Feel The Rhythm! ..... Feel The Life!
The Rajeev Goenka Academy was set up in 2006 by music connoisseur Rajeev Goenka. Originally
operating from Bombay and Calcutta, the Academy was later shifted to Dundlod, a village situated midway between the towns of Jhunjhunu and Sikar in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.
Appreciation of Classical Music
The Academy hopes to make a small contribution in keeping the glorious tradition of Hindustani music alive by enabling the public to access its archives
Indian Musical Instruments Museum
One of the key activities of the academy is preservation of Indian musical instruments used by exponents of classical & folk music. These instruments are

Rajeev Goenka Profile

The Goenka family (Shri Sevakramji), around 1807, migrated from Navalgarh in the Shekhawati area of Rajasthan to Dundlod, just seven km away. In 1896 the 7th-generation Ramchandraji (born in 1844) founded the Hindu Vidhava Sahayak Fund & the Ramachandra Goenka Charitable Trust (RCG), which is still being managed & run fruitfully by the Goenka family for charitable causes

The Gharanas

  • Gwalior
  • Agra
  • Kirana
  • Jaipur-Atrauli
  • Rampur –Sahaswan
  • Patiala
  • Mewati
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Instrumental Music

Instrumental music occupies an important position in Indian music. It is one of the threefold aspects of "sangeet" (vocal music, instrumental music, and dance)

A Disappearing Treasure

The history of sound recording in India goes back around a hundred years. Knowledge about the vast stock of recorded music that has accumulated over the decades is largely incomplete. There is neither a single list available tabulating the recorded music that exists in various forms nor a public archive where these recordings are stored and are made available for research or classification.

A very large portion of Hindustani and Carnatic exists entirely in private collections, which one can only get to know about by word of mouth. Alarmingly, large collections, which were known to have existed even a few decades ago, have simply vanished with the 78-RPM records have been sold off. Gramophone records have also been melted down for use in industry as raw material. It is also but natural that recordings have got destroyed through neglect and want of care.