About this stamp
Master of the Sarangi
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 13 December 2018 for Ustad Sabri Khan (1927–2015), the sarangi player. He was born on 21 May 1927 at Moradabad into the Senia Moradabad gharana, whose tradition goes back to Tansen. He learnt from his grandfather Ustad Haji Mohammed Khan and his father Ustad Chajju Khan, and rare techniques from his uncle Ustad Laddan Khan of Rampur.
A Difficult Instrument
He developed his own style on this demanding bowed instrument and is credited with introducing the sarangi to audiences in America and Europe; he played the first sarangi and violin duet with Yehudi Menuhin and was a visiting professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was among the All India Radio musicians who performed at Parliament House on 15 August 1947, and played for Jawaharlal Nehru when he was ill. He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan, and died in New Delhi on 1 December 2015, aged 88. His son Kamal Sabri and grandsons carry on the tradition.
On the Stamp
Ustad Sabri Khan in a pink kurta, playing the sarangi against a blue patterned background. It was designed by Kamleshwar Singh; 500,000 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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