Overview of Pandit Bhatkhande’s Literature

Pandit Yashwant Mahale, a sprightly octogenarian, is, perhaps, the last musician among the generation of stalwarts, trained in Guru- Shishya system under Bhatkhande Tradition. Even at this age, he utilizes most of his time on sharing his knowledge through participation in seminars, teaching senior disciples and guiding research students. Although he held a very responsible position in Life Insurance Corporation of India, he was fortunate to receive rigorous training in classical music for about 4 decades under the able guidance of renowned Gurus, such as, Pandit Vinayakrao Lele , Pandit G N Natu , Ustad Rahimuddin Khan Dagar, Acharya S N Ratanjankar and Pandit K G Ginde. Acharya Ratanjankar inherited a wealth of knowledge from Pandit V N Bhatkhande. Dr. Ratanjankar passed on the same to Pandit Yashwant Mahale with full confidence that he would meticulously preserve the same and ensure dissemination of the limitless knowledge internalized by him.

The author of the website, Sudhir Gadre, is greatly privileged to receive guidance from and active participation of Pandit Yashwant Mahale in the project of archiving the vast literature published by Pandit V N Bhatkhande.

Pt. Bhatkhande’s {Wiki Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Narayan_Bhatkhande}
extensive literature can be broadly classified into four groups:

1) Books covering the theory of Hindustani Classical Music propounded by him and Compositions collected and notated by him- 17 Books documenting the theory of Hindustani Classical Music (H C M) evolved by him after critical study and analysis of Sanskrit treatises, and absorbing and documenting the prevailing practice of H C M by learning from stalwarts of different Gharanas. In order to preserve the heritage of H C M, he evolved a Notation System for H C M and notated 1898 Bandishes * (including 382 Bandishes composed by himself) - totalling to nearly 7,000 pages of enormous literature;

2) Editing and printing old treatises- 22 books- Editing and printing of manuscripts of old treatises on Music collected by him during his tours of different cities and towns in the country; and

3) Reports of All India Music Conferences-Reports of Five All India Music Conferences organized by him and