Naubat Khan

Naubat Khan
Naubat Khan
	Portrait of Naubat Khan Kalawant by Ustad Mansur, Mughal School ca. 1600, British Museum, London.
Background information
Birth name	Misri Singh
Born	Kishangarh, Rajasthan
Genres	Hindustani Classical Music
Occupation(s)	Karori, Beenkar, Classical Mughal Era Musician, Darogha of Naqqar Khana
Instrument	Rudra veena

Naubat Khan (also known as Ali Khan Karori) was an Indian classical music composer, musician and instrumentalist who was made a Mansabdar by Mughal Emperor Akbar. He is known today for his skills with the rudra veena or bīn, which he is shown playing in paintings by Mughal court artists. Naubat Khan was the contemporary and son in law of legendary Tansen.^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b Bonnie C. Wade (January 1998). Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. University of Chicago Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-226-86841-7.
^ Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) (1909). Henry Beveridge (ed.). The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, Or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr. Translated by Alexander Rogers. London: Royal Asiatic Society. p. 111. On the 14th I gave 'Alī Khān Kaṛorī, who was one of my revered father's old servants and was the dārogha of the Naqārakhāna (drum-house), the title of Naubat Khān, and promoted him to the rank of 500 personal and 200 horse.

[Wade1998-1] Bonnie C. Wade (January 1998). Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. University of Chicago Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-226-86841-7.

[Hindustan1989-2] Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) (1909). Henry Beveridge (ed.). The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, Or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr. Translated by Alexander Rogers. London: Royal Asiatic Society. p. 111. On the 14th I gave 'Alī Khān Kaṛorī, who was one of my revered father's old servants and was the dārogha of the Naqārakhāna (drum-house), the title of Naubat Khān, and promoted him to the rank of 500 personal and 200 horse.

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