The first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, a music training school, was set up in 1901 by Vishnu Digambar Paluskar in

(a) Delhi
(b) Gwalior
(c) Ujjain
(d) Lahore

The correct answer is (d) Lahore.

Explanation

Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, a pioneering musician and vocalist of the Gwalior gharana, sought to democratize the teaching of Indian classical music, which was traditionally confined to princely courts and a strict guru-shishya parampara (master-disciple tradition).

To make music education accessible to the general public, he established the first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in Lahore (then part of British India) on May 5, 1901. He later founded another branch in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1908.