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    Bismillah Khan | wiki | Biography | History | Bharat Ratna |

    Bismillah Khan | wiki | Biography | History | Bharat Ratna | 






























    Bismillah Khan born was on 21 march 1916, Khan hailed from a family of musicians.
    His father was a court musician employed in the Dumraon palace by the Raja of Dumraon.

    His great grandfather Ustad Salar Hussain Khan and grandfather Rasool Baksh
    Khan were also musicians in the Dumraon palace.

    His ancestors were court musicians and used to play in Naqqar khana in the princely states of Dumraon , now in Bihar. Bismillah Khan performed at the Red Fort on India's Independence Day and also on the first Republic Day ceremony on January 26, 1950.

    Bismillah Khan single-handedly transformed how the world looker at shehnai. 


    From being and important folk instrument, it suddenly found a place in the heart of india music after Khan's performance at Calcutta All india Music Conference in 1937. 




    The maestro was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2001.



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