Tracing its history back to nineteen generations, we can say that the Gharana took firm roots under the able supervision of Ustad Behram Khan, who went to Jaipur and founded his gurukul. The greatness of his contribution to Dhrupad is admitted on all hands.

Ustad Behram’s father was Baba Gopal Das Pandey. So the Dagars are the progeny of Pandey brahmnins.. Gopal Das was ostracized by his fellow brahmins for having chewed a pan offered to him by the then mughal ruler in Delhi, Muhammad Shah Rangile, for his excellent rendition of Dhrupad. Haidar and Behram were his two sons.

Behram was very talented. He became a satsastri as a disciple of Baba Kalidas Paramahansa, who both taught him Sanskrit and trained him in music. Behram Khan spent the best part of his life of 120 years in establishing the purity of the gayaki not known before and in popularizing khayal along with Dhrupad. He was a superb teacher. Among his popular disciples were Alibaksh Fateh ali (Allya-Fattu), Gohki Bai, Kale Khan and Abdullah Khan. His elder brother Ustad Haidar Khan died at a young age. He taught music to his own sons Saddu Khan and Akbar Khan and also to his nephews Mohammed Ali Khan and Mohammed Jan Khan. Gifted with a long life, he also trained his grandson Pt. Enayet Khan and his nephews’ sons Zakiruddin Khan and Allabande Khan. The entire credit for keeping alive and passing down to posterity the pure form of dagarvani goes to him. He passed at Jaipur in 1877.

After his death Ustad Saddu Khan became the chief court musician of Udaipur. And the two sons of Haidar Kahn also became renowned singers. Pandit Enayat, Saddu Khan’s son, qualified as a satsastri and became a great composer and singer.