USTAD ABDUL KARIM KHAN: Piya Bin Nahi Aawat Chain…

Ustad Abdul Karim Khan (استاد عبدالکریم خان) (November 11, 1872--1937), was an Indian classical singer of the Kairana gharana (Kirana Gharana). Abdul Karim Khan was born in Kairana village in Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh, North India) in the Kairana musical family which traced its roots to musician brothers Ghulam Ali and Ghulam Maula. His father, Kale Khan was the grandson of Ghulam Ali. Karim Khan received training under uncle Abdulla Khan and father Kale Khan. He also received guidance from another uncle Nanhe Khan. Apart from vocals and sarangi, he also learnt Veena (Been), Sitar and Tabla. According to a story, he was initially a sarangi player but decided to switch to vocals because of the low status of sarangi players. In his early years, he used to sing with his brother Abdul Haq. The Baroda ruler was impressed by this singing duo and made them the court musicians. This is where he met Tarabai Mane, who was the daughter of Sardar Maruti Rao Mane, a member of the royal family. When they decided to get married, they were ousted from Baroda. The couple settled down in Bombay. In 1922 Tarabai Mane left Abdul Karim Khan, which had a major impact on his music-making it was pensive and meditative. Karim Khan's first wife, Gafooran was the sister of another Kirana master Abdul Wahid Khan, who was also his cousin.
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan was invited to the Mysore court where he met famous Carnatic music Carnatic masters which also influenced his music. In particular, the singing of his Sargam was a direct influence of Carnatic practice. He became a frequent visitor to Mysore Darbar which conferred on him the title Sangeet Ratna. On the way to Mysore, he used to stay with his brother in Dharwad where he taught his most famous disciple Sawai Gandharva. In 1900 for eight months he taught Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar. Kesarbai Kerkar would go on to be one of the 20th century's most renowned vocalists. In 1913 he founded the Arya Sangeet Vidyalaya in Poona to teach students. He would wholeheartedly teach all his students unlike other family Ustads of the era. He finally settled down in Miraj till his death in 1937 when returning from a concert tour of the south. Every year in August commemorative music concerts are held in Miraj. The innovations he brought to his vocal style distinguishes Kirana style from others. The slow melodic development of the raga in Vilambit laya slow tempo was the most characteristic aspect of his music. He sings in perfect pitch and emotions. He worked hard to maintain his voice to be sweet and melodious which shaped his music. The thumri style he developed is also quite different from the poorab ang or Punjabi ang. His thumri progresses in a leisurely languor with ample abandonment. He was also the first Hindustani musician to seriously study the Carnatic system and probably the first to be invited to sing all over the south. He has even recorded a Thyagaraja Krithi. He was also influenced by Rehmet Khan of the Gwalior Gharana and adopted the direct style of presentation Bhairavi of Rehmat Khan used to be bright and cheerful Karim Khan perfected it and was able to present an equally bright and cheerful rendering. He was an extremely popular singer of his time. His recordings are still popular in the music world.
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Some links to his melodious songs:
1. Piya Bin Nahi Aavat Chain: • khan saheb abdul karim...
2. Rag Basant: • Ustad Abdul Karim Khan...
3. Rag Shankara: • Raag Shankara | Ustad ...
4. Rag Bhairavi: • Abdul Karim Khan - Raa...
5. Rag Basabt: • Abdul Karim Khan ~ Pha...

[@adnanmunir7152]

Great singer ❤

[@shrikantnigudkar706]

Badhiya

[@yamasahely4412]

Ustad jee🙏

[@yadavjp7215]

Sti sunder sir

[@harunwangikar3337]

बहुत बड़ी मालूमत दी शुक्रिया

[@ShahidulIslam-jr7gb]

Enjoyed.

[@manmohanpandey6762]

अत्यंतदुर्लभजानकारीकंकोखोजकर‌आपनेभारतकेइतिहासमेएकमहत्वपूर्ण कार्य कियाहै साधुवाद ।

[@Aliyanzahra09]

Very informative programme.

[@Zerix554]

Mohammad Rafi Saheb, Manna Dey aur Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Ji bhi isi Kairana Gharane ke shishya rahe

[@DeepakRuhani]

सर आपका काम भी कुछ कम नहीं है...ऐसे-ऐसे नायाब कलाकारों पर इतनी जानकारी उपलब्ध कराना एक दस्तावेज़ी काम है.

[@shakirmalik6158]

wahhhhhhhh sir

[@ranvirsingh8029]

A pearl in bhartiya music history my heart full congratulations to this presentation 👍🌹✔️

[@bhajansamratomprakashoffic6108]

प्राचीन घराना , किराना घराना। आपको अनेकों धन्यवाद आपके द्वारा मार्मिक जानकारी मिली। परम् पूज्य गुरुदेव भारत रत्न पंडित भीमसेन जोशी जी को नमन ।

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❤

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Behtareen... Bahot shaandaar prastuti....

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Buhat labhkari sir

[@pjoshi7758]

Ishwer ka koti 2 dhanyawaad aisey 2 kalakaron ko sunney ka mauka mila, lakin, pyar aik aisy bimari hai,ki aagey berney sey rok lag jati hai,pyar aik bimari hai, or kuch nahi

[@therahulmind]

शानदार प्रस्तुति

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بہت ہی عمدہ اور لاجواب،

[@KAhmed]

yes

[@mohammadaliqadri482]

❤🎉

[@abrarahmad4345]

Sir nyc great 👍

[@dadapatildongarwar8818]

धन्यवाद सर

[@hakeemghulammohammad1674]

Abdul Karim Khan Sahab lajawab Kalasiki Mousiqi Ke lajawab Ustad Thei.

[@bgupta217]

অসাধারণ প্রতিবেদন। সমৃদ্ধ হলাম।

[@shahlatariq3810]

Excellent

[@ashwinipatole2381]

धन्यवाद इस जानकारी के लिए

[@premlal6709]

Your effort to disseminate knowledge about the musical journey of India is indeed very commendable ! 🙏

[@padmakarpandey8763]

I have heard the name of ustad ji earlier but could know many amazing things about him n his music from this interesting video.Thanks

[@hesamhaque4991]

Your exemplary efforts will one day have immense respect and value; when people will rise from corrupt and skewed mentality. When people will realise that real music is way more than “western copycats “. Real music of the land comes from passion and hard labour, which these musicians were able to achieve. It will be upto us keep it alive or lose it for ever. Congratulations to to you on your great work.

[@vishalmahadik2466]

सुंदर विवेचन ....

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[@rajabhat6418]

God bless u sir.

[@varshadeshpande2006]

आपको शत शत प्रणाम 🙏

[@stuti_artlove]

Aapka prayas bahut hi achha hai 💐🙏🙏

[@aleemshakir5116]

Splendid

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Divine voice.

[@pushwindersingh4009]

Vah ji

[@chitrakale3016]

Nice

[@somashekarsharma7739]

Excellent presentation sir thanks

[@arjuntanwer.]

Thank you so upload this video

[@rajneeshifollower811]

You have done a great job thank you

[@haridaas8329]

Ur hardwork is beyond words

[@abidhussainqureshi8044]

It’s excellent. I believe one program is less for khan sahib Karim khan. His mastery needs more aspects to be discussed. Great job.

[@neetamandlik7134]

Your working great job

[@RajiTripathi]

Thank you for another fascinating account of the colorful life of Khan Sahib and his works. Besides being talented, he was also quite pragmatic. Khan Sahib had a formidable challenge to limit his works to the time constraints imposed by the recording medium. As you aptly said Gauhar Jaan Sahiba, too, had that fortitude. Flexibility is the key. Thanks for their foresight that we could enjoy their works. Unlike Western Classical music where the artists verbatim follow the notations, the singers of Hindustani Classical music focus on subtle nuances. There is a wide scope for creativity and modulation, and definitely a strong engagement between the audience and the performer. This one element is conspicuously absent in the Western Classical music, which is also severely limited by the instruments employed. The break-up of his second marriage that stood the test of time and overcame societal barriers and disapproval, probably crumbled because of Khan Sahib's infidelity, as you have suggested. When a woman terminates a marital alliance of a couple of decades, it cannot be because of a minor "disagreement." In this instance, cultural disparity and opposing communal and religious "standards" and accepted social practice of polygamy (READ infidelity) couldn't have been an easy-to-swallow bitter pill for Ms. Mane. Her changing the names of their children to Hindu names was her final and unmistaken protest. Incidentally, their daughter Saraswati Rane (if I am not mistaken) was also the first female music director of Hindi Cinema--a step ahead of Jaddan Bai. The latter, however, also distinguished herself as a producer and director of films.

[@andypandit1]

Very good. Detailed information.

[@satyabratadash6548]

Never knew that hirabai barodekar and saraswati rani were his off springs. Great musical family indeed.

[@riyazjagirdar2688]

Not sarswati Rani.But Rany 8180877908

[@satyabratadash6548]

@@riyazjagirdar2688 typo. I meant Rane....

[@sanjaychaturvedi5145]

Very informative.

[@HanifMasavi]

Especially in the heart. Welcome wishes.

[@dksharma9507]

Splendid uploading.a treasure of our melody.

[@aruneswardas7292]

Very nice. Aruneswae da.

[@NareshNaresh-lr9nq]

Am really impressed that you are doing a lot for these remarkable classical singers.Thanks from all of my 💓 heart for such kind of informations about these legends.

[@pratapshinde370]

Very important information u have shared...thanks for

[@somamukerji162]

Exemplary singing of Ustad Abdul Karin Khan who set the trend for many singers and instrumentalists in future….. thank you for enlightening us , listeners about the great musician! 👌👌👌👌👌

[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

Thank you very much for your such encouraging response.

[@debanjalihota4382]

Excellent as usual

[@SandipSinhaKolkata34]

God bless you sir, the style , the dedication and passion with which you commented on Kirana Gharana, should be permanently captured by AIR Archives , if not done already.

[@ShahAlam-eg9vy]

HAQEEQAT MAIEN AAPNAEY AIK BOHOT QEEMTEE V LOG BANAYA HAEY YADGAR RAHAEY GA. AAPKA ANDAZ AOR AWAZ BHEE AIK "MAHAN" TOHFA HAEY

[@rpsingh7697]

Ye dono thumriyan merey paas mehfooz hain, kabhi kabhi sun liya karta hoon.

[@sarojmukhopadhyay18]

Appreciate your immense effort in providing the musical history of the great musician like Ustaad Abdul Karim Khan. I am sure many will be enlightened. This kind of videos would enhance interest to many toward Indian Classical Music. A great job is in progress. All the very best.

[@vasantiarekar7856]

Ur efforts r indeed praiseworthy

[@hemantramdasi7639]

छान माहिती मिळाली.

[@apurbagoswami3673]

Very nice and commendable effort !! As listener I have liked the historical aspects of the life of Khan Sahab . Please continue such effort .

[@venkateshharibal76]

Good information

[@nabilahayat6920]

Your efforts is appreciable ,great work, thanks

[@satyabratadash6548]

Worthy effort.

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[@dhananjayphysicsclasses4954]

मुझे समझ नहीं आता कि ये महान सख्सियतें इतनी मैरिज क्यों करते हैं,तकलीफ होती है,संगीत तो आत्मा की देन है मगर ये जिस्म कहा से आ जाता है।

[@vivekagarwal4000]

👍

[@sudipnathroy5989]

excellent. Ramkrisnabua Vaze and Sawai Gandharva (Rambhao Kundagolkar) ke upar episode banaiye.

[@soumitralahiri9393]

Most of the 78rpm records of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan released in the mid 1930s are of 4 - 4.5minutes duration.

[@dholakia1950]

You are doing a great service by keeping memory of great singers alive.

[@rpsingh7697]

Babu Mane ka to aapse hi malum hua ke ve KhaaN Saheb ke puttr thhe ! Aur inki poore kunbey ke barey malumaat bhi bahut khooh kahee. KhaaN Sahab ki awaaz ne merey zehan mein Master Barwe ki yaad taza karwa dali.lnki awaaz "male-female" ka mishrat gun liye huey hai. bahut hi alg si pehchan rakhti hai awaaz ! (Braey meharbani kabhi Mas.Manhar Barwe ko bhi roshan karna )

[@riyazjagirdar2688]

Ustad ji ne Tarabai ko Tallaq nahi dithi, balky Jub wo Gany k silsily M Baher dusre Gaon gayehuwethy Tub Tarabai Sari Dhan Sampatti Dhan' Daulat Sametkar Bhag gai Jo unki Biography m likha maujoodhy

[@babubhaijoshi6687]

Very nice sir.

[@gyanshalamp8391]

Great voice sir Where are you from

[@islaah-thinkingislam6917]

Please make a documentary on Ustad Umeed Ali khan Gwalior Gharana

[@user-dj5qh1ut4t]

Very good episode,, please also make episodes about zohra bai ambala , amir bai karnatki , shamshad begum , suriya , iqbal bano

[@shuaibahmad1784]

Ye sab master of music ke student padhte hai.

[@alfaaz_withkaushal9750]

The standard stuff you supplied is truly mesmerizing in this one truly amazing autobiography of Khan Saab. Please give me some information about Ustad Addil Khan Sahab, who resided in or close to Jhansi, if you can.

[@nishagupta8460]

Recordings sunvayiye

[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

वीडियो के विवरण को देखें और गाने के लिंक पर क्लिक करके सुनें.

[@riyazjagirdar2688]

Heera bai Badodkar nahi bhai Badaodekar hy

[@kumarnitish5914]

Sir ho sake to Bihar k mangan khavas ka ek song uplabdh kara dijiye ye bade gulam ali khan saab k time me the but bahut kam ahe me hi chal base unke bare me suna h wo bahut achha gate the please sir please🙏

[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

माँगन खवास की कोई रिकॉर्डिंग उपलब्ध नहीं है.

[@GeetKahani]

Roshan ara begum bi en ki shagird thi .jis ne bera naam kmaya

[@swarkamal]

Can you add music and subtitles?

[@hemantghayal7709]

At 15:50 there is a picture of Kirana singers. You have included a picture of Kesarbai Kerkar by mistake. She was a Jaipur Atrauli Singer tsarsained by Ustad Alladiya Khan.

[@soumitralahiri9393]

Hemant Ghaayal Kesarbai received her initial musical training from Ustad Abdul Karim Khan before shifting to Ustad Alladiyah Khan .

[@hemantghayal7709]

@@soumitralahiri9393 Thank you. It was for a short period of eight months compared to her having learnt from Ustad Allauddin Khansaheb for 12 years. She is not called a Kirana Gharana singer.

[@soumitralahiri9393]

Hemant Ghayal Thanks for your response. Yes, you are correct, though historically I too am not very incorrect. Pl. keep up such friendly exchange in future too.

[@deevaan]

At 6:05, if I am not mistaken, it is Roshan Ara Begum who was Ustad Abdul Karim Khan's disciple and not saraswati mane or hirabhai. Can someone confirm

[@arjuntanwer.]

King of thumri

[@sarveshdubey5705]

अपनी शिष्या 12 वर्ष की को लेकर भाग गया, फिर दूसरी शिष्या के साथ भी वही किया, एजेंडा पुराना है.

[@Aanha782]

Marhum A.Karim kha, ke Kla ke bajay aapne unke niji kalakari ki jankari jyada prastut kar de. Kitani shadiya ki kitane bacche paida kiye..ye personal chige hai. Sangeet se isaka kya lena dena.?

[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

चूँकि हम कलाकार के जीवन-संघर्ष के बारे में भी बताते हैं, इसलिए लेना-देना है.

[@geetharamdas2391]

Ram Ram Ram. Kyunki sab bachche mashoor gayak hò gaye. Ache kalakaar ke pitaji ek gharana nirman kiye hua vyakti hai to sab rasikonko kush hoti hai.iske bura matlab nahi deneka.

[@riyazjagirdar2688]

Ye bilkul galathy k unke Sarswati Bai K sath Ustadji k koi gatalat Sambabndh tha Paheli Biwi bhi unpar Zabardasti Jaran Thopi gaithi Tarabai Drama company m Kam Karna chahtithi jo Ustadji ko Saqat Napsand tha' Aur Tarabai ko Drama Company se Bady bady Offers thy. Wo Fa kar to Badi bangaithi' Ustadji Ki tarbiyatse' .agar Fitratan Daulat Ki ' Shohrat ki Bhooki' Dagabaz thi Aur Aqirkar Dhoka dekar rahi

[@chandrashekharmohile3818]

Excellent