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Famous Indian Instrumentalists:

Prominent Indian Instrumentalists

Famous Indian Tabla Instrumentalists:

Abad Mistry
Ahmed Thrikuwa
Alla Rakha Khan
Kishan Maharaj
Nikhil Ghosh
Shafat Ahmad Khan
Shaikh Dawood (Hindustani)
Shanta Prasad
Zakir Hussain

Famous Indian Sitar Instrumentalists:

Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
Buddhaditya Mukherjee
Hara Shankar Bhattacharya (Hindustani)
Rais Khan
Ravi Shankar
Uma Shankar Mishra (Hindustani)
Annapurna Devi Surbahar Hindustani
Vilayat Khan

Famous Indian Sarod Instrumentalists:

Ali Akbar Khan
Allauddin Khan
Amjad Ali Khan
Bahadur Khan
Buddhadev Desgupta (Hindustani)
Sharan Rani
Zarin S. Sharma

Famous Indian Violin Instrumentalists:

Baluswamy Dikshitar Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu Gajanan Rao Joshi Govindaswamy Pillai Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy (Carnatic) Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (Carnatic) L.Subramanyam

Lalgudi G. Jayaraman M.S.Gopalakrishnan Mayavaram Govindaraj Pillai Mysore T. Chowdhai N. Rajam Rajamanickam Pillai T.N. Krishnan Zubin Mehta

Famous Indian Veena Instrumentalists:

Asad Ali Khan (Hindustani)
K.R.Kumaraswamy Iyer (Carnatic)
Kaplakkam Swaminathan (Carnatic)
M.K.Kayanakrishna Bhagavathar (Carnatic)
S. Balachander (Carnatic)
Sadiq Ali Khan

Famous Indian Shahanai Instrumentalists:

Bageswari Gamar
Bismillah Khan

Famous Indian Guitar Instrumentalists:

Barun Pal

Famous Indian Santoor Instrumentalists:

Bhajan Sopori (Hindustani)
Tarun Bhattacharya

Famous Indian Pakhwaj Instrumentalists:

Chhatrapati Singh (Hindustani)

Famous Indian Flute Instrumentalists:

Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Pannalal Ghose
T.R. Mahalingam

Famous Indian Piano Instrumentalists:

Kaikhosm Shapurji Sorabiji

Famous Indian Sarangi Instrumentalists:

Ramnarayan
Sabri Khan
Sultan Khan (Hindustani)

Famous Indian Clarionate Instrumentalists:

Sheikh Mohammed Arif(Hindustani)

Famous Indian Mridungam Instrumentalists:

Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Carnatic)

Famous Indian Writers:

Assamese : Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Hem Chandra Barua, Hem Chandra Goswami, Madhu Kandli

Bengali : Ashapoorna Devi, Bankim Chandra Chattarjee, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandhopadhyay, Bishnu Dey, Premendra Mitra, Rabindranath Tagore, R.C. Dutta, Michael Madhusudhan Dutta, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Tarashankar Bandhopadhyay

English : Kamla Das, Manohar Malgaonkar, R.K.Narayan, Raja Roy, Mulk Raj Anand, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Sasthi Brata, Khushwant Singh, Manoj Das, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alexis Leon, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Shobha Dey

Gujarati : K.M.Munshi, Mirabai, Narmada, Sagar, Narsingh Mehta, Govardhan Rama,Uma Shankar Joshi

Hindi : Tulsidas, Surdas, Bihari, Kabir, Sumitranand Pant, Jai Shankar Prasad, Maithilisharan Gupta, Gurudutta, Munshi Prem Chand, Upendra Nath Ashk, Suryakant Tripathi, Acharya Chatursen, Mohan Rakesh, Harivanshrai Bachchan, Mahadevi Verma, Bhagwati Charan Verma, Ramdhari Singh

Kannada : K.V.Puttappa, B.M.Karanth, Pampan, Ranna, Ramchandra Bendre, K.S.Karanth, Purandar Das

Malayalam : C.V.Raman Pillai, S.K.Pottekatti, G.Sankara Kurup, Thakazhi, Sivasankara Pillai, O.Chandu Menon, Vallathol, Kumaran Asan.

Marathi : Hari Narayan Apte, P.L.Deshpande, Acharya Atre, Vishwas Patil V.V.Shirwadkar Vijay Tendulkar, Tukaram, V.S.Khandekar

Oriya : Gopalbandhu Das, Gopi Nath Mohanty, Radha Nath Roy

Punjabi : Bhai Veer Singh, Dhani Ram Chatrik Amrita Pritam, Nanak Singh Balwant Gargi, Waris Shah, Bulle Shah, Sheikh Farid

Sanskrit : Maharishi Vlamiki, Maharishi Ved Vyas, Harsha, Chanakya, Vatsayana, Ashwagosh, Shudrak, Bhasa, Jaidev, Bhartihari, Kalidas, Dandi, Banbhatta, Bhabhuti

Tamil : P.V.Akilan, Subramania Bharati, Ramlingam

Telegu : Lakshmi Narasimhan, Triputi, V.Satyanarayan

Urdu : Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib', Mohammad Iqbal, Mir, Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' ,Gorakhpuri, Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi, Faiz Ahmed 'Faiz' ,Krishna Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Upendranath Ashk

Famous Indian Instrumentalists