Question

What role did Benaras and Dumraon play in making Bismillah Khan a legendary musician?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

• When Bismillah Khan was five years old, he lived in an old estate named Dumraon in present day Bihar estate.Also, he would go to the nearby Bihariji temple. Although Bismillah Khan was a muslim, he would go to the temple and he would sing this song – ‘Chaita’ in Bhojpuri language. (Bhojpuri language is spoken in an area of Bihar.) When he would finish reciting the song, he would get a big laddu as reward and the weight of that laddu was 1.25 kg. This was a prize given to Bismillah Khan by Local maharaja for singing the chaita.

• When Bismillah Khan ji was just 3 years’ old, his mother took him to her parents’ house – to his maternal uncles. (Maternal uncles mean the lineage on one’s mother’s side.) They lived in Benaras (Benaras is today called Varanasi.) And when Bismillah Khan saw his maternal uncles play the shehnai, he was attracted towards it and he also wanted to learn playing it.