Khan was a reputed teacher, and a faculty member for six months at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, US, where he taught Indian classical music.Listing on the faculty page of Ali Akbar College of MusicJan Haag, Ali Akbar Khan, an appreciation, 2000 (accessed 23 November 2014). His students include his son Bidyut Khan, nephew Shahadat Hossain Khan, Tejendranarayan Majumdar, Kalyan Mukherjee, Monoj Shankar and his nephew Khurshid Khan.
