Foremost disciple of Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande and Faiyaz Khan of Baroda State, he also remained principal of Bhatkhande Music Institute (Bhatkande Sangeet Sansthan), Lucknow, for many years, where he trained many noted names in the field of music.
It was his Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande who sent Ratanjankar to Ustad Faiyaz Khan for a six-year studentship.
Jog, Dinkar Kaikini, Shanno Khurana,[4] Sumati Mutatkar, Prabhakar Chinchore, C R Vyas, Chinmoy Lahiri, Yashwant Mahale, S.N.Tripathi, Roshan Lal Nagrath (music director).
A known musicologist like his mentor Bhatkhande, Ratanjankar has more than 800 compositions under his pen name "Sujaan", notated and documented diligently by his disciple K. G. Ginde[citation needed].
[5] In 1957 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India,[6] and in 1963 the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, awarded him its highest honour for lifetime achievement, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.