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	Abdul Karim Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abdul Karim Khan was born in Kirana (Uttar Pradesh, North India) in to the Kirana musical family which traced its roots to musician brothers Ghulam Ali and Ghulam Maula.
		Karim Khan's first wife, Gafooran was the sister of another Kirana master Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, who was also his cousin.
		Ustad Abdul Karim Khan was invited to the Mysore court, where he met famous Carnatic masters, which also influenced his music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Karim_Khan (519 words)

	Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hyderabad, India, April 25, 1968) was an Indian vocalist, considered one of the finest representatives of the Hindustani music tradition in the early and middle 20th century.
		By 1944, though still in the age of giant personalities like Abdul Karim Khan, Alladiya Khan and Fayyaz Khan, he was considered by many as the uncrowned king of Hindustani music.
		Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was reluctant to sing for film but sang two songs for the movie Mughal-e-Azam where his voice was represented as Tansen's voice by music director Naushad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ustad_Bade_Ghulam_Ali_Khan (401 words)

	MusicalNirvana - Ustad Abdul Karim Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Abdul Karim Khan was born in 1872 in Kirana (Uttar Pradesh, North India) in to the Kirana musical family which traced its roots to musician brothers Ghulam Ali and Ghulam Maula.
		Karim Khan and Tarabai had three daughters: Hirabai Barodekar (Chempakali), Kamalabai Barodekar (Gulab) and Sarswati Rane (Sakina or Chotutai) and two sons: Suresh Babu Mane (Abdul Rehman) and Papa (Abdul Hamid or Krishna Rao Mane).
		Khan Saheb Abdul Karim Khan was one of the few great masters to record when recording first appreared in India around the turn of 20th century.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /hindustani/abdul_karim_khan.html (744 words)

	Jayanta Banerjee - Bansuri Virtuoso
		The story goes that the spirited young Abdul Karim once refused to accept his fee from the Maharaja of Baroda after accompanying Faiz Mohammed Khan, since it was half of what Faiz Mohammed received.
		Abdul Karim came home, threw away his sarangi, and resolved to become a singer.
		It is said that Khan Saheb taught his students mainly three ragas for the morning, afternoon and night.
	www.bansuri.org /abdulkarim2.htm (350 words)

	Faiyaz Khan
		He was a grandson of Ghulam Abbas Khan of the Agra gharana from his mother's side and his father Safdar Hussain belonged to the line of Ramzan Khan Rangeele, a prominent late 18th century composer.
		Khan was an ace performer who could capture the imagination of his audience by sheer instinct.
		Khan was a generous man. There are many tales about his magnanimity as a musician and as a host -- his parties were legion and in a time when musical compositions were guarded as state secrets, he taught who approached him.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/millennium/100people/faiyaz.html (672 words)

	Ustad Abdul Karim Khan
		Abdul Karim Khan was born in 1872 in Kirana near Kurukshetra in the Punjab.
		Abdul Karim Khan was perhaps the first North Indian musician to study Karnatic ragas and incorporate several of them into Hindustani music.
		After receiving his training from Kale Khan and Abdulla Khan, Khan Saheb went over to Baroda where he was appointed as a court-musician because of his great merit.
	music.calarts.edu /~bansuri/pages/abdulkarim.html (2218 words)

	Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan :: Khyber.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Founded and nourished by Ghaffar Khan (commonly known as Bacha Khan), this family continues to enjoy a unique status because of the political philosophy introduced by the founding father and the controversy surrounding him.
		Bacha Khan's Khudai Khidmatgar Tehrik (God's servants movement), founded in 1919 to fight social evils and to uplift the Pakhtoons as a whole, set the foundation for the politics which the family pursued with full zeal.
		The political heirs of Ghaffar Khan claim to be the protagonists of democracy but they have maintained their dynastic hold on the several parties they have formed from time to time.
	www.khyber.org /people/nwfp/khanghafarkhan.shtml (1007 words)

	Give me this day my daily bread
		Abdul Karim Khan (24), a victim of the July 11 Mumbai train blasts who fractured his right leg and suffered internal injuries, is not happy with the treatment meted out by the railways.
		Khan, a resident of Nallasopara, claims he had submitted all relevant documents to the claims department office at Churchgate station soon after the incident, but is yet to receive a positive response.
		Khan recalls, “The impact of the blast was so severe that I was hanging outside the compartment for a few minutes before I fell unconscious.
	www.mid-day.com /news/city/2006/august/142421.htm (436 words)

	MusicalNirvana - Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan was one of the most influential Hindustani vocalists of the 20th century.
		Along with his cousin, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, he was responsible for popularizing making Kirana Gharana.
		He was also married to Wahid Khan's sister Gafooran Bibi, though their relation soured because Abdul Karim Khan later neglected her and married Tarabai Mane.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /hindustani/abdul_wahid_khan.html (276 words)

	Ustad Shaik Dawood Khan, Tabla Nawaz - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ustad Shaik Dawood Khan was born on the 16th of December 1916 in Sholapur.
		Ustad Mohammed Khan was a great scholar and taught Dawood Sahib many things, particularly pakhawaj, and compositions which originated from Pandit Naik Nana Panse (the pakhawaj maestro of yesteryears) Mohammed Khan also taught him vocal music, gazal and sitar.
		It is on the wish and will of Jahangir Khan (Dawood Sahib's pursuit of knowledge was such that at the age of 45 years, when the whole world was at his feet, as the say) that Dawood Sahib became a disciple of Mahboob Khan.
	chandrakantha.com /dawood (2005 words)

	NewMusicBox
		At the age of 18, Abdul Wahid Khan made his formal public debut in the Kolhapur court, and all of the court musicians were present.
		Before the release of the restored recordings of Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, it was possible to catch a glimpse of the position he commanded by listening to the records of his illustrious colleague and cousin, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan.
		Abdul Karim Khan was the star performer of the Kirana Gharana.
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=61hf15 (1668 words)

	South Asian Women's Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Khan Saheb's son Ekram Ahmad Khan writes that it was these studies and his close friendship with Narayan Swami (of Calcutta) that led to his unique blend of Sufism.
		Amir Khan was born at Indore in 1912.
		Amir Khan was giving tuitions to some of these singing girls for his living and therefore had to stay in one of the buildings on the third floor.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit07232001/amirkhan.htm (3818 words)

	Baluchistan
		However, The Khan was not an absolute monarch; he was required to act under the provisions of the Rawaj (the Baloch constitution).
		Abdul Karim entered Balochistan with Afghan help and organized a rebellion against Pakistan in the area of Jallawan with the aid of Mir Gohar Khan Zahrri, an influential tribal leader of the Zarkzai clan.
		Nawab Nauroz or Nowroz Khan, commonly known by Balochs as Babu Nowroz, was the head of the Zarakzai tribes of Balochistan.
	www.measuroo.com /eth-B/Baluchistan.php (3450 words)

	Kamat Research Database - Abdul Karim Khan
		Abdul Karim Khan strode the musical realm like a colossus for well over a generation in the early decades of this century.
		Predictably, the exuberance and freedom of Abdul Karim Khan's gayaki created an unprecedented stir among the orthodox milieu of the time.
		Born at Kirana, a village in the Kurukshetra region, now in Haryana, in 1872, Abdul Karim Khan migrated to south-west Maharashtra along with his brother, Abdul Huq, while he was still in his twenties.
	www.kamat.com /database/biographies/abdul_karim_khan.htm (682 words)

	City - Former underworld Don Karim Lala dead
		Former underworld Don Haji Abdul Karim Khan alias Karim Lala, died of cardiac arrest at a private hospital in south Mumbai last night.
		Karim Lala complained of chest pain while offering namaz at 8.30pm and was rushed to Prince Ali Khan Hospital, where he breathed his last a little later, family sources said.
		Samad Khan was, however, killed by the men of Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, the underworld don, based in Karachi.
	www.mid-day.com /news/city/2002/february/20927.htm (169 words)

	Sampurna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Though a Muslim, Alladiya Khan was a staunch Rajput,and wore the janehoo (scared thread of the Hindus).
		Born in 1912, Amir Khan studied with Shammir Khan and specialized in the khayal singing of the Indore gharana.
		Barkat Ali Khan was the younger brother of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.
	www.sampurna.sdnpk.org /musicians_muslim.htm (783 words)

	Abdul karim - 2 Books written by Edited by Muhammad Rais Abdul Karim from (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ustad Abdul Karim Khan (vocal) and Ustad Shamshuddin Khan (tabla).
		Abdul Karim Germanus is a well known Orientalist of Hungary and is a At present Dr. Abdul Karim Germanus is working as Professor and Head of the
		Abdul Karim Al-Eryani photo Give me some sense of what you think Al Qaeda's presence is in Yemen today.
	linksseek.com /lksk/abdul-karim.html (468 words)

	frEeMuZik -- Free Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Khan was a court musician of the Maharaja of Mysore.
		Vilayat Hussain Khan came to be well known in music circles as he used to sing before Ustad Faiyyaz Khan's concerts.
		In the early decades of this century, Khan Saheb Abdul Karim Khan dominated the world of Hindustani music for well over a generation, and he was a trend setter in this world in more than one sense.
	users.sarai.net /ish/audio.htm (354 words)

	SRUTI-India Carnatic Music,india dance & music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A superlative musician whose singing was marked by grace, power and aristocratic mien, Alladiya Khan created a new style of music which came to be identified as the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana (out of the many styles which were represented in Jaipur in his time).
		Faiyaz Khan Saheb of the Agra gharana has been described as a phenomenon whose art symbolised the grand evolution of Hindustani music from the ancient dhrupad-dhamar tradition to the modern khayal-thumri.
		Abdul Karim Khan, who dominated the Hindustani music scene for more than a generation, has been acclaimed as “the maestro who conceived, evolved and popularised the Kirana gharana”— the gharana which has remained popular since his time because of a succession of outstanding performers, like Hirabai Barodekar, Roshanara Begum, Gangubai Hangal and Bhimsen Joshi.
	www.sruti.com /august2k/splft3.htm (1602 words)

	swat4
		Khan Bahadur Abdul Karim Khan, son of Khan Bahadur Abdul Rahim Khan, of Jhanda.
		Fath ul-Mulk, Khan Bahadur Hazrat 'Ali, Chief Minister of Swat 1940-1943, son of a Chitrali.
		1949 - 1987 Major-General H.H. Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb, Ghazi-i-Millat, Wali of Swat, CIE (13.6.1946).
	4dw.net /royalark/Pakistan/swat4.htm (1214 words)

	The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The ustad comes from a family that has nurtured and preserved the dhrupad tradition for 20 generations, and this pride is reflected in everything he says.
		Born in Udaipur, Rajasthan, where his father Ustad Ziauddin Khan Dagar was a court musician, he learnt vocal and instrumental dhrupad music, but later decided to stick to vocal.
		Abdul Karim Khan came to him and said he wanted to learn the veena, but my grandfather said no, you learn singing.
	www.themusicmagazine.com /faridint.html (1854 words)

	KUNDI & KUNDI Advocates & Legal Consultants :: Islamabad, Pakistan :: Welcome
		The NWFP Government engages Chief Justice (R) Abdul Karim Khan Kundi as part of its defence team in the widely publicized constitutional case of Hisba Bill Reference heard by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
		The Government of North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan (NWFP) engaged the services of Chief Justice (R) Abdul Karim Khan Kundi, Senior Advocate, KUNDI and KUNDI on behalf of the Provincial Assembly of NWFP, to defend the Hisba Bill in a reference filed by the President of Pakistan before the highest court of the country i.e.
		Through the said reference, the President sought the opinion of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality and validity of the Hisba Bill, which was passed by the provincial legislature of NWFP on 14th July, 2005.
	www.kundilaw.com /news5.html (1062 words)

	Raga to Rock
		It is the birthplace of Khan Sahib Abdul Karim Khan, who is regarded as the founder of this school.
		Abdul Karim Khan’s rendition marked a departure from the styles of the period, laying stress on clearly intoning the swaras (notes) and delineating the Raga through serene movements.
		Ustad Faiyaz Khan transformed the traditional, austere Agra style to a simple and appealing one, laying great stress on alap and on rhythmic figures to bring out the layakari while singing the bandish.
	www.ragatorock.com /storyM.asp (782 words)

	Down Melody Lane..::..Classical Legends.::.Ustad Amir Khan
		Born at Indore in 1912 to a family of musicians, he was trained in Sarangi by his father Shamir Khan and later under Ustad Rajab Ali Khan of the Bhendibazar Gharana in vocals.
		He was also influenced by Kirana masters Ustad Abdul Karim Khan and Abdul Wahim Khan, especially latter's treatment of raga in slow tempo.
		Later Amir Khan evolved his own style of singing very slow or ati vilambit Khayal which he developed in a most leisurely mood with deep serenity and contemplativeness for which he was to become most famous.
	www.downmelodylane.com /amirkhan.html (224 words)

	Khazana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The next day he was singing Bhairavi the same way when Khan saheb visited his house.
		Khan saheb used to write a contract with prospective students to do nothing else but learn music for 8 years.
		But learning for Ramrao was mostly by listening to Khan saheb´s riyaz and perform.
	www.khazana.com /et/featured_includes/featured_column_Gandharva.asp?mscssid=WPEPEDAE2AV38HR2DRR2MG6J08TG2D4D&Country=India&mscsstcid= (216 words)

	Short Takes: Multani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Acknowledged as a Kirana pioneer, Abdul Wahid Khan spent all of his performing career in the shadow of his trailblazing cousin Abdul Karim Khan.
		Abdul Wahid was among those early vocalists responsible for a paradigmatic shift to the leisurely vilambit laya in Khayal gAyaki.
		The sitarist Vilayat Khan is said to have conceived it sometime in the early 1940s.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit12302002/musicarts.asp (2623 words)

	Khyber Gateway >> Pashto Places >> Islamia College Peshawar - Sruggle and Success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The second was Sahibzada Abdul Qayum, with his instant contribution of Rs 1,000, while Sethi Karim Bakhsh gave Rs 50,000, the Nawab of Dir promised one lac and a quarter rupees, beside four hundred trees.
		An example was set by Bibigul, widow of Khairullah Khan of Prang, who gave her ornaments on June 6, 1911 as her subscription towards the college fund.
		The land chosen for college building were the property of the Khalil’s of Tehkal, out of which a total of nine hundred and sixteen kanals and seventeen marlas were bought in 1911 at the rate of Rs 30 per kanal.
	www.khyber.org /pashtoplaces/islamia-struggleandsuccess.shtml (678 words)

	Press Reports
		A rare recital by Abdul Karim Khan in the second decade of the 20
		The Abdul Karim Khan piece, which we got hold of very recently, was recorded by a British researcher on a small wired disc," says Amit Mukherjee, executive director, SRA, adding that 1912 recordings of Faiyaz Khan and Bawera Rahmat Khan also need urgent restoration.
		For instance, Abdul Karim Khan’s early recording gives us an insight into his style and quality of voice in his youth," explains Mukherjee.
	www.itcportal.com /newsroom/press_nov22_03.htm (484 words)

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