‘My Name is Gauhar Jaan!’: The Life and Times of a Musician

Vikram Sampath

Rupa

346 pages, Rs 595

Gauhar Jaan of Calcutta (1873-1930) is one of the legends of Indian music history and the first Indian to record on a gramophone disc. Sampath brings to life this fascinating woman, from her early days in Azamgarh and Banaras to the glory years in Calcutta, when Gauhar ruled the world of Indian music, to her sad fall from grace and death in Mysore.