Bhatkhande Sangeet Vidyapith

The Marris College of Hindustani Music, Lucknow was established in July 1926. Originally, it was knows as the All India College of Hindustani Music and the name of Hindustani Music and the name of Sir William Marris was associated with it about six months later.
Efforts for the establishment of the College date back to the year 1917 when the scheme of establishing a school of Indian Music at Lucknow was presented by Rai Uma nath bali to the 2nd All-India Music Conference held at Delhi under the president ship of late His Highness the Nawab of Rampur, who supported the scheme, but unfortunately it did not find the favour of late Pandit Vishnu Narain Bhatkhande and late Raja Nawab Ali Khan, the two veteran leaders of Music in Northern India, as they were then busy establishing an All-India Academy of Hindustani Music at Delhi, the capital city of India.
Efforts were made again by Rai Uma Nath Bali at the 3rd All-India Music Conference at Banaras in 1918 to gain the favour of the two leaders but in vain as they were even then hopeful of establishing the Central Academy of Music at Delhi. Not only could the Academy not be established at Delhi, the All-India Music Conference could also not be held till 1924, though efforts were made to hold the conference at Bhagalpur, Patna, Calcutta and Indore. Rai Uma Nath Bali extended the invitation to hold the fourth All-India Music Conference at Lucknow in 1919 at the Banaras Conference but it was not accepted and the invitation of Bhagalpur was accepted.
Aggrieved and disappointed Rai Uma Nath Bali ventured to edit and publish a monthly magazine of Indian Music to popularize classical music and push through his scheme of establishing a school and started one in Hindi in 1919 by the name of Sangit Sudha which toiled for its existence for about a year with only 5 issues being published. This magazine also did not get the support of the two veteran leaders and its publication had to be stopped.