The Harmonium in North Indian Music Centre for Studies in Civilizations Scope of the Present Book

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overcoming all the forces of evil and ignorance

The present work is a revised version of my Ph

and a vague notion as to some of the doctrines

I take this opportunity to offer my humble thanks to the President of the Advaita Ashrama for having kindly agreed to publish it

The Harmonium in North Indian Music Centre for Studies in Civilizations Scope of the Present BookThe harmonium holds ambiguous reputation in India as well as in its home continent of Europe. There is an abundance of clear statements made by distinguished Indian musicians, theoreticians and also politics who time and again would decry the instrument. Rabindranath Tagores famous description of the harmonium as that bane of Indian Music is just one example. And yet, the harmonium is agrubly the instruments the instrument most widely used for