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The Story
OrganizerThe Sangeet Natak Akademi, established in 1952 as India's apex body for the performing arts, built its instrument collection to document and preserve the country's musical traditions, displaying representative and rare instruments alongside its wider archival and puppet collections in New Delhi.
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Cultural Significance
▾The Akademi's instrument gallery preserves a national record of India's instrumental heritage, supporting the study, documentation and transmission of the country's classical, folk and tribal music.