"“The Hindu theory is not like other systems, limited to experimental data: it does not consider arbitrarily as natura…"

"What real music we have lies in Kirtana and Dhrupada: the rest has been spoiled by being modulated according to the I…"

"Musical notes and intervals were analyzed and mathematically calculated in the Hindu treatises on music; and the “Pyt…"

"Music in India has a history of at least three thousand years. The Vedic hymns, like all Hindu poetry, were written t…"

"For listening to music, in India, is itself an art, and requires long training of ear and soul."

"The Indian system of notation is perhaps the oldest and most elaborate. There are ragas meant to be sung in winter, i…"

"It is in the domain of music in particular that the contribution of Muslims is the greatest. It is, however, difficul…"

"The roots of music are more exposed in India than anywhere else. The Vedda in Ceylon possess the earliest stage of si…"

"The "naïve belief of historically untrained minds that patterns usual in the person’s own time and country are ‘natur…"

"Muslim rulers and nobles always patronised music throughout the medieval times... Indian classical music survived thr…"