Kanada (family of ragas)

Kanada (Hindustani pronunciation: [ˈkänəɽä ˈrägäŋg], (ISO 15919/IAST: Kānaṛā rāgaṅg Hindi: कान्हड़ा, Bengali: কানাড়া)) also known as Kanhada is a group of ragas in Hindustani classical music. The name Kanada suggests that it may have originated in the Carnatic music tradition and Kannada country.

Ragas in this group belong to different thaats, but particularly to the Asavari or Kafi thaat.
Komal Gāndhāra (Ga) and komal Dhaivata (Dha) are vakra (zigzag) in descent and are used in phrases like gMR and dnP.

The following ragas belong to this group (all with the suffix Kanada) :

1. Abhogi Kanada
2. Adana Kanada
3. Asavari Kanada
4. Basanti Kanada
5. Bageshree Kanada
6. Bhavsakh Kanada
7. Darbari Kanada
8. Enayatkhani Kanada
9. Devsakh Kanada
10. Gunji Kanada
11. Husseini Kanada
12. Inayatkhani Kanada
13. Jayant Kanada
14. Kafi Kanada
15. Kausi Kanada
16. Lachari Kanada
17. Lankashree Kanada
18. Malkauns Kanada
19. Nagadhwani Kanada
20. Nayaki Kanada
21. Rageshree Kanada
22. Raisa Kanada
23. Ramsakh Kanada
24. Shahana Kanada
25. Sughrai Kanada
26. Suha Kanada

See also

• List of Film Songs based on Ragas
• Sarang ragas

Literature

• Bor, Joep (c. 1997), The Raga Guide, Charlottesville,Virginia: Nimbus Records, archived from the original on 3 December 2003
• Kaufmann, Walter (1968), The ragas of North India, Calcutta, New Dheli, Bombay: Oxford & IBH Publishing Company