrauli Gharana | ||
| Gajendrakar | flute | |||||
| Game Khan | tabla | Delhi | Chhote Kale Khan | Iman Ali Khan(son), Latif Ali Khan, Mahadev Indorkar | late, Delhi Gharana | |
| Gana Shyam | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Ganapat Gurav | khayal/ drupad | Sangameshwar Gurav | Kirana Gharana, drupad in Gaurhari-bani | |||
| Ganapati Bhat | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | |||
| Ganesh Mishra | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Ganesh Pathak | dhrupad, sitar, surbahar | Balia(U.P) | Dinanath Pathak(father) | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | ||
| Ganga Mishra | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Ganga Pandit Shankar | khayal | |||||
| Ganga Prasad Pathak | khayal | |||||
| Gangadhar Pimpalkhare(Pandit) | khayal | Padma Talwalkar | ||||
| Gangubai Hangal | khayal | Dharwar | Sawai Ghandarva | Krishna Hangal(daughter) | Kirana Gharana, born 1913 | |
| Ganpat Rao Dewaskar | khayal | Rajabali Khan | ||||
| Ganpatrao Purohit | khayal | V.G. Jog | late | |||
| Gasita Khan | tabla | Modhu Khan (father) | Chote Khan, Ghulam Imam Khan, Rahim Bakhsh Khan (sons) | Kothiwal Gharana, late | Kippen p.70 | |
| Gauhar Jan | thumri | Cancutta | Badi Malka Jan(mother), Bechu Mishra of Kabirchaura, Moizuddhin Khan, Kaley Khan, Maula Bux, Baiyasahib Ganpatrao | Indu Bala | (1870-1930), born of Armenian parents in Benares, "the nightingale of Bengal" Used to dance while singing | P. Banerjee, Thumri in Dance, Delhi, 1986 |
| Gaura Devi | bhajan | |||||
| Gaurang Kodikal | tabla | |||||
| Gaurang Yodh | sitar | |||||
| Gaurav Mazumdar | sitar | New Delhi | ||||
| Gauri Mukherjee | khayal | |||||
| Gauri Shankar | kathak | Bombey | Devi Lal(father), Shiv Lal(uncle), Sunder Prasad | Sunder Lal | founded Pracheen Nritya Niketan school in Bombay | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Gauri Shankerji | flute | Benares | Raghunath Prasanna, Bhola Nath(sons) Rajendra Prasanna(grandson) | late | ||
| Gayanacharya Neelkhanta Bua | first half 20th cent. Gwalior Gharana | |||||
| Gene Khan | tabla | |||||
| Ghagge Nasir Khan, Ustad | khayal | Nathulal | 19th cent. founder of Mewati Gharana | |||
| Ghamay Khan | tabla | Inam Ali Khan (son) | Delhi Gharana, 1st half 20th cent. married daughter of Wali Bakhsh Khan | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Ghamman Khan | thumri | Shoba Gurtu | ||||
| Ghasemi | khayal | |||||
| Ghulab Ali Khan | tabla | Bugara Khan (father) | Delhi Gharana mid 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Ghulam Abbas | tabla | Lahore | Ghulam Hussain Khan(father), Allah Rakha | nephew of Salamat Ali Khan | ||
| Ghulam Ahmed | tabla | |||||
| Ghulam Ali | thumri/ghazal | Pakistan | ||||
| Ghulam Ali Dome | sarod | Rampur | mid 19th cent | |||
| Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad | sarod | Ghulan Bandegi Khan(father) | Nanne Khan, Murad Ali Khan(sons) | (18th cent.) modified rubab into sarod | ||
| Ghulam Bandegi Khan Bangash, Ustad | sarod | Ghulam Ali Khan(son) | (18th cent.)brought sarod to India from Kabul | |||
| Ghulam Haider | tabla | Inam Ali Khan (father) | Delhi Gharana | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Ghulam Haider | tabla | Patna | Allah Baksh Khan (father) | Nisar Haider (son) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brotehr of Noori Khan | Kippen p.70 |
| Ghulam Hussain Khan | tabla | Lahore | Ghulam Abbas(son | brother of Salamat Ali Khan | ||
| Ghulam Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Faiyaz Khan (grandson) | Agra Gharana, late 19th cent. | |||
| Ghulam Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Ballabh Gahr | Mamman Khan(grandson) | mid 19th cent. Delhi Gharana | ||
| Ghulam Hussain Khan, Ustad | sitar | Indore | Usman Khan(brother) | born 1928, State musician in Indore | ||
| Ghulam Hussain Shaggan | khayal | Pakistan | Bhai Lal Mohammed(father) | Gwalior/Kampurthala Gharana | ||
| Ghulam Imam Khan | tabla | Patna | Gasita Khan (father) | Imdad Husain, Murtaza Husain, Sher Khan (sons) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Chote Khan, Rahim Baksh Khan | Kippen p.70 |
| Ghulam Jaffar Khan | khayal | |||||
| Ghulam Jaffar Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Ghulam Mohammed | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Ghulam Mohammed | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Ghulam Mohammed (Modh) | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Ghulam Mohammed Khan | Gaya | Begum Akhtar | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Ghulam Mohammed Khan | bin | Jaipur Seni Gharana of Beenkars 19th century | ||||
| Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Ustad | khayal | Rampur | Inayat Hussain Khan(grandfather), Waris Hussain Khan(father), Fida Hussain Khan, Nissar Hussain Khan | Milind Chittal | Sahaswan, Rampur Gharana, born 1931/33, married granddaughter of Mustaq Hussain Khan | |
| Ghulam Rasool Khan | sitar | Shamim Ahmed | ||||
| Ghulam Raza Khan | thumri/sitar | Lucknow | mid 19th cent. inventor of Rezakhani gat | |||
| Ghulam Sabir Khan | khayal | Pakistan | jugalbandi with Ghulam Jaffar Khan | |||
| Ghulam Sabir Khan | sarangi | Delhi | Sabri Khan(uncle) | |||
| Ghulam Sabri Quadri | sarangi | |||||
| Ghulam Sadiq Khan | khayal | |||||
| Ghulam Sarwar Sabri | tabla | Bando Khan | Ajrapa Gharana, son of Sabri Khan(sarangi) | |||
| Ghulam Sultan Naizi | tabla | |||||
| Ghulam Taqi Khan | khayal | Rampur | ||||
| Ghumman Bai | thumri | Lucknow | late 19th cent. | |||
| Gianni Ricchizzi | vichitra vina | Gopal Krishna, Ritwik Sanyal | ||||
| Girdharprasad Jaipurwala | khayal | Laxmanprasad Jaipurwala (father) | Jaipur Gharana, brother of Govindprasad Jaipurwala | |||
| Giridar Prasad Jaipurwala | tabla | |||||
| Girija Shankar Chakravarti | khayal | Jnanendra Prasad Goswami | Bishnupur Gharana | |||
| Giriraj | sitar | |||||
| Girish Chandra | bhajan | |||||
| Girja Devi | khayal thumri | Dalia Rahut | born 1929, Benares Gharana, teaches at Sangeet Research Academy | |||
| Gladwin Charles | tabla | |||||
| Gohar Jan | khayal | |||||
| Gokul Nag | sitar, vocal etc. | Manilal Nag(son) | Bishnupur Gharana, toured with Uday Shankar's troupe in thirtees | |||
| Gopal Das, Pt. | pakhawaj | New Delhi | Bhola Ram (father), Makhanji(uncle),Ayodya Prasad, Chirinji Lal(guru) | Gianni Ricchizzi | Nana Panse Gharana, born 1926 | |
| Gopal Khrishnan Pt. | vichitra vina | Nand Kishore, Kybchand Bramchari, Ravi Shankar | ||||
| Gopal Maharaj | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Gopal Mishra | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Gopal Prasad, Pt. | khayal | Shaktilal(father) | Mani Prasad(nephew) | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Gopal, Pandit | kathak | Krishan Kumar(son) | late. Janki Das Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Gopalrao Desai of Hubli | harmonium | Dharwad | Vasant Kanakapur | |||
| Gopeshwar Banerjee | sitar | |||||
| Gopi Khrishnan | khatak | |||||
| Goswami Shrilalji, Pt. | khayal | Laxmanprasad Jaipurwala | Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Gour Goswami | flute | |||||
| Gouri Sankar Karmakar | tabla | Shiv Sankar Karmakar (father), Shankar Chaterjee (since 1979) | born 1964 | |||
| Govind Chakraborty | tabla | New Delhi | ||||
| Govind Prasad Jaipurwala, Pt. | khayal/devotional | Laxmanprasad Jaipurwala(father) | (1944-1988) Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Govindji Bhai | khayal | Rasiklal Andharia(son) | Kirana Gharana | |||
| Govindji Brahmbhatt | sarod | Kantilal, Vasant Rai (sons) | ||||
| Govindrao Bhatambrekar, Pt. | khayal | C.R. VYas | Kirana Gharana | |||
| Govindrao Patwardhan | harmonium | |||||
| Govindrao Rajurkar, Pt. | khayal | Malini Rajurkar | ||||
| Govindrao Tembe, Pt | khayal | Basavraj Rajaguru | ||||
| Gulab Bai | nautanki/dadra | Kampur | ||||
| Gulab Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Sultan Khan(son) | late of Indore Gharana | |||
| Gulubhai Jasdanwala | khayal | Jitendra Abhisheki | Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Gundesha Bandhu | dhrupad | Bhopal | ||||
| Gurdev Singh | sarod/dilruba | Tara Singh, Piara Singh, Amjad Ali Khan | born 1948 | |||
| Gurinder Kaur | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Gurudas Borkar | tabla | |||||
| Gyan Shankar | kathak | Lahore | Gyan Shankar(son) | late, earned fame for his dexterity in footwork and brilliant polish in his recitals | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Gyan/Jnan Prakash Ghosh | tabla harmonium | Calcutta | Masit Khan | Abhijit Banerjee, Anindo Chatterjee, Kanai Dutt, Nikhil Ghosh, Sanjay Mukherjee, Santosh Krishna Biswas, Shyamal Bose | Farukkhabad Gharana | |
| Habib Ali Khan Beenkar, Ustad Faqir | vichitra vina | Abdul Aziz Khan Beenkar(older brother) | late | |||
| Habib Khan, Ustad | khayal | Dinkar Jadhav | Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Habib Raza Khan | sarangi | Calcutta | died 1983. Lucknow/delhi Gharana. daughter married Munnu Khan (Delhi) | |||
| Habibuddhin Khan | tabla | Nathu Khan | Ramzan Khan | Ajrapa Gharana | ||
| Haddu Khan | khayal | Makkan Khan(grandfaher), Bade Muhammed Khan, Nathan Pir Baksh | Nisar Ali | Gwalior Gharana, 2nd half 19th cent. | Wade(p.37) | |
| Hafiz Ahmed Khan, Ustad | khayal | Nissar Hussain Khan | Rajendra Prasanna(flute) | Rampur/ Sahaswan Gharana | ||
| Hafiz Ali Khan | khayal | |||||
| Hafiz Ali Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Hafiz Ali Khan, Ustad | sarod | Nanne Khan(father) Wazir Khan(Rampur) | Amjad Ali Khan, Mubarak Ali Khan, Rehmat Ali Khan(sons) | (1880-1972) Padma Bushan in 1960 | ||
| Hafiz Ali Mohammed | khayal | Pakistan | ||||
| Hafiz Mia | tabla | Chatur Lal | 1st half 20th cent. Udaipur | |||
| Hafizullah Khan | sarangi | AIR staff | ||||
| Haider Baksh | khayal | Abdul Waheed Khan(nephew) | late 19th cent. | |||
| Haider Bux, Ustad | sarangi | Rampur | Abid Hussain(son-in-law), Ali Jan(son),Hamid Hussain, Zahid Hussain(grandsons) | late | ALPC 9 | |
| Haider Husain | tabla | Patna | Noori Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana, late | Kippen p.70 | |
| Haider Khan | dhrupad | Delhi | Baba Gopal Das(father) | Mohammed Jan Khan, Mohammed Ali Khan (sons) | (1750-1830), Dagarbani | |
| Haider Khan | sitar | Mahmud Mirza(nephew) | ||||
| Haider Khan | tabla | late 18th cent. | ||||
| Haider Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Chhote Khan(son), Abdul Latif Khan(grandson) | late | |||
| Halim Khan, Ustad | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Hameed Ali Khan | khayal | Gwalior Gharana | ||||
| Hameed Ali Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Hamid Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Pakistan | Ali Khan | Patiala Gharana | ||
| Hamid Hussain, Ustad | sarangi | Pakistan | Abid Hussain(father) Haider Bux of Rampur(maternal grandfather), Ali Jan of Rampur(maternal uncle) | born 1930, Rampur Style | ||
| Hamid Khan(Nagpur) | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Hanamant Prasad Mishra, Pt. | sarangi | |||||
| Hanif Khan | tabla | |||||
| Hanuman Prasad | kathak | Dannalal | Krishan Kumar(nephew) | late. Jaipur Gharana, excelled in Bhava | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Hanumanth Singh Hangal | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | |||
| Hanumantram | sarangi | Hazari Lal(son) | late | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Harenmanna | tabla | |||||
| Hari Babu Kaushik | sarangi | Mathura | ||||
| Hari Mohan Ghoshal | drupad | Benares | B.V. Keskar | early 20th cent. | bandishes published by Dr. B.V. Keskar, in: Musical setting in Benares p. 21 | |
| Hari Shankar | harmonium | |||||
| Haribai Gangikar | khayal | |||||
| Haripada Ghosh | Zarin Daruwala | |||||
| Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. | flute | Mumbai | Bhola Nath, Annapurna Shankar | |||
| Harmoham Khuntia | tabla | |||||
| Hassu Khan | khayal | Makkan Khan(grandfaher), Bade Muhammed Khan, Nathan Pir Baksh | Gwalior Gharana, 2nd half 19th cent. | Wade(p.37) | ||
| Hasu Khan | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Hazari Lal | kathak | Bikaner State(born), Bombay | Hanimantram(father), Satya Narayan(uncle), Shiv Lal, Sunder Prasad | Sunder Lal, Sunayana(wife), Prem Shankar(son) | Jaipur Gharana, teacher at Vidya Bhawan(Bombay) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Hemant Hemmady | harmonium | Shanta Hemmady(mother) | ||||
| Hidayat Khan | tabla | Jaipur | Charanjit Lal Kathak, Ashaf Khan, Azim Khan of Jawra | Faiyaz Khan | ||
| Hidayat Khan | tabla | Delhi Gharana | ||||
| Himaghana Roychaudhuri | ghazal | |||||
| Himangshu Biswas | flute | |||||
| Hira Guru, Ustad | sarangi | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Hirabai Barodekar | khayal | born in Miraj, Maharashtra | Wahid Khan, Suresh Babu Mane(brother) | Prabha Atre | (1905-) Kirana Gharana, sister of Sureshbabu Mane, | |
| Hiradevi Mishra | thumri/dadra/kajri | |||||
| Hiralal | shenai | |||||
| Hiralal | shenai | |||||
| Hirendra Kumar Ganguli | tabla | Lucknow | Abid Hussain | Lucknow Gharana, 1st half 20th cent. | ||
| Homnat Upadhyay | tabla | |||||
| Husna Bai | thumri | late 19th cent. | ||||
| Hussain Ali | sarod | Ghulam Ali Khan(father) | 19th cent., elder brother of Murad Ali and Nanhe Ali Khan | |||
| Hussain Bux | khayal | |||||
| Hussain Khan | tabla | Sudhar Khan (father) | Chajju Khan, Bakshu Khan (sons) | Delhi Gharana, early 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | |
| Hussain Lal | violin | |||||
| Hussaini Bai | thumri | Lucknow | late 19th cent. | |||
| Husseinuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | Alwar(born)/ Poona | Allah Bande Khan(father) | Sayeeduddhin Dagar | (1906-1963) brother of Nasiruddhin, Rahimuddhin, Imauddhin Dagar, Dagarbani | |
| Hyder Bux, Ustad | sarangi | Mysore Durbar | Dilip Chandra Vedi | early 20th cent., married to Abdul Karim Khan's sister | ||
| Hyder Hussain Khan, Ustad | sitar | Mahmud Mirza | Jaipur Gharana, first half 20th cent. | |||
| Hyder Jan | thumri | Lucknow | late 19th cent. | |||
| Hyder Khan, Ustad | khayal | early 20th cent. brother of Alladiya Khan, | ||||
| Hyder Khan, Ustad | tabla | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Iakub Ali Khan | sarod | |||||
| Ibrahem Khan, Ustad | tabla | Shafatullah Khan | Rampur Gharana | |||
| Ide Singh | khayal/tarana | grandson of Raja Ram Singh of Kharagpur | reputed singer of early 17th century | Wade p. 1 | ||
| Idoo Ajmeri, Ustad | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Illahi Bux Khan | tabla | Nizamuddhin Khan | LATE, Delhi Gharana | |||
| Ilmas Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Afaq Husain (father) | Lucknow Gharana, brother of Ilyas Khan, born 1957, on staff of Sangeet Natak Acad. | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Ilmas Hussain Khan | tabla | Afaq Hussain Khan(father) | ||||
| Ilyas Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Afaq Husain (father) | Lucknow Gharana, brother of Ilmas Husain, born 1978 | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Ilyas Hussain Khan | khayal | Pakistan | Patiala Gharana | |||
| Ilyas Khan | sitar | |||||
| Ilyas Khan, Ustad | sitar | |||||
| Iman Ali Khan | tabla | Delhi | Game Khan(father) | Faiyaz Khan, Latif Ahmed Khan, Mahadev Indorkar | late, Delhi Gharana | |
| Imauddhin Dagar | dhrupad | brother of Nasiruddhin Dagar, Dagarbani | ||||
| Imauddhin Dagar | dhrupad | Udaipur | Allah Bande Khan(father) | (1903-1966), Dagarbani | ||
| Imdad Hussain | shenai | Calcutta | Wazir Ali(father) | Ali Ahmed Hussain(nephew) | late | |
| Imdad Hussain | tabla/sarangi | Ghulam Imam Khan | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brotehr of Murtaza Hussain, Sher Khan | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Imdad Khan | sarangi | Patna | Begum Akhtar | early 2Oth cent.accompanied Gauhar Jan, Malka Jan | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Imdad Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent., principal accompanist of Gauhar Jan, Malka Jan | |||
| Imdad Khan, Ustad | sitar | Enayat Khan(son) | gurubai of Rajabali Khan | |||
| Imrat Khan, Ustad | surbahar/sitar | Vilayat Khan(brother) | Irshad Khan, Nishat Khan(sons) | born 1935, son of Enayat Khan | ||
| Inam Ali Khan, Ustad | tabla | Delhi | Ghulam Haider (son), Divyang Vakil, Faiyaz Khan, Latif Ahmed Khan | khalifa of Delhi Gharana | ||
| Inayat Hussain | tabla/sarangi | Rahim Bakhsh Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brotehr of Mehdi Hussain, Mohammad Husain, Ahmad Hussain | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Inayat Khan(Satshashtri) | dhrupad | Rampur | Saddu Khan(father) | Riazuddhin Khan Dagar (son) | (1835-1900), Dagarbani | |
| Inayat Khan, Ustad | khayal | Haddu Khan(father-in-law) | Waris Hussain Khan (son), Fida Hussain Khan | late 19th.cent., founder of Gwalior Gharana | ||
| Inayatullah Khan | khayal | Basavaraj Rajaguru | ||||
| Inayet Ali Khan | trumpet | |||||
| Inayet Khan, Ustad | khayal | Lahore | Jyotsna Bohle, Sidhiswari Devi, Manik Varma | |||
| Indar Lal | sarangi | |||||
| Inder Lal Dandra | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Indermall Mathur | tabla | |||||
| Indirabai Khadilkar | stage | Matangebua, Sawai Ghandarva | born 1915, Gwalior/Kirana Gharanas | |||
| Indorelal Misra | sitar | |||||
| Indra Khan | violin | |||||
| Indrajit Bhattacharja/Banerjee | Bankim Pal (maternal grandfather), Manilal Nag, Kartick Kumar (since 1985) | born 1965 | ||||
| Indraneel Battacharya | sitar | Allaudhin Khan | born 1936 | |||
| Indu Bala | thumri | Gauhar Jan | early 2Oth cent. | P. Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi, 1986 | ||
| Intizar Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Nayab Khan (father) | Lucknow Gharana, brother of Irshad Husain, considered of little importance | Kippen p. 84 | |
| Iqbal Ahmed | sarangi | |||||
| Iqbal Ahmed Khan | khayal | Delhi | ||||
| Iqbal Ahmed Khan | sarangi | Bombay | ||||
| Iqbal Bano | ghazal | Pakistan | ||||
| Iqbal Husain | sarangi | Bajju Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Irshad Ali Khan | Khakl Ali Khan(father), Muhkam Khan(uncle) | Mohammed Ida Khan(son) | 19th cent. | |||
| Irshad Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Nayab Khan (father) | Lucknow Gharana, brother of Intizar Husain, considered of little importance | Kippen p. 84 | |
| Irshad Khan | surbahar sitar | Imrat Khan(father) | ||||
| Irshi Hafiz Ali Khan | khayal | |||||
| Isaac Malvankar, Ustad | flute | |||||
| Ishamiti Gatnanami Gopali | khayal | |||||
| Ishwar Lal Misra | tabla | |||||
| Ismaël Sheik | tabla | |||||
| Iswarlal Mishra | sarangi | Hanamant Prasha Mishra | ||||
| Jafar Husain | sarangi | Raza Hussain (father) | Kothiwal Gharana | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Jafar Khan, Ustad | sarod sursingar | invented the sursingar descendant of Bilas Khan | ||||
| Jaffar Khan | sitar | Jawra(Madya Pradesh) | Bande Ali Khan of Indore | Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan(son) | late | |
| Jaffar Parvez Khan, Ustad | sarangi | |||||
| Jaganath | shenai | |||||
| Jagannath | kathak | Sunder Lal | late Jaipur Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Jagannath | shenai | |||||
| Jagannath Prasad | kathak | Bikaner State, Benares, Nepal, Indore | Chunni Lal, Gopal Das | Radha Krishnan(son) | died 1945,Janko Prasad Gharana, Gwalior Darbar | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Jagannathbuva Purohit Pt. | khayal | Vilayat Hussain Khan | C.R. Vyas, G.N. Joshi, Jitendra Abisheki, Kunda Weling, Manik Varma, Ram Marathe, Vasantrao Kulkarni | died 1968 Agra Gharana, penname: Gunidas | ||
| Jagdish Kumar | shenai | |||||
| Jagenda | sarod | Calcutta | ||||
| Jahangir Khan | tabla | Mahadev Indorkar | Delhi Gharana | |||
| Jai Krishna | kathak | Birju Maharaj(father) | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Jai Lal | kathak | Raigarh State | Chuni Lal(father) | Ram Gopal(son), Radney Lal Mishra | late, 1st half 2Oth cent. | |
| Jainkumar Jain | jaltarang | |||||
| Jairam Potdar | harmonium | New Delhi | ||||
| Jal K. Balaporia | khayal | |||||
| Jalpa Prasad Mirshra | thumri | Benares | Bari Moti Bai | late | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Jamal Khan, Ustad | khayal | Patiala Gharana (see Ummeed Khan) | ||||
| Jamalluddhin Bhartiya | sitar | Ravi Shankar | ||||
| Jamini Ganguly | khayal | Sandya Mukherjee, Prasun Banerjee | Patiala Gharana | |||
| Janaky Sahay | tabla | Ram Saray | Benares Gharana, late 19th cent. | |||
| Janardan Pohankar | khayal | Jabalpur | Ajay Pohankar(son) | husband of Sushila Pohankar, | ||
| Janaruti Bai | thumri | |||||
| Janki Bai | thumri | Allahabad | Moizuddhin Khan | died 1926, known as "Chhappan Chhuri" and "Bulbul" | P. Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi, 1986 | |
| Jashwantraj Purohit, Pt. | khayal | |||||
| Jasrai.Pt. | khayal | Mumbai | Motiram(father), maniram(brother) | born 1930 at Hissar, Mewati Gharana | ||
| Javed Alladitta | sitar | |||||
| Jaya Biswas | sitar | Calcutta | ||||
| Jaya Biswas (Bose) | sitar | Ravi Shankar | born 1941 wife of Himangshu Biswas | |||
| Jayamala Shiledar | stage | Kagalkarbua | born 1917 | |||
| Jayanta Bose | tabla | |||||
| Jayantha Banerjee | flute | N.J. USA | ||||
| Jayashree Patnekar | khayal | |||||
| Jayateerth Mevundi | khayal | Dharwad | Arjunsa Nakod, Shripati Padigar | Gwalior Gharana | ||
| Jeewan Lal Mattoo, Pt. | sitar | Mahmud Mirza | ||||
| Jehangir Khan | tabla | Indore | Sheikh Dawood | Purab Gharana | ||
| Jhande Khan | khayal, kathak | Nathu Khan(khayal), Bindadin and Kalika Prasad | late, court musician at Rampur, court dancer in Nepal | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Jialal Vasant | sitar | |||||
| Jitendra Abhisheki, Pt. | khayal | Balwantrao Abhisheki(father), Azmat Hussain Khan, Jagannath Purohit, Gulubhai Jasdanwala, Azizuddhin Khan | Shubha Mudgal, Prabhakar Karekar | born 1930, Agra Gharana | ||
| Jitendra Pratap | sitar | New Delhi | ||||
| Jitendranath Banerjee | sitar | Nikhil Banerjee(son) | late | |||
| Jivan Lal Mattu | khayal | Kirana Gharana | ||||
| Jnan Prakesh Ghosh | tabla, pakhawaj, harmonium | Anindo Chatterjee, Kanai Dutta, Nikhil Ghosh | ||||
| Jnanendra Prasad Goswami | khayal | Radhika Prasad(uncle), Girija Shankar Chakravarti, Faiyaz Khan | Tarapata Chakrabarty | Bishnupur Gharana | ||
| Johar Ali Khan | violin | |||||
| Jotin Battacharya, Pt. | sarod | Allaudhin Khan | Amit Bhattacharya (son) | born 1926 | ||
| Juthika Roy | bhajan | West Bengal | Kamal Das Gupta, Vishnadev Chatterjee | born 1922 | ||
| Jyoti Goho | harmonium | |||||
| Jyotiram Pt. | khayal | Motiram(father), Rajabali Khan | Pt. Jasraj | Mewati Gharana | ||
| Jyotish Chandra Chatterjee | esraj, sitar, bin, surbahar | |||||
| Jyotsna Bhole | stage | Khadim Hussain Khan, Bashir Mohammes, Inayet Khan | born 1913, Agra, Taraskhan Gharanas | |||
| Jyotsna Mohile | stage | |||||
| K. Nagesh Rao Pt. | khayal | Dinkar Kaikini | ||||
| K. Shridar | sarod | Shrimati Rajalakshmi (mother), Zia Mohiuddhin Dagar | Dagarbani | |||
| K.D. Cholkar, Pt. | tabla | Samay Cholkar(son) | ||||
| K.G. Ginde, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | S.N. Ratanjankar | Ramakant Maapsekar | Jugalbandi with S.C.R. Ginde, head of Shreevallabh Sangeetalaya in Bombay | |
| K.L. Segal (Kundan Lal) | ghazal, geet | (1904-1946) famous actor-singer | ||||
| K.Patemwala | khayal | |||||
| K.V. Vulgur of Hubli | sitar/ bin | late | ||||
| Kabir Khan, Ustad | sitar | |||||
| Kadir Baksh | khayal | Makkan Khan(grandfather-in-law) | Gwalior Gharana, 2nd half 19th cent. | Wade(p.37) | ||
| Kadir Baksh | tabla | Allah Rakha, Shaukat Hussain | early 20th cent. | |||
| Kagalkarbua | stage | Jayamala Shiledar | ||||
| Kailash Lal | tabla | Pratappu Maharaj (father) | Benares Gharana, early 20th cent. | |||
| Kailash Sharma | flute | New Delhi | ||||
| Kailash Varma | flute | |||||
| Kaivali Kumar | ||||||
| Kajal Mishra | kathak | Calcutta | Ram Gopal Mishra(father), Sumita Mishra(mother) | Jaipur Gharana, teaches at Jai Lal Academy of Music(Calcutta) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Kakir Mohammed | dholak | |||||
| Kala Ramnath | violin | |||||
| Kale Khan, Ustad | khayal | Calcutta | Gauhar Jan | mid 19th cent. | ||
| Kale Khan, Ustad | khayal | Bade Ghulam Ali Khan(nephew), Noor Begum(daughter) | Patiala Gharana, brother of Ali Bux Khan | |||
| Kale Khan, Ustad | khayal | Abdul Karim Khan(son) | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Kale Ram | tabla | |||||
| Kali Charan | shenai | |||||
| Kalika Prasad | kathak, thumri | Benares | Achchan Mahara, Lunchchu Maharaj, Sambhu Maharaj(sons), Jhande Khan | brother of Bindadin Maharaj, 19th cent. Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Kalka-Bindadin | kathak | Lucknow | Shamlal of Bikaner | late, Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Kallan Khan | khayal | Faiyaz Khan (nephew) | Agra Gharana, late 19th cent. | |||
| Kaloo Qawwal | Quawwali | |||||
| Kalyan Das | kathak | Raigarh | Achchan Maharaj, Jai Lal | compagnon of Kartik Ram, specialist of Tayari | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Kalyani Roy | sitar | Nripendra Nath Gupta, Vilayat Khan | born 1931 | |||
| Kalyanpurkar | kathak | Sunder Prasad, Achchan Maharaj, Shambhu Maharaj | Jaipur/Lucknow Gharanas, teaches at Bhatkhande Sangeet Vidyapeeth | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Kamal Das Gupta | bhajan | West Bengal | Juthika Roy | |||
| Kamal Sabri | sarangi | Sabri Khan(father) | ||||
| Kamal Saigel | khayal | jugalbandi with Kavita Saigel | ||||
| Kamal Sarwar Sabri | sarangi | Delhi | Sabri Khan(father) | |||
| Kamal Singh | shenai | Benares | "thumri nawaz" | |||
| Kamala Bai | khayal | Abdul Karim Khan(father), Suresh Babu Mane(brother) | 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Kamala Bose | khayal | |||||
| Kamala Jharia Devi | ghazal | |||||
| Kamalakar Bhatawadekar, Pt. | sitar | Shashank Katti | ||||
| Kamalesh Maitra | tabla, tabla tarang | |||||
| Kamlesh Mishra | dadra | |||||
| Kampana Mazumdar | bhajan | |||||
| Kanai Dutt | tabla | Jnan Prakash Ghosh | Pravir Mitra | 1924- ±1980, Farukkabad Gharana | ||
| Kanailal | sitar maker | Calcutta | Damodar Adhikari | late, early 20th cent. | S. Landsberg, Kanailal and brother | |
| Kanhaiya Lal | shenai | |||||
| Kanhaiyalal Mishra | sarangi | Allahabad | ||||
| Kanika Banerjee | bhajan/ Tagore sangeet | Mohar | Sailala Majumdar | |||
| Kankana Banerjee | khayal | Calcutta, Bombay(today) | Amir Khan, Ptatap Narain | born 1946 | ||
| Kanthe Maharaj, Pt. | tabla | Benares | Anil Palit, Badri Maharaj, Kishen Maharaj, Sharda Sahai | Benares Gharana | ||
| Kantilal | sarod | Govindji Brahmbhatt(father) | Vasant Rai(brother) | |||
| Kantilal Sonchatra | piano | |||||
| Kanwar Sain Trikha | sitar | Tey Bhan | founded Inst. of Oriental Music(London) | |||
| Karamat Ali Khan | khayal | Bade Ghulam Ali Khan(father) | Mazhar Ali, Jawad Ali(sons) | |||
| Karamat Ullah Khan | kirtan? | Khrishna Chandra Dey / K.C. Dey | ||||
| Karamatullah Khan, Ustad | sarod | Nepal/allahabad | Lakshman Das Munim | late 19th cent. | ||
| Karamvalis Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Karim Baksh, Ustad | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Karim Khan, Ustad | sitar | Dharwar | Rahimat Khan(father) | Usman Khan(son) | ||
| Kartaram Mallick | dhrupad | Darbhanga | Bhupat Khan | 18th cent. founders of Dharbhanga Gharana | ||
| Kartick Kumar | sitar, surbahar | Manoranjan Mukherjee, Ravi Shankar | Indrajit Banerjee (since 1985) | born 1936 | ||
| Kartik Ram | kathak | Raigarh | Achchan Maharaj, Jai Lal | compagnon of Kalyan Das, specialist of Tayari | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Kashi Prasad | flute | Lucknow | Ragunath Seth(brother) | |||
| Kashinat Mishra | tabla | Benares Gharana | ||||
| Kashinath Bodas | khayal | Shankar Shripad Bodas(father), Laxmanrao Bodas(uncle), Balwantrai Bhatt, Prahlarao Ganoo, Kumar Ghandarva(main) | Veena Sahasrabuddhe(sister) | born 1935 | ||
| Kashinath Maharaj | tabla | Baldev Sahaj | Benares Gharana | |||
| Kashinath Mukherjee | sitar | |||||
| Kasim Hussain | shenai | |||||
| Kausar Halim Khan | sitar | |||||
| Kaushin Banerjee | khayal | |||||
| Kavita | kathak | Birju Maharaj(father) | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Kavita Saigel | khayal | jugalbandi with Kamal Saigel | ||||
| Kebkar Pardekar | dhrupad | |||||
| Kedar Pandit | tabla | |||||
| Kedarnath Bhatt | tabla | |||||
| Kedarnath Bhatt | tabla | |||||
| Ken Zuckerman | sarod | Ali Akbar Khan | ||||
| Keramatullah Khan, Ustad | sarod | Calcutta | Shyam Gangoly | |||
| Keramatullah Khan, Ustad | tabla | Calcutta | Masit Khan | Sabir Khan(son), Sankar Karmakar, Swapan Shiv, Zamir Ahmed Khan | late (1915-) Farukhabad Gharana | |
| Kesarbai Kerkar | khayal | born in Goa, Bombay | Aladiya Khan, Bhaskarbua Bakhale, Ramkrishna Vazebua | (1893-) Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana | ||
| Keshav Sathe | tabla | |||||
| Keshava Bua Patwardhan | khayal | Vinayakrao Patwardhan(nephew) | ||||
| Kesri Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Miyan Bakhshu Khan (father) | Lucknow Gharana, late, brother of Mammu Khan, thought by some to be the same person as Salari Khan | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Khadim Hussain Khan | khayal | Bombay | Aslam Khan, Jyotsna Bohle, Lalit Rao, Latafat Hussain Khan (younger brother), Vasantrao Kulkarni | Agra Gharana | ||
| Khalifa Abid Hussain | tabla | 1st half 20th cent., teacher at Bhatkhande Music College | ||||
| Khamisoo Khan | alghooza | |||||
| Khamisu Khan | alghoza | |||||
| Khampruman Parvatkat | tabla | |||||
| Khawar Hussain | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Khemkar | harmonium | |||||
| Khoka Babu | sitar | Calcutta | supped yo have a huge repertoire of old Sena(Ashiq Ali Khan) bandishes | Musical setting in Benares p. 21 | ||
| Khokan Bose | harmonium | |||||
| Khrishna Bhatt | sitar | |||||
| Khrishna Bhecht | khayal | |||||
| Khrishna Chandra Dey / K.C. Dey | kirtan/stage/geet | Satish Chakravarty, Karamat Ullah Khan | blind since age of 12 | |||
| Khrishnarao Chonkar | khayal | |||||
| Khrishnarao Shankar Pandit | khayal | L.K. Pandit(son) | late, Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Khrisnarao Phulambrikar | khayal | Bhaskarbuva Bakhale | 1st half 20th cent.,Agra, Gwalior, Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Khurshed Ali Khan | khayal | Chinmoy Lahari | ||||
| Kiran Deshpande | tabla | Supreet Deshpande, Vijay Ghate | ||||
| Kiran Lele | harmonium | |||||
| Kirti Shiledar | stage | |||||
| Kishan Maharaj, Pt. | tabla | Benares | Kante Maharaj | Anil Palit, Brij Bushan Kabra(guitar), Kumar Bose, Shashi Bellare, Sandip Das, Sukhvider Singh | Benares Gharana | |
| Kishore Kumar Mishra | tabla | Sharda Sahaj | Benares Gharana | |||
| Kishori Amonkar | khayal | Mumbai | Mogubai Kurdikar(mother) | born 1931, Jaipur Gharana | ||
| Kousic Sen | tabla | Kumar Bose | Benares Gharana | |||
| Krishan Kumar | kathak | Pt. Gopal(father), Hanuman Prasad(uncle), Ashiq Hussain, Shambhu Maharaj | Janki Das Gharana, Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Krishan Maharaj | kathak | Shambhu Maharaj | Kumari Sarika Rani | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Krishna Bhagavatar | khayal | M.R. Gautam | late | |||
| Krishna Govinda | tabla | Paris | late | |||
| Krishna Hangal | khayal | Gangubai Hangal (mother) | Kirana Gharana, daughter of Gangubai Hangal | |||
| Krishna Kumar Mishra | sarangi | |||||
| Krishna Rao Majumdar | khayal | Rajabali Khan | ||||
| Krishna Shankar Shukla | khayal | Rajabali Khan | ||||
| Krishnadas Paul | tabla | |||||
| Krishnarao / Krishnarao Ganesh Phulambrikar | khayal/ stage | Bhaskar Bua Bakhale | Ram Marathe | (1898-1974) Jaipur/ Agra Gharanas, "Sangeet Kalanidhi" | ||
| Krishnarao Muley | khayal | Sharadchandra Arolkar | early 20th cent. | |||
| Krishnarao Shankar Pandit | khayal | Shankar Rao Pandit (father) | L.K. Pandit (son) | (1893-late)Gwalior Gharana, Sangeet Natak Academy Award 1959 | ||
| Kshama Bajikar | stage | |||||
| Kshitilal Mallick | dhrupad | Darbhanga | Rajit Ram Mallick, Ram Chatur Mallick | |||
| Kubchand Bramchari, Pt. | bin | Gopalkrishnan | ||||
| Kubernath Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Kudan Lal | kathak | Shobhana Narayan | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Kukubh Khan, Ustad | sarod | Calcutta | 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Kul Bushan Goswami | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Kum Kum Dhar | kathak | Luchchu Maharaj | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Kumar Bose | tabla | Kishen Maharaj, Biswanath Bose | Kousic Sen | Benares Gharana | ||
| Kumar Desai, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Kumar Dinesh Deo | violin | |||||
| Kumar Ghandarva, Pt. | khayal | Anjanibai Malpekar, Prof. B.R. Deodar | Shubha Mudgal, Madhup Mudgal, Kashinath Bodas | (1924-late) | ||
| Kumar Lal | tabla | Pratappu Maharaj (father) | Benares Gharana, early 20th cent. | |||
| Kumar Lal Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Kumar Nachiket Sharma | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | |||
| Kumar Sashwat | khayal | Leicester UK | ||||
| Kumar Sunil Mungee | khayal/ bhajan/ ghazal | |||||
| Kumari Sangeeta | violin | Dr. N. Rajam | daughter of N.Rajam | |||
| Kumari Sangeetha H. Katti | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | child prodigy (70s) | ||
| Kumari Sarika Rani | kathak | Calcutta(born) | Krishan Maharaj, Ram Narayan | title: Nritya Shiromani | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Kumidini Lakhia(Kumud Jayakar) | kathak | Radhey Lal Mishra, Sunder Prasad, Shambhu Maharaj | Jaipur, danced for a long time in Ram Gopal's troupe(Bharata Natyam), Edimburgh 1956 | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Kunda Weling | khayal | Rambhau Bijapure, Jagannathbuva Purohit, C.R. Vyas, Gajananrao Joshi, Babanrao Haldankar | ||||
| Kurshid Ali | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Kushal Das | sitar | Calcutta | Bimal Ch. Das(grandfather), Sailen Das(father), Santany Das(uncle), Sanjoy Banerjee, Ajoy Sinha Roy, Manas Chakraborty, Ramkrishna Basu | born 1959 | booklet acc. CD: C 560154 | |
| Kushinat Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Laddan Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Ladle Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Najju Khan (father) | Lucknow Gharana, late | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Lakshman Bhattacharya | sitar | Calcutta | Sailen Das, Kushal Das | late | booklet acc. CD: C 560154 | |
| Lakshman Das (Munimji) | Benares | first half 20th cent, teacher at Bharat Kala Parishad | Musical setting in Benares p. 21 | |||
| Lakshman Das Munim | harmonium | Allahabad/Benares | Karamatullah Khan(sarod) | Rai Anand Krishna, The musical setting In Banaras | ||
| Lakshman Khrishnarao Pt. | khayal | New Delhi | Krishnarao Shankarpandit(father) | Mika Pandit(daughter) | born 1934 | |
| Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwala, Pt. (Gunighandarva) | khayal | Guni | Goswami Shrilalji | Govindprasad Jaipurwala(son), Zarin Daruwala | (1922-1977), Jaipur/Guni Gharana | |
| Lakshmi Narayan Pawar | pakhawaj | |||||
| Lakshmi Shankar | khayal | Abdul Rehman Khan, B.R. Deodar, Ravi Shankar | born 1926 at Madras, Patiala Gharana | born 1926 danced in Uday Shankar's troupe | ||
| Lakshmibai Jaidev | khayal | Abdul Rehman Khan, Ravi Shankar, Prof. Deodar | jugalbandi with Shialal Tiwari | |||
| Lalima Chatterjee | kathak | Lucknow | Purei Dhadich | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Lalit Rao | khayal | Bombay / New Delhi | Ramrao Naik, Dinker Kaikini, Kadim Hussain Khan | Agra Gharana | ||
| Lalita Gokhale | khayal | Padmavati Shaligram | Atrauli Jaipur Gharana, daughter-in-law of Padmavati Shaligram | |||
| Lalji Gokhale (Madhusudhan Raganath) | tabla | Ahmedjan Tirakwa | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Lalle Masit Khan | tabla | Chote Khan (father) | Delhi Gharana early 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Lalmani Mishra | vichitra vina | Benares | Laxmi G. Tiwari | late, teacher at BHU | ||
| Landan Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Lata Mangeshkar | bhajan/ geet | Amanalli Khan, Amanat Ali Khan, Dinanath Mangeshkar, | born 1929 | |||
| Latafat Khan, Ustad | khayal | born in Atrauli (UP) | Khadim Hussain Khan (elder brother), Faiyaz Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan | (1921-late), Agra Gharana | ||
| Latif Ahmed Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Latif Ahmed Khan, Ustad | tabla | Delhi | Game Khan, Iman Ali Khan | Dinyang Vakil | late, Delhi Gharana | |
| Latif Khan, Ustad | khayal | Karachi | Basavraj Rajaguru | Patiala Gharana, first half 20th cent. | ||
| Laxmanrao Bodas | khayal | V.D. Paluskar | Kashinath Bodas(nephew), Kumari Aban E. Mistry | brother of Shankar Shripad Bodas | ||
| Laxmi Devi | kathak | studied at Kathak Kendra, member of BharatiyaKla Kendra | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Laxmi G. Tiwari | khayal | Benares/ Santa Rosa,USA | Lalmani Mishra, Madhav Vaman Thakar | |||
| Liaquat Ali Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Bombay | Abdul Karim Khan(father) | Sharafat Hussain Khan(son) | Sikar Gharana | |
| Loka Sangeet | khayal | |||||
| Luchchu Maharaj(Baijnath Prasad) | kathak | Bombay | Kalika Prasad(father), Bindadin Prasad(uncle), Achchan Maharaj(brother) | Kaushalya(daughter), Vikram Singh, Malavika Sarkar, Kum Kum Dhar | 1st half 20th cent. 2nd son, Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| M. Iqbal | khayal | |||||
| M. Janardan | sitar | |||||
| M. Kalim | ghazal | Pakistan | ||||
| M. Raza | vichitra vina | |||||
| M.N. Barve | khayal | Shrikant Bakre | ||||
| M.N. Bhale | tabla | |||||
| M.R.Gautam, Dr. | khayal | born Tiruchi / Benares / Calcutta | Krishna Bhagavatar, Rama Rao Naik, Anwar Hussain Khan, Sidhiswari Devi, Begumm Akhtar | born 1924, teacher at BHU Benares | ||
| M.S. Gopalkrishnan | violin | |||||
| M.S. Kalyanpurkar | kathak | Lucknow | Rohini Bhate | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Madan Mihan | kathak | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Madan Mishra, Pt. | tabla | Bundi Maharaj(grandfather) | Santosh Mishra(son) | Benares Gharana | ||
| Madan Prakesh, Ustad | harmonium | |||||
| Madhav Indorekar | tabla | |||||
| Madhav Modak | tabla | |||||
| Madhav Vaman Thakar | khayal | Benares | Laxmi G. Tiwari | late | ||
| Madhavrao Alkutkar, Pt. | pakhawaj | Panse Gharana | ||||
| Madhavrao Alutkar | pakhawaj | |||||
| Madhu Shilpi | kathak | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Madhukar Karilakar | sarangi | Poona | ||||
| Madhukar Kothare | tabla | |||||
| Madhup Mudgal | khayal | New Delhi | Vinaychandra Moudgalya(Pt.), Vasant Thakar, Kumar Ghandarva | born 1956, teacher at Ghandarva Mahavidyalaya | ||
| Madhusudan Joshi, Pt. | khayal | Babanrao Haldankar | Agra, Jaipur, Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Madukarrao Sadolikar, Pt. | khayal | Manji Khan, Bhunji Khan | Atrauli Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Maduri Dandani | khayal | |||||
| Maduri Mathur | khayal | |||||
| Mahadeo Prasad Mishra | tabla | Anand Gopal Bandhopadhyay | Benares Gharana | |||
| Mahadev Indorkar | tabla | Jahangir Khan, Game Khan, Iman Ali Khan | Delhi Gharana | |||
| Mahapurush Mishra, Pt. | tabla | Anokhe Lal | (1933-late) | |||
| Maharaj Banerjee | tabla | Calcutta | son of Mantu Banerjee(harmonium), first half 20th cent | |||
| Mahbub Khan | sitar | Dharwar | Rahimat Khan(grandfather) Karim Khan(father) | |||
| Mahendra Kapoor | thumri, ghazal | |||||
| Mahendra Sharma | khayal | |||||
| Mahendra Tore | khayal | Amir Khan(infl) | ||||
| Mahesh Chander | ghazal | |||||
| Mahesh Mishra | sarangi | Calcutta | mid 2Oth cent. | |||
| Mahesh Mishra | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Mahesh Prasad Mishra | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Mahfouz Khan | harmonium | |||||
| Mahmid Hussain | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Mahmood Jha of Jodhpur | khayal | |||||
| Mahmud Mirza, Ustad | sitar | Delhi | Haider Khan(uncle), Jivan Lal Mattu | |||
| Mahmud Umrekar | khayal | |||||
| Mahsh Deshpande | khayal | |||||
| Maina Devi | sitar | Benares | Sidhiswari Devi(granddaughter), Rajeshwari Devi(daughter) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Majid Khan | sitar | |||||
| Majoye Hajary | sitar | |||||
| Makhanji | pakhawaj | Mathura | Gopal Das(nephew) | Nana Panse Gharana | ||
| Makkan Khan | khayal | Lucknow | Nathan Pir Baksh(son), Hassu and Haddu Khan(grandsons), Kadir Baksh(grandson-in-law) | Gwalior Gharana, 1st half 19th cent. | Wade(p.37) | |
| Makkhu Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Bugara Khan | Bare Kale Khan (son) | Delhi Gharana, mid 19th cent. married Buggara Khan's daughter | Kippen p.68 |
| Malavika Sarkar | kathak | Luchchu Maharaj, Birju Maharaj, Prem Shankar | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Malhar Kulkarni | flute | Hariprasad Chaurasia(guru) | ||||
| Malhar Mukherjee | tabla | Jnan Prakesh Ghosh | ||||
| Mali Prasad | khayal | |||||
| Malika Pukhraj | ghazal | Pakistan | polular during 30s and 40s | |||
| Malini Rajurkar | khayal | born at Ajmer(Rajastan) | Govindrao Rajurkar | |||
| Malka Jan | khayal | Calcutta | born in Azamgarh(U.P.), late 19th cent. "Agrewali Malka" studied with ustads of Agra Gharana, close to Faiyaz Khan | |||
| Mallah Khan | khayal | |||||
| Mallikarjun Mansur, Pt. | khayal | Appaya Swami, Gayanacharya Neelkhanta BuaNeelkantbuva Alurmath, Manji Khan, Bhurji Khan | (1910-late), Gwalior and Atrauli-Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Malvika Kanan | khayal | |||||
| Mamma Ismael | thumri | Purab Gharana(U.P.) | ||||
| Mammad Khan | tabla | Lucknow | grandson of Miyan Bakshu Khan, Lucknow Gharana | |||
| Mammad Khan (Mohammad) | tabla | Lucknow | Mammu Khan (father), Miyan Bakshu Khan (grandfather) | Munne Khan, Nadir Husain, Abid Husain (sons) | Khalifa of Lucknow Gharana, considered most accomplished player of his time, died 1879, brother of Kesri Khan | Kippen p. 72 |
| Mamman Khan | khayal | Bundu Khan(brother), Chand Khan(sons) Nasir Ahmed Khan(grandson), Umrao Bundu Khan (nephew), Usman Khan | title: Shams-e-Mausiqi | |||
| Mamman Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Delhi | Abdul Ghani Khan(father) Ghulam Hussain Khan(grandfather) Sajji Khan and Murad Khan(Hapur) Ali Bax(Patiala), Chajju Khan(Bhendibazar), Ashik Ali Khan, Inayat Khan | Chand Khan, Bundu Khan, Umrao Bundu Khan | early 2Oth cent. Delhi Gharana | Neuman (1990) |
| Mammu Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Miyan Bakhshu Khan (father) | Khalifa of Lucknow Gharana, late, brother of Kesri Khan | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Manas Chakravorty | khayal | |||||
| Mangesh Mulye | sarangi | |||||
| Mangesh Mulye | tabla | |||||
| Mani Prasad | khayal | Shaktilal(grandfather), Sukhdev Prasad(father), Shakar Lal(uncle), Gopal Prasad(uncle) | Kirana Gharana | |||
| Manick Das | tabla | |||||
| Manik Bhide | khayal | Madukarrao Sadolikar, Kishori Amonkar | Ashwini Bhide(daughter) | born 1935, Atrauli-Jaipur Gharana | ||
| Manik Das | tabla | |||||
| Manik Munde | pakhawaj | |||||
| Manik Pal | tabla | Calcutta | Abhijit Banerjee | |||
| Manik Varma | khayal | Bombay | Appasaheb Bhope, Sureshbabu Mane, Inayet Khan, Bholenath, Jagannathbua Purohit | Shoba Joshi, Sarla Bhide | Kirana Gharana, born 1926, Padmashri(1974) | |
| Manikrao Popatkar, Pt. | tabla | late | ||||
| Manilal Nag | sitar | Gokul Nag(father) Bahadur Hussain Khan | Indrajit Banerjee | born 1939 Bishupur Gharana | ||
| Maniram, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Nathulal(grandfather), Motiram(father), Jyotiram(uncle) | Pratap Narayan Ji,Pt.Jasraj(brothers) | (1910-1985) Pt. Mahamahapadhy, Mewati Gharana, court musician at Sanand court, held a 24-hour concert there in 1937 | |
| Manji Khan | khayal | Mallikarjun Mansur | older brother of Bhurji Khan | |||
| Manju Bhatt | sitar | Ali Akbar Khan | ||||
| Manna Dey | bhajan | Bengal | ||||
| Manohar Barve Pt. | khayal kazoo | Anant Damle, Ram Marathe | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Manoranjan Mukherjee | sitar | Kartick Kumar | ||||
| Mantu Banerjee | harmonium | Cancutta | father of Maharaj Banerjee (tabla), first half 20th cent. | |||
| Manumahar Ji | subash sangit | |||||
| Maqbul Khan | sarangi | Mirzapur | ||||
| Marghoob Hussain Khan | khayal | Patiala Gharana | ||||
| Maruti Keer | tabla | |||||
| Maruti Kurdikar | tabla | Taranath | Benares Gharana | |||
| Maruti Venkatesh Kurdekar | pakhawaj | |||||
| Mashkoor Ali Khan | tabla | |||||
| Mashkoor Hussain Khan | harmonium | |||||
| Masit Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Masit Khan, Ustad | tabla | Jyan Prakash GhoshKeramatullah Khan | early 20th cent. Farukhabad Gharana | |||
| Master Labhu | khayal | |||||
| Masud Ahmed | flute | |||||
| Matangebua | khayal | Indirabai Khadilkar | 1st half 20th cent., Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Mathu Umbekar | khayal | |||||
| Maula Bux | khayal | Calcutta | Gauhar Jan | late 19th cent. | ||
| Maya Chatterjee | kathak | Calcutta | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Maya Rao | kathak | Bangalore | Shambhu Maharaj, Sunder Prasad | Lucknow/Jaipur Gharanas, founder of Natya Saraswathi Art Centre(Bengalore) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Medhi Hassan | tabla | |||||
| Meena Fatharpekar | khayal/geet? | late, Kirana Gharana? | ||||
| Meena Lodhi | khayal | Pakistan | late | |||
| Meera Banerjee, Shrimati | khayal | Sailen Bhallacharji, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | born 1932, Patiala Gharana | |||
| Meera Khirwalkar | khayal | |||||
| Meeran Bux | khayal | Patiala Gharana (see Ummeed Khan) | ||||
| Mehboob Khan | tabla | Dayan Shah Quadri | Farukkabad Gharana, late | |||
| Mehbood Khan, Ustad | khayal | Faiyaz Khan | daughter married Faiyaz Khan | |||
| Mehbub Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Liaqat Ali Khan | ||||
| Mehdi Hassan | ghazal | Pakistan | ||||
| Mehdi Hussain | tabla/sarangi | Rahim Bakhsh Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Inayat Hussain, Mohammad Husain, Ahmad Husain | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Mehmood Dhaulpuri | harmonium | |||||
| Mehmood Khan | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Melang Zerbamali | tabla | Afghanistan | ||||
| Menaka Shirodkar | kathak | Shiroda(born) | Shamlal of Bikaner | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Menaka(Lila Sokhey) | kathak | Khandala | Sitaram Mishra, Vaidyanath Mishra, Ram Dutt Mishra | (1899-1947) Lucknow Gharana, travelled widely | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Menakabai Shirodkar | thumri | Shoba Gurta | late | |||
| Menli Hassan | tabla | |||||
| Mermava Dev | dhrupad | |||||
| Mertah Pandit | khayal | |||||
| Mian Bakshu Khan | tabla | Lucknow | late 18th cent. Founder of Lucknow Gharana, came from Delhi when Nawab Asaf-ud-daula came to Lucknow | Kippen p. 72 | ||
| Mian Tan Sen | vocal | Bilas Khan(son of muslim wife) Tan Taranga, Surat sen, Sarasvati Devi(children of Hindu wife) | courtmusician at Akbar's court | |||
| Mika Pandit | khayal | New Delhi | L.K.Pandit(father) | Gwalior Gharana | ||
| Milind Chittal | khayal | Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Firoz Dastur(guru), Dhondutai Kulkarni, Yeshwantbuva Joshi | ||||
| Mindi Khan | tabla | |||||
| Mira Banerjee | khayal | |||||
| Mirash Buva Pt. | khayal | D.V. Paluskar, Ram Marathe | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Mirashibuva, Pt. | khayal | Balkrishnabuva Ichalkaranjikar | Ram Marathe, Yashwant Joshi | late. Gwalior Gharana | ||
| Mishra Shyam Lal | flute | Benares | ||||
| Miskin Khan | rabab | |||||
| Miskin Khan | tabla | |||||
| Misri Khan | khayal | Patiala Gharana(see Ummeed Khan) | ||||
| Misri Khan Jamali, Ustad | alghoza | Pakistan | ||||
| Miss Nilambari | ghazal | |||||
| Mithai Lal | thumri | Benares | Sidhiswari Devi, Badi Moti Bai | early 2Oth cent. | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Modhu Khan | tabla | Ram Sai(founder of Benares Gharana) | Lucknow Gharana, mid 19th cent. brother of Bakshu Khan | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Modhu Khan | tabla | Gasita Khan, Allah Bakhsh Khan (sons), Ram Sahai | Founder of Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Zahid Khan, came to Lucknow during reign of Nawab Nasiruddhin Haider (1827-1837) | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Modhu Sudansen | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Modu Khan, Ustad | tabla | Lucknow | Ram Saray (Benares Gharana) | 19th Cent. Delhi Gharana | ||
| Mogubai Kurdikar | khayal | born in Kurdi, Goa | Alladiya Khan, Hyder Khan | Kishori Amonkar, Padma Talwalkar | born 1904, Jaipur, Atrauli Gharana, mother of Kishori Amonkar | |
| Mohammad Bandhi (Fem.) | thumri | Patna/Azimabad | late 19th cent | |||
| Mohammad Hussain | tabla/sarangi | Rahim Bakhsh Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Mehdi Husain, Inayat Husain, Ahmad Husain | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Mohamme Rafi | shazal | |||||
| Mohammed Afzal Khan | Dhrupad | Talwandi | ||||
| Mohammed Ahmed | tabla | Delhi Gharana, Kinnari Baj | ||||
| Mohammed Alam Khan | sitar | "sitar nawaz" | ||||
| Mohammed Alam Khan | sitar | Pakistan | "sitar nawaz" | |||
| Mohammed Ali Khan | dhrupad | Haider Khan(father) | Dagarbani | |||
| Mohammed Ali Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Mohammed Amir Khan, Ustad | sarod | Murad Ali (grandfather), Abdullah Khan (father) | Radhika Mohan Maitra | |||
| Mohammed Dabir Khan Beenkar, Ustad | sarod | Radhika Mohan Maitra | Rampur Senia | |||
| Mohammed Dafeer Khan | bin | |||||
| Mohammed Dilshad Khan | khayal | Benares | Faiyaz Ahmed Khan, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan(infl.) | born 1942, husband of Parveen Sultana | ||
| Mohammed Hafiz Khan, Ustad | dhrupad | Pakistan | Talwandhi Gharana | |||
| Mohammed Hussain | ghazal | |||||
| Mohammed Hussain | harmonium | |||||
| Mohammed Hussain Khan Sarohang | khayal | |||||
| Mohammed Ida Khan | Irshad Ali Khan(father) | Ali Bax, Kale Khan(sons) | 19th cent | |||
| Mohammed Ismail | khayal | |||||
| Mohammed Jaffer Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Mohammed Jan Khan | dhrupad | Haider Khan(father) | Zakhiruddhin Khan (son) | (1795-1850), Dagarbani | ||
| Mohammed Khan | tabla | Sheikh Dawood | ||||
| Mohammed Khan | sarangi | Lucknow | ||||
| Mohammed Khan, Ustad | sitar/bin | Enayat Khan, Haddu Khan, Hassu Khan, Nathu Khan, Babu Khan(Indore) Rajabali Khan, Murad Khan | Rais Khan(son) | married Enayat Khan's daughter | ||
| Mohammed Khan, Ustad, Haji | sarangi | Sabri Khan | late | |||
| Mohammed Mohan Singh | tabla | |||||
| Mohammed Rachid Khan | khayal | Abdul Majid Khan (father) | jugalbandhi with Mohammed Sayeed Khan: "Khan Bandhu" | |||
| Mohammed Rafi | ghazal | |||||
| Mohammed Reza, Ustad | sitar/musicologist | Patna | early 19th cent. rais of Patna, courtier of Nawab Asafudaullah of Lucknow, created many rezakhani gats, wrote "Nagamat-e-Asafi", created Razakhani-gat style in 19th cent. | |||
| Mohammed Sadiq Pindiwale, Master | harmonium | Rawalpindi | ||||
| Mohammed Sagiruddhin Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Mohammed Sayeed Khan, Ustad | khayal | Abdul Majid Khan (father) | jugalbandi avec Mohammed Rachid Khan: "Khan Bandhu" | |||
| Mohammed Shafir Khan | harmonium | Salamat Ali Khan(father) | ||||
| Mohammed Shan Rangile, Ustad | khayal | 18th cent. | ||||
| Mohammed Sharif | tabla | Lahore | ||||
| Mohammed Subhan Rathore | rubab | |||||
| Mohammed Tufail Narowali | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Mohammed Wazir Khan, Ustad | khayal | Allaudhin Khan | late 19th cent. | |||
| Mohammedn Sabir Khan | rudravina | |||||
| Mohammes Akram Khan | tabla | |||||
| Mohammes Atchan | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Mohammes Sagiruddhin Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Mohan Lal | kathak, pakhawaj | Lucknow, Delhi, Khairagarh | Hanuman Prasad(father), Bindadin Maharaj | late. Jaipur Gharana, excelled in Bhava | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Mohanlal Rayani | bhajan | |||||
| Mohanmara Sharma | khayal | |||||
| Mohinderjit | violin | |||||
| Mohinderjit Singh | ghazal | Bombay | Sandhya Rao | |||
| Mohiuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | born in Jaipur | Alla Bande Khan(grandfather), Nasiruddhin Khan Dagar(father) both from Indore | (1920-1967) jugalbandi with Amiuddhin Dagar, (senior) Dagar Brothers. Tradition goes back to Vrija Chandra "Daguri" (contemporary of Mian Tan Sen)from the name of a village near Delhi. Dagarbani | ||
| Mohiuddhin Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Moizuddhin Khan, Ustad | thumri | Benares | Gauhar Jan, Janki Bai, Sidhiswari Devi, Badi Moi Bai | mid 19th cent. | P. Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi, 1986 | |
| Morju Shah | kirtan | Radharani Devi | first half 20th cent. | |||
| Motiram, Pt. | khayal | Nathulal(father) | Maniram, Jyotiram, Jasraj (sons) | Mewati Gharana | ||
| Moussa Kassimi | khayal | Afghanistan | ||||
| Mr. Lobo | violin | Allaudhin Khan | late 19th cent. | |||
| Mridula Sharma | kathak | Yogendra Chatterjee, Purnima Pandra, Purei Dhadich | Lucknow/Jaipur Gharanas | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Mrinal Sengupta | sarod | Ali Akbar Khan, D.L. Kabra | ||||
| Mubarak Ali Khan | sarod | Hafiz Ali Khan(father) | brother of Rehmat, Amjad Ali Khan | |||
| Mubarak Ali Khan Kasoori | khayal | Ali Bax Khan(father) | first half 20th cent. | |||
| Mubarak Ali Khan, Mujahid | khayal / qawali | Pakistan | Akhtar Hussain Khan | Patiala Gharana, recorded with Fateh Ali Khan | ||
| Mubarak Ali Niasi | harmonium | Pakistan | ||||
| Mubarak Ali, Ustad | tabla | Patna/Azimabad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | 1st half 20th cent.. | ||
| Mubarak Hussain | khayal | |||||
| Muhammed Ahmed, Ustad | tabla | Bombay | Rajabali Khan | |||
| Muhammed Khan | tabla | Shitab Ali Khan(father) | Chote Khan(son) | Delhi Gharana, late 19th cent. brotehr of Nazar Ali Khan | Kippen p.68 | |
| Mukeh Bihari Sharma | sarod | New Delhi | ||||
| Mukesh | ghazal / bhajan | late | ||||
| Mukul Shivpuha | khayal | |||||
| Mukund Kane | tabla | |||||
| Mukund Narayan Bhale | tabla | |||||
| Mukund Nene | harmonium | |||||
| Muleh Khan | tabla | |||||
| Mumtaz Khan | sarangi | Zakir Husain(Zakkan Khan) (father) | Kothiwal Gharana | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Munawar Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Bade Ghulam Ali Khan(father), Barkat Ali Khan, Tansen Pandey | Reza Ali Khan, Shakir Ali(sons), Sandhya Mukherjee | (1932-1989), Patiala Gharana | ||
| Munawar Hussain Khan | tabla | |||||
| Munir Bai | thumri | Lucknow | late 19th cent. | |||
| Munir Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Delhi | Amir Khan, Nazir Khan | Zamir Ahmed Khan(son) | born 1927, brother of Faiyaz Khan (tabla) | |
| Munir Khan, Ustad | tabla | Amir Hussain Khan, Ahmedjan Thirakhawa | early 20th cent., Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Munir Sarhadi | sarinda | Pakistan | "sarinda nawaz" | |||
| Munirbai | khayal/thumri/kathak | Lucknow | Shambu Maharaj, Chunnu Khan, Mumtaz Khan | mid 20th cent. | ||
| Munna Khan, Sheik | shenai | |||||
| Munna Lal | kathak | Bombay | Rohini Bhate | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Munne Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Mammad Khan (father) | Bahadur Husain (son) | Khalifa of Lucknow Gharana, died 1890, brother of Nadir Husain, Abid Husain, considered most accomplished of the three, worked with Bindadin and Kalke Prasad Maharaj (Kathak) | Kippen p. 74 |
| Munne Khan, Ustad | tabla | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Munney Khan, Ustad | tabla | |||||
| Munni Ketkiwali | dadra, gali | |||||
| Munnu Khan | tabla | Chote Khan (father) | Delhi Gharana, uncle of Inam Ali Khan, brother of Gamay Khan, brother in law of Natthu Khan | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Munowar Husain | tabla | Bombay | Chutke Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana | Kippen p.70 | |
| Muqbal Hussain Qureshi | tabla | |||||
| Murad Ali Khan, Ustad | sarod | Ghulam Ali Khan(father) | Abdullah Khan(adopted son), Mohammed Amir Khan(grandson) | Indore Gharana of Beenkars, died 1932 | ||
| Murad Khan Beenkar, Ustad | bin | gurubai of Rajabali Khan | ||||
| Murad Khan, Ustad | khayal | Hapue Gharana | ||||
| Mured Ali Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Murlidhar Shastri | flute | Mathura | Arvind Gajendragadkar | |||
| Murtaza Hussain | tabla/sarangi | Ghulam Imam Khan | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brotehr of Imdad Hussain, Sher Khan | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Mushtari Bai | thumri | Lucknow | late 19th cent. | |||
| Mustafa Hussain | tabla | |||||
| Mustafa Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Raza Husain (father) | Lucknow Gharana, late | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Mustaq Ali Khan, Ustad | sitar | Ashiq Ali Khan (drupad) (father), guru was disciple of Amrit Sen | Debu Chaudhuri | Senia Gharana | ||
| Mustaq Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Benares then Calcutta | Mehmood Khan (Atrauli), Bahadur Ali Khan, Enayet Hussain Khan of Rampur whose daughter he married | (1880-late), Rampur Gharana | ||
| N. Dass, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| N. Rajam, Dr. Shrimati | violin | Benares then Calcutta | Omkarnath Thakur | born 1939,sister of T.T. Krishnan, Padmashri, staff of BHU | ||
| N.V. Murthy | tabla | |||||
| N.Y.Apte | tabla | Madras | ||||
| Nabi Ahmed Hussain | shenai | |||||
| Nabi Baksh Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Nabir Khan | bin | |||||
| Nadir Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Mammad Khan (father) | Raza Husain, Wajid Husain, Sajjad Khan (sons) | Lucknow Gharana, late, brother of Manne Khan, Abid Husain | Kippen p. 72 |
| Nafeesuddhin Dagar | dhrupad | Sayeeduddhin Dagar(father) | Dagarbani | |||
| Nafiz Ahmed Khan | tabla | |||||
| Nagendra Neth Datta of Ramghat | khayal | Ramghat | Vishmadev Chatterjee | early 20th cent. | ||
| Nageshwarlal Karn | tabla | |||||
| Naijral Sinha | tabla | Swami Pagal Das | ||||
| Naima Devi | thumri | Vidya Rao, Shubha Mudgal | late | biography written by Vidya Rao | ||
| Nain Ghosh | tabla | |||||
| Naina Devi | thumri, dadra | Shubha Mudgal | ||||
| Najju Deredar | tabla | Lucknow | Bakshu Khan | late 18th cent. | Kippen p. 73 | |
| Najju Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Mammu Khan (father) | Zakir Husain, Chattan Khan, Ladle Khan (sons) | Lucknow Gharana, late, brother of Mammad Khan | Kippen p. 72 |
| Najma | ghazal | |||||
| Nakul Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Nalini Gajendragadkar | khayal | Benares | Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | |||
| Namita Sen Gupta | Kabir bhajans | |||||
| Nan Rang | khayal | |||||
| Nana Muley, Pt. | tabla | Samay Cholkar | ||||
| Nanak Chand | tabla | |||||
| Nand Kishore, Pt. | bin | Gopalkrishnan | ||||
| Nandalal Ghosh | sarod | |||||
| Nandalal, Prof. | shenai | Benares | (1902-late), attached to Kali-badi temple, Sonapura | |||
| Nandan Mehta | tabla | |||||
| Nandan Prasad | khayal | Omkarnath Thakur(guru) | ||||
| Nandkishor Muley | santur | |||||
| Nandkishore Kapote | kathak | Prabha Marathe, Munnalal Shukla at Kala Chhaya in Pune, Birju Maharaj | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Nandlal | tabla; pakhawaj | Allaudhin Khan | late 19th cent. | |||
| Nanhe Khan, Ustad | khayal | Abdul Karim Khan | 2nd half 19th cent.court of Nizam of Hyderabad | |||
| Nanne Khan | tabla | Lalle Masit Khan(father | Ahmedjan Tirakwa | Delhi Gharana, mid 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | |
| Nanne Khan, Ustad | sarod | Ghulam Ali Khan(father) | Hafiz Ali Khan(son) | (19th cent.) | ||
| Nanu Gopal | khayal | Allaudhin Khan | late 19th cent. | |||
| Naran Vinay Patwardhan | khayal | |||||
| Narayan | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Narayan Chakravorty | vichitra vina | Amiya Bhattacharya | ||||
| Narayan Das Mishra | sarangi | |||||
| Narayan Nath Gurtu | thumri | Shoba Gurto(daughter-in-law) | ||||
| Narayan Prasad | kathak | Delhi | Hanuman Prasad(father) | late. (1908-1958) Jaipur Gharana, excelled in Bhava | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Narayan Ramesh Das, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Narayan Surdas, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Narayanrao Datar, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | D.V.Paluskar(uncle) | D.T.Datar, Sarla Bhide | Pt. | |
| Narayanrao Indorkar | tabla | |||||
| Narayanrao Vyas, Pt. | khayal | Vishnu Digambar Paluskar | D.V. Paluskar, Vidyadhar Vyas(son) | late, born 1902 in Kolhapur, Gwalior Gharana, "Sangeet Praveen" (1922) | ||
| Narendra Bataju | sitar, surbahar | Paris | Ravi Shankar | |||
| Narendra Nath Dhar | sarod | Lucknow | ||||
| Naseem Bano Chopra | ghazal | |||||
| Nasir Ahmed Khan, Ustad | khayal | Mamman Khan(grandfather), Chand Khan(uncle)Usman Khan(father) | born 1930, Delhi Gharana | ECSD 2496 | ||
| Nasir Amiuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | Dagarbani | ||||
| Nasir Hussain | harmonium | |||||
| Nasir Khan | khayal | late 18th cent. | ||||
| Nasiruddhin | sitar | Pakistan | ||||
| Nasiruddhin Khan Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | Indore | Allah Bande Khan(father) | Mohiuddin Dagar, Amiddin Dagar, Nasir Zahiruddhin Dagar, Nasir Faiyazuddhin Dagar(sons) | (1895-1936), Dagarbani | |
| Nathan Khan, Ustad | khayal | Vilayat Hussain Khan(son) | early 20th cent.Agra Gharana | |||
| Nathan Khan, Ustad | khayal | Shoba Gurtu, Dinkar Jadhav | ||||
| Nathan Pir Baksh | khayal | Makkan Khan(father) | Gwalior Gharana, 1st half 19th cent. Founder of Gwalior Gharana | Wade(p.37) | ||
| Nathu Khan | tabla | Habibiddhin Khan | Ajrapa Gharana, late(?) | |||
| Nathu Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Pakistan | late | |||
| Nathu Lal | khayal | Jagannath Prasad | Gwalior Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Nathu Prasad, Pt. | tabla | Chatur Lal | 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Nathulal, Pt. | khayal | Ghagge Nasir Khan | Motiram | early 20th cent., Pt. Mewati Gharana | ||
| Nathuran, Pt. | shenai | |||||
| Natin Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Nattilal Sharma | harmonium | |||||
| Nattu Khan | tabla | Delhi Gharana, married daughter of Chote Khan | Kippen p.68 | |||
| Nattunkhan | khayal | Sarasvati Rane | Kirana Gharana | |||
| Navab Ahmed Khan | tabla | |||||
| Navinder Singh | Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari | Benares Gharana, son of Gurdev Singh(sarod), born ±1978 | ||||
| Nayab Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Bahadur Husain (father), Chuttan Khan | Irshad Husain, Intizar Husain | Lucknow Gharana, late | Kippen p. 72 |
| Nayak Surdas | khayal | Ram Das Bairagi (father) | Ramdas Gharana | |||
| Nayan Ghosh | tabla | Nikhil Ghosh(father) | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Nazakat Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Pakista, | Vilayat Ali Khan (father) | (1932- late), Sham Chaurasi Gharana, sang, jugalbandi with brother Salamat (Ali Brothers) | ||
| Nazar Ali Khan | tabla | Shitab Ali Khan(father) | Delhi Gharana, late 19th cent. brotehr of Nazar Ali Khan | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Nazar Hussain Khan | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Nazim Ali Khan | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Nazir Ahmed | sitar | Pakistan | ||||
| Nazir Ali Khan | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Nazir Hussain | shenai | Calcutta | Wazir Ali(father) | Ali Ahmed Hussain(nephew) | late | |
| Nazir Khan | tabla | Faiyaz Khan | ||||
| Nazir Khan of Jaora | sitar | late | ||||
| Nazir Khan, Ustad | dhrupad(?) | Dharbanga | Vidyadhari Devi | Darbhanga Gharana(?) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Nazir Khan, Ustad | khayal | "Darbhangawale" | Vidyadari Bai | "Khansahib Darbanghawale", mid 19th cent. | ||
| Naziruddin Khan Dagar | dhrupad | Rahimuddhin Khan | first half 20th cent. | |||
| Nazma Bai | thumri | Lucknow | late 19th cent. | |||
| Neela Devi | khayal | |||||
| Neelkantbuva Alurmath | khayal | Mallikarjun Mansur | ||||
| Niamattullak Khan | rabab | Basit Khan | born in Afghanistan, mid 19th cent. | |||
| Niamatullah Khan | rabab | mid 19th cent. supposed inventor of sarod | ||||
| Niaz Ahmed Khan, Ustad | khayal | Bashir Khan(father) | Kirana Gharana | |||
| Nikhil Banerjee, Pt. | sitar | Jitendranath Banerjee(father), Allaudhin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan | Kushal Das(infl.) | (1931-late) | ||
| Nikhil Ghosh, Pt. | tabla | Bombay | Akshyakumar Ghosg(father), Jyan Prakash Ghosh, Amir Hussain Khan, Ahmadjan Thirakwa | Aneesh Pradha, Nayan Ghosh | Younger brother of Pannalal Ghosh, Founder of Sangit Mahabharati(Bombay), Padmabushan, Hafiz Ali Khan Smriti Samman, Farukkabad Gharana (1919-1995) | CD 216AB wrote: Fundamentals of Raga and tala with a new system of notation |
| Nilabai Nahili | khayal | |||||
| Nilakanta Buva | khayal | Basavaraj Rajaguru | ||||
| Nilakshree Juvekar | stage | |||||
| Niranjan Prasad | flute | Bhola Nath | ||||
| Niranjan Prasad | flute | Bhola Nath | ||||
| Nirmal Biswas | sitar | |||||
| Nirmal Chakravarty | sitar | Calcutta | Subroto Roy Chaudhuri | |||
| Nirmala Arau | thumri | |||||
| Nirmala Devi | thumri | born in Benares | Wasudev Prasad (father), Abdul Rehman Khan | |||
| Nirmala Nandu | kathak | Birju Maharaj | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Nisar Abbas Khan | tabla/sarangi | Chote Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Saardat Ali Khan Khan | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Nisar Ali | khayal | Haddu Khan | Gwalior Gharana, late | |||
| Nisar Haider | tabla | Ghulam Haider (father) | Zakir Hussain(Zakkan Khan) | Kothiwal Gharana, late | Kippen p.70 | |
| Nisar Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Badaun (Uttar Pradesh) | Fida Hussain Khan(father), court musician in Baroda | Rashid Khan | born 1906 Rampur/Sahaswan Gharana specialist of tarana singing, teaches at Sangeet Research Academy | |
| Nishat Khan, Ustad | sitar | Vilayat Khan, Imrat Khan(father) | son of Imrat Khan | |||
| Nitai Dasgupta | khayal geet | Usha Ranjan Mukherjee(guru) | ||||
| Nityanand Haldipur, Pt. | flute | Pannalal Ghosh, Devendra Murdeshwar, Annapurna Devi | Staff of AIR Bombay | |||
| Nivruttibua Sarnaik, Pt. | khayal | Shobha Joshi, Sudhakarbuwa Digrajkar, Vijaya Jadhav Gatlewar | Autrali Jaipur Gharana, teaches at Sangeet Research Academy | |||
| Niyamat Khan | bin | Jaipur Seni Gharana of Beenkars 19th century | ||||
| Niyananda Lal | sitar maker | Calcutta | Damodar Adhikari | late, died early seventies | S. Landsberg, Kanailal and brother | |
| Nizamuddhin Khan, Ustad | tabla | Illahi Bux Khan, Azim Khan, Ahmedjan Thirakwa | Deepak Nerurkar | |||
| Nobin Ghosh | tabla | |||||
| Noor Begum | khayal | Kasoor | Kale Khan(father) | Amir Ali(son) | first half 20th cent. | |
| Noor Jehan | ghazal /film | |||||
| Noori Khan | tabla | Kanpur | Allah Baksh Khan (father) | Haider Husain, Bahadur Husain (sons) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Ghulam Haider | Kippen p.70 |
| Noori Khan | tabla | Patna | Kothiwal Gharana, mid 19th cent. | |||
| O.M. Chaurasia | santur | |||||
| Om Prakash Chourasiya | santur | |||||
| Om Prakash Mishra | kathak | Birju Maharaj | Lucknow Gharana, family of Achchan Maharaj | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Om Prakash Mohan | harmonium | |||||
| Om Prakesh Sharma | dilruba | |||||
| Omar Khan | sarod | descendant of Niamatullah Khan | ||||
| Omkar Gulwani | tabla | T.S.Ratnakar Bhat(uncle), Taranath Rao | ||||
| Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | khayal | Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, at Ghandarva Maha Vidyalaya in Mumbai | Prof.Deodar, P.N. Barwa, Balwantrai Bhatt, Bijonbala Ghosh Dastidar, P.K. Dasur, Atul Desai, Nalini Gajendragadkar, Yashwantrai Purohit, Prem Lata Sharma, Subhadra Chaudhuri, Gopalkrish.N. Rajam, Dinkar Kaikini, Arvind Gajendragadkar, Sunanda Patnaik | (1890/1897-1967), Gwalior Gharana, head of Maha Vidyalaya in Lahore, founded Sangeet Niketan in Bombay, dean of BHU(as from 1950) | Sangitanjali (6 vol.), "A multi-dimensional genius" | |
| Omrao Khan | bin, surbahar, sarod | Jaipur Seni Gharana of Beenkars 19th century | ||||
| P. Madhukar | harmonium | Anant Rane, Tulsidas Borkar | late | |||
| P. Shankar | tabla | |||||
| P.Chakravarty | khayal | |||||
| P.K. Dastur | khayal | Benares | Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | |||
| P.L. Pawar | violin | New Delhi | ||||
| P.N. Barwa | khayal | Benares | Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | |||
| Padma Talwalkar | khayal | Gangadhar Pimpalkhare, Mogubai Kurdikar, Gajananrao Joshi | wife of Suresh Talwalkar, born 1949 | |||
| Padmavati Bohle | khayal | |||||
| Padmavati Gokhale, Shrimati (Shaligram) | khayal | Buparao Shaligram | born 1920 | |||
| Padmavati Shaligram | khayal | father and uncle were "leading exponents of Atrauli Gharana" | Atrauli-Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Pamela Singh | Meera bhajans | |||||
| Panchakshari Buva | khayal | Basavaraj Rajaguru | ||||
| Panchakshari Gawai | khayal | Shivayogamandit Temple | Waheed Khan | Basavraj Rajaguru (son) | Kirana Gharana, died 1944 | |
| Panchu Maharaj | tabla | |||||
| Pandrinath Nageshkar | tabla | Bombay | Vibhav Nageshkar(son), Samar SahaSuresh Talwalkar | late | ||
| Pankaj Kumar Mullick | ghazal / Tagore sangeet | Dinendranath Tagore, Durgadas Banerjee | (1905-) | |||
| Pankaj Mishra | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Pannalal Bhattacharya | shyam sangeet | |||||
| Pannalal Ghosh, Pt. | flute | Allaudhin Khan, | Devendra Murdeshwar, Ragunath Seth, Nityanand Haldipur | (1911-1960), older brother of Nikhil Ghosh | ||
| Pannalal Upadjan | pakhawaj | |||||
| Pannalal Uppadhya | pakhaway | Chotte Narayan Mallick | Darbhanga Gharana | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | ||
| Panubabu | dhrupad | Debendra Krishna Chattopadhyay | ||||
| Papa | khayal | Abdul Karim Khan(father) | ||||
| Parameshwar Hegde | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | |||
| Parashuram Haldipur, Guru | santur | Shashikant V. Chindarkar | ||||
| Parthasarathi Mukherjee | tabla | |||||
| Partho Das | sitar | New Delhi | ||||
| Partho Sarathy | sarod | |||||
| Parveen Sultana | khayal | Mumbai | Chinmoy Lahari | mixture of Kirana and Patiala Gharanas, wife of Dilshad Khan | ||
| Pathana Khan | kafees | Pakistan | ||||
| Patrick Moutal | sitar/musicologist | Paris | ||||
| Pearu Qawwal | quawalli | |||||
| Pervaiz Mehdi | ghazal | Pakistan | ||||
| Piarey Khan | khayal | Ummeed Khan(son) | Patiala Gharana(see Ummeed Khan) | |||
| Prabakar Pednekar | harmonium | |||||
| Prabha Atre | khayal | Mumbai | Sureshbabu Mane, Hirabai Barodekar | Shobha Joshi | born 1932, Kirana Gharana | |
| Prabha Sharan | bhajan | |||||
| Prabhakar Dhakle | violin | |||||
| Prabhakar Karekar | khayal | Bombay | Suresh Haldankar, Jitendra Abhishekhi(7years), C.R. Vyas | born 1944, Agra Gharana | ||
| Prabhakar Karekar | stage | |||||
| Prabhashankar Gaikwad, Ustad | shenai | |||||
| Prabhir Ghosh, Pt. | flute | |||||
| Prabhu Das | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Prabhu Edouard | tabla | France | Shankar Ghosh | |||
| Prabhudev Sardar | khayal | Digambarbua Kulkarni | born 1925, Kirana Gharana | |||
| Pradeep Chatterjee | khayal | |||||
| Pradeep Dixit | pakhawaj | |||||
| Pradeep Kumar Barot | ||||||
| Prahladrao Ganoo | khayal | Bombay | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Prakash Maharaj | tabla | |||||
| Prakash Wadera | flute | |||||
| Prakesh Ghangrekar | stage | |||||
| Pramati Mukherjee | khayal | |||||
| Pramila Pande | kathak | New Delhi | Munna Shukla, Birju Maharaj | Lucknow Gharana, studied at Bharatiya Kala Kendra(New Delhi), Kathak Kendra(New Delhi) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Pramod Kumar | sitar | Paris | (1939-late) | |||
| Pramod Marathe | harmonium | |||||
| Pramod Pathak | khayal | Calcutta | Ballaram Pathak(father) | born 1951 | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | |
| Pranesh Khan | tabla | |||||
| Prannath | khayal | Waheed Khan | Terry Riley e.o. | Kirana Gharana, professor of music at Delhi univ. | one time Sadhu | |
| Prasad Sawkar | stage | |||||
| Prasun Banerjee | khayal | Jamini Ganguly, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | born 1926, Pathiala Gharanna | |||
| Pratap Narayan Ji Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Motiram Ji(father) | Kankana Banerjee | born 1918, Mewati Gharana, brother of Pt. Jasraj, court musician at Raigarh State and later Rewa State | |
| Pratappu Maharaj | tabla | Ram Saray | Benares Gharana, late 19th cent. | |||
| Prateek Chaudhuri | sitar/surbahar | Delhi | Debu Chaudhuri (father) | student at Delhi Univ. | ||
| Pratima Banerjee | bhajan, Rabindra Sangeet | |||||
| Pravir Mitra | tabla | Calcutta | Kanai Dutt | |||
| Prbhu Dutt Baj pay | tabla | |||||
| Prebendra Kanti Chakrabarty | tabla | |||||
| Prem Ballabh | tabla | |||||
| Prem Gupta | flute | |||||
| Prem Lata Sharma | khayal | Benares | Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | |||
| Prem Shankar | kathak | Hazari Lal(father) | Jaipur Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Prem Vallabh | pakhawaj | |||||
| Premkumar Mallick | dhrupad | Bidur Mallick(father) | born 1962, Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | ||
| Prof. B.R. Deodar | khayal/musicologist | |||||
| Purabi Mukherjee | khayal | |||||
| Puran Maharaj | tabla | |||||
| Purei Dhadich, Dr. | kathak | Lucknow | Lalima Chatterjee, Mridula Sharma | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Purnima Panda | kathak | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||||
| Purnima Sen | khayal | Agra Gharana | ||||
| Puroshattam M. Walwalkar | harmonium | |||||
| Purshottam Mehta | sitar | |||||
| Purtha Sarathi Mukherjee | tabla | Samta Prasad | ||||
| Purushottam Das | pakhawaj | Nathdwara Temple (Rajastan) | ||||
| Pyare Sahib | thumri, dadra | Benia Bagh(Benares) | Moti Bai | early 20th cent. | ||
| Qadir Hassan Shagan | khayal | Pakistan | Ghulam Hussain Shaggan(father) | |||
| Qadir Khan | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Qamar Ali | tabla | Lahore | Amjad Ali Dipalpuri(father) | contemp. member of group of Meher Ali/Sher Ali(Quawali) | ||
| Qamar-uz Zaman | khayal | jugalbandi with Bader-uz Zaman | ||||
| Quadratullah Khan | khayal | |||||
| Qutubuddhin Khan | sitar | Abdul Halim Jaffar Khan | ||||
| R. Panshikar | harp | |||||
| R.C. Mehta | khayal | Baroda | ||||
| R.D. Potdar, Pt. | khayal | Shubhada Paradkar | Kirana Gharana | |||
| R.G. Desai | harmonium | Vasant Kanakapur | ||||
| R.K. Bharati | sarangi | |||||
| R.K.Banreze | ||||||
| R.Mukherjee | flute | |||||
| Raazia Begum | dadra/ geet | |||||
| Rabin Ghosh | violin | |||||
| Radha Krishna | kathak | Pilani | Jagannath Prasad(father) | Janki Prasad (Benares)Gharana teaches at Birla College(Pilani) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Radha Madhar Das | kirtan | Radharani Devi | first half 20th cent. | |||
| Radhakanta Nandy | tabla, pakhawaj | |||||
| Radhakrishna Mallick, Pt. | dhrupad | Darbhanga | Bhupat Khan | 18th cent. founders of Dharbhanga Gharana | ||
| Radharani Devi, Shrimati | kirtan | Morju Shah, Radha Madhar Das | (1915-) | |||
| Radheshyam | tabla | |||||
| Radhey Lal Mishra | kathak | New Delhi, | Jaipur Gharana, teaches at Sangeet Bharati, New Delhi, toured with Ram Gopal | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Radhika Prasad | khayal | Jnanendra Prasad Goswami(nephew) | Bishnupur Gharana | |||
| Radika Mohan Moytra, Pt. | sarod mohanvina | Mohammed Amir Khan, Mohammed Dabir Khan Beenkar | Budhadev Das Gupta, Sobroto Roy Chaudhuri | (1917-1981) | ||
| Rafiq Ahmed Khan | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Rafiq Khan | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Rafiq Khan | sitar | Dharwar | Rahimat Khan(grandfather) Karim Khan(father) | |||
| Rafiuddhin Sabri | tabla | Delhi Gharana | ||||
| Raghunath Prasanna | flute/shenai | Benares | Gauri Shankerji(father) | Rajendra Prasanna(son) | ||
| Ragini Trivedi | sitar | Indore | ||||
| Ragunath Bhattacharya | harmonium | |||||
| Ragunath Nakod | tabla | Ajrapa Gharana | ||||
| Ragunath Seth | flute | Lucknow | Kashi Prasad(brother), Pannalal Ghosh, S.N. Ratanjankar | |||
| Rahim Bakhsh Khan | tabla | Kanpur | Gasita Khan (father) | Mehdi Husain, Inayat Husain, Muhammad Husain, Ahmad Husain | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Chote Khan, Ghulam Baksh Khan | Kippen p.70 |
| Rahim Fahimuddhin Dagar | dhrupad | New Delhi | ||||
| Rahim Sen | sitar | 19th cent. descendant of Masit Khan | ||||
| Rahimat Khan (Dharwadkar), Ustad | sitar | Dharwar | Karm Khan (son), Bale Khan, Usman Khan, Mehbub Khan, Chhote Rahimat Khan, Rafiq Khan, Shafiq Khan(grandsons) | died 1954, "sitar ratna" | ||
| Rahimuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | Indore(born)/New Delhi | Alla Bande Khan, Zakiruddhin Dagar(father), Ziauddin Khan, Naziruddin Khan | Fahimuddhin Dagar(son) | (1900-1975) Padmabushan, Dagarbani | |
| Rahimuddhin Khan, Ustad | thumri | Moizuddhin Khan(older brother) | Shambhu Maharaj | |||
| Rahman Quereshi | harmonium | |||||
| Rahmat Khan, Ustad | khayal | Kurundwad | Abdul Karim Khan (influence) | famous for Sur-oriented gayaki, | ||
| Rais Khan | sitar | Dharwar | Karim Khan(grndfather) Bale Khan(father) | |||
| Rais Khan, Ustad | sitar | Bombay | Mohammed Khan(father), Vilyat Khan(unofficial) | born 1940 | ||
| Raj Kumar Pathak, Pt. | sitar | 19th cent. founder of Darbangha Gharana | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | |||
| Raja Chatrapati Singh, Pt. | pakhawaj | Ramdasji(guru) | Taught at BHU music college | |||
| Raja Misar Singh Beenkar | bin | born in Rajastan | Mian Tan Sen (father in law) | married Sarasvati Devi | ||
| Raja Nakod | tabla | |||||
| Rajab Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Dewas | Mughal Khan(father) in the tradition of Bade Mohammed Khan and Mubarak Ali Khan(Jaipur), Bande Ali Khan Beenkar(Kirana) | Ganpatrao Dewaskar, Amanat Khan, Ganesh Ramlchandra Behrebuwa, Jyotiram, Shankar Rao Sarnaïk, Krishna Shankar Shukla, Krishnarao Mujumdar, Raja Bhao Deo, Yasin Khan,Alladiya Khan, Sidhiswari Devi,Muhammed Ahmed(tabla), Rais Khan(sitar) | Bhendibazar Gharana, also: Gwalior, Jaipur, Kirana (1874-1959) friend of Shamir Khan of Indore | ECLP 2618 |
| Rajabhau Kogje, Pt. | khayal | |||||
| Rajakumar Agrawala | sitar | Agra Gharana | ||||
| Rajan Mishra | khayal | |||||
| Rajarambuva Paradkar, Pt. | khayal | C.R. VYas | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Rajashekar Mansur | khayal | Mallikarjun Mansur(father) | ||||
| Rajdulari Ali Akbar Khan | khayal | wife of Ali Akbar Khan | ||||
| Rajeeb Chakravorty | sarod | |||||
| Rajendra Prassana | flute | Gauri Shankerji(grandfather) Ragubath Prasanna(father) Bhola Nath(uncle), Vishnu Prasanna, Hafiz Ahmed Khan(Rampur Sehaswan), Sarfaraz Hussain Khan(Rampur, Sahaswan) | Benares Gharana, born 1957 | |||
| Rajinder Raina | tabla | Kashmir | ||||
| Rajit Ram Mallick, Pt. | dhrupad | Darbhanga | Kshitilal Mallick | Ramchatur Mallick(son) | late 19th cent. | |
| Rajiv Taranath, Pt. | sarod | Bangalore | Pt.Taranath(vocal), Ali Akbar Khan | born 1932 | ||
| Rajkumar Narayan | tabla | |||||
| Rajkumar Nayagm | tabla | |||||
| Rakesh Prasana | sarod | |||||
| Ram akhan adau | pakhawaj | |||||
| Ram Charan Mishra | thumri | Benares | Sigayi Maharaj(nephew) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Ram Chatur Mallick, Pt. | dhrupad | Rajit Ram Mallick(father), Kshitipal Mallick, Rameshwar Pathak | (1902-1990), titla: Dhrupad Samrat, Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | ||
| Ram Das Bairagi | khayal | Mian Tan Sen | contemporary of Mian tan Sen, founder of Ramdas Gharana | |||
| Ram Gopal, Pt. | kathak, tabla | Calcutta | Jai Lal(father) | Kajal Mishra(daughter), Sumitra Mishra | late, taught at Bani Bidya Bithi, Calcutta, married to Sumit Mishra | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Ram Govind Pathak, Pt. | dhrupad, sitar, surbahar | Gaya | Dinanath Pathak(father) | Ballaram Pathak(son) | died 1948, courtmusician at Kashim Nagar | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 |
| Ram Kant | tabla | |||||
| Ram Keshor Mishra | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Ram Krishna Vasebuwa, Pt. | khayal | Kesarbai Kerkar | ||||
| Ram Kumar Chatterjee | Bengali(Pracin Gan) | |||||
| Ram Marathe Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Khrishnarao Phulambrikar, Vamanrao Sadolikar, Mirashbua, Manohar Barve, Jagannathbuva(Gunidas) (15 years), Vilayat Hussain Khan | born 1924, also on Marathi stage, Agra, Gwalior Gharanas | ||
| Ram Narain Mishra, Pt. | kathak | Chitresh Das | title: Nrityacharya, "One of the most respected and reputed gurus of kathak" | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Ram Narayan | kathak | Achchan Maharaj | Kumari Sarika Rani | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Ram Narayan, Pt. | sarangi | Mumbai | Mehboob Khan | Brij Narayan (son) | born 1927 | |
| Ram Sahai, Pt. | tabla | Modhu Khan | born 1780/1798, founder of Benares Gharana | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Ram Sewak | khayal | Vidyadhari Devi | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Ram Sewak Tiwari | dhrupad | Siya Ram Tiwari(father) | ||||
| Ram Sharan | tabla | Ram Saray | Benares Gharana, late 19th cent. | |||
| Ram Sumer | khayal | Vidyadhari Devi | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Rama Rao Naik, Pt. | khatal | M.R. Gautam | late | |||
| Ramakant Gundecha | dhrupad | jugalbandi with Umakant Gundecha(brother) | ||||
| Ramakant Maapsekar, Pt. | tabla | Ulhas Bapat(santur) | ||||
| Ramakant Mhapsekar | pakhawaj | |||||
| Ramamohini Saran | pakhawaj | Swami Pagal Das | ||||
| Ramashreya Jha, Pt | khayal | Allahabad | Bholanath Bhatt | second half 20th cent | Rajan P. Parrikar, reflexions on raag Hamir | |
| Rambhau Bijapure | khayal | Belgaum | Kunda Weling | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Ramchandra Nayaratna | khayal | Tarapata Chakrabarty | late | |||
| Ramdas Kamat | stage | |||||
| Ramdasi | khayal | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Ramdasji, Pt. | pakhawaj | Raja Chatrapati Singh | ||||
| Ramesh B. Khaladkar | shenai | |||||
| Ramesh Mishra | New York/London | |||||
| Ramesh Prem | vichitra vina | Bombay | Abdul Aziz Khan(indirectly), Jivan Lal Mattoo | |||
| Rameshchandra | tabla tarang | younger brother of Omkarnath Thakur, first half 20th cent. | ||||
| Rameshwar Pathak,Pt. | sitar | Apooch Pathak(father) | Ram Chatur Mallick | early 20th cent. | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73, text in MC 17 | |
| Ramji Upadhyaya | pakhawaj | Gaya | Basudeo Upadhyaya, Baldeo Upadhyaya | Ramkumar, Premkumar Mallick(sons-in-law) | Darbhanga Gharana | born 1934, text in MC 17 |
| Ramji Upadyaya | pakhawaj | |||||
| Ramjo Chhuttan, Pt. | khayal | Patna/Azimabad | 2nd half 19th cent. | |||
| Ramkrishna Bua Vaze | khayal | Gajananrao Joshi | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Ramkumar Mallick | dhrupad | Bidur Mallick(father) | born 1957, Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | ||
| Ramkumar Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Ramrao Naik | khayal | Lalit Rao | Agra Gharana | |||
| Ramsahay, Pt. | tabla | Founder of Benares Gharana, supposed to have written a book about tabla playing | ||||
| Ramsheesh Pathak | pakhawaj | |||||
| Ramzan Khan | khayal | |||||
| Ramzan Khan | sarangi | Bombay | ||||
| Ramzan Khan | tabla | Habibuddhin Khan | Ajrapa Gharana | |||
| Ranadir Roy | esraj | Santiniketan | Buddhadev Das, Abir Singh | late | ||
| Ranajit Sen Gupta | sarod | Calcutta | Danesh Khan, Ashish Khan | born ±1960, Maihar Gharana | ||
| Rani Karna | kathak | Birju Maharaj, Sunder Pradad, Kelu Charan Mahapatra(Odissi), Narayan Prasad | born 1939, Jaipur, Lucknow Gharanas | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Ranjan Gangoly, Pt. | sitar | |||||
| Rash Behari Datta | sitar | |||||
| Rashad Mustafa | tabla | |||||
| Rasheed Khan | tabla | |||||
| Rashid Khan | khayal | Calcutta | Nissar Hussain Khan(great-uncle) | Rampur-Sehaswan Gharana, great-grandson of Inayat Hussain Khan of Rampur | ||
| Rashid Mustafa Thriakwa | tabla | |||||
| Rashid Mustafa Tirakwa | tabla | Ahmedjan Tirakwa | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Rasiklal Andharia | khayal | younger brother of Babulal Andharia, son of Govindji Bhai, born 1931 in Gujarat, late | ||||
| Rasolan Bai | thumri | Benares/Allahabad | Shammu Khan | (1902-1974) Benares Gharana | ||
| Rasool Khan(Dabra) | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Ratan Shanker | kathak | Gyan Shankar of Lahore | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Rathim Ghose, Kirtanrasasagar Sri | kirtan/bhajan/devotional | Calcutta | ||||
| Ratiuddhin Sabri | tabla | |||||
| Ratnakar Vyas | sarod | |||||
| Rattanlal Tikoo | santur | |||||
| Ravi Gutala | tabla | Swapan Chaudhuri | Lucknow Gharana | |||
| Ravi Shankar, Pt. | sitar | New Delhi/Benares | Allauddhin Khan | Gopalkrishnan, G.S.Sachdev, Himanshu Biswas, Jaya Biswas, Jammaluddhin Bhartiya, Kartick Kumar, Narendra Bataju, Pramod Kumar, Shamim Ahmed, Vijay Raghav Rao | born 1920, younger brother of Uday Shankar,married Annapurna Devi, Padmabushan 1967 | |
| Ravishankar | pakhawaj | Gaya | Ramji Upadhyaya(father) | text in MC 17 | ||
| Raza Husain | sarangi | Saadat Ali Khan (father) | Jafar Husain, Akbar Husain | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Bajju Khan, Chutke Khan | Kippen p.70 | |
| Raza Husain (Rajju Khan) | tabla | Lucknow | Nadir Husain (father) | Mustafa Husain (son) | Lucknow Gharana, late, brother of Wajid Husain, Sajjad Husain | Kippen p. 72 |
| Rehman Khan | harmonium | |||||
| Rehmat Ali Khan | sarod | brother of Mubarak, Amjad Ali Khan | ||||
| Rekha Shankar | kathak | Birju Maharaj, Narendra Sharma, Gopinath, Hare Krusha Behra(Odissi) | member of Bharatiya Kala Kendra | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Reza Ali Khan | khayal | |||||
| Riaz Ali Khan | khayal | jugalbandi with Imtiaz Ali Khan | ||||
| Riazuddhin Dagar | dhrupad | Jaipur | Inayat Khan(Saishashtri) | (1885-1947), Dagarbani | ||
| Rij Ram | tabla | |||||
| Rimpa Shiv | tabla | Swapan Shiv | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Rita Ganguli | thumri/dadra etc. | New Delhi | Begum Akhtar | |||
| Ritwik Sanyal | dhrupad | Zia Mohiuddhin Dagar, Zia Fariuddhin Dagar | Gianni Ricchizzi | Dagarbani | ||
| Rja Bhao Deo | khayal | Rajabali Khan | ||||
| Robin Ghosh | violin | |||||
| Robin Kumar Chatterjee | Khayal | Amir Khan, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | Born 1942, Kirana Gharana (?) | |||
| Robin Kumar Chatterjee | khayal | |||||
| Rochatan Das | pakhawaj | |||||
| Rohini Bhate | kathak | Pune | Sohan Lal, M.S. Kalyanpurkar, Munna Lal | Jaipur Gharana, founded Nritya Bharati(Pune) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Roma Rani Battacharya | khayal | Sahaswan Gharana | ||||
| Ronu Majumdar | flute | |||||
| Roshan Ali Khan | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Roshan Ara Begum | khayal | Pakistan | Abdul Karim Khan (father) | Basavaraj Rajaguru | (1910-1982), Kirana Gharana, "Queen of music"(1959) | |
| S. Janaki | bhajan | South India | ||||
| S. Nageshkar | tabla | |||||
| S. Warerkar | khayal | |||||
| S.C.R. Bhatt, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | S.N. Ratanjankar | Zarin Daruwala | jugalbandi with K.G. Ginde, head of Shreevallabh Sangeetalaya in Bombay | |
| S.C.R. Raq | khayal | |||||
| S.N. Ratanjankar, Pt. | khayal | V.N. Bhatkande | C.R. Vyas, Zarin Daruwala, Dinkar Kaikini, S.C.R. Bhatt, K.G. Ginde | (1899-1974), Padma Bushan | ||
| S.R.Kamble | clarinet | |||||
| S.Sharma | jaltarang | |||||
| S.V. Patwardhan | tabla | |||||
| S.V. Patwardhan | tabla | |||||
| Saadat Ali Khan | tabla/sarangi | Chote Khan (father) | Raza Hussain, Bajju Khan, Chutke Khan (sons) | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Nisar Abbas Khan | Kippen p.70 | |
| Sabir Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Sabir Khan Beenkar | bin | |||||
| Sabir Khan, Ustad | tabla | Keramatullah Khan(father) | Farukhabad Gharana | |||
| Sabri Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Delhi | Kamal Sarwar Sabri(son) | born 1925 | ||
| Sadakat Ali Khan | clarinet | |||||
| Sadanand Naimpalli | tabla | Taranath Rao | ||||
| Sadashiv Pawar | tabla | |||||
| Saddu Khan | dhrupad | Jaipur | Behram Khan(Satshashtri) | Inayat Khan(Satshashtri) (son) | (1800-1860), Dagarbani | |
| Sadhya Rao | khayal | |||||
| Sadiq Ali | flute | Pakistan | ||||
| Sadiq Ali Khan | thumri | Lucknow | Bhaiyasahib Maharaj | 19th cent. created thumri style | ||
| Sadiq Rawalpindiwaley | harmonium | |||||
| Saeen Ditta Qadri | flute | Pakistan | ||||
| Saeen Marna | ektara | Pakistan | ||||
| Sagiruddhin Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Dhruba Ghosh | ||||
| Sai Banker | tabla | |||||
| Sailala Majumdar | bhajan | Kanika Banerjee | ||||
| Sailen Bhallacharji | khayal | Meera Banerjee, Shrimati | Patiala Gharana | |||
| Sailen Das | sitar | Calcutta | Bimal Ch. Das (father), Lakshman Bhattacharya, Ravi Shankar | Kushal Das(son) | booklet acc. CD: C 560154 | |
| Sain Ditta Quadri | flute | |||||
| Saindhey Khan, Ustad | khayal | Patiala Gharana(see Ummeed Khan) | ||||
| Sajan Mishra | khayal | jugalbandi with Rajan Mishra | ||||
| Sajjad Ali | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Sajjad Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Nadir Husain (father) | Lucknow Gharana, late, brother of Raza Husain, Wajid Husain | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Sajjad Khan | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Sakhawat Khan | sarod | 1st half 20th cent., teacher at Bhatkhande Music College | ||||
| Sakhawt Hussain Khan, Ustad | sarod | Lucknow | Begum Akhtar | early 2Oth cent. | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Salamat Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Pakistan | Vilayat Ali Khan(father) | born 1934, Sham Chroasi Gharana, brother of Nazakat Ali Khan(jugalbandi), Ghulam Hussain Khan(tabla) | ||
| Salamat Ali KhanSamar Kumar Chatterjee | santur | |||||
| Salamat Hussain | flute | Pakistan | ||||
| Salari Khan | tabla | Lucknow | Bakshu Khan, Mammu Khan | late 18th cent. Lucknow Gharana, thought by some to be the same person as Kesri Khan | Kippen p. 71 | |
| Salukshana Pandit | khayal | Kirana Gharana (?) | ||||
| Samar Kumar Chatterjee | estaj | |||||
| Samar Saha | tabla | Pandharinath Nageshkar | ||||
| Samay Cholkar | tabla | K.D. Cholkar(father), Nana Muley | ||||
| Sambhu Maharaj | kathak | Kalika Prasad(father), Bindadin Prasad(uncle)Achchan Maharaj), Rahimuddhin Khan(thumri) | Maya Rao, Vikram Singh | Lucknow Gharana, died 1970, youngest son, head of dance dept. of Bharatiya Kala Kendra | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Samir Chatterjee | tabla | Amlesh Chatterjee, Shyamal Bose | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Samman Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Delhi | Abdul Ghani Khan(father) Ghulam Hussain Khan(grandfather) Sajji Khan and Murad Khan(Hapur) | early 2Oth cent. Delhi Gharana | Neuman (1990) | |
| Sampat Lal | tabla | |||||
| Samta Prasad | tabla | Benares | Basha Mishra (father), Biku Mishra, Gudai Maharaj, | Purtha Sarathi Mukherjee | born 1920 in Benares, Benares Gharana, Padmashree | |
| Sandeep Mishra | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Sandhya Mukherjee, Geetashree | khayal | Jamini Ganguly, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Munawar Ali Khan | born 1932, Patiala Gharana " | |||
| Sandhya Rao | khayal | Firoz Dastur, Mohinf-derjit Singh | Kirana Gharana, studied at Bomabay Univ. Dept. of Music | |||
| Sandip Battacharya | pakhawaj | |||||
| Sandip Das | tabla | Kishen Maharaj | ||||
| Sangameshwar Gurav | khayal/ drupad | Ganapat Buva Gurav | (1913-), Kirana Gharana, drupad in Gaurhani-bani | |||
| Sangeeta Shankar | violin | Dr. N. Rajam(mother) | ||||
| Sangi Khan, Ustad | sarangi | 19th cent | ||||
| Sanitsa Poha | khayal | |||||
| Sanjay Bannerjee | sitar | |||||
| Sanjay Kumar | dhrupad | Abhay Narayan Mallick(father) | died 1976, Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | ||
| Sanjay Mukher jee | tabla | Jnan Prakesh Ghosh | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Sanjeev Ashyankar | khayal | |||||
| Sanjoy Chakravarty | harmonium | Ajit Chakravarty(father) | brother of Ajoy Chakravarty | |||
| Sankar Karmakar | tabla | Keramatullah Khan | Gouri Shankar Chaterjee (son) | |||
| Sant Sharan | khayal | Swami Pagal Das | ||||
| Santany Das | sitar | Calcutta | Bimal Ch. Das(father), Ali Akbar Khan | booklet acc. CD: C 560154 | ||
| Santosh Krishna Biswas, Pt. | tabla | Calcutta | Jyan Prakash Ghosh | Swapan Chaudhuri | Lucknow Gharana, Farukkabad Gharana | |
| Santosh Mishra | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Santosh Mishra | tabla | Madan Mishra(father) | ||||
| Sarasvati Devi | Mian Tan Sen (father) | married Raja Misar Singh Beenkar | ||||
| Sarasvati Rane | khayal | Abdul Karim Khan(father) Suresh Babu Mane(brother), B.R. Deodar, Nattunkhan | born 1918, Kirana Gharana | |||
| Sarathi Chatterjee | khayal | Mumbai | ||||
| Sardarbai Karadgekar | khayal | Kolhapur | Nivruttibuva Karadgekar | Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana, AIR Kolhapur, popular in the fiftees | ||
| Sarfaraz Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Rajendra Prasanna(flute) | Rampur, Sehaswan Gharana | |||
| Sarfraz Husain | sarangi | Bajju Khan (father) | Kothiwal Gharana | Kippen p.70 | ||
| Sarju Prasad Mishra, Pt. | thumri | Girja Devi | Benares Gharana | |||
| Sarla Bhide | Purabi Gayaki | Bombay | Narayanrao Datar, Manik Varma, Shoba Gurtu | |||
| Saroj Modok | tabla | |||||
| Saroush Chaterjee | tabla | |||||
| Sarvat Ali Khan Beenkar | bin | |||||
| Sarwar Hussain | sarangi | Bhopal | ||||
| Sarwar Sabri | tabla | |||||
| Satamkar, Pt. | harmonium | Shantaram Jadhav | ||||
| Satinath Mukherjee | khayal | Bengal | ||||
| Satish Chakravarty | kirtan | Khrishna Chandra Dey / K.C. Dey | ||||
| Satish Paradkar | harmonium | |||||
| Satish Shirali | tabla | |||||
| Satya Bhargava | dhrupad | New Delhi | ||||
| Satya Dev Pawar | violin | |||||
| Satya Narayan | tabla | Hanumantram(sarangi)(father) | Sunder Lal(son), Hazari Lal(brother | late Jaipur Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Satyajit Talwalkar | tabla | Suresh Talwalkar(father) | ||||
| Saurnik Bhaduri | tabla | |||||
| Savita Devi | thumri | |||||
| Sawai Ghandarva(Rambhau Kundgolkar), Pt. | khayal/ stage | Kundgol(birth) | Abdul Karim Khan | Basavaraj Rajaguru, Bhimsen Joshi, Gangubai Hangal, Firoz Dastur, Indirabai Khadilkar | (1886-1952), Kirana Gharana | |
| Sawari Begum | dadra | |||||
| Sayeed M.Alvi | sitar | |||||
| Sayeed Zafar | sitar | |||||
| Sayeeduddhin Dagar | dhrupad | born in Poona | Hussainuddhib Dagar(father) | Nasisuddhin, Asisuddhin Dagar(sons) | Dagarbani | |
| Seema Shirodkar | harmonium | |||||
| Sephali Ghosh | ragprodhan/ bhajan | |||||
| Shabir Hassan | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Shabir Hussain Khan | sarangi | Calcutta | ||||
| Shadi Khan, Ustad | khayal | Hapue Gharana | ||||
| Shafaat Ahmed Khan | tabla | Chamma Khan | born 1954 | |||
| Shafatullah Khan | tabla | son of Imrat Khan | ||||
| Shafiq Khan | sitar | Dharwar | Rahimat Khan(grandfather) Karim Khan(father) | |||
| Shafqat Ali Khan | khayal | |||||
| Shah Govenjan | musicologist | Rajastan | Brij Bushan Kabra(son) | late | ||
| Shahid Pervez | sitar | Puna | ||||
| Shahida Parveen | bhajan | |||||
| Shailen | sitar | |||||
| Shailesh Srivastav | khayal / folk | New Delhi | ||||
| Shakarlal, Pt. | khayal | Shaktilal(father) | Mani Prasad(nephew) | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Shakeel Ahmed Khan | tabla | Ajrapa Gharana | ||||
| Shakkar Khan | khayal | Gwalior Gharana, 1st half 19th cent. | Wade(p.37) | |||
| Shaktilal, Pt. | khayal | Sukhdev Prasad, Shakarlal, Gopal Prasad(sons), Mani Prasad(grandson) | Kirana Gharana | |||
| Shakuntalabai Kurlekar | khayal | Vipulkumar Kurlekar(son) | wife of Anantrao Kurlekar | |||
| Shakur Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Kirana Gharana, Sangeet Natak award(1st sarangiya) | ||||
| Shaligram Gokhale | khayal | |||||
| Shalil Shankar | sitar | Ravi Shankar | ||||
| Sham Sukhar Karimar | bhajan | |||||
| Shamba Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Shamim Ahmad | sitar | Ravi Shankar, Ghulam Rasool Khan | born 1938 | |||
| Shamir Khan, Ustad | sarangi, bin | Indore | Chajju Khan of Gwalior | Amir Khan(son) | late. Khandameru (Meerkhan) tradition, friend of Rajab Ali Khan | |
| Shamlal | kathak | Bikaner State | Kalka-Bindadin | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Shammu Khan | thumri, tappa | Benares | Rasolan Bai | late | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Shamshad Ali | sitar | M. Janardan | ||||
| Shamshad Hussain Khan | harmonium | |||||
| Shamsuddhin Khan, Ustad | tabla | early 20th cent. Played with Abdul Karim Khan | ||||
| Shanav Karana | shuba sangeet | |||||
| Shankar Chaterjee | tabla | Gouri Shankar Chaterjee | ||||
| Shankar Ghosh | tabla | Jyan Prakash Ghosh | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Shankar Lal Barot | sarangi | Indore | ||||
| Shankar Rao Sarnaïk, Pt. | khayal | Rajabali Khan | ||||
| Shankar Shripad Bodas, Pt. | khayal | Kanpur | V.D. Paluskar | Kashinath Bodas(son), Veena Sahasrabudhe(daughter) | brother of Laxmanrao Bodas | |
| Shankarrao Athavale | khayal | V.G. Jog | late | |||
| Shiv Sankar Karmakar, Pt. | tabla | Calcutta | Gouri Sankar (son) | |||
| Shankarrao Kekawar | shenai | |||||
| Shankarrao Sapre | khayal | Nagpur | Vasantrao Deshpande | late | ||
| Shanmukh Gojnur | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | |||
| Shanno Khuranna | ||||||
| Shannu Khuranna | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Shanta Hemmady | khayal | D.V. Paluskar, Vinaychandra Maudgalya | Hemant Hemmady(son) | studied at Ghandarva Mahavidyalaya(Delhi) | ||
| Shanta Prasad | tabla | Vacha Mishra | born 1920, Purab Gharana | |||
| Shantaram Bhauro Jadkav | harmonium | Satamkar(Pt.), Shreedhar Parsekar(violin)(Pt), Sharadchandra Arolkar | ||||
| Shanti Hira Nand | thumri | New Delhi | ||||
| Shanti Sharma | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Sharachandra Arolkar | khayal | |||||
| Sharad B. Khaladkar | sambal | |||||
| Sharad Jambhekar | stage | |||||
| Sharad Kumar | shenai, flute | |||||
| Sharad Sathe | khayal | |||||
| Sharadchandra Arolkar(Pt.) | khayal | Eknath Pandit, Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, Krishnarao Muley | Shantaram Jadhav | Gwalior Gharana, born 1912 | ||
| Sharafat Hussain Khan | khayal | Liaqat Hussain Khan(father), Faiyaz Khan, Ata Hussain Khan | late, Agra, Atraudi (Sikar?) Gharanas | |||
| Sharafaz Hussain Khan | khayal | Nisar Hussain Khan(guru) | ||||
| Sharan Rani | sarod | Allaudhin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan | born 1929 | |||
| Sharda Dabhada | kathak | Birju Maharaj | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Sharda Sahai, Pt. | tabla | Benares | Bhagvati Sahai(father), Kanthe Maharaj | Kishore Kumar Mishra | born 1935 Benares Baj | |
| Sharif Ahmed Khan | tabla | |||||
| Sharif Hussain | sarod | Pakistan | Hamid Hussain | |||
| Sharif Khan Poonchhwala jr. | sitar | |||||
| Sharif Khan Poonchhwala, Ustad | sitar/vichitra vina/Raza been | Pakistan | Sharif Khan Poonchhwala (son) | President's Pride of Performanca medal in 1965 | ||
| Shashi Bellare | tabla | Kishen Maharaj | Benares Gharana | |||
| Shashikant Mulye | tabla | |||||
| Shashikant V. Chindarkar | santur | Guru Parashuram Haldipur | ||||
| Shaukat Hussain, Ustad | tabla | Pakistan | Kader Baksh | late, Punjab Gharana, gurubai of Allah Rakha | ||
| Sheikh Bahauddin | khayal/drupad/tarana | reputed singer of early 17th century | Wade p. 1 | |||
| Sheikh Dawood | tabla | Jehangir Khan(Indore), Mohammed Khan, Alladiya Khan (Hyderabad) | Benares, Farukkabad,Lucknow, Purab Gharana | |||
| Sheila Dhar | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Shekhar Borkar, Pt. | sarod | |||||
| Shende Khan | khayal | B.R. Deodar | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Sher Khan | tabla/sarangi | Ghulam Imam Khan | Ahmedjan Thirakhawa | Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Imdad Hussain, Murtaza Khan | Kippen p.70 | |
| Sheshank Katti | sitar | Baburao Kulkarni, Kamalakar Bhatawadekar | ||||
| Sheshgiri Hangal | tabla | brother of Gangubai Hangal | ||||
| Shialal Tiwari, Pt. | dhrupad | |||||
| Shib Shankar Ray | tabla | |||||
| Shibkumar Chatterjee | ragprodhan | |||||
| Shita Lal Jain | jaltarang | |||||
| Shitab Ali Khan | tabla | Bugara Khan (father) | Muhammad Khan, Nazar Ali Khan (sons) | Delhi Gharana mid 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | |
| Shiv Lal | kathak | Sujangarh | Bindadin Maharaj | Hazari Lal | late. Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Shiv Narayan | kathak | Sunder Lal | late Jaipur Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Shiv Sevak Mishra | sarangi | Delhi | ||||
| Shiva Jog | violin | Calcutta | V.G. Jog(father) | |||
| Shivanat Mishra | sitar | |||||
| Shivaram, Pt. | harmonium | |||||
| Shivkumar | flute | |||||
| Shivkumar Sharma, Pt. | santur | Jammu | Umadutt Sharma(fther) | born 1938 | ||
| Shivkumar Shukla | khayal | |||||
| Shoba Joshi | khayal | Dr. Prabha Atre, Agashe Buva, Yeshwantbuva Joshi, Manik Varma, Niwrutti uva Sarnaik | ||||
| Shoba Mukhtar | khayal | |||||
| Shobha Gurtu | thumri | Menakabai Shirodkar, Nathan Khan, Ghamman Khan | Sarla Bhide | mother of Trilok Gurtu (jazz percussion), Purbi Gayaki | ||
| Shobhana Narayan | kathak | Kudan Lal, Birju Maharaj | Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Shreedhar Parsekar, Pt. | violin | Shantaram Jadhav | ||||
| Shridar Padhye | tabla | |||||
| Shridar Padye | tabla | |||||
| Shridhar Padhye | tabla | |||||
| Shrikant Bakre | khayal | Calcutta | M.N. Barve, Amir Khan(indirectly) | |||
| Shrikant Deshpande | khayal | Bombay | Firoz Sastur | Kirana Gharana, grandson of Sawai Ghandarva | ||
| Shrimati Bosle | khayal | |||||
| Shrinandn Mehta | tabla | |||||
| Shripad Hegde | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | |||
| Shripati Padigar | khayal | Bhimsen Joshi | Jayateerth Mevundi | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Shruti Sadolikar Katkar | khayal | Mumbai | ||||
| Shuba Mukti | khayal | |||||
| Shubendra Rao | sitar | Ravi Shankar | ||||
| Shubha Mudgal | khayal | New Delhi | Ram Ashray Jha, Vinaya Chandra Maudgalya, Kumar Ghandarva, Jitendra Abhisheki, Naina Devi | |||
| Shubhada Paradkar | khayal | Bombay | R.D. Potdar, Madhusudan Joshi, Gajananrao Joshi, Babanrao Haldankar | born 1957 | ||
| Shujat Khan, Ustad | sitar | Vilayat Khan(father) | born 1960 | |||
| Shyam B. Yodh | sitar | |||||
| Shyam Gangoly | sarod | Kemamatullah Khan, Dhirendranath Bose | ||||
| Shyam Ganguli | sarod | |||||
| Shyam Kane | tabla | Zakir Hussain | Punjab Gharana | |||
| Shyam Lal | flute | Benares | ||||
| Shyam Lal | tabla | |||||
| Shyam Tiwari | khayal | |||||
| Shyama Charan Mishra | thumri | Benares | Sigayi Maharaj(son | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Shyamal Bose | tabla | Jyan Prakash Ghosh | Samir Chatterjee | Farukkabad Gharana | ||
| Shyamal Mitra | bhajan /modern | Bengal | ||||
| Shyamal Sinha | sarod | |||||
| Shyamala G. Bhave | bhajan | |||||
| Siddiqi Ahmed Khan | ||||||
| Sidhiswari Devi | khayal, thumri | Benares | Maina Devi(grandmother), Rajeshwari Devi, Mithai Lal, Moizuddhin Khan, Siyagi Mararaj(guru), Bade Ramdasji(guru), Inayat Khan, Rajab Ali Khan | M.R. Gautam, Savita Devi(daughter) | (1903 (1908?)-1977) taught at Bharatiya Kala Kendra (Delhi), Padmashree(1967) | |
| Sigayi Maharaj | thumri | Shyama Charan Mishra(father), Ram Charan Mishra(uncle) | Sidhiswari Devi | early 20th cent. | P. Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi, 1986 | |
| Sikandar Hussain | shenai | "shenai nawaz" | ||||
| Sikhawat Ali Khan | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Simou Mukherjee | sarod | AIR staff artist | ||||
| Sinda Rao | pakhawaj | |||||
| Sindram Jadhav | sundri | |||||
| Singh Bandhu | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Singh Matima Thakar | dhrupad | |||||
| Sinjit Singh | sarod | |||||
| Sisirkana Dhar Chaudhury | violoin | Calcutta | Ali Akbar Khan | Abir Singh | ||
| Sisirkana Dhar Choudhury | violin | |||||
| Sitara Devi | kathak | Sukhdev Maharaj, Achchan Maharaj, Shambhu Maharaj | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Sitaram Prasad | kathak | Raigarh, Nepal, Bombay | Bindadin Maharaj | Menaka, Zubeda, Manorama(film) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Sitaram, Pt. | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Siya Ram Tiwari, Pt. | dhrupad | Baldeo Tewari, Vishnudeo Pathak | born 1921, DarBhanga Gharana | |||
| Siyayi Maharaj | thumri | Benares | Badi Moti Bai | late | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Sohan Lal | kathak | Rohini Bhate | Jaipur Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Sohan Singh | khayal | |||||
| Sohanlal Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Sohonlal Sharma | tabla | |||||
| Soluchana Brahaspati | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Soluchana Kalekar Yajurvedi | khayal | |||||
| Somanath Mardur | khayal | Dharwad | Basavaraj Rajaguru | |||
| Srinivas Joshi | tabla | |||||
| Subhadra Chaudhury | khayal | Benares | Omkarnath Thakur, Pt. | |||
| Subhadra Desai | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Subhankar Banarjee | tabla | Swapan Shiv | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Subhash Nirwan | tabla | |||||
| Subhash Wange | ninadini guitar | |||||
| Subhen Chaterjee | tabla | |||||
| Subroto Roy Chaudhuri, Prof. | sitar | Calcutta | Nirmal Chakravarty, Suresh Chakravarty, Radhika Mohan Maitra, Birendra Kishore Roy | born 1943 | ||
| Sudanshu R. Kulkarni | harmonium | |||||
| Sudarshan Adhikari | tabla | |||||
| Sudarshan Adhikari | tabla | West Bengal | Wajed Khalifa | Lucknow Gharana | ||
| Sudarshanacharya | sitar | Benares | Ashiq Ali Khan(drupad) | early 20th cent. | ||
| Sudershan Kumar | kathak | Bombay | Hazari Lal | trained in Bharata Natyam and Manipuri | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Sudha Divekar | khayal | Bombay | Firoz Dastur | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Sudha Malhotra | bhajan | |||||
| Sudhakar Kelkar | jaltarang | |||||
| Sudhakar Ramnathkar | tabla | |||||
| Sudhakarbuwa Digrajkar | khayal | Vamanrao Padhye, Vishwanathbuwa, Nivrutibuwa Sarnaik | (1922-1999), Jaipur Gharana, teacher at Gandharva Sangeet Nahavidyalaya(Miraj), later at Shivaji Univ. | Hindustan Times 4-O5-99 | ||
| Sudhar Khan | tabla | Chote Khan, Hussain Khan | Delhi Gharana, early 19th cent. | Kippen p.68 | ||
| Sudhin Pathak, Pt. | sitar | Apooch Pathak(nephew) | early 20th cent. | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | ||
| Sudhir Kumar Saena | tabla | Divyang Vakil | Delhi Gharana | |||
| Sudhir Naringekar | tabla | family of Chandrashekar Naringekar | ||||
| Suhasini Koratkar | khayal | Bendibazar gharana | ||||
| Suhbash Kamant | tabla | |||||
| Sukhdev Maharaj | kathak | Sitara Devi(daughter) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Sukhdev Prasad, Pt. | khayal | Shaktilal(father) | Mani Prasad(son) | Kirana Gharana | ||
| Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari | tabla | Kishan Maharaj | Navinder Singh | Benares Gharana | ||
| Sulalit Sinha | surashringar | |||||
| Suleiman Khan | tabla | |||||
| Sulokhana Chavan | stage | |||||
| Sultan Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Bombay | Gulab Khan(father) | Indore Gharana | ||
| Suman Kalyanpur | bhajan/film | |||||
| Sumati Mutakar | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Sumita Mishra | kathak | Calcutta | Kajal Mishra(daughter) | married to Ram Gopal Mishra, taught at Bani Bidya Bithi(Calcutta) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Sumitra Guha | khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Sumitre Mitra | kathak | Calcutta | Ram Gopal Mishra | Lucknow/Jaipur Gharanas | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Sunanda Patnaik | Vinayakrao Patwardhan, Omkarnath Thakur | born 1934, Gwalior Gharana | ||||
| Sunayana | kathak | Hazari Lal(husband) | Benares Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Sunder Lal | kathak, tabla | Baroda | Satya Narayan(father), Shiv Narayan, Jagannath, Sunder Prasad, Hazari Lal, Gauri Shankar | late Jaipur Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Sunder Prasad | kathak | New Delhi | Chuni Lal(father), Jai Lal(elder brother), Durga Prasad(uncle), Bindadin Maharaj | Gauri Shankar, Maya Rao, Rani Karna | died 1970, Jaipur/Lucknow Gharana, Padmashri | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 |
| Sunil B. Khaladkar | tabla | |||||
| Sunil Chakravarty | tabla | |||||
| Sunil Gangoly | electric guitar | |||||
| Sunil Kant Gupta | flute | New Delhi | ||||
| Sunil Kaushik | guitar | |||||
| Sunil Mukherjee | sarod | New Delhi | ||||
| Sunita Devi | khayal | |||||
| Supreet Deshpande | tabla | Kiran Deshpande, Suresh Talwalkar | ||||
| Suraiya Multanikar | bhajan | Pakistan | ||||
| Suraiya Rahman | dadra | |||||
| Suraj Narayan Purohit | flute | |||||
| Suraj Prasad | kathak | Narayan Prasad(father) | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |||
| Surat Sen | Mian Tan Sen (father) | founder of Jaipur Sitar Gharana) | ||||
| Surendra Kamat | flute | Kanara | born 1939 | |||
| Suresh Babu Mane | khayal | Bombay | Abdul Karim Khan (father) | Basavaraj Rajaguru, Hirabai Barodekar (sister), Manik Varma, Prabha Atre, Sarasvati Rane(sister), Vasantrao Deshpande, | Kirana Gharana, late | |
| Suresh Chakravorty | sitar | Calcutta | Subroto Roy Chaudhuri | |||
| Suresh Haldankar, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Prabhakar Karekar | Famous on Marathi stage | ||
| Suresh Talwalkar | tabla | Pandrinath Nageshkar | Supreet Deshpande, Vijay Ghate | |||
| Suresh Wadkar | bhajan | |||||
| Surinder Singh | khayal | Amir Khan, G.S. Sardar | Indore Gharana, jugalbandi with brother Tejpal: Singh Bandu | |||
| Suryakant B. Khaladkar | sundari | |||||
| Sushila Pohankar, Dr. | khayal | Jabalpur | Ajay Pohankar(son) | wife of Janardan Pohankar | ||
| Swami Pagal Das | pakhawaj | Ayodhya | Bhagwan Das Mridangacharya, Thakur Das, Ramamohini Saran, Sant Sharan, Naijral Sinha | |||
| Swapan Chaudhuri | tabla | Santosh Krishna Biswas | Shuben Chaterjee | Lucknow Gharana | ||
| Swapan Shiv | tabla | Kermatullah Khan | Rimpa Shiv | Farukkabad Gharana | ||
| T.N.Barwi | khayal | |||||
| T.S. Ratnakar Bhat, Pt. | violin | Omkar Gulwani(nephew) | late | |||
| Taj Mohammed Tajal | banju | Pakistan | ||||
| Talat Mahmppd | ghazal/film | Lucknow(born) | born 1924 | |||
| Talib Hussain Pakawaji, Ustad | pakhawayj/tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Tamas Ahar | tabla | |||||
| Tan Taranga | vocal | Mian Tan Sen (father) | ||||
| Tanikuram Varma | khayal | |||||
| Tanmoy Bose | tabla | Shankar Ghosh | Farukkabad Gharana | |||
| Tansen Pandey | khayal | Munawar Ali Khan | late, Patiala Gharana | |||
| Tapan Bhattacharyya | khayal | Illinois USA | ||||
| Tarak Chand Boral | pakhawaj | |||||
| Taranath | tabla | Maruti Kurdekar | ||||
| Taranath Rao, Pt. | tabla, pakhawaj | Shankar Ghosh | Omkar Gulwani | Farukkabad Gharana | ||
| Tarapata Chakrabarty | khayal | Jnanendra Prasad Goswami, Ramchandra Nayaratna | (1909-1975) Rampur, Rangeele, Kirana Gharanas | |||
| Tarkeshwar Mishra | sarangi | |||||
| Tarnath Ramrao | pakhawaj | |||||
| Tarun Battacharya | santur | |||||
| Tasaduq Hussain Khan | khayal | Dipali Nag | 1st half 20th cent. | |||
| Tay Ahmed | harmonium | |||||
| Tejendra Narayan Majumdar | sarod | Calcutta | Bibhuti Ranjan Majumdar(grandfather), Ranjan Majumdar(father), Bahadur Khan, Ajoy Sinha Roy | born 1961 | ||
| Tejpal Singh | khayal | Amir Khan, G.S. Sardar | Indore Gharana, jugalbandi with brother: Surinder Singh Bandhu | |||
| Tey Bhan | sitar | Kanwar Sain Trikha | ||||
| Thakur Jaidev Singh | musicologist | 1st half 20th cent. | ||||
| Thakur Prasad | kathak | Bindadin Prasad(nephew) | brother of Durga Prasad, 19th cent. Lucknow Gharana | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Timir Baran | conductor | Allaudhin Khan | ||||
| Tirath Ajmani | kathak | Birju Maharaj, Shanti Bardhan | on staff of Kathak Kendra | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||
| Trimbak Jodhav | tabla | |||||
| Triveni Prasad, Pt. | violin | |||||
| Tulsi Narayan | tabla | |||||
| Tulsidas Borkar, Pt. | harmonium | P. Madhukar | ||||
| Tushar Kanti Bose | tabla | Calcutta | Abhijit Banerjee | |||
| U. Shankar | tabla | |||||
| Ubha Yankar | khayal | |||||
| Udai Khan, Ustad | sarangi | Haider Khan(father) | Abdul Latif Khan(nephew) | late, Brother of Chhote Khan | ||
| Uday Bhawalkar | dhrupad | Bombay | Zia Fariuddhin Dagar, Zia Mohiuddhin Dagar | born 1966, teacher at Dhrupad Gurukul(Bombay), Dagarbani | ||
| Uday Mazumdar | tabla | |||||
| Udaykumar Mallick | pakhawaj | Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | |||
| Udayraj Godbole | stage | |||||
| Ulambas Khan | tabla | |||||
| Ulhas Bapat, Pt. | santur | Ramakant Maapsekar(tabla), Zarin Daruwala, K.G. Ginde, Wamanrao Sadolikar | ||||
| Ulhas Kashalkar | tarana | |||||
| Uma Bose of Hashi, Late | bhajan | Bengal | Dilip Kumar Roy, Vishmadev Chatterjee | Late, called also the "Nightingale of Bengal" | ||
| Umadutt Sharma | Jammu | Bade Ramdas | Shivkumar Sharma(son) | |||
| Umakant Gundecha | dhrupad | |||||
| Umar Shankar Mishra | sitar | New Delhi | ||||
| Ummeed Ali Khan | sitar | |||||
| Ummeed Ali Khan, Ustad | khayal | Boorey Khan(great grandfather), Meeran Bux(grandfather), Banney Khan(great uncle),Piarey Khan(father), Jamal Khan(uncle), Saindhey Khan(uncle), | became deaf later in life | LKDR 12 | ||
| Umrao Bundu Khan | sarangi khayal | Bundu Khan(father), Chand Khan, Mamman Khan | late | |||
| Uptal | flute | |||||
| Usha Mangeshkar | bhajan | younger sister of Lata | ||||
| Usman Khan, Ustad | sitar | Pune | Rahimat Khan(grandfather), A. Karim Khan(father) | born 1940 | ||
| Utpala Sen | bhajan | |||||
| Uttam Singh | khayal | Dilip Chandra Vedi | early 20th cent. | |||
| V. Balsara | piano | |||||
| V.G. Gate | tabla | |||||
| V.G.Jog, Pt./Prof. | violin | Calcutta | Ganpatrao Purohit, S.N. Ratanjhankar, Shankarrao Athavale, | Zarin Daruwala | born 1922, student at Bhatkhande Univ. of Music in Lucknow, Sangeet Natak Acad. Award 1980 | |
| V.R. Patwardhan | tabla | |||||
| V.T. Swami | sarangi | |||||
| Vajahat Khan | sarod | Imrat Khan(father) | ||||
| Vamanrao Padhye | khayal | Sudhakarbuwa Digrajkar | late, Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Vamanrao Sadolikar | khayal | Ram Marathe | Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana | |||
| Vani Jairam | bhajan | |||||
| Vasant Acharekar | tabla | |||||
| Vasant Deshpande | tabla | |||||
| Vasant Kanakapur | harmonium | Dharwad | R.G. Desai, Gopalrao Desai of Hubli | staff of AIR Dharwad | ||
| Vasant of Surat, Master | ||||||
| Vasant Rai | sarod | Govindji Brahmbhatt (father), Kantilal(brother), Allaudhin Khan | born 1938 | |||
| Vasant Thakur | khayal | Omkarnath Thakur | Veena Sahasrabuddhe | Gwalior Gharana | ||
| Vasantrao Acharekar | tabla | |||||
| Vasantrao Deshpande | khayal | Shankarrao Sapre of Nagpur, Suresh Babu Mane, Amanali Khan | (1920-1998) | obituary in Shruti mag. March '98 | ||
| Vasantrao Kulkarni | khayal | Dadar | Anant Manohar Joshi, Jagannath Purohit, Khadim Hussain Khan | (1918-1998), taught at Guru Samartha Gayan Vidyalaya (Dadar) | ||
| Vasha Mishra, Pt. | tabla | Shanta Prasad | late, Purab Gharana | |||
| Vasundhara Komkali | khayal | Kumar Ghandarva(guru) | ||||
| Veena Sahasrabuddhe | khayal | Shankar Shripad Bodas(father), Kashinath Shankar Bodas(brother), Balwantrai Bhatt, Vasant Thakar, Gunananbua Joshi | Gwalior Gharana, learnt Kathak | |||
| Veni Madhav Lande(Bhaiyaji) | dhrupad/pakhawaj | Benares | style of Peshwa court musicians | first half 2Oth cent. "ocean of dhrupad", style did not survive | Musical setting in Benares p. 21 | |
| Venkatagiriappa | bin | Mysore | first half 20th cent. | |||
| Vibhav Nageshkar | tabla | Bombay | Pandhrinath Nageshkar(father) | born 1955 | ||
| Vidur Mallick | dhrupad | Darbhanga Gharana | text in MC 17 | |||
| Vidya Bhagwat | khayal | Kishori Amonkar(guru) | ||||
| Vidya Parab Sawant | tabla/pakhawaj | Alban Mistry | fem. | |||
| Vidya Rao | thumri | New Delhi | Hindustan Times 26-02-00 | |||
| Vidyadari Bai | Patna/Azimabad | Nazir Khan, Bashir Khan | ||||
| Vidyadhar Vyas, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Narayanrao Vyas(father) | Head of music dept. Bombay Univ. | ||
| Vidyadhari Devi | kathak | Benares(born) | Ram Sumer, Ram Sewak, Nazir Khan(dharbhanga), Dargahi Maharaj(Benares) | (1886-1971), called herself Ghandharva Gayika | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Vidyadhri Bai | thumri | late 19th cent. | ||||
| Vighneshwar Dattar, Pt. | violin | Bombay | D.T. Datar | taught at Prof. Deodar's School of Indian Music | ||
| Vijay Ghate | tabla | Kiran Deshpande, Suresh Talwalkar | ||||
| Vijay Jayant | tabla | |||||
| Vijay Kichlu | Agra Gharana | |||||
| Vijay Raghav Rao | flute | Chokkalingam Pillai(bharata nadyam), Ravi Shankar | born 1925 | |||
| Vijaya Jadhav Gatkewar | khayal | Dinkarrao Jadhav(father), Nivruttibuva Sarnaik | Jaipur Gharana, student at Sangeet Research Academy | |||
| Vikram Singh | kathak | Lucknow | Achchan Maharaj, Luchchu Maharaj, Shambhu Maharaj | born in Sri Lanka 1927, teaches at Bhatkhande Sangeet Mahavidyalaya | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | |
| Vilayat Ali Khan | khayal | Pakistan | ||||
| Vilayat Ali Khan, Haji | tabla | family of Bakshu Khan | mid 19th cent. founder of Farukkhabad Gharana | |||
| Vilayat Ali Khan, Haji | tabla | Lucknow | Bakshu Khan, Mammu Khan | late 18th cent. Founder of Farukkhabad Gharana | Kippen p. 71 | |
| Vilayat Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Nathan Khan(father) | Dipali Nag, Gajananrao Joshi, Jagannathbuva Purohit, Latafat Hussain Khan, Ram Marathe, Yunus Hussain Khan(son), | (1896-1962), Agra Gharana, | ||
| Vilayat Khan, Ustad | sitar | Dehra Dun | Enayat Khan(father) | Arvind Parikh, Imrat Khan (brother), Kalyani Roy, Shujaat Khan(son) | born 1924, created gayaki-ang on sitar | |
| Vilayat Miyan | shenai | Benares | attached to Lakshman Bala temple of the Scindas at Bala Ghat | |||
| Vilayatullah Khan, Khansaheb | khayal | Ramdas Gharana | ||||
| Vinay Bharat Ram | bin / khayal | New Delhi | ||||
| Vinay Kichlu | khayal | Calcutta | ||||
| Vinay Pathak | harmonium | Calcutta | Ballaram Pathak(father) | born 1956 | text by Patrick Moutal in Oc. 558 672 73 | |
| Vinayak Igle | tabla | |||||
| Vinayak Pathak | tabla | |||||
| Vinayak Rao Patwardhan, Pt. | khayal | Keshava Bua Patwardhan(uncle), Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Ram Krishna Vazabua, Balkrishna Ichalkaranjikar | D.V. Paluskar, Sunanda Patnaik | Gwalior Gharana, (1898-1975), born in Miraj, Padmabushan (1972) | ECLP 2766 | |
| Vinayak Torvi | abhang | Bangalore | ||||
| Vinayak Vora, Pt. | tarshenai, dilruba | Bombay | Archaya Nanalal Vora(father), Yashwantraj Purohit | born 1929, staff of AIR Bombay | ||
| Vinayakrao Kandikar | tabla | |||||
| Vinaychandra Maudgalya | khayal | Shanta Hemmady | Gwalior Gharana, teaches at Ghandarva Mahavidyalaya (Delhi) | |||
| Vinaychandra Moudgalya | khayal | Delhi | Madhup Mudgal(son) | founder and principal of Gandharva Mahavidyalaya | ||
| Vinid Vyas | tabla | |||||
| Vinod Kumar Mishra | sarangi | |||||
| Vinod Pathak | tabla | born 1954 | ||||
| Vipulkumar Kurlekar | tabla | Anantrao Kurlekar(father), Shakuntalabai Kurlekar(mother), Vinayakrao Ingle | born 1953 | |||
| Viram Jasani | sitar | Kenya | born 1945 | |||
| Virendrakumar Mathur | sarod | |||||
| Vishnadev Chatterjee | khayal/bhajan | West Bengal | Nagendra Nath Datta, Badal Khan, Faiyaz Khan | Juthika Roy, Uma Bose of Hashi | made first recordings at the age of 15 (around 1934) | |
| Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Pt. | khayal | B.R. Deodar, D.V. Paluskar(son), Omkarnath Thakur | ||||
| Vishnu Prasanad | shenai | |||||
| Vishnu Prasanna | flute | Benares | ||||
| Vishnudeo Pathak | drupad | Siyaram Tiwari | Darbhanga Gharana | |||
| Vishwanath Bagul | stage | |||||
| Vishwanath Chaterjee (Pt) | sitar | Calcutta | Anindo Chaterjee (nephew) | |||
| Vishwanath Mishra | tabla | |||||
| Vishwanath Shrikhande | khayal/bhajan | |||||
| Vishwanathbuwa | khayal | Sudhakarbuwa Digrajkar | late, Jaipur Gharana | |||
| Vishwawant Shirodkar | tabla | |||||
| Visnupant Pagnis | bhajan | |||||
| Vistasp Balsara | piano | Buchumia | born 1922 | |||
| Viswa Mohan Bhatt | guitar | Jaipur | ||||
| Viswanath Kanhere | harmonium | |||||
| Vithaldas Gujrati | pakhawaj | |||||
| Waheed Khan, Ustad | khayal | Lahore | Begum Akhtar, Chatur Lal, Hirabai Barodekar, Ram Narayan, | 1st half 2Oth cent. | ||
| Wahid Khan | sarangi | Jhansi | ||||
| Wajid Ali Khan | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Wajid Ali Khan | tabla | |||||
| Wajid Ali Shah, Ustad | thumri | Lucknow | late 19th cent. "Akhtarpriya",Nawab of Oudh, patron of thumri-singing at his court | |||
| Wajid Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Nadir Husain (father) | Afaq Husain (son), Beeru Mishra(Benares Gharana) | Khalifa of Lucknow Gharana, (1900-1978), brother of Raza Khan, Sajjad Khan, married daughter of Abid Husain (uncle) | Kippen p. 72 |
| Wajid Hussain | tabla | Pakistan | ||||
| Walmik Dhande | tabla | |||||
| Walmin Dhande | tabla | |||||
| Wamanrao Sadolikar, Pt. | khayal | Ulhas Bapat(santur) | ||||
| Waris Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Inayat Khan | Ghulam Mustafa Khan | late. Sahaswan-Rampur Gharana | ||
| Wasifuddhin Dagar | dhrupad | New Delhi | Faiyzazuddhin Dagar(father) | Dagarbani | ||
| Wasudev Prasad | thumri | Benares | Nirmala Devi (daughter) | 1st half 20th cent. | ||
| Wazir Ali | shenai | Ali Jan Khan, Nazir Hussain, Imdad Hussain(sons), Ali Ahmed Hussain(grandson) | ||||
| Wazir Khan, Ustad /Chhatrapal Singh | bin sarod | Rampur | Allaudhin Khan, Hafiz Ali Khan | Jaipur Seni Gharana of Beenkars 19th century | ||
| Wazir Mirza Wala | thumri | Lucknow | "Qadarpriya", 19th cent. | |||
| Yashpaul | khayal | Agra Gharana | ||||
| Yashwant Joshi | khayal | Mirashibuva | Gwalior Gharana | |||
| Yashwant Kerkar | tabla | |||||
| Yashwant Kerkar | tabla | |||||
| Yasin Khan | sarangi | Sehore Indore | Rajabali Khan | late | ||
| Yasin Khan | sitar | Pakistan | ||||
| Yawar Ali Wajid Ali | matki | Pakistan | ||||
| Yeshwantbuva Joshi | khayal | Shobha Joshi, Millind Chittal | ||||
| Yeshwantbuva Mirashi, Pt. | khayal | Balkrishna Ichalkaranjikar(guru) | C.R. VYas | |||
| Yeshwantray Purohit, Pt. | khayal | Bombay | Omkarnath Thakur | Vinayak Vora | late, Kirana Gharana | |
| Yogendra Chatterjee | kathak | P.Banerjee, Dance in Thumri, Delhi 1986 | ||||
| Yogesh Kaikini Samsi | tabla | |||||
| Yogesh Saousi | tabla | |||||
| Yunus Hussain Khan, Ustad | khayal | Vilayat Ali Khan(father), Faiyaz Khan | late (1927-), Agra Gharana | |||
| Zafar Hussain Khan | sarangi | |||||
| Zahid Hussain | sarangi | Pakistan | Abid Hussain(father), Haider Bukhsh of Ramour, Hamid Hussain(brother) | Rampur Gharana | ||
| Zahid Khan | tabla | Founder of Kothiwal Gharana, late, brother of Modhu Khan, came to Lucknow during reign of Nawab Nasiruddhin Haider (1827-1837) | Kippen p.70 | |||
| Zahoor Khan | violin | Delhi | Chand Khan(uncle, father-in-law) | |||
| Zahoori Khan | sarangi | Pakistan | ||||
| Zakan Khan | sarangi | Benares | ||||
| Zakir Husain | tabla | Lucknow | Najju Khan (father) | Lucknow Gharana, late | Kippen p. 72 | |
| Zakir Husain (Zakkan Khan) | tabla/sarangi | Nisar Haider (father) | Mumtaz Husain (son) | Kothiwal Gharana, early 20th cent. | Kippen p.70 | |
| Zakir Hussain | sarangi | |||||
| Zakir Hussain, Ustad | tabla | Bombay | Allah Rakha(father) | Anuradha Pal, Shyam Kane | born 1951, Punjab Gharana | |
| Zakiruddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | Udaipur | Mohammed Jan Khan(father) | Rahimuddhin Dagar(nephew), Ziauddhin Dagar(son) | (1840-1923), Dagarbani | |
| Zamir Ahmed Khan | tabla | Amsterdam | Faiyaz Khan(uncle), Keramatullah Khan(guru) | son of Munir Khan(sarangi) | ||
| Zarine Daruwala | sarod | Haripada Ghosh, Bhishmadev Vedi, Laxmanprasad Jaipurwala, S.C.R. Batt, S.N. Ratanjankar | Ramakant Maapsekar | born 1946, | ||
| Zariuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | born Delhi | jugalbandi with Faizaruddhin Dagar (brother) known as younger Dagar bros, Dagarbani | |||
| Zeeshan Mehdi | flute | Pakistan | ||||
| Zia Fariuddhin Dagar, Ustad | dhrupad | born in Bombay | Uday Bhawalkar | born 1933, Dagarbani | ||
| Zia Mohiuddhin Dagar, Ustad | rudravina | Bombay | Ziauddhin Dagar(father) | Chandrashekar Naringekar, K. Shridar, Uday Bhawalkar, | (1929-1990), Dagarbani | |
| Ziauddhin Dagar | dhrupad | Udaipur | Rahimuddin Dagar, Zia Mohiuddhin Dagar(son) | (1886-1946), Dagarbani | ||
| Zohra Bai | khayal | Agrewali, Patna/Azimabad | Late 19th cent, early 2Oth |