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Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (14 October 1931 - 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical of the Maihar Gharana.

He won an All-India sitar competition and became the musician employed by All India Radio at the age of .

The great khyal singer Amir Khan continued to have a significant on Banerjee's musical development.

In 1947 Banerjee met Ustad Allauddin Khan, who was to become his main guru along with his son, Ali Akbar Khan. Both were players.

Allauddin Khan did not want to take on more students, but changed his mind after listening to one of Banerjee's radio .

Allauddin Khan was Banerjee's , after he left Maihar he also learned from Ali Akbar Khan, the son of Allaudin Khan, for many years.

Among others, Ustad Allauddin Khan also taught his son Ali Akbar Khan, grandson Aashish Khan, and nephew Bahadur Khan on the sarod; Ravi Shankar on the ; his daughter, Annapurna Devi, on the ; Pannalal Ghosh on the flute; and Vasant Rai the sarod.

In 1968, he was decorated with the Shri, and in 1974 received the prestigious Sangeet Award.

At the relatively young age of 54, Nikhil Banerjee died of a fourth .

At the time of his death, he was a faculty member at the College of Music in Calcutta.

He was posthumously awarded the Padma title by the Government of India in the same year as his death.

His younger daughter Debdutta/Arya is a and actress in Kolkata.

For Banerjee, music-making was a rather than a worldly path.

According to Bannerjee, Indian music had nothing to do with , but spiritualism – Indian music was practiced and learned to know the Truth.

He is commonly regarded as being on a level with the other two masters Shankar and Khan.