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Somewhere in the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (which, believe it or not, still haven’t been fully brought out, the latest one being around 1961 or ’62 or so) is a letter about classical music.
Nehru is writing to someone in government, referring to a letter a man from Bombay has sent him. Nehru writes that his correspondent, a Parsi man, is distressed over the decline of Western classical music in India. Nehru agrees with that assessment and writes that something must be done about it.
On a visit to London a few years ago, I saw an exhibition on
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