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{{Infobox album
| name = The Sounds of India
| type = studio
| artist = [[Ravi Shankar]]
| cover = The Sounds of India.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1968 (LP), 1989 (CD)
| recorded = 1967
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Hindustani classical music]]
| length = 53:40
| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] (CD)
| producer = [[George Avakian]]
| prev_title = [[Three Ragas]]
| prev_year = 1967
| next_title = [[India's Master Musician]]
| next_year = 1969
}}

'''''The Sounds of India''''' is an [[album]] by [[Ravi Shankar]] which introduces and explains [[Hindustani classical music]] to Western audiences. Released by [[Columbia Records]] in 1968, it was influenced by [[Ali Akbar Khan]]'s ''The Sounds of India'',<ref name=Dawn/> and recorded and produced by [[George Avakian]] in 1967 at Columbia's New York studio.<ref name=Fricke/>

It is regarded today as being of historical interest for showing both Shankar's musical skills and his interest in teaching the West about classical Indian music.<ref name="AMG" />

It was [[Audio mastering|digitally remastered]] and released in [[Compact Disc|CD]] format by [[Columbia Records]] in 1989.

==Recording==
The album was recorded for Columbia Records in their New York studio in 1967, and produced by [[Miles Davis]]'s producer [[George Avakian]].<ref name=Fricke>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/from-monterey-pop-to-carnegie-hall-the-best-recordings-of-ravi-shankar-230952/|work=rollingstone.com|title=From Monterey Pop to Carnegie Hall: The Best Recordings of Ravi Shankar|author=David Fricke}}</ref><ref name=Dawn>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSZKCXtx-wEC&pg=PA61|page=61|title= The Dawn of Indian Music in the West|author= Peter Lavezzoli |publisher= A&C Black|date= 24 Apr 2006|isbn=9780826418159}}</ref> It was influenced by and followed the style of [[Ali Akbar Khan]]'s ''The Sounds of India'' album, in which Khan introduces and explains the music he is playing.<ref name=Dawn/>

==Legacy==
[[AllMusic]] reviewer Adam Greenberg feels that ''The Genius of Ravi Shankar'' (1990)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-genius-of-ravi-shankar-mw0000195929|work=allmusic.com|author=Adam Greenberg|title=The Genius of Ravi Shankar}}</ref> is a better choice for listening to Shankar's earlier music, though regards this album as a useful historical document for both "Shankar's amazing abilities" and his love for teaching Western listeners about Hindustani classical music by using short lessons before each performance.<ref name="AMG">{{cite web|last=Greenberg|first=Adam|title=Ravi Shankar ''The Sounds of India''|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r98546|pure_url=yes}}|accessdate=August 9, 2010}}</ref> Yoshi Kato, in ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]'', feels that as Shankar was already familiar to Western audiences, particularly via the interest shown by [[George Harrison]], he was "the perfect musical ambassador", and this album is an "excellent way" into Shankar's music.<ref>{{Cite book|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die|editor=Robert Dimery|author=Yoshi Kato|page=134|publisher=Cassell Illustrated|date=2005}}</ref> For Christian Larrède, writing in ''Music Story'', the album "reste une curiosité" (remains a curiosity), and the short lengths of the chosen music along with the spoken introductions "ne souffrent pas de l’entreprise ouvertement pédagogique" (do not [cause the album to] suffer from the obvious educational enterprise).<ref name="MusicStory">{{cite web|url=http://www.music-story.com/ravi-shankar/the-sounds-of-india/critique|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826214056/http://www.music-story.com/ravi-shankar/the-sounds-of-india/critique|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 August 2012|author=Christian Larrède|title=Chronique de The Sounds of India ''(in French)''|publisher=Music Story|accessdate=28 August 2015}}</ref>

==Track listing==
#"An Introduction to Indian Music" – 4:13
#"Dádrá" – 10:30
#"Máru-Bihág" – 11:44
#"Bhimpalási" – 12:13
#"Sindhi-Bhairavi" – 15:00

==Personnel==
* [[Ravi Shankar]] – [[sitar]]
* [[Chatur Lal]] – [[tabla]]
* [[Nodu Mullick|N.C. Mullick]] – [[Tanpura (instrument)|tambura]]

==References==
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The Sounds of India - Revision history

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