Kanada Raga group

Kanada is a group of ragas in Hindustani classical music.

Kanada is derived from Karnata, which implies that the raga is originally from the Carnatic music (South India) tradition. [Joep Bor 1999] . According to Kaufmann [Kaufmann 1968] "Carnatic" refers to a name of a former province in the South between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel coast, today included in the Madras Presidency.

Ragas in this group belong to different thaats, but particularly to the Asavari or Kafi thaat. They share the following characteristics:
# komal ga and komal dha are vakra (zigzag) in descend and are used in phrases like gMR and dnP
# The basis of all Kanada scales is the scale of Sarang: S R M P (N or n). Even if the notes differ in one or two places, the performers avoid the notes g and d in fast passages, thus establishing the Sarang character.

The following ragas belong to this group: [Kaufmann 1968]

# Abhogi
# Adana kanada
# Asavari
# Bageshri kanada
# Darbari kanada
# Desakh (Devsakh, Deshakya)
# Husseini kanada
# Kafi kanada
# Kaunsi kanada (Kaushik kanada)
# Nayaki kanada
# Shahana kanada
# Sugharai kanada
# Suha kanada

References

Literature

* Citation
last=Bor
first=Joep
title=The Raga Guide
publisher=Nimbus Records
place=Charlottesville,Virginia
year=1997?
url=http://www.nimbus.ltd.uk
* Citation
last=Kaufmann
first=Walter
title=The ragas of North India
publisher=Oxford & IBH Publishing Company
place=Calcutta, New Dheli, Bombay
year=1968