Notable examples are Jerry Goodman with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Jean-Luc Ponty, Don " Sugarcane " Harris and Shankar, with Frank Zappa, all usually engaged in long wah-wah violin / guitar duels.

Uday's dance group toured Europe and America in the early to mid-1930s and Shankar learned French, discovered Western classical music, jazz, and cinema, and became acquainted with Western customs.

Shankar founded the Indian National Orchestra at AIR and composed for it ; in his compositions he combined Western and classical Indian instrumentation.

V. K. Narayana Menon, director of AIR Delhi, introduced the Western violinist Yehudi Menuhin to Shankar during Menuhin's first visit to India in 1952.

Shankar opened a Western branch of the Kinnara School of Music in Los Angeles, California, in May 1967, and published an autobiography, My Music, My Life, in 1968.

The partnership was particularly successful, and his legendary and spellbinding performances with Shankar at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969 served to introduce classical Indian music to general Western audiences.

In the Western Constituency, A. D. Patel defeated Deo Sharma, president of the Kisan Sangh by 6244 votes to 3346, in the North Viti Levu Constituency, Sidiq Koya defeated James Shankar Singh by 3, 998 votes to 3, 480 and in the Northern Constituency James Madhavan defeated Harish Chandra Kohli by 2, 753 votes to 2, 175.

** Ananda Shankar ( 1942 – 1999 ), Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles.

Lal toured with Ravi Shankar, Aashish Khan, Vasant Rai, and Ali Akbar Khan in the 1950s and early 60s and helped popularize the tabla in Western countries.

Uday Shankar ( 8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977 ) (), the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of modern Indian dance, which he later popularized in India, Europe, and the United States in 1920s and 1930s and effectively placed Indian dance on the world map.

While Ananda Shankar was a musician and music composer who trained with Dr. Lalmani Misra rather than his uncle, Ravi Shankar, and in time became known for his fusion music, encompassing both Western and Indian music styles.

Before the Western portion of the concerts, there was also the notoriously hard-to-record Indian string instruments of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan to amplify, together with Alla Rakha ’ s tabla and the drone-enhancing tambura played by Kamala Chakravarty − each offering natural musical tones so easily lost in the " cavernous Garden ".

Reputed names in the domain of Indian classical music like Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan and Ram Narayan have also composed music for films.

After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

Shankar heard the lead musician for the Maihar court, Allauddin Khan, in December 1934 at a music conference in Kolkata and Uday convinced the Maharaja of Maihar in 1935 to allow Khan to become his group's soloist for a tour of Europe.

Shankar gave up his dancing career in 1938 to go to Maihar and study Indian classical music as Khan's pupil, living with his family in the traditional gurukul system.

Shankar recomposed the music for the popular song " Sare Jahan Se Achcha " at the age of 25.

Shankar had performed as part of a cultural delegation in the Soviet Union in 1954 and Menuhin invited Shankar in 1955 to perform in New York City for a demonstration of Indian classical music, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

In 1958, Shankar participated in the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations and UNESCO music festival in Paris.

In October 1970 Shankar became chair of the department of Indian music of the California Institute of the Arts after previously teaching at the City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and being guest lecturer at other colleges and universities, including the Ali Akbar College of Music.

Interest in Indian music had decreased in the early 1970s, but the concert album became one of the best-selling recordings featuring it and won Shankar a second Grammy Award.

Shankar developed a style distinct from that of his contemporaries and incorporated influences from rhythm practices of Carnatic music.

Shankar won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 1957 Berlin International Film Festival for composing the music for the movie Kabuliwala.

In 2001, Shankar was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II for his " services to music ".

Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1997 received the Praemium Imperiale for music from the Japan Art Association.

* Ravi Shankar becomes music director of All India Radio.

* December-Ali Akbar Khan accompanies Ravi Shankar on the sarod during the latter's debut performance at the annual music conference in Allahabad.

In addition, Shankar and another legend of Indian music, Ali Akbar Khan, performed a separate set.

The concert opened with a traditional Sanskrit invocation, the Sarvesham chant, followed by Indian music when Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, played " Your Eyes ".

He also had a strong interest in what might now be termed world music, playing Brazilian-influenced jazz with Laurindo Almeida in 1953-54, and in 1962 fusing jazz with Indian traditions in collaboration with Indian composer and sitar-player Ravi Shankar.

Nati Kaji and Shiva Shankar were the music composers of the songs.

* Any Time Murder, a reference to the role performed by Meka Srikanth in the film Shankar Dada MBBS

* December 24 – Ramsewak Shankar is ousted as President of Suriname by a military coup.

In March 2010, Disney Channel aired a version of the story, Blog Wars, with Wizards of Waverly Place cast member Jennifer Stone as Harriet, Alexander Conti from Cheaper by the Dozen 2 as Harriet's friend Sport, and Degrassi: The Next Generations Melinda Shankar as Janie.

A sitar can have 21, 22, or 23 strings, among them six or seven played strings which run over the frets: the Gandhaar-pancham sitar ( used by Vilayat Khan and his disciples ) has six playable strings, whereas the Kharaj-pancham sitar, used in the Maihar gharana, to which Ravi Shankar belongs, and other gharanas such as Bishnupur, has seven.

In one or more of the more common tunings ( used by Ravi Shankar, among others, called " Kharaj Pancham " sitar ) the playable strings are strung in this fashion:

* The Blast ( album ), an album by Yuvan Shankar Raja

Shankar was sporadically trained by Khan on tour, and Khan offered Shankar training to become a serious musician under the condition that he abandon touring and come to Maihar.

During the visit, a documentary film about Shankar named Raga was shot by Howard Worth, and released in 1971.

Shankar's association with Harrison greatly increased Shankar's popularity and Ken Hunt of Allmusic would state that Shankar had become " the most famous Indian musician on the planet " by 1966.

Shankar toured and taught for the remainder of the 1970s and the 1980s and released his second concerto, Raga Mala, conducted by Zubin Mehta, in 1981.

Anoushka performed a composition by Shankar for the 2002 Harrison memorial Concert for George and Shankar wrote a third concerto for sitar and orchestra for Anoushka and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Shankar often closes his performances with a piece inspired by the light-classical thumri genre.

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers used " The Trembler ", a track written by Eddy and Ravi Shankar.

* Double Trouble ( 2012 Telugu film ), a comedy starring and directed by Ravi Shankar

Sardar Patel-select Correspondence 1945-50 edited by R. Shankar ; Anatomy of Confrontation by S. Gopal ) Under Pant's orders, Chief Secretary Bhagwan Sahay and Inspector-General of Police V. N.

The Concert for Bangladesh ( or Bangla Desh, as the country name was spelled originally ) was the name for two benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 7 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, playing to a total of 40, 000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Shankar ’ s original hope was to raise a humble $ 25, 000 through a benefit concert of his own, compered perhaps by actor Peter Sellers.