I earned a PhD!
My doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘The Alterity of Kumar Gandharva: Exploring Otherness in the Hindustani Khayal’, is a study of the music of Pt. Kumar Gandharva, one of the most important figures of Hindustani music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It involves constructing a rigorous account of the alterity of his music in the context of the recent history of the Khayal genre, and is a critical examination of how the Hindustani tradition and some of its important protagonists attempted to reconcile colonial, modernist, and reformist forces with pre-colonial musical practice, pedagogy and performance.
The entire dissertation can be accessed on Shodhganga, or dowloaded below:
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