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Two Men and Music

Two Men and Music

Janaki Bakhle · 2005 · 357 pages

MusicNationalism in musicHistory and criticismMusic, social aspectsSocial aspects

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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.

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