"Northern Indian classical music […] though it lent itself easily to temporary fashions […] seems to have remained the same in spite of temporary changes. It still conforms with the definitions in some of the most ancient books. The stories that relate how the various styles of northern Indian music were developed by musicians of the Mohammedan period seem usually unfounded. Under Muslim rule, age-old stories were retold as if they had happened at the court of Akbar, so as to make them acceptable to new rulers and win the practice and honors bestowed on the creative artistes of the day. Such transfer of legends is frequent everywhere. We should therefore not be surprised to find ancient musical forms and musical instruments being given Persian-sounding names and starting a new career as the innovations of the Mughal courts"
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(DANIELOU:1949:34).DANIELOU 1949: Northern Indian Music, Vol. 1. Danielou, Alain. Christopher Johnson, London, 1949. Quoted in [https://talageri.blogspot.com/2020/02/musical-scales-that-and-raga-ii_88.html
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