Ustad Bahadur Khan is considered to be among the top handful of India's greatest Sarod players of all time. Having descended from the illustrious family of India's greatest musicians, Bahadur Khan's pedigree of training and lineage is unquestionable.
Bahadur Khan was born in 1931 in Shibpur, Comillah, Bangladesh, (the then British India), and he shuffled off his mortal coil in the year 1989 in Calcutta, India. He is the son of famous Indian classical musician Ustad Hayat Ali Khan, nephew of the father of North Indian Classical Music Baba Allauddin Khan, cousin of the godfather of present Sarod Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and the best living Sitar player Srimati Annapurna Devi, and cousin-in-law of India's most celebrated classical musician in the West Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Bahadur Khan's musical lessons started in his family environment. He first learnt the Sarod from his father. He also practised singing and earned many gold medals for his performances. Then he went to Maihar, where he studied the Sarod together with Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Shrimati Annapurna Devi, and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee under the hallowed guidance of his uncle Baba Allauddin Khan for decades.
Bahadur Khan composed music for almost all the films of the legendary Indian filmmaker Rittwik Ghatak. Khan received the best music director award for Rittwik Ghatak's film Subarnarekha.
Bahadur Khan's eminent students, Bidyut Khan, Tejendranarayan Majumdar, and Kalyan Mukherjee in Sarod and Manoj Shankar in Sitar are renowned classical musicians and performers of the present generation in their own rights.