Enayat Khan

Ustad Enayat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان ‎) (1894–1938) was one of India's most influential sitar and surbahar players in the first decades of the 20th Century. He was the father of [a910537], one of the topmost sitariyas of the postwar period. He was born in Uttar Pradesh into a family of musicians. His father was the great sitar maestro [a6076846], who taught him the sitar and surbahar (bass sitar) in the family style, known as the Imdadkhani Gharana or Etawah Gharana (school), named after a small village near Agra called Etawah. He married Basiran Bibi, daughter of khyal singer Bande Hussain.