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The various Gharanas of Hindustani classical music were outcomes of patronage by regional princely courts, rather than central imperial ones. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

A gharana is a hereditary, discipleship-based stylistic lineage in Hindustani classical music, named after the place where it took shape and transmitted through the guru-shishya parampara across generations of a specific school of voice production, ornamentation, and repertoire.

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  • Imperial Mughal Patronage as the Foundational Layer
  • The Institutional Logic of the Gharana Itself
  • Regional Princely Courts as the Primary Incubators
  • Weighing the Verdict

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