30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

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Katherine Schofield

Katherine Schofield

Katherine Schofield is a historian of Hindustani music and Mughal India. In telling stories about musical lives, she writes on sovereignty and selfhood, affection and desire, sympathy and loss, and power, worldly and strange. Her latest book, Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858, will be out with Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Session

Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri in conversation with Katherine Butler Schofield

Acclaimed musician, novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri’s latest book, Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music, is an immersive journey through the rigorous beauty and cosmology of Indian classical music and its synergy with western music and the world at large. Drawing on both Western and Indian sources, Chaudhuri weaves together an intricate narrative on the process of finding the raga between life, music and art. Chaudhuri’s books include Friend of My Youth and Calcutta. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds the titles of Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia and Professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka University. Academic and writer Katherine Butler Schofield is a historian of Hindustani music and Mughal India. She is currently working on her upcoming book Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858. In conversation with Schofield, Chaudhuri reflects on his understanding of the tone and melody that has shaped his life and worldview.