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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1939}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Devakottai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2008|8|15|1939}}<br />
| death_place = India<br />
| occupation = Musician<br />
| mother = Lakshmi Ammal<br />
| father = Devakottai Narayana Iyer<br />
| spouse = Padmanabhan Neelakantan<br />
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| genre = [[Carnatic music]]<br />
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* [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]<br />
* [[Kalaimamani]] Award<br />
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'''Rajeswari Padmanabhan''' (1939-2008) was a [[Veena]] artist from [[Tamil Nadu]], India. Rajeshwari was the ninth generation descendant of the Karaikudi Veena tradition in [[Carnatic music]]. She received many awards including [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] and [[Kalaimamani]] Award given by the Tamil Nadu Eyal Isai Nataka Mantram.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Rajeshwari Padmanabhan was born in 1939 in [[Devakottai|Devakottai, Sivaganga district]], [[Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]], the daughter of Lakshmi Ammal and the granddaughter of Karaikudi Subbarama Iyer, the eldest of the Karaikudi Veena brothers.<ref name="dhwaniohio">{{cite web |title=Rajeswari Padmanabhan |url=https://dhvaniohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/rajeswari_padmanabhan-nov2008.pdf}}</ref><br />
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Rajeswari died on 15 August 2008.<ref name="dhwaniohio"/><br />
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Her daughter Sreevidhya Chandramouli is a tenth-generation descendent of the Karaikudi Veena tradition.<ref>[https://natural-history.uoregon.edu/sreevidhya-chandramouli Museum of Natural and Cultural History]</ref><br />
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==Music career==<br />
[[File:Saraswati veena (Indian long-necked lute).png|thumb|[[Saraswati vina]] from Rajeswari Padmanabhan by 1991, from 2019 Musikinstrumentensammlung of [[University of Göttingen]]<ref>[https://sammlungen.uni-goettingen.de/objekt/record_kuniweb_1334035/1/-/ University of Göttingen]</ref>]]<br />
Rajeshwari was the ninth generation descendant of the Karaikudi Veena tradition.<ref name="carnaticstudent">{{cite web |title=Rajeswari Padmanabhan – carnaticstudent.org |url=https://www.carnaticstudent.org/more-about-the-course-and-the-tutors/sreevidhya-chandramouli/rajeswari-padmanabhan/ |website=www.carnaticstudent.org}}</ref> From the age of five, she began to study Veena under her grandfather and younger brother of the Karaikudi brothers, [[Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer]], in the [[gurukula]] system and continued under his guidance until Maestro's death in 1958.<ref name="dhwaniohio"/> She also learned [[Carnatic music|Carnatic vocal]] music from Mysore Vasudevachar, under the Government of India scholarship.<ref name="carnaticstudent"/> Retired as Principal, she worked and taught at Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts ([[Kalakshetra Foundation|Kalakshetra]]) for many years.<ref name="dhwaniohio"/> Besides performing, she has also composed a few [[varnam]]s and [[tillana]]s and has composed music for the dance drama ''Kumbheshwar Kuravanji''.<ref name="dhwaniohio"/><br />
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==Awards and honors==<br />
*[[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]<ref name="dhwaniohio"/><br />
*[[Kalaimamani]]<ref name="dhwaniohio"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.sruti.com/index.php?route=archives/interview_details&intId=56 Interview with Rajeswari Padmanabhan, in Sruthi magazine]<br />
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