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Born in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan to a family of sarangi players, he was usually referred to as "Ustad Sultan Khan"; "ustad" is an honorific meaning "master."
News 2011
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It is such a blessing for millions of music lovers to have witnessed this exquisite musical miracle called Ustad Ali Akbar Khan -- he was a musician's musician.
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At one point during the conversation, my colleague addressed Ustad Allarakha, without the prefix 'Ustad'.
Analysis 2010
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At one point during the conversation, my colleague addressed Ustad Allarakha, without the prefix 'Ustad'.
Analysis 2010
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images 2011 will be remembered as a year when India lost some of its great stars, including Bollywood actors Dev Anand and Shammi Kapoor , and singers Jagjit Singh , Bhupen Hazarika and Ustad Sultan Khan .
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One Indian musician, Ustad Sultan Khan, was a master of the Indian instrument called the sarangi, and we played together a few times.
Awakening Kindness Nawang Khechog 2010
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But the facing of the main tomb was attired in the speckled white marble that Ustad Ahmad Lahori had convinced Emperor Shah Jahan to use, and the mosque on the left and the Miham Khana on the right, absolutely identical to each other in look if not in function, were clad in red sandstone.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Ustad Ahmad Lahori had reached his sixty-second year on this earth, and most of those years had been spent in service to the Mughal Emperors of Hindustan.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Some Taliban guerrilla attacks had already been reported in the northern provinces of Balkh, Faryab, and Kunduz, where the Uzbek warlord Abdur Rasheed Dostum, his Tajik rival, Atta Mohammad, and the Hazara leader Ustad Mohaqqiq, held sway.8
The Scorpion’s Tail Zahid Hussain 2010
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One Indian musician, Ustad Sultan Khan, was a master of the Indian instrument called the sarangi, and we played together a few times.
Awakening Kindness Nawang Khechog 2010
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