Can you play Indian classical music on the guitar?

Yes, Indian classical music is played on the guitar. Hindustani guitarists mostly play lap-slide instruments that grew out of the Hawaiian guitar, following Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, who laid a modified Gibson archtop flat and played it with a slide; Barun Kumar Pal also plays Hindustani slide guitar. In Carnatic music, R. Prasanna plays a fretted electric guitar in his own Carnatic tuning, B E B E B E, and renders gamaka through slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs. Other guitarists use open tunings for some Indian classical work.