{{Short description|Dabir Khan, a 20th century beenkar and vocalist from India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}} {{Infobox person |name =Dabir Khan |birth_date =1905 |birth_place =Rampur State |death_date = 1972 |occupation = Vocal and instrumental musician of Hindustani classical music |awards = Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Government of India in 1969 }} thumb|Dabir Khan '''Dabir Khan''' was a 20th-century 'beenkar' and a vocalist. He was the grandson of legendary vina player Wazir Khan.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4nPHTCS8vfUC&pg=PA239 | title=Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries | isbn=9788120814936 | last1=Miner | first1=Allyn | date=April 2004 | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. }}</ref>
==Career== Dabir Khan learned veena from his grandfather, Wazir Khan. He was employed at All India Radio Calcutta. Dabir Khan is also considered as one of India's legendary musician Miyan Tansen's last descendants<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/The-Tansen-legacy/article14958498.ece|title=The Tansen legacy|first=Rupa |last=Gopal|newspaper=The Hindu (newspaper)|date=23 March 2011|access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref> and in 1969 was awarded a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.<ref name=SNA>{{cite web|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm |title=SNA: Awardees list |work=Sangeet Natak Akademi website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331060603/http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm |archive-date=2016-03-31 |access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref> Among the pupils of Dabir Khan were K. C. Dey, the noted singer Manna Dey,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chakrabarti |first1=Kunal |last2=Chakrabarti |first2=Shubhra |title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810880245 |pages=161–162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162}}</ref> Asit De (head of the Theory Division of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.asitde.com/dabir-khan |title=Ustad Dabir Khan |website=Asit De}}</ref> and Pandit Santosh Banerjee (formerly head of department of instrumental music, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta).<ref> https://archive.kaahon.com/music/pt-santosh-banerjee-there-are-no-gurus-left-in-indian-classical-music/</ref>
thumb|Dabir Khan as external examiner to Clem Alford at Midnapore, West Bengal in 1969 Clem Alford was a student of Pandit S.N. Saha, who was himself a student of Ustad Muhammad Dabir Khan. Muhammad Dabir Khan was the external examiner of Clem Alford in 1969 at Midnapore Music College.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
==Personal life== Dabir Khan was born in Rampur State in 1905. He died in 1972.<ref name=google>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDGPBAAAQBAJ&q=Dabir+Khan+descendant+of+Tansen&pg=PA285|title=Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology|isbn=9781498507059|last1=McCollum|first1=Jonathan|last2=Hebert|first2=David G|date=2014-09-11 |page=285|publisher=Lexington Books |access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== *Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Government of India in 1969<ref name=SNA/>
==See also== *Hindustani classical music *Sadarang *Tansen
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dabir Khan}} Category:Indian male singers Category:Indian Shia Muslims Category:Hindustani musicians Category:All India Radio people Category:1972 deaths Category:Veena players Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Category:1905 births