Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c2.1

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Though this volume *Historical Development of Indian Music* is not in itself a chronological history of Indian music, yet it contains a systematic historical account of some of the essential features of Indian music that enrich the pages of its history. By ‘development’, I mean ‘gradual evolution’ or ‘progress’ in the sense of ‘unfoldment’ or ‘coming into being’ that remains latent in the womb of Nature, and so the word ‘development’ or ‘evolution’ here connotes the idea of manifestation of the unmanifested things, through a gradual process.