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Kirana Gharana is one of the most prolific Hindustani khyal gharanas. It was founded in 13th-century by Gopal Nayak a dhurpadiya or dhrupad singer and a Hindu court musician based in Kairana a town in present Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh. However later he embraced Islam and soon he mastered the khayal tradition. One of its important exponent were Abdul Karim Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan and later Ameer Khan and Bhimsen Joshi.

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