{"id":20164,"date":"2017-01-11T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=20164"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:17:26","slug":"abdul-halim-jaffer-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/abdul-halim-jaffer-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan passed away, He was a-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Table player<br \/>\n(b) Sitar player<br \/>\n(c) Clarinet player<br \/>\n(d) Santoor Palyer<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 4 January 2017; renowned sitar player Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan passed away. He was 88.<\/li>\n<li>He was born in 1927, in jaora, Madhya Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>He was the last survivor of the &#8216;Sitar Trinity&#8217; of India along with the late Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan.<\/li>\n<li>He hailed from the Indore Gharana and is credited for innovating the unique music style of &#8216;Jafferkhani Baaj&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>He played the sitar for various Bollywood films, including &#8220;Mughal-E-Azam&#8221;, &#8220;Kohinoor&#8221;, &#8220;Goonj Uthi Shehnai&#8221; and &#8220;Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje&#8221;, among many others.<\/li>\n<li>In 1976, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan created the Halim Academy of Sitar in Mumbai, India.<\/li>\n<li>He received the national awards Padma Shri (1970) and Padma Bhushan (2006) and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1987.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/sitar-maestro-abdul-halim-jaffer-khan-dead-at-88-1645133\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/sitar-maestro-abdul-halim-jaffer-khan-dead-at-88-1645133<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/a-musicians-musician-abdul-halim-jaffer-khan-death-sitar-maestro-indian-music-system-4460914\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/a-musicians-musician-abdul-halim-jaffer-khan-death-sitar-maestro-indian-music-system-4460914\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Halim_Jaffer_Khan\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Halim_Jaffer_Khan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan passed away, He was a- (a) Table player (b) Sitar player (c) Clarinet player (d) Santoor Palyer Ans: (b) Related facts: On 4 January 2017; renowned sitar player Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan passed away. He was 88. He was born in 1927, in jaora, Madhya Pradesh. He was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-20164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}