- Ustad Alla Rakha, 1919 - 2000 biography send us photos (for a photo album) news reports web sites tabla.com Our beloved guru Information compiled from: the Indian Express, via News Plus and other sources. Thursday, February 3, 2000 Mumbai - Ustad Allarakha Khan, the country's leading tabla exponent of the Punjab Gharana, who raised the tabla to the status of a solo instrument, died here early ...www.tabla.com/articles/AllaRakha.html