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Ghulam ali songs: Ghulam Ali is considered one of the greatest ghazal singers of his era. He has also been a prominent playback singer in Bollywood. He is a disciple of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (elder Ghulam Ali Khan). Ali was also trained by Bade Ghulam Ali's younger brothers – Barkat Ali Khan and Mubarak Ali Khan.

Ghulam Ali Khan

Indian painter (fl–)

Ghulam Ali Khan was a nineteenth century Indian painter in Delhi.[1] His painting career took place over the course of more than four decades, from to [2] He was the last royal Mughal painter, and also painted in the Company style for British patrons.[3]

Early life

Ghulam Ali Khan was born in the late eighteenth century.[4] At this time, Shah Alam II presided over the Mughal Empire, but in the British occupied Delhi.[5] Khan grew up and worked in a society that included Mughal and British cultures.

He was the nephew of noted Mughal painter, Ghulam Murtaza Khan.[6]

Career

Ghulam Ali Khan was the court painter of Mughal emperorsAkbar II (reigned – CE) and Bahadur Shah II (reigned – CE) in Delhi.[4] As well as working for the royal Mughal court, Ghulam Ali Khan received commissions from British officers in the East India Company -- particularly Colonel James Skinner and officer William Fraser -- and from regional courts, such as the court of Jhajjar and Alwar.

His artwork conveyed picturesque aesthetics and incorporated a Mughal painting style (such as in royal portraiture)[5] with the more European Company Style.

Painting Members of the Mughal Court

In the nineteenth century there was a shift in Mughal manuscript iconography that gave greater emphasis to architectural representation.[5] The first artwork attributed to Ghulam Ali Khan is TheDiwan-i Khan in the palace in the Delhi Fort [Red Fort] from .[4] The red tent in this watercolor serves as a stand-in for the emperor in his absence.

Wikipedia on ghulam ali khan age Following partition of India in , Kasur Tehsil was allocated to Pakistan. At the age of five, Bade Ghulam began training in vocal music from his chacha Kale Khan, and later from his father. Out of the seven sons, three have carried on the Gharana lineage and are still singing. Raza Ali Khan is carrying on the Gharana customs as well. Though he started his career by singing a few compositions of his late father Ali Baksh Khan and uncle Kale Khan, Bade Ghulam amalgamated the best of three traditions into his own Patiala-Kasur style:.

He was a formal court painter since when he produced portraits for Akbar II and his son Mirza Salim.[2] Khan signed these two portraits as "His Majesty's Painter" and "His Majesty's devoted faithful servant."[4] A decade later in Khan painted the accession portraits of Bahadur Shah with his sons[2] where they are set against the backdrop of the fireplace from the Zafar Mahal.[7] He collaborated on the Portraits of the Exalted Emperors, producing the visual imperial genealogy in [4] Other subject matter included painting high class courtesans, tawaifs, such as those featured in Mirza Fakhruddin entertained by musicians in a salon at the Zafar Mahal, [2]

Painting Beyond the Mughal Court

In , Khan worked on a three-part painting series for Colonel Skinner memorializing portraits of Skinner's cavalry for a private album.[4] These paintings were done in watercolor and gouache.[2] Khan painted for Skinner again completing a portrait of the colonel in [4] He participated in the Fraser Album project which was a collection of Delhi genre paintings.

Ghulam Ali Khan's patronage continued expanding beyond Delhi especially in the s.[2] From , Khan participated in the illuminating of the Gulistan (also known as the Golestan) manuscript for the Raja of Alwar. In the meantime, from Khan also completed the watercolor of the Alwar gaddi for Banni Singh.[4] He painted other commissions for the Alwar court, and he taught at the Alwar school of painting.

His compositions featured the Nawab'Abd al-Rahman Khan (e.g. Nawab 'Abd al-Rahman Khan in court with the envoy of the Raja of Alwar, Capt. Alexander Heatherly, ) and the Nawab of Jhajjar (such as in Nawab of Jhajjar astride a pet tiger, ).[2]

Works

  • A tiger hunt, (Victoria & Albert Museum)

  • Thakur Dawlat Singh among Courtiers, (David Collection)

  • View of the Red Fort, from Sketches of The Delhee Palace & Delhee,

  • Kala, the Sepoy, with Saber Drawn and in Uniform.

    Two miniatures from the Fraser Album, from the workshop of Ghulam Ali Khan Family.

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    Ghulam Ali is considered one of the greatest ghazal singers of his era. He has also been a prominent playback singer in Bollywood. His style and variations in singing Ghazals are unique, as he blends Hindustani classical music with ghazals, unlike any other ghazal singer. In , due to protest by Shiv Sena at Mumbai , his concert was cancelled. In a news item reported in , Ghulam Ali has said that he won't perform in India until situation is right for music.

    Delhi, The David Collection

  • Five Recruits - Ummee Chund, Indur, Goolzaree, Kukhtawur, and Juhaz; from the Fraser Album, ca. (Freer Gallery)

  • Portrait of Akbar II, (British Library)

See also

References

  1. ^William Dalrymple.

    "William Dalrymple on The Dehlie Book &#; Art and design". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 February

  2. ^ abcdefgLosty, Jeremiah.

    "Two Important Late Mughal Group Portraits".

    Ghulam ali Bade Ghulam Ali Khan His was perhaps the greatest voice of the Patiala gharana. His singing was known for its seeming effortlessness, sweetness, flexibility and ease of movement at different speeds. In his music, he blended the best of his native Patiala-Kasur style with the traditions of Behram Khani dhrupad, Jaipur and Gwalior. Born in a musical family at Kasur, Punjab, now in Pakistan, to well known musician Ali Baksh, Ghulam Ali first learned to play the sarangi before he became a concert vocalist, because at the age of twenty, he had to earn a living to support his mother and brother Barkat Ali, when their father remarried.

    Booklet published by Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, London, .

  3. ^"Scenes From a Dying Empire". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 February
  4. ^ abcdefghSharma, Yuthika.

    "In the Company of the Mughal Court, the Delhi Painter Ghulam Ali Khan".

    Wikipedia on ghulam ali khan Ghulam Ali Khan was a nineteenth century Indian painter in Delhi. Ghulam Ali Khan was born in the late eighteenth century. He was the nephew of noted Mughal painter, Ghulam Murtaza Khan. His artwork conveyed picturesque aesthetics and incorporated a Mughal painting style such as in royal portraiture [ 5 ] with the more European Company Style. In the nineteenth century there was a shift in Mughal manuscript iconography that gave greater emphasis to architectural representation.

    W Dalrymple and Y Sharma, Eds. Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi , Yale University Press.

  5. ^ abcDadlani, Chanchal B. (). "Chapter 5: Mughal Architecture Between Manuscript and Print Culture". From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire.

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  14. ^Paliwal, Amita (). "ZAFAR MAHAL: EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF LATE MUGHAL ARCHITECTURE". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 75: – ISSN&#;

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External links

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