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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Pandit Amarnath
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| birth_name = Pandit Amarnath
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| birth_date = 1924-03-22
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| death_date = 1996-03-09
| genre = [[Hindustani classical music|Indian classical music]]<br>([[Khyal]], [[Tarana]])
| occupation = [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani]] Classical Vocalist
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| website = [http://panditamarnath.in/ Pandit Amarnath official site]
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Pandit '''Amarnath''' (1924–1996) was an Indian Classical Vocalist and composer. He composed music for the film Garam Coat in 1955. He should not be confused with the very popular composer of the same name, Amarnath, who was very active in Lahore and Mumbai film industry in 1940s and died around 1947.

He was the first and closest disciple of [[Amir Khan (singer)|Amir Khan]], who founded the [[Indore gharana]] of [[Hindustani classical music|Indian classical music]]. While Amir Khan had specially propagated the ''vilambit'' or the slow style of singing, Amarnath further enriched the gharana with the mystic poetry he wrote as [[bandish]] for [[khayal]] singing, under the pen-name of Miturang.<ref name="Sharma2006">{{cite book|author=Manorma Sharma|title=Tradition of Hindustani Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdtqrooCo-oC&pg=PA72|date=2006|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-999-7|pages=72–}}</ref><ref name="Sen1997">{{cite book|author=Geeti Sen|title=Crossing Boundaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfukTDZTBNMC&pg=PA181|date=1997|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1341-9|pages=181–}}</ref>

Amarnath was born in 1924 in [[Jhang]] in [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], now in [[Pakistan]]. He received his initial training in music from B.N. Datta of Lahore, from 1942 to 1947, and moved to [[Delhi]] after the [[partition of India]]. It was his first guru, Prof. Datta, who suggested that he go to Khan for further learning.<ref name=toi/> As Amarnath was already singing the Ustad's style, and as public opinion was that the disciple sounded so much like his guru, Amir Khan was convinced about his sincerity, and accepted him as a disciple.

Besides devoutly following [[Indore gharana|Amir Khan's style]], teaching and demonstrating the style, Amarnath also served at [[All India Radio]] for eight years as composer, recruited specially by [[Ravi Shankar]] during the latter's tenure at AIR. Amarnath later served as Director of [[Triveni Kala Sangam]], and then as Guru at the [[Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra]] in Delhi. He also provided music for the 1955 film ''[[Garam Coat]]'' starring [[Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy]], with songs by Lata Mangeshkar.<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1994-IA565|date=2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-94325-7|pages=1994–}}</ref> Amarnath also directed the music for a documentary on [[Mirza Ghalib]]. This included the first and only ghazal recorded in the voice of Amir Khan; the documentary was made by M. S. Sathyu.

Amarnath died on 9 March 1996.<ref name=toi>{{cite web | title = A seamless learning experience | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/A-seamless-learning-experience/articleshow/5659007.cms |author=Bindu Chawla |date= 8 Mar 2011|accessdate = 2014-08-25 | newspaper = [[The Times of India]] }}</ref>

==Legacy==
The book, ''Conversations with Pandit Amarnath'' conducted by Bindu Chawla based on conversations with him, was published by [[Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts]], Delhi, in the year 2004.<ref>{{cite web | title = Conversations with Pandit Amarnath | url = http://ignca.nic.in/ks_60.htm | date = 2004 | accessdate = 2014-08-25 | work = IGNCA | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130911002601/http://ignca.nic.in/ks_60.htm | archive-date = 11 September 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref> A book on his mémoires of Amir Khan, titled "Indore ke Masiha/Prophets of Indore, mémoires of my guru, Ustad Amir Khan Saheb", was published in 2008 by the Pandit Amarnath Memorial Foundation. The Pandit Amarnath Vaggeyakar Samman, or Composer's Award, is instituted in his memory every year by the Pandit Amarnath Memorial Foundation, whose Chairperson is his daughter, Bindu Chawla.

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|author=Amarnath, Pandit|title=Living Idioms in Hindustani Music: A Dictionary of Terms and Terminology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=de3bXwAACAAJ|date= 1989|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|isbn=978-0-7069-4682-6}}
* {{cite book|author=Amarnath, Pandit|title=Haṃsā ke baina|language=Hindi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kk8IAAAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Radhakrishna Pub.|isbn=9788171193080}}
* {{cite book|author1=Bindu Chawla|title=Conversations with Pandit Amarnath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JGrAQAACAAJ|date=2004|publisher=Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts|isbn=978-81-85503-07-3}}
* {{cite book|author=Amarnath, Pandit|title=Indore ke masihā: Paṇḍita Amaranathaji dwara Ustad Amir Khan sahab ke sansmaran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8s9MPgAACAAJ|year=2008|language=Hindi|publisher=Pandit Amarnath Memorial Foundation|isbn=978-81-7525-934-8}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://panditamarnath.in/ Official Website of Pandit Amarnath]

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