Radhika Mohan Maitra (1917–1981) was an Indian sarod player who created the Mohan Veena in 1948, and the guru of Narendra Nath Dhar, Kalyan Mukherjea, Buddhadev Das Gupta, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Abanindra Maitra, Pranab Kumar Naha, Samarendra Nath Sikdar, Michael Robbins, and many other musicians of this generation.

[3] Radhika Mohan Maitra came from a Bengali zamindar family that had a history of musicianship and of patronising that art.

Among those who were patronised by his grandfather was Mohammed Amir Khan and it was he who acted as the guru and principal teacher of Radhika, although the pupil also learned other instruments and styles of music with his permission.

[5] In 1976, Radhika Mohan founded the Mohammed Ameer Khan School of Instrumental Music, which was dedicated to the development of young talent in Sarod and Sitar to carry the banner of the Shahjahanpur Gharana forward.

Some of the most well known names in today's Indian Classical music scene got an opportunity to perform on the big stage for the first time at the Rising Talents conference.