History
The gharana find its origins in Mehboob Khan, the chief khyal singer the royal court of Rampur State (in present Uttar Pradesh), his tradition was followed by his son Inayat Hussain Khan (1849–1919) and in turn by Inyat's brother-in-laws, Haider Khan (1857-1927), and Mushtaq Hussein Khan (d. 1964), thus all the singers were connected with each other, and gharana was named after their ancestral place, Sahaswan, in present Badaun district.
Inayat Khan was a child prodigy, and he married the daughter of Haddu Khan of the Gwalior gharana, and took talim (training) from Ustad Bahadur Hussain Khan, a descendant of Mian Tansen himself. The style has influences of the Dhrupad singing typical of the Gwalior gharana, and the Rampur-Shahaswan style is sometimes regarded as an off-shoot of the Gwalior gharana.
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