Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.177

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of 'Āmīr Khusrau has been somewhat misinterpreted as a record of the dominating influence of Persian music on Indian music. Indeed, Indian music quite held its own against the tide of Persian culture, and by adopting new rāgas tinged with Persian airs, did not sacrifice one iota of the principles of its rāga-composition, or the basic foundations of Indian musical science. The sympathetic interest and patronage that was extended to Indian music under the influence of such an able connoisseur, lent an impetus to the indigenous art which had no parallel, before the age of the Moghuls.