Blind musician Miyan Himmat Khan Kalawant remains enigmatic, but his title Kalawant - exclusively reserved for dhrupad singers and bin players - nonetheless indicates that he belonged to the highest echelons of professional artistes.

Kalawant was a chief hereditary musician to the last Mughal emperors, Akbar Shah and Bahadur Shah Zafar, in the 18th century. Now, a lecture is being organised by the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) to discuss his music along with the divergence of competing lineages of musical knowledge in Persian, Urdu and English (1790-1850).