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	\| name = Omkarnath Thakur		\| name = Omkarnath Thakur
	\| image =Omkarnath Thakur 1997 stamp of India.jpg		\| image = Omkarnath Thakur 1997 stamp of India.jpg
	\| alt =		\| alt =
	\| caption = Pandit Omkarnath Thakur		\| caption = Pandit Omkarnath Thakur
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	\|honorific_prefix = [[Pandit]]		\| honorific_prefix = [[Pandit]]
	\| background = solo_singer		\| background = solo_singer
	\| birth_name =		\| birth_name = Omkarnath thakur
	\| alias =		\| alias =
	\| birth_date = {{birth date\|df=yes\|1897\|06\|24}}<ref name=pr>{{cite web \|title=AIR Archives: Pt Omkarnath Thakur \|url=http://prasarbharati.gov.in/Archives/AIR+Archives/Pt+Omkarnath+Thakur.htm \|publisher=[[Prasar Bharati]] }}</ref>		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|df=yes\|1897\|06\|24}}<ref name=pr>{{cite web \|title=AIR Archives: Pt Omkarnath Thakur \|url=http://prasarbharati.gov.in/Archives/AIR+Archives/Pt+Omkarnath+Thakur.htm \|publisher=[[Prasar Bharati]] }}</ref>
	\|birth_place =Jahaj,Khambhat (Gujarat) [[Baroda State]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj\|British India]] (present-day [[Gujarat]], [[India]])		\| birth_place = Jahaj,Khambhat (Gujarat) [[Baroda State]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj\|British India]] (present-day [[Gujarat]], [[India]])
	\| death_date = {{death date and age\|df=yes\|1967\|12\|29\|1897\|06\|24}}<ref name=all/>		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|df=yes\|1967\|12\|29\|1897\|06\|24}}<ref name=all/>
	\|death_place =[[Bombay]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]] (present-day [[Mumbai]])		\| death_place = [[Bombay]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]] (present-day [[Mumbai]])
	\| origin =		\| origin =
	\| instrument = [[singing]]		\| instrument = [[singing]], [[israj]], [[mridangam]], [[harmonium]]
	\| genre = [[Hindustani classical music]]		\| genre = [[Hindustani classical music]]
	\| occupation = music educator, musicologist		\| occupation = music educator, musicologist
	\| years_active = 1918–1960s		\| years_active = 1918–1960s
	\| label =		\| label =
	\| associated_acts = [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]]		\| associated_acts = [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]]
	\| website =		\| website =
	}}		}}
	[[Pandit\|Pt.]] '''Omkarnath Thakur''' (24 June 1897 – 29 December 1967), was an ~~[[India]]n~~ music teacher, musicologist and [[Hindustani classical music\|Hindustani classical]] singer. A disciple of classical singer [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]] of [[Gwalior gharana]], he became the principal of [[Gandharva Mahavidyalaya]], [[Lahore]], and later went on become the first dean of the music faculty at [[Banaras Hindu University]].He also wrote book "sangeetanjli" vol 1 to 6		[[Pandit\|Pt.]] '''Omkarnath Thakur''' (24 June 1897 – 29 December 1967), was an Indian music teacher, musicologist and [[Hindustani classical music\|Hindustani classical]] singer. A disciple of classical singer [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]] of [[Gwalior gharana]], he became the principal of [[Gandharva Mahavidyalaya]], [[Lahore]], and later went on become the first dean of the music faculty at [[Banaras Hindu University]].He also wrote book "sangeetanjli" vol 1 to 6

	==Early life and training==		==Early life and training==
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{{Infobox musical artist 
| name = Omkarnath Thakur
| image =Omkarnath Thakur 1997 stamp of India.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Pandit Omkarnath Thakur
| image_size =
|honorific_prefix = [[Pandit]]
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name =
| alias =
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1897|06|24}}<ref name=pr>{{cite web |title=AIR Archives: Pt Omkarnath Thakur |url=http://prasarbharati.gov.in/Archives/AIR+Archives/Pt+Omkarnath+Thakur.htm |publisher=[[Prasar Bharati]] }}</ref>
|birth_place =Jahaj,Khambhat (Gujarat) [[Baroda State]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Gujarat]], [[India]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1967|12|29|1897|06|24}}<ref name=all/>
|death_place =[[Bombay]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]] (present-day [[Mumbai]])
| origin =
| instrument = [[singing]]
| genre = [[Hindustani classical music]]
| occupation = music educator, musicologist
| years_active = 1918–1960s
| label =
| associated_acts = [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]]
| website =
}}
[[Pandit|Pt.]] '''Omkarnath Thakur''' (24 June 1897 – 29 December 1967), was an [[India]]n music teacher, musicologist and [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani classical]] singer. A disciple of classical singer [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]] of [[Gwalior gharana]], he became the principal of [[Gandharva Mahavidyalaya]], [[Lahore]], and later went on become the first dean of the music faculty at [[Banaras Hindu University]].He also wrote book "sangeetanjli" vol 1 to 6

==Early life and training==
Thakur was born in 1897 in a village called Jahaj <ref name=pr/> in the [[Princely State of Baroda]] (5 km from [[Khambhat]] in present-day [[Anand District]], Gujarat, into a poor military family. His grandfather Mahashankar Thakur had fought in the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] for [[Nanasaheb Peshwa]]. His father Gaurishankar Thakur was also in the military, employed by Maharani Jamnabai of Baroda, where he commanded 200 [[cavalrymen]].<ref name=wa258>[[#Wa|Wade, p. 258]]</ref> The family moved to [[Bharuch]] in 1900, though soon the family faced financial difficulties, as his father left the military to become a renunciate ([[sanyasi]]), leaving his wife to run the household, thus by the age of five Thakur started helping her out by doing various odd jobs, in mills, [[Ramlila]] troupe and even as a domestic help. When he was fourteen his father died.<ref name=wa258/>

Impressed by his singing Thakur and his younger brother Ramesh Chandra were sponsored by a wealthy [[Parsi]] philanthropist Shahpurji Mancherji Dungaji in circa 1909 to train in [[Hindustani classical music]] in the [[Gandharva Mahavidyalaya]], a music school in Bombay, under classical singer [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]].<ref name=wa259>[[#Wa|Wade, p. 259]]</ref> Thakur soon became a singer in the style of the [[Gwalior gharana|Gwalior ''gharana'']] and started accompanying his guru and other musicians. Later in his career he developed his own distinct style.<ref name=wa259/> Eventually, he made his concert debut in 1918, though he continued his training under his guru, Paluskar, until the latter's death in 1931.<ref name=all/>

==Career==
Thakur was made the principal of a [[Lahore]] branch of Paluskar's Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in 1916. Here he became acquainted with the [[Patiala gharana|Patiala ''gharana'']] singers like [[Ali Baksh]] and Kale Khan, paternal uncle of [[Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]]. In 1919, he returned to Bharuch and started his own music school, ''Gandharva Niketan''. During the 1920s, Thakur worked for the [[non-cooperation movement]] of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] on a local level, as he became the President of Bharuch District Congress Committee of [[Indian National Congress]].<ref name=wa259/> His performances of patriotic song ''[[Vande Mataram]]'' were a regular feature of annual sessions of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Omkarnath Thakur |url=http://www.kamat.com/database/articles/omkarnath_thakur.htm |date= 27 December 1992 |publisher=Kamat, The Times of India, Bombay}}</ref> Thakur toured Europe in 1933 and became one of the first Indian musicians to perform in Europe. During this tour, he performed privately for [[Benito Mussolini]].<ref>"Omkarnath Thakur & Benito Mussolini" ''Sruti'' 163 (April 1998) 19–21.</ref> Thakur's wife Indira Devi died the same year and he began to concentrate exclusively on music.

Thakur's work as a performer and musicologist led to the creation of a music college at [[Banaras Hindu University]] that emphasized both, here he was first dean of the music faculty.<ref name=all>{{cite web |title=Omkarnath Thakur |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/omkarnath-thakur-mn0001830095 |publisher=Allmusic }}</ref> He wrote books on Indian classical music and its history. Thakur's work is criticized in contemporary music literature as ignorant of the contribution of Muslim musicians, which he blamed for deteriorating classical music.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} Thakur performed in Europe until 1954 and received the [[Padma Shri]] in 1955 <ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards|publisher=[[Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)|Ministry of Communications and Information Technology]]|url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/advsearch_awards.php?start=0&award_year=1955&state=&field=3&p_name=&award=All|access-date=6 December 2009}}</ref> and the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|title=SNA: List of Akademi Awardees – Music – Vocal |publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] |url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm#HindustaniMusicVocal |access-date=6 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204253/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm |archive-date=30 May 2015 }}</ref> He retired in 1963 and was awarded honorary doctorates from [[Banaras Hindu University]] in 1963 and [[Rabindra Bharati University]] in 1964. Having survived a heart attack in 1954, he suffered a stroke in July 1965, which left him partially paralyzed for the last two years of his life.<ref name=all/>

==See also==
*[[List of people on stamps of India]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==Bibliography==
* ''A Comparative Study of Khyāl Style: Pandit Omkarnath Thakur and His Student Pandit B.R. Bhatt'', by Harriotte Cook Hurie. Wesleyan University, 1980.
*{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wade |first=Bonnie C. |editor=Sadie, Stanley |encyclopedia=[[Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians]] |title=Thakur, Omkarnath |edition=2nd |year=2001 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]] |volume=25 |location=London |isbn=0-333-60800-3 |pages=336–337}}
*{{cite book |title=Khyāl:Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition |last=Wade |first=Bonnie C. |year=1984 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiE9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA258|location=Cambridge |isbn=0-521-25659-3 |pages=258–260|ref=Wa}}

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