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# Where are rudra veenas made?

 Updated 25 October 2026

 

The documented 20th-century centre of **[rudra veena](/en-in/instrument/rudra-veena)** making is Kolkata. There the firm Kanailal & Brother built instruments to Zia Mohiuddin Dagar's enlarged design, and the maker Murari Adhikari (1934 to 2006) was co-designer of the enlarged instrument in the 1960s. The Horniman Museum holds a Kanailal & Brother instrument of about 1960 to 1980.



 

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