- Types of instruments
- Percussion instruments (avanaddha vadya)
- Tabla, drum, dhol, congo, mridangam, damaru, xylophone, ghatam, Pakhawaj
- Solid instruments (ghana vadya) - earliest instruments invented by man
- Jal tarang, manjeera, ghungroo, morsing, jhanj
- Wind instruments (sushira vadya)
- Flute, shehnai, shankh, basuri, harmonium
- String instruments (tata vadya)
- Veena, sitar, santoor, ektara, khamak, sarod, mandolin, sarangi, banjo, surbahar, piano
- Shehnai - Bismillah Khan, Krishna Ram Chaudhary, Ali Ahmad Hussain, Rajendra Prasanna, Raghunath Prasanna
- Flute - Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Rakesh Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghosh (Amaljyothi Ghosh), TR Mahalingam, Dr. Natesan Ramani, Raghunath Seth, Ronu Majumdar, Nithyanand Haldipur, Chetan Joshi, Keshav Ghinde, Raghunath Parsanna, Pravin Godkhindi, Roopak Kulkarni, Bholanath Prasanna, Rajendra Prasanna, G S Sachdev, Rasika Shekhar, Babu Padmanabha
- Sitar - Pt Ravi Shankar, Shahid Parvez Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Anushka Shankar, Hara Shankar Bhattacharya, Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Mustaq Ali Khan, Harvinder Kumar Sharma
- Tabla - Zakir Hussain, Allah Rakha, Sabir Khan, Pt. Kishan Maharaj, Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Sandeep Das, Anokelal Mishra
- Santoor - Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma (J&K), Bhajan Sopori, Tarun Bhattacharya, Ulhas Bapat, Rahul Sharma, Abhay Sopori, R Viswesaran, Satish Vyas, Shiv-Hari
- Veena - Viswa Mohan Bhatt, Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ayyagari Syamasundaram, Doraiswamy Iyengar, Chittibabu, Emani Sankara Shastri, Dhanammal, KR Kumaraswamy, Sundaram Balachandrer
- Sarod - Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod Samrat), Buddhadev Dasgupta, Bahadur Khan, Sharan Rani, Zarin S Sharma
- Ghatam - TH Vinayakram, EM Subramaniam
- Mridangam - Ramnad V Raghavan, KV Prasad, SV Rajarao, Umalayapuram Sivaraman, Palghat Mani Iyer, Karaikudi R Mani, Palghat Raghu
- Sarangi - Shakoor Khan, Pt Ram Narayan, Ramesh Mishra, Sultan Khan, Ustad Binda Khan
- Surbahar (Bass sitar) - Annapurna Devi, Sajjad Hussain, Pushparaj Koshti
- Violin - MS Gopalakrishnan, Smt N Rajam, NR Muralidharan, M Chandrasekharan, VG Jog, Lalgudi Jayaraman, Kala Ramnath, TN Krishnan
- Mandolin - U Srinivasan
- Guitar - Brij Bhushan Kabra
- Rudra Veena - Asad Ali Khan
- Nadaswaram - Sheikh Chinna Moula, Neeruswamy Pillai, Rajaratanam Pillai
- Pakhawaj - Totaram Sharma, Pt Ayodhya Prasad, Gopal Das, Babu Ram Shanker Pagaldas
- Harmonium - Appa Jalgaonkar, Tulsidas Borkar, Dharamnath Mishra
- Kanjra - Pudukkotai Dakshinamurthi Pillai
- Gwalior Gharana
- Oldest gharana
- Founder - Nathan Peerbaksh, Nathu Khan, Haddu Khan, Hassu Khan
- Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
- Raja Bhaiyya Poonchwale
- Narayanrao Vyas
- Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
- Omkarnath Thakur
- Ghulam Hassan Shaggan
- D. V. Paluskar
- Balasaheb Poochwale
- Sunanda Patnaik
- Malini Rajurkar
- Veena Sahasrabuddhe
- N Rajam
- Started during the reign of Akbar
- Agra Gharana
- Founder - Haji Sujan Khan & Ustad Ghaghe Khuda Baksh
- Khadim Hussain Khan
- Latafat Hussain Khan
- Dinkar Kakini
- Faiyaz Khan
- Zohrabai
- Bharathi Prathap
- Vilayat Khan
- Waseem Ahmed Khan
- Sharafat Hussain Khan
- Jitendra Abhisheki
- Atrauli Gharana (Jaipur)
- Founder - Alladiah Khan
- Mallikarjuna Mansorr
- Kishori Amonkar
- Kesarbai Kerkar
- Mogubai Kurdekar
- Raghunandan Panshikar
- Ashiwini Bhide Deshpande
- Padma Talwalkar
- Rampur - Sahaswan Gharana (UP)
- Founder - Ustad Inayat Hussain Khan
- Nissar Hussain Khan
- Mushtaq Hussain Khan
- Raseed Khan
- Mewati Gharana
- Founder - Ustad Ghagge Nazir Khan of Jodhpur
- Pandit Jasraj
- Kala Ramnath
- Sanjeev Abhyankar
- Maniram pandit
- Pandit Aravind Thatte
- Mewati Gharana
- Founded by brothers Ghagge Nazir Khan and Wahid Khan
- Pandit Jasraj
- Kirana Gharana
- The border region between Karnataka and Maharashtra is particularly associated with this gharana
- Founder - Abdul Kareem Khan & Abdul Wahid Khan
- Swami Gandharv
- Gangubai Hungal
- Firoz Dastur
- Bhimsen Joshi
- Suresh Babu Mane
- Heerabai Badodkar & Prabha Atre
- Saraswati Rane
- Manik Verma
- Maihar Gharana
- Madhya Pradesh
- Founder - Allaudin Khan
- Pandit Ravi Shankar
- Nikhil Banerjee
- Ali Akbar Khan
- Annapurna Devi
- Aashish Khan
- Nithyanand Haldipur
- Indore Gharana
- Founder - Ustad Amir Khan
- Banaras Gharana
- Founder - Ram Sahai
- Girija Devi (Thumri singer)
- Hariprasad Chaurasia
- Anokhe Lal (Tabla)
- Bismillah Khan
- Kishan Maharaj, Kanthe Maharaj (Tabla)
- Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana (Kathak)
- Shivakumar
- Patiala Gharana
- Founder - Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Ali Khan
- Ajoy Chakrabarty
- Raza Ali Khan
- Begum Akhtar
- Nirmala Devi
- Naina Devi
- Parveen Sultana
- Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
- Punjab Gharana
- Founder - Lal Bhavanidas
- Alla Rakha
- Zakir Hussain
- Jnan Prakash Gosh
- Pt. Nikhil Ghosh
- Pt. Shankar Ghosh
- Pt. Nayan Ghosh
- Utd. Fazal Qureshi
- Pt. Yogesh Samsi
- Aditya Kalyanpur
- Amit Kavthekar
- Mahari Gharana
- Kelucharan Mohapatra (related to Odissi dance)
- Lucknow Gharana (tabla + kathak legacy)
- Founder - Ishwari Prasad
- Lachhu Maharaj (Kathak)
- Birju Maharaj (Kathak)
- Shambhu Maharaj (Kathak)
- Acchan Maharaj (Kathak)
- Shovana Narayan (Kathak)
- Swapan Chaudhuri (Tabla)
- S. R. Chishti (Tabla)
- Thanjavur Gharana
- Founder - Shivanandam, Vadivelu
- Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam)
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