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The Discordant Notes of Caste Lines in the Classical Arts At a recent webinar organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, scholars and artists laid bare the seldom-discussed problem of caste in the performing arts of South India. The concretisation of the present-day notion of Carnatic music came about when English-speaking upper castes colluded with colonial powers to define a narrow idea of India and its complex social matrix. Photo: Louise Patterton/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA) In the early 1900s when legendary musicologist, Pandit V.N. Bhatkhande, reached the south of India as part of his epic sojourn through the country to consolidate music systems, he was disappointed. ....