Ustad Mohammad Dabir Khan was a 20th-century 'beenkar' and a vocalist. He was the grandson of legendary vina player Ustad Wazir Khan. Ustad Mohammad Dabir Khan was born in Rampur in the year of 1905.
He 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 and in 1969 was awarded a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. Among the pupils of Dabir Khan was K.C. Dey, Pandit Santosh Banerjee (Formerly head of department of instrumental music, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta), Asit De (Head of the Theory Division of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata) and the noted singer Manna Dey. He was died on 1972.

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Picture Courtesy: Shri Ashish Roychowdhury
Akashvani Recording Date: 02.12.1958


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