ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches some of the relationships between movements of musical revival and reform in England and India, and the mutual effects of their interpenetration, concentrating on the period from 1874 to 1914. It aims to intend as a move towards more relational view of music history, in which we may look beyond a priori divisions of the musical world associated with nation states. The chapter proposes, in effect, to address the modern music histories of India and the West, their mutual influence and the complicity of their discourses of difference and exclusion, within the wider contexts of colonialism and Orientalist thought. The wider Indian renaissance to which Keskar refers is generally seen as both a reaction to British rule and a movement influenced by Western ideas. The Indian musical renaissance developed in at least two distinct waves in this period: the first in Calcutta, Poona and Madras from the 1870s, the second spreading outwards from Maharashtra from the 1900s.
