Benares gharana
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Benares gharānā is one of the six most common styles of playing of the Indian tabla.
Shahid Parvez Khan at a concert accompanied by Benaras Gharana tabla player Pt. Samta Prasad
Kishan Maharaj
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Pandit Kishan Maharaj was an Indian tabla player who belonged to the Benares gharana of Hindustani classical music.
Benares gharana
…is highly developed in the Benares gharana, and some artists, such as Anokhelal Mishra, Samta Prasad, Nanhku Maharaj (Fardi Baj)13th generations, and Kishan Maharaj, have become famous as tabla soloists. The direct descendants making up the 6th generation of tabla players are Mahapurush Misra, Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay…
Portrait of Priyaranjan Dasmunsi felicitating noted Tabla Maestro Pandit Kishan Maharaj with Life time Award at the annual concert of Shakhri Begum Memorial Trust at Science city Auditorium, Calcutta on December 9, 2006
Kishan Maharaj standing (second row, eighth from left) with other leading musicians in 1948.