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This article is a part of the #IndianWomenInHistory campaign for Women’s History Month to remember the untold legacies of women who shaped India, especially India’s various feminist movements.
One Indian woman is profiled each day for the whole of March 2019.
Born into a family steeped in music, Hirabai Barodekar followed in her parents’ footsteps and adopted music as her profession. At the pinnacle of her career, she was acclaimed as one of India’s leading vocalists.
Even today she is venerated by aficionados and connoisseurs of Hindustani classical music.
Early Life
She was born in Miraj (Maharashtra) on 29th May 1905 as Champakali, the second child of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan founder of the renowned Kirana of music.
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Her mother Tarabai had royal antecedents. Tarabai’s father Sardar Maruti Rao Mane was a sibling of the ‘Rajmata’ of Baroda’s royal family. In what seems like a tale of fiction, Ustad Karim Khan was designated as Tarabai’s musi