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One man destiny to whom the highest credit goes for rescuing Indian Classical music from decadance, decline and extinction is Vishnu Narayan Bhatkande. At a great personal sacrifice and suffering and inspired by only one aim, Bhatkande throughout his life undertook the herculean task of reviving Indian Classical music.
In the last few decades of the nineteenth century Bhatkande found that the Indian Classical music, although it had glorious history, had reached the boottom of degredation and was looked down upon as unworthy, superflous and Vulgar- a subject fit for laofers and vagabonds. Bhatkande radically altered the scene and put music once again on his high pedestal. Sobhana Nayar has attempted in this book an objective evaluation of Bhatkande's work in reviving Indian classical music.
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkande was a unique personality endowed with scholarship, creativity, poetic sensibilities, capacity for patience and hard work and devotion for the Indian musical tradition and above all humility. Bhatkande began his work with collection of hundreds of compositions from different gharanas, analysed them and formulated the theory of Indian music underlying these compositions. He also formulated an easy and expressive notation system for Hindustani music and introduced a new method of collective education in music and wrote textbooks and gave music the form and shape of an academic subject. Pandit Bhatkande's contribution to Indian music is so great that anyone interested in Indian Classical music must read this book.
