Pandit Ram Sahai Foundation was set up in 2002 to meet the current needs for generating and understanding Indian music. It is a subsidiary trust of Pandit Ram Sahai Sangit Vidyalaya (India) which was founded in 1965 by Pandit Sharda Sahai and in 1987 by Dr Frances Shepherd and Pandit Sharda Sahai in the UK, with branches in Europe and North America. The aim of the trust is to serve, promote and encourage activities for the betterment of education and understanding of Indian classical music in the wider community.

Sharda Sahai was born in Benares in 1935, a direct descendent of Pandit Ram Sahai, the founder of the Benares style ("gharana") of tabla playing. With the inherent gift in his blood of the finest traits of the Benares baj, he began at an early age to learn tabla from his father, the late Pandit Bhagvati Sahai.

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