During my research work on the curriculum of various universities, it was observed that music students, scholars, researchers and even faculty members are confused about their respective syllabi. Although U.G.0 has provided guidelines for the university level syllabus of different courses and updated them according to the need of the time, but very few universities have followed them thoroughly in their curriculum. This Book is a balanced attempted to provide ample information on all these universities and organizations and remove all confusion and misgivings among the educators & educationists enabling them to compare between these courses & curriculum. The reader can find detailed information on the history of the institutions, foundations of music departments, information about past and present faculty members, training procedure, courses offered, facilities available in the centres, etc.

Dr. Lovely Sharma is a Sitarist and Musicologist of International repute. She is the first D.Litt. awardee in Sitar. She has been recipient of Barsari Scholarship and National Scholarship. After receiving Gold medal in M.A. (music) she has never looked back. She did her Ph.D. degree from M.S. University, Baroda under the guidance of eminent Tabla player Prof. S.K. Saxena. Dr. Sharma immediately got opportunity to join music department of D.E.I. University as a lecturer in 1987. since 1997 she is the senior most Ph.D. holder in her department. Due to her global recognition, she has been invited at various international forums as a music therapist (Australia in 2005, Sweden in 2006, Italy and Argentina in 2008). She has been honored as a Sitarist by Iran Art Academy, Iran. She was also invited for an international conference held in Malaysia as Music Educationalist as well as Sitarist. Hence she had to work hard continuously to give justice to all the recognition which sharpened her skills and expertise to such an extent that she is today an internationally renowned personality in the field of Hindustani Classical music. Dr. Sharma has presented nearly 35 research papers in various national and international forums which were well received. She has published around 30 research papers in various national and international music journals and books. She has been guiding number of research scholars on different aspects of music.

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