Two Men and Music
Subtitle: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 17, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780195166118
Description: Janaki Bakhle shows how the emergence of an 'Indian' cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, in particular the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite - despite the fact that Muslims were the major practitioners of the Indian music that was installed as a 'Hindu' national tradition.