Indian Music and Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan

Contents: Introduction. Section. A. 1. Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan-A Biography (Sitar Sudhakar) 2. Ustad\'s Hand Written Notes. 3. Mushtaq, My friend/Dhruv Tara Joshi. 4. A Great Maestro/Jnan Prakash Ghosh. 5. In Memory of Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan. 6. My Dada Guru Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan : A Reminiscenece/Indrani Chakravarti. 7. Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan : The Most Honest Performer/Pt. Bhim Sen Joshi. 8. Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan : A Pure Traditionalist/Pt. Kishan Maharaj. 9. Sitar Sudhakar Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Kaviraj Ashutosh Bhattacharya. 10. The Sur-Saint (Sadhak)/Singh Bandhu. 11. My Master Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Nirmal Guha Thakurta. 12. My Guru My God/Bharti Bose. 13. A True Artiste and a great human being/Ravi Shankar. 14. A Dedicated Master/Bimala Prasad Chatterjee. 15. Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan : An exceptional musician/Ali Akbar Khan. 16. Aftab-e-Mousiqi/Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan/Shamta Prasad. 17. Unforgetable Impression of Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Pandit Jasraj. 18. A Great Maestro/Ustad Abdul Halim Jafar Khan. 19. A Great Sitar Player/Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. 20. Sitar Maestro Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan : A Man and an Artiste/Hirendra Kumar Ganguly. 21. Sitar Maestro Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Krishna Kumar Ganguly. 22. A Simple and an elegant Artiste/Sunil Bose. 23. An Artiste in Pursuit of excellence/R. C. Mehta. 24. Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan : Reminiscences and tributes/Bimal Mukharjee. 25. Remembering Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Sumati Mutatkar. 26. Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan : A great traditionalist/Buddhadev Dasgupta. 27. A Unique Personality/Naina Devi. 28. In memorable moments with Mushtaq All Khan Saheb/Vinay Kumar Aggarwal. 29. My Guruji Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Steve Landsberg. 30 Dada Guru Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan/Anupam Mahajan. 31. Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan-A True Senia/Asad Ali Khan. 32. Our Ustadji/Shobana Mitra. 33. Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan-A True Dhrupadiya/R. Fahimuddin Khan Dagar. 34. My Tribute to a Maestro/Nasir Zahiruddin Khan Dagar. 35. Ustadji as I saw him/Santiram Chatterjee. Section. B. 1. The Indian Arts : Background and principles/Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan. 2. Aesthetical matrics of Indian musicology/Dr. (Mrs.) Sumati Mutatkar. 3. Hindustani Classical Muaic of Modern India/Prof. R.C. Mehta. 4. The Evaluation of Khyala/Thakur Jaidev Singh. 5. Thumri and its variants/Prof. D. T. Joshi. 6. The treatment of Cardophones in abhivabharti/Dr. Indrani Chakarvorty. 7. Indian Music during Mughal period/Dr. A. K. Sen. 8. Indian Organology/Dr. B.C. Deva. 9. Senia Gharana and Sangit Acharya Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan/Prof. Debu Chaudhuri. 10. Compositions of Ustadji : Its Technical and Musical Aspect/Dr. (Mrs.) Anupam Mahajan. 11. The United Role of Indian Music/Sh. T.S. Parathasarthy. Section. C. 1. My Guru My God as I Knew Him/Pandit Debu Chaudhuri. 2. Compositions by Khan Sahab. Index.

India, the land of Vedas, has the oldest cultural heritage. It has produced many great scholars, musicians, scientists and sages. Many of our great masters have been buried in oblivion and their valuable contributions are not available anymore. It is with his view; this commemorative volume is a planned, in order to keep the memory of “Sitar-Sudhakar Acharya Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan alive.

A true representative of the SENIA tradition, Khan Saheb dedicated his whole life for maintenance of the purity and tradition of our music and never compromised his ideals for mere public appreciation. As a result he was not given his due either by the Government or by public.

This volume has three sections: first consisting of the reminiscences and tributes paid by late Khan Saheb\'s friends, admires and followers; the second section consisting of invaluable articles on various aspects of Indian music by internationally famed scholars; and the third section on Khan Sahab by the author and some of Khan Sahab\'scompositions.

This volume is a testimony of Ustad Mushtaq Ali KhanSahab\'s sature as Sadhak and a respected musician.