 This is the story of a musical past, of the incredible beginnings of entertainment in the gramophone era, of a technology and a community of women performers whose confluence laid the foundations of India's music industry. Here we are talking about an art form, evolution of art forms of different kinds in music. The involvement of Baiji's in gramophone recording saw the beginning of the music market in India. Years after Gohar Jan's first commercial recording in 1902, names like Janki Bai, Chappan Shuri, Miss Pani Bala, Miss Godavari, Jadumani Dasi and several others rang out in the industry corridors and among the music lovers of the country. A journey of rediscovery that traces the lineage of their contribution to the Hindustani classical music from the magnificent dancing halls and the splendor of mayfills into the magical world of films. Working was bad enough, you know, and working in films was very, very bad. The kind of patronage they used to get to become artists, that was lost. A tale of stigma and of daring. Indian women on record is a recalling tribute to the fabulous women singers whose lives have been lost to history.