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{{Short description|Indian classical musician (1902–1990)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ram Chatur Mallick
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|5 October 1902}}
| birth_place = Amta, [[Darbhanga, Bihar]], India
| death_date = {{d-da|11 January 1990|5 October 1902}}
| death_place = Patna Medical College and Hospital, [[Patna, Bihar]], India
| restingplace = Amta, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
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| othername =
| occupation = Landlord & Indian Classical musician
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| known for = [[Hindustani music]], [[Dhrupad]]
| spouse =
| children = Late Ramji Mallick
| parents = Late Rajit Ram Singh Mallick
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| awards = [[Padma Shri, Tansen Award, Surmani, Doctor of Letters, Sangeet Natak Academy Award, Indira Gandhi Sangeet Peeth Award]]
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'''Pandit Ram Chatur Mallick''' (1902–1990) was an Indian classical musician and an exponent and founder to the outside world of the [[Darbhanga]] [[gharana]] of the [[Dhrupad]] tradition, one of the oldest genres of [[Hindustani music|Hindustani vocal music]].<ref name="Dhrupad Music">{{cite web | url=http://www.dhrupadmusic.org/darbhanga.html | title=Dhrupad Music | publisher=Dhrupad Music | date=2015 | access-date=20 May 2015}}</ref> Known to be the last main court musician at the court of The Darbhanga Royals, following his immediate & direct ancestors from the last 14 generations and one of the closest to the King of the Dharbanga Maharaja Sir Kameshwar Singh, he also was the closest ADC to his highness and responsible for all music related activities on behalf of the King and King's brother, he was a member of the ''Mallick family'' of singers.<ref name="Last FM">{{cite web | url=http://www.last.fm/music/Ram+Chatur+Mallik/+wiki | title=Last FM | publisher=Last FM | date=2015 | access-date=20 May 2015}}</ref> He was honoured by the [[Government of India]] in 1970 with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2015 | access-date=11 November 2014 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Biography==
Pandit Ramchatur Mallick was born at Amta village, a small hamlet in [[Darbhanga district]] in the northern part of the Indian state of [[Bihar]] in 1902.<ref name="Last FM" /> His was a family of musicians in the Karta Ram lineage,<ref name="ITCSRA">{{cite web | url=http://www.itcsra.org/aspfiles/personwindow.asp?personid=217 | title=ITCSRA | publisher=ITCSRA | date=2015 | access-date=20 May 2015}}</ref> known as the Mallick family of [[Dhrupad]] musicians who were court musicians at the Darbhanga court.<ref name="Last FM" /> His father, Rajit Ram, was a known singer and a great poet-writer based upon ancient Vedic scripts who created thousands of hymns to be sung as Dhrupad and was credited with the creation of Raga Vinod, Rajit Ram's hand written vedic hymes all consolidated in the book named "Bhakt Vinod" is still kept by his current descendants.<ref name="All Music review">{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/king-of-dhrupad-ram-chatur-mallik-in-concert-mw0001882196 | title=All Music review | publisher=All Music | date=2015 | access-date=20 May 2015}}</ref> He inherited the skills from the legacy traditional routine of his family and from his father and later trained under Kshitipal Mallick, a renowned musician of those days.<ref name="Last FM" /> and later under Rameshwar Pathak who is known to be the greatest ever Sitar practitioner.<ref name="Parrikar">{{cite web | url=http://www.parrikar.org/vpl/?page_id=534 | title=Parrikar | publisher=Parrikar | date=2015 | access-date=20 May 2015}}</ref> After becoming a court musician at the Darbhanga court of Maharaja Kameshwar Singh, he traveled around the world as a performer and as a companion of Raja Bahadur Bishweshwar Singh, the king's younger brother. During his voyages around the world and old India before partition of 1947 he was also hugely acknowledged by many princely states of India like Patiala, Jaipur, Kashmir etc... and hugely appreciated by many of the contemporary music practitioners of his time like Ustad Salamat Ali Khan,
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Amir Khan etc...<ref name="Last FM" /> He served the court till 1947 when India became independent.<ref name="Last FM" /><ref name="ITCSRA" /><ref name="All Music review" />

Mallick Ji was known to be adept at [[Khyal]] and [[Thumri]], along with his chosen genre of [[Dhrupad]] and was associated with the leading singers of his time such as [[Ustad Amir Khan]] and [[Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]].<ref name="Last FM" /> He followed the Darbhanga gharana of Dhrupad<ref name="Parrikar" /> and his virtuosity in the Dhrupad was reported to have earned him the moniker, ''Dhrupad Samrat''.<ref name="Last FM" /> The [[Government of India]] honoured him with the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1970.<ref name="Padma Shri" /> He was active till his death on 11 January 1990.<ref name="ITCSRA" /><ref name="Parrikar" /> His concerts have been brought out in CD format under the name, Masters Of Raga: ''The King of Dhrupad - Ram Chatur Mallick In Concert'', by Weltm.<ref name="Masters Of Raga: The King of Dhrupad / Ram Chatur Mallick In Concert">{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Of-Raga-Dhrupad-Concert/dp/B00000JO59 | title=Masters Of Raga: The King of Dhrupad / Ram Chatur Mallik In Concert | publisher=Weltm | work=Audio CD | date=1994 | access-date=20 May 2015 | asin=B00000JO59}}</ref>

Mallick Ji also was the only artist ever to be gifted "The Top Grade" from All India Radio without audition, All India Radio awards grades to artists of different cadres based upon multiple level of auditions but Mallick Ji received this as a gift from All India Radio. He remained one of the chief selectors for All India Radio, Delhi for the Top Grade panel until he lived.

Mallick Ji also was awarded the "Tansen Award" the first when this award was started by the Madhya Pradesh Government.

The highest award given in the field of Music by the Bihar government is named after him "Pandit Ram Chatur Mallick Sangeet Award".

Mallick Ji is survived by his daughter in law Ms. Kusum Devi (who is the wife of his only child & son Late Ramji Mallick) along with his 2 grandsons (Arun Kumar Mallick & Vijay Kumar Mallick) & 2 grand daughters (Kamini & Rita).

==See also==
* [[Dhrupad]]
* [[Hindustani music]]
{{portal|India|Music}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0223525}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVKra5ySKf4 | title=Ram Chatur Mallick - Raag Deepak | publisher=[[YouTube]] | work=Video | date=16 June 2013 | access-date=20 May 2015}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvpj_wx5xcA | title=Ram Chatur Mallik - Dhrupad - Raga Vinod In Concert 1982 | publisher=[[YouTube]] | work=Video | date=16 March 2013 | access-date=20 May 2015}}

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[[Category:20th-century Indian male classical singers]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]

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