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Indian sitar and surbahar player

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
India
Active from
1895
Active to
1938

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Usad Enayat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان ) (1894 - 1938) was one of India's most influential sitar and surbahar players in the first decades of the 20th Century. He was the father of Vilayat Khan, one of the topmost sitariyas of the postwar period. Enayat Khan was born in Uttar Pradesh into a family of musicians. His father was the great sitar maestro Imdad Khan, who taught him the sitar and surbahar (bass sitar) in the family style, known as the Imdadkhani Gharana or Etawah Gharana (school) <a href="

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Family name
Khan
Gender
male
Citizenship
British Raj
Place of birth
Uttar Pradesh
Place of death
Kolkata
Religion
Islam
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date of birth
1895-01-01
date of death
1938-01-01
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