Raga rock

Raga rock is a generic term used to describe rock and roll records with heavy Indian musical influences, either in construction or use of genuine Indian instrumentation, such as

Raga rock is a generic term used to describe rock and roll records with heavy Indian musical influences, either in construction or use of genuine Indian instrumentation, such as sitar and tabla.

The term is not usually used to refer to a specific genre of music, but rather as a more general descriptor for any sort of rock with heavy, audible debts to Indian classic music. Since Indian influences extend in particular through much 1960s rock, the term is most frequently used to refer to certain sounds from that decade, although heavily Indian-derived sounds are found in some post-1960s rock.