Jotin Bhattacharya
Jotin Bhattacharya was an Indian classical sarod player. Jyotin was a disciple of Allauddin Khan.
Jotin Bhattacharya
- Name
- Jotin Bhattacharya ज्योतिन भट्टाचार्य
- Birth Name
- Jotin Bhattacharya
- Birthplace
- Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
- Born
- 1 January 1926
- Place of death
- Varanasi
- Died
- 22 February 2016
- Occupation
- Sarod player
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Fields
- Indian classical music
- Education
- C.M. Anglo Bengali College
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Jotin Bhattacharya. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Jotin Bhattacharya ज्योतिन भट्टाचार्य • Birth Name — Jotin Bhattacharya • Alias — Jyotin Bhattacharya • Birthplace — Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh • Born — 1 January 1926 • Place of death — Varanasi • Died — 22 February 2016 • Instrument — Sarod • Genre — Indian classical music • Occupation — Sarod player
Early life and education
Early life and education
Bhattacharya was born in 1926 in Varanasi in a Bengali family. He attended C.M. Anglo Bengali College and subsequently attained bachelor's, master's and MPhil degrees from the Benaras Hindu University before starting his eight-year music training from Allauddin Khan. During his training under Allauddin Khan, Bhattacharya also served him as a secretary and handled all his correspondences. Bhattacharya performed at the Baba Allauddin Khan Music Foundation in the Poorva Sanskritik Kendra, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi.
Album
Album
In 1974, His Master's Voice released Bhattacharya's first album, Sarod, in LP record format.
Books
Bhattacharya wrote three books (all about Allauddin Khan). • # — Title — Year — Language — Pages — About — Comments • 1 — Ustad Allauddin Khan and His Music — 1979 — English — 242 — Biography of Baba Allauddin • 2 — Allaudin Khan O aamara — - — Bengali — 1,050 — On the life and work of Baba Allauddin • 3 — Allaudin Khan and us — - — Hindi — - — -
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Jotin Bhattacharya, revision 1376906519 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Citizenship
1- IndiaPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 05 October 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
44,023 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Josquin des PrezPerson
- Josse BoutmyPerson
- Josse-François-Joseph BenautPerson
- Josué Francisco TrocadoPerson
- Jouni HynynenPerson
- Jouni KaipainenPerson
- Jovan ĐorđevićTerminology
- Jovan JovanovPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Jotin Bhattacharya?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.