Gwalior Dhrupad Tansen Music Heritage Fort Madhya Pradesh

Gwalior is the cradle of the Dhrupad style of Hindustani classical music — the Gwalior gharana founded under Tansen's Mughal court tradition established the North Indian classical music's most influential school, from which the Agra, Jaipur, Patiala, and most other gharanas derive. Tansen's tomb and the Gwalior Fort — a massive 10th century sandstone mesa fortress that the Mughal Emperor Babur called the "pearl in the necklace of the fortresses of India" — are the district's principal heritage sites. Gwalior's Sar Bai leather shoe (Gwalior jooties) tradition is a local craft alongside the Madhya Pradesh handicrafts of brass bell casting and stone inlay work practised in the district.