Institutional Music Education: Northern Area

The impulse to create a music teaching institution loosely based on Western models came to fruition first in Calcutta. The former headquarters of the British East India Company and capital of India, Calcutta was an important cultural and economic center where the forces of Westernization and modernization were strong; these forces undoubtedly influenced Raja Sourindro Mohun Tagore (1840–1914) when he founded the Bengal Music School in 1871. This was the first music school of its kind to offer not...