Abraham Pandithar's Tamil music conferences at Thanjavur
Abraham Pandithar set up the Sangeetha Vidhyalaya Mahajana Sangam, which held six music conferences between 1912 and 1914.
A Tamil teacher at Tanjore who was also a practitioner of Siddha medicine, Abraham Pandithar carried out research on the history of Tamil music. He founded a music society, the Sangeetha Vidhyalaya Mahajana Sangam, which staged six conferences on music from 1912 to 1914. In 1916 he put forward his findings at the All India Music Conference in Baroda, and in 1917 he brought out Karunamirdha Sagaram.
