High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ustad Rais Khan (born 25 November 1939) is a legendary sitarist born in Indore, India. In the different lines of "gayaki ang" (where the sitar plays the material of singers more than those of instrumentalists) Ustad Rais Khansaheb is the torchbearer of the Mewat or Mewati Gharana (lineage), which is connected to Indore and the "beenkar baj gayaki ang" (singing style combined with rudra vina approaches) carried out by Ustad Rais Khan`s father Ustad Mohammed Khan, one of the greatest rudra vina (been) players and a great sitarist himself. This lineage goes back to the court musicians of the Mughal Emperors. Amongst the Khayal and dhrupad doyens, Rais Khan`s gharana is a lineage containing the masters Haddu Khan, Hassu Khan, Bande Ali Khan, Nathan Khan, Babu Khan, Wazir Khan, Waheed Khan, Murad Khan, Latif Khan, Majid Khan, Nazeer Khan, Amanat Khan and Rajab Ali Khan of Devas, Madhya Pradesh.