Note On Ustad Bismillah Khan And His Music

Introduction

For last few days, I have been studying on Ustad Bismillah Khan. Ustad Bismillah Khan was perhaps the person who brought Shehnai to the center stage of Indian Classical Music and was responsible for making Shehnai a world class Indian Classical Musical instrument. In 2001 he was awarded Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor of India. He was third classical musician of India to receive this award (M. S. Subbulakshmi got the award in 1998 and Pt Ravi Shankar got the award in 1999). Ustad Bismillah Khan was credited with having almost monopoly over the instrument as he and the Shehnai are almost synonyms. Ustad Bismillah Khan had gained worldwide acclaim for playing Shehnai for more than eight decades!
I was planning to write a knol on Ustad Bismillah Khan, but, unfortunately I do not have enough resource to write a standard knol on him.

Study On Ustad Bismillah Khan 

In this Wikipedia article, you will get the biography of Ustad Bismillah Khan. You will get another biography here.
Check this Slide presentation on Ustad Bismillah Khan here.
In internet, you'll not get lots of high standard information on Ustad Bismillah Khan. But, there are some books on Ustad Bismillah Khan, you may buy/collect and read them. Here I am giving a list-
1) Bismillah Khan: The Shehnai Maestro by Neeraj Poddar. (No preview)
2) Bismillah Khan And Benaras: The Seat Of Shehnai by Rita Ganguly  (No preview)
3) Shehnai Vadak Ustad Bismillah Khan by Murli Manohar Shrivastava (Hindi; You will get a preview of this book in the given link too)
4) You can also read Great Muslims Of Undivided India by Nikhat Eqbal (Preview available)

Facebook

You can join Ustad Bismillah Khan Page in Facebook here.

Videos

I am adding some videos of Ustad Bismillah Khanin this post below. You will get more videos here.

 

Images

When you have Google Image Search, it is unnecessary to add images in this post. You will get images of Ustad Bismillah Khan here. Please remember images in Google Image search may be copyrighted. so, check before using them (specially if you are going to use them for commercial purpose).

MP3 Audio Download/Collect

Here you'll get some sites from where you can download MP3 audio of Ustad Bismillah Khan's music. But, you better buy CD or DVD of Ustad Bismillah Khan's music from local store (try to buy original CD or DVD, kill piracy). You can buy online too here. 

Website On Ustad Bismillah Khan

Unfortunately there is not a single website still which is completely dedicated to Ustad Bismillah Khan. I have wish to create such a website, but unfortunately I do not have enough money to afford such a project. If you can help me or if you want me to join your project or if you have any suggestion , please contact me here.