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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Chhote Rahimat Khan
| image = Чхоте Рахимат Кхан на VIII Международном фестивале «Ситар в Петербурге». Санкт-Петербург, Капелла, 25.10.2015.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}}
| birth_place = [[Dharwad]], [[Karnataka]]
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| genre = [[Hindustani classical music]]
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| instrument = [[Sitar]]
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'''Chhote Rahimat Khan''' (born 1959), is a [[Hindustani music|Hindustani]] classical [[sitar]] player of the Bande Ali Khan (beenkar) Gharana, taught by his father, Abdul Karim Khan, and grandfather, Ratna Rahimat Khan, as well as his older brothers. Rahimat Khan is the elder brother of Ustad Bale Khan and a young twin brother, [[Ustad Shafique Khan]], [[Rafique Khan]] also a sitarist.

Belonging to the seventh generation of musicians from [[Dharwad]], [[Gwalior]], he received the majority of his training from his father, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, although he has also benefited from the influence of his legendary grandfather, Sitar Ratna Rahimat Khan (born 1863). Ratna Rahimat Khan, a disciple of the great master, Ustad Bande Ali Khan, was a [[rudra vina]] and [[sitar]] player who was responsible not only for modifying the three-string sitar to the seven-string instrument that we have today,<ref>[http://swarmala.com/instruments.shtml SwarMala: Composition and Accompaniment using Indian Musical Instruments]</ref> but also for reunifying the instrumental [[khyal]] of the [[Gwalior gharana]] with the instrumental [[dhrupad]] of [[Gwalior]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20070812232344/http://www.gwaliorworld.com/print.php?news.13 Gwaliorworld.com: The Style of Gwalior Gharana]</ref> It is this inimitable legacy that gives his music a unique and distinctive colour, rarely experienced in modern music circles. His music is a sonorous blend of both Gayaki Ang, which aims to imitate the tonal nuance of the human voice on the instrument, and Tantakari Ang, the more traditional instrumental style played on the instrument.

== Recognition and achievements ==

He secured second prize in the All India Radio Music Competition held in Dharwad in 1978, at the age of 19, and also won the first award in the preliminary and final round of the Yuva Sangeet Nrithya Mahotsav organized by the South Central Zone Cultural Centre at [[Nagpur]] on 6 October 1987. He is a regular artist on AIR Dharwad and AIR Panaji, [[Goa]].

== Music direction ==

He is also a music director. He scored music to ''Vadhachakra'', the first Marathi film of Goa, in 1992, and also to ''[[Tulsi(film)|Tulsi]]'', a Konkani Tele Film, in 1994. He has also scored live music for one of [[Kālidāsa]]’s plays, ''[[Abhijñānaśākuntalam|Abhidnyan Shakuntal]]'', staged by Prof. Kamalakar Sonatakke, on 16 and 17 December 2005.

== Current position ==

Ustad Chhote Rahimat Khan has been the Head of the Sitar Faculty at [[Kala Academy]] in Goa for several years now, and has also given public performances in numerous festivals in Asia and in Europe. Besides many concerts in India, he has performed in the UK, Portugal, China, France, Finland, Malaysia and Singapore.
He is a recognised 'Top' graded artist of the All India Radio.

== References ==

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== External links ==

* Official Website [https://web.archive.org/web/20140728014708/http://www.chhoterahimatkhan.com/]
* Other Website [http://ragakhan.free.fr/portraitchhoteanglais.htm]

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