Pandit bhatkhande biography

Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (August 10, – September 19, ) was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music (The north Indian variety of Indian classical music), an art which had been propagated earlier for a few centuries mostly through oral traditions. During those earlier times, the art had undergone several changes, rendering the ragagrammar documented in scant old texts outdated.^[1]

Ragas used to be classified into Raga (male), Ragini (female), and Putra (children). Bhatkhande reclassified them into the currently used Thaat system. He noted that several ragas did not conform to their description in ancient Sanskrit texts. He explained the ragas in an easy-to-understand language and composed several bandishes which explained the grammar of the ragas. He borrowed the idea of lakshan geet from the Carnatic music scholar Venkatamakhin.

Early life[edit]

Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was born in in Wa

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Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande

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PanditVishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (10 August – 19 September ) was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani classical music, an art which had been propagated for centuries mostly through oral traditions. During those earlier times, the art had undergone several changes, rendering the ragagrammar documented in scant old outdated texts.^[2]

Ragas used to be classified into Raga (male), Ragini (female), and Putra (children). Bhatkhande reclassified them into the currently used thaat system. He noted that several ragas did not conform to their description in ancient Sanskrit texts. He explained the ragas in an easy-to-understand language and composed several bandishes which explained the grammar of the ragas.

Early life

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Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was born on 10 August in Walkeshwar, Bombay. While not

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I am excerpting this post from my personal blog. This semester,in my &#;Evolution of Music in South Asia&#; course, I gave lectures on Chapter 3 of Professor Janaki Bahkle&#;s book Two Men and Music: Nationalism and the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition&#;  focusing on Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande.

In her book Two Men and Music: Nationalism and the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition(Oxford University Press ), Professor Janaki Bakhle extensively discusses Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (), a musicologist largely responsible for the standardization of Hindustani Classical Music. Bakhle describes Pandit Bhatkhande as “one of Indian music’s most contentious, arrogant, polemical, contradictory, troubled and troubling characters. It may be better to view him not as a charlatan or a savior, but as a tragic figure, one who was his own worst enemy. All through his writings, there fryst vatten ample evidence of elitism, prejudice, and borderline misogyny” (99).  She goes on to note the irony