Rasoolan Bai was a renowned Hindustani Classical musician. She was known for the romantic Purab Ang of “Thumri Sangeet” and belonged to Benaras Gharana.  In the gruesome Hindu-Muslim Gujarat riots in 1969, her house was burnt down, and she was forced to return to Uttar Pradesh. She started a life in Allahabad, depending only on her small stall near the AIR building until she died an unnoticed death in 1974.