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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Cities and towns in Gadag district, Hindu temples in Gadag district, People from Gadag, Villages in Gadag district, Bhimsen Joshi, Gajendragarh, Lakkundi, Lakshmeshwara, Puttaraj Gawai, Sudi, Gadag-Betageri, Anant Koppar, Kasivisvesvara Temple, Lakkundi, Doddabasappa Temple, Kumara Vyasa, Ron, Karnataka, Trikuteshwara, P. B. Gajendragadkar, Sunil Joshi, Naregal, Dambal, Kirtinath Kurtakoti, R. S. Mugali, Mundargi, Nargund, Venkateshwara Temple at Ramenahalli, Itagi Bhimambika, Shirahatti, Harti, Kotumachagi, Jagannathrao Joshi, Hombal, Holealur, Belavanaki, Hirewaddatti, Balehosur, Bellatti, Suranagi, Shigli, Savadi, Gadag, Abbigeri, Gadag, Soratur, Yalishirur, Akkigund, Adavisomapur, Gadag, Adrahalli, Mulgund, Konnur, Hulkoti, Ganayogi Panchakshara Gawai. Excerpt: Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Kannada: , .)); February 4, 1922 - January 24, 2011) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. A member of the Kirana Gharana (school), he is renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music (bhajans and abhangs). He was the most recent recipient of the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, awarded in 2008. Joshi was born into a Kannadiga family in the town of Ron which was then in Gadag District in northern Karnataka state of India. His father, Gururaj Joshi, was a school teacher. Bhimsen was the eldest in a family of 16 siblings. Some of the siblings still live in their ancestral home in Gadag. Bhimsen lost his mother when he was young, and his step mother then raised him. His parents lived initially with his grandfather as tenants of a Kulkarni household, but then moved to Gadag District. As a child, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's craving for music was evident to his family as he managed to lay his hands on a 'tanpura' used by his 'Kirtankar' grandfather...
