Merukhand is an improvisational style in Hindustani classical music involving permutations of a fixed set of swaras or notes (meru, axis or skeleton) broken up in various ways (khand, fragment), while retaining the proper emphasis on various notes as required by the raga. improvisational forays treating merely three or four notes may occupy twenty minutes or more. Merukhand is now a part of the improvisational strategy within the Indore gharana founded by Amir Khan.