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Kanada (family of ragas)

Group of ragas in Hindustani classical music

Kanada (Hindustani pronunciation: [ˈkänəɽä ˈrägäŋg], (ISO 15919/IAST: Kānaṛā rāgaṅg Hindi: कान्हड़ा,Tamil: கானடா, Bengali: কানাড়া)) also known as Kanhada is a group of ragas in Indian Classical Music . They are all believed to be derived from the Carnatic music raga Kanada. Some scholars suggest that all the raga's in the Kanada family are derived from individual aspects of Kanada. Shudda Kanada/Darbari Kanada is one of the most familiar raga's in the family and is considered to have the highest romantic,melancholy and longing aspect of Kanada in it.

Ragas in this group belong to different thaats, but particularly to the AsavariorKafi thaat.
Sadharana/Komal Gandhar (Ga) and Chaturshruti/Shudda/Komal Dhaivat (Dha) are vakra (zigzag) in descent and are used in phrases like gMR and dnP.

List of ragas in the Kanada family[edit]

The following ragas belong to this group :^[1]

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. Jayant Kanada
13. Kafi Kanada
14. Kausi Kanada
15. Lachari Kanada
16. Lankashree Kanada
17. Malkauns Kanada
18. Nagadhwani Kanada
19. Navarasa Kanada
20. Nayaki Kanada
21. Rageshree Kanada
22. Raisa Kanada
23. Ramsakh Kanada
24. Shahana Kanada
25. Sughrai Kanada
26. Suha Kanada

See also[edit]

• List of Film Songs based on Ragas
• Sarang ragas

References[edit]

Literature[edit]

• 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

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