Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c3.5

c3.5

The most notable effort in the study of the theory and practice of music as a Shastra was that made by the late Pandit Bhatkhande. In fact, it would be no exaggeration to say that the present-day renaissance of Hindusthani music owes much to the research that he carried out in unearthing old Shastric manuscripts, in gathering together with great labour and ingenuity old genuine compositions of great masters and in analysing and rationalising all the material that he had gathered into a coherent theoretical structure of Hindustani music. It is a pity that the monumantal work done by Bhatkhande could not be continued, because no such genius as he took up his mantle. But it is essential that scholars who have the right approach, should try to further the cause that he began so well.