Indian classical music

The view on Indian music has been biased in modern world. People tend to perceive Indian music as one whole concept, denying the presence of the varieties behind it. Indian music is divided into Hindustani classical music and Carnatic classical music in northern India and southern India respectively. The basis of both Carnatic and Hindustani music is believed to have been initiated from the Vedic. But, the musical ideologies shattered after the Mahabharata war. Ages after, only Carnatic music existed in India prior to the 12th century. Later, the music of Persian descent combined with Carnatic music and came to be known as Hindustani music. Both musics are enclosed of its own instruments and pioneers. These reasons underlying, the music of India is not Indian music but rather Hindustani and Carnatic music blending in to form the core of Indian classical music.