Tilang

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">Tilang, as a word, appears to have connection with Telangana, i.e. the contemporary Indian State of Andhra Pradesh which has Telugu as its regional language. It is also true that there exists a tradition of names of Ragas that are derived from names of regions, indicating thereby, a regional origin of specific Raga-s. However, in case of Tilang, apart from conjecture based on similarity of names there is no musicological evidence for assuming linkage between the present-day Tilang rendered in Hindustani music and the Telangana region. In fact, this region follows other system of art music in India, namely the Carnatic.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">The Raga does not have <em>Dhrupad</em>, <em>Dhamar </em>or <em>Khayal</em> and hence it may not be a very old member of the Hindustani Raga corpus.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>