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- ↑ "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees". Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016.
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- Kumar Prasad Mukherji (2006). The Lost World of Hindustani Music. Penguin Books India. ISBN 0143061992.
