ABSTRACT
In broad terms, the history of scholarship on Indian music begins with the insular elaboration of a tradition by Indian writers and proceeds toward increasing Western influence, international authors, and a multitude of approaches. This has been by no means an evolutionary progression, but rather the Indian scene responding to the impact of Western colonialism and the global spread of technology. Scholarly sources during the first half of the period are generally theoretical treatises and court chronicles; later contacts with European scholarship resulted in increasingly diversified forms of monographs.
