इंदौर के मसीहा (पंडित अमरनाथजी द्वारा उस्ताद अमीर ख़ाँ साहब के संस्मरण): Prophets of Indore (Memoires of Ustad Amir Khan Saheb by Pandit Amarnathji) An Old and Rare Book (Only One Copy in Stock)

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India's legendary gharaanaa of Indore is the first abstract khayaal style in the gharaana traditions of Hindustani music.

It was christened by Dr. Raghava Menon of The Times of India as the new mother of all gharaanaas. For from the twentieth century on, it showed another way.

Vocalists and instrumentalists of many gharaanaas as well as the new generation looked up to Ustad Amir Khan Saheb for the new canvas he had unfurled to paint the story of the khayaal, and began to follow him.

After him many continued their obsession with the Indore gharaanaa. They now looked up to Pandit Amarnathji, who was lighting the path to an inner-and abstract-mind of more and more new ragas and lyrics and the musical gait, in fact they looked up to a mind which represented the opening of the third eye of "revelation" in Hindustani music.

Both Ustad Amir Khan Saheb and Pandit Amarnathji complemented and completed each other; one had searched the new road of the unheard in the heard music of the khayaal and the other, as a composer, had discovered new treasures of the "revealed" word or lyric.

To become the prophets of the Indore gharaanaa. This is a historic work, written by the second great Indore master the disciple about the first, his guru. Bringing to life the old forms of narration of the oral tradition, every little tale reveals insights into the super-spiritual musical temparament and its corrective eye, and takes the reader to a wealth of musical and spiritual secrets which themselves took the masters to planes of deep cosmic awareness, to give a timeless message for humanity at large.

This book also, like the style of Indore, has to be read between the lines.

Background cover: impression of the merukhand lesson written down by Ustad Amir Khan Saheb for his disciple, Pandit Amarnathji.

Since a long time my daughter Bindu has been requesting me to write a book on Ustad Amir Khan Saheb, some kind of a biography.

I wonder, how much do I really know of him? A little, only as much as one knows a rich, fully laden cloud.

Who knows from where it begins its journey, and where it comes to be filled, but when it showers, everybody becomes blissful. Everybody takes of it.

I know that Amir Khan who was always full of music, always singing, always showering his music, and then suddenly one day?

As though everything gave way, but his soft moistures remain to this day.

Still, he had all the good and bad qualities of an ordinary man. I will narrate in this book only some of the things he said to me, some which his admirers and associates spoke to me about, and some of the things I saw myself, and understood about him.