The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India (OEMI) in three volumes covers history, theory and technical terms, musicians and scholars, and instruments related to Indian music. Edited by the Sangeet Mahabharati, it was published by the Oxford University Press in 2011. Out of the total of 5,000 encyclopaedia entries, approximately 2,000 on musicians and 500 on raga names were extracted to build this database.
 

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Personal ID
OEMI ID
Name
Field
Notes about Field
Speciality
Place of Residence
Year of Birth
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Year of Death
Date of Death
Place of Death
Gharana
Guru
Page
P01784
OEMI0613
Eknath Sarolkar
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
?
?
?
?
Gwalior
311
P00352
OEMI0247
Bahadur Khan
sarod player
Noted sarod player
?
1989
10??
Kolkata
101
P00325
OEMI0158
Antonio de Figueiredo
Noted exponent of Western classical music
Loutolim, Salcete, Goa
1981
1105
?
67
P02301
OEMI0504
Chunilal Pandya
Well-known performer of Gujarati aakhyaan
Modasa, North Gujarat
1948
?
245
P01948
OEMI0262
Balabhau Umadekar(Kundal Guruji)
vocalist, teacher, composer
Vocalist,teacher,and composer
?
?
1968
0604
?
Gwalior
109
P06562
OEMI0306
Barkat Ali Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
Patiala, Punjab
1950
Lahore, Pakistan
his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale, his uncle Kale Khan
123
P02937
OEMI0031
Acharyalu,C.R.
Kuchipudi dance guru
?
?
1998
0322
Ahmedabad
16
OEMI1961
Sheikh Khan Mohammad
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
971
OEMI0486
Chinnaswamy Mudaliar, A.M.
A pioneer in modern compilation of musical compositions
?
20
?
240
OEMI1299
Matrubhotayya(Kavi)
composer
Noted composer of the pre-Tyaagaraaja period
?
?
?
?
657
OEMI0872
Inayat Khan （Dhrupad）
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer of dhrupads
?
?
the family
442
OEMI1109
Krishnaraja Wodeyar Ⅲ
patron,
royal patron of music and author
?
?
571572
OEMI0428
Chanchal Sasi
composer
Sixteenth-century voclist and composer
?
?
214
OEMI0496
Chitrabai
vocalist
Tappaa singer of Benares
tappaa
Benares
?
?
242
OEMI0558
Devidas
saarangi player
Saarangi player at the turn of the 18th cent.
Pune,Maharashtra
?
?
?
?
Bijaram
278
OEMI0760
Gurulugomi
Author of Sri Lankan medieval works
?
?
392
OEMI0911
Jaisukhbai
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
456
OEMI1078
Khushi Mohammad
Noted harmonium player of the 1930-50s
Amritsar, Punjab
?
Fayyaz Hussain Khan
556
OEMI1300
Matrugupta
Scholar of music and poetics
?
?
?
?
657
OEMI1378
Mukhtar Begum
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore
Lahore
?
Amritsar district,Punjab
?
?
Fattu Khan
692
OEMI1624
Pingle, B.A.
musicologist
Musicologist and author of History of Indian Music
?
?
811812
OEMI1840
Sagara Daivajna
singer
Salmara village, near Pingalesvara, Kamrup district, Assam
19
?
910
OEMI2226
Sailabai
Singer and dancer of early 20th-cent. Kolkata
?
?
?
915
OEMI2178
Virabhadrayya （Melattur）
composer
Composer （18th cent.）
Melattur, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
1120
OEMI2279
Narayanaswami Iyer （Pudukottai）
violinist
Violinist of early 20th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI1469
Narayan Swami
composer
Composer of Raas-leelaa songs and some other varieties of devotional songs
Raas-leelaa songs
Gwalior
?
?
726727
OEMI1769
Ramkrishna Parvatkar
vocalist,
Vocalist and tabla player
?
1959
0214
?
his father Khapru-mama Parvatkar, Ahmedjan Thirakwa[tabla], Bashir Khan, Ratnakant Ramnathkar [vocal]
880
OEMI0355
Bhatta Gopala
Ancient writer on music quoted by the 11th-cent. autor
?
?
168
OEMI1805
Rasol Beg
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
892
OEMI1999
Sivakalundo
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Chennai
?
?
987
OEMI0490
Chinnayya Swami
vocalist
Violin player in the Kolhapur durbar sometime during 1900-20
Kolhapur
?
?
241
OEMI1326
Mirasi Rimju Ali
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
?
672
OEMI0948
Jnanam(Tiruvarur)
danseuse of Tiruvarur,Thanjavur district,Tamli Nadu
482
OEMI0802
Hargovind Swami
Reputed contemporary artiste of Raas-leelaa performances
Januthar village, Bharatour region, Uttar Pradesh
411
OEMI0042
Afruddin Khan
Qavvaali singer
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0965
Juma Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
?
?
Nirmal Shah Seni
490
OEMI0689
Ghulam Raza Khan
sitar player
Innovator of the Raazaakhaani-gat, a composition for string instruments like the sitar and sarod
?
?
363
OEMI0684
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Lahore
Kolkata
Umrao Khan
362
OEMI0459
Chhange Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
0.1857
?
231
OEMI0166
Appukkutti Nattuvan
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri （1762-1827）of the Karnnatik trinity
?
?
7172
OEMI0902
Jagannath Kumhar
singer
Folk singer,born in a family of folk artisites
folk
Mathia Gosain village,Raisen district,Madhya Pradesh
?
his father
450
OEMI0237
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
Reputed exponent
?
0.1912
Lucknow
97
OEMI0411
Buddi Sani
vocalist
Mid-19th-cent. vocalist
?
?
?
?
Balwantrao Vaidya
203
OEMI1174
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
?
?
591
OEMI0273
Baldev Prasad Nayak
vocalist
Vocalist
?
Rajasthan
?
?
112
P00012
OEMI0176
Arunagiri Nathar
Author of the celebrated 15th-cent
Vijayanagar kingdom
?
?
?
?
76
OEMI0885
Ismail Khan-Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar during the reign of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Jodhpu
?
?
445
OEMI1890
Sarjan Singh (Bhai)
singer
?
1965
06??
?
950
OEMI1340
Mohammad Ali Khan(Benares)
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
?
1860
?
his father
677
OEMI0089
Allah Jilaibai
Singer of Rajasthani folk music
?
?
Bikaner, Rajasthan
1998
0903
?
41
OEMI0192
Ashiq Hussain
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Panipat
?
?
1946
?
?
82
OEMI0808
Hari Vallabh I
Author of Sangeet Darpan （c.1625-1643） in Hindi
?
?
411
OEMI1353
Mohammad Pana
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
680
OEMI1561
Omdajan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
772
OEMI1987
Simha
Author of a late 16th-cent. Kannada work on dance, Laasya Ranjanaa
?
?
977
OEMI2271
Majhiram Urav
Folk artiste
Tilanga, Kohpani village, Raigarh district, Madhya Pradesh
His grandmother. His Paternal uncles, Magraram, Thilleram, and Bunduram
623
OEMI0908
Jahangir Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Indore durbar
Indore
Benares
1976
0511
451
OEMI0515
Dakshinamorti Sastri
composer
Composer(19th cent.) of Telugu devotional songs
?
?
?
?
252
OEMI1101
Krishna Rao, U.S.
Noted Bharata Naatyam exponent
?
?
570
OEMI1392
Munnibai(mid-19th cent.)
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
695
OEMI0367
Bhupat Khan(Jodhpur)
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
183
OEMI2010
Sohrabji R. Dhondi
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the New Alfred Theatre of the early 20th cent.
?
?
991992
OEMI2070
Sundaram Iyer （Umayalpuram）
Noted performer of ghatam （pot-drum）
?
?
1030
OEMI1307
Minakshi Shirodkar
Singer-actress of Marathi films and the stage
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
661662
OEMI1800
Raoji-bua Belbaugkar
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
?
1906
Pune
V.N. Bhatkhande
888
OEMI0204
Augustus Willard
British author of A Treatise on the Music of Hindoostan(1834)
?
?
?
?
88
OEMI0566
Dhannabai
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist,a pupil of the khayaal pioneer Sadaarang
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Pannaabaai
283
OEMI0660
Gauri
dancer
Well-known danseuse of the late 19th-cent
?
?
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
346
OEMI0914
Janabai
Poetess of Marathi abhangs
1350
461
OEMI1080
Khwaja Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
?
0.1836
?
Atraauli
556
OEMI1193
Lalu Rababi
rabaab player
An early rabaab player
?
?
?
?
601
OEMI1311
Minapa
singer,composer
Buddhist singer and composer
Kamarup,Assam
?
?
?
?
662
OEMI1626
Pitambardas
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
?
?
812
OEMI1905
Sayyed Mir Ali
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent. vocalist of Lucknow
Lucknow
?
?
959
OEMI2014
Somaraja Deva
Author of Sangeeta Ratnaavalii, a 13th-dent.
?
?
992
OEMI2132
Tiwadi Tejkaran
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh （r.1803-43）, from 1830 till 1851.
?
?
1085
OEMI0996
Kalyana Bharati
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
506
OEMI1697
Raja Nawab Ali
patron,
scholar, patron, first president of the Marris(now Bhatkhande)
?
1935
?
Kale Khan,Mohammad Ali Khan,Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
861
OEMI1476
Narayana Tirtha
Playwright
?
?
728
OEMI0354
Bhatta Devacharya
Devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
?
?
168
OEMI1997
Sitaramayya （Todi）
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of early 119th cent.
?
?
986
OEMI1512
Nathmal Joshi
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
740
OEMI1039
Kavasji Jamshedji
Singer-actor
?
?
532
OEMI0005
Abdul Aziz Khan
musician
Durbar musician of Dharampur
Dharampur
?
?
1940
?
Mumbai
2
P00176
OEMI1143
Kutub Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
OEMI0216
Azmatullah Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the mid-19th cent.
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
Agra region
his father Rahmatullah Khan
91
OEMI1802
Ras Rag Khan
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
888
OEMI0467
Chhote Kale Khan
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
?
?
Delhi gharaanaa
237
OEMI0957
Joravar Khan
vocalist
Vocalist （17th-cent.）
?
?
488
OEMI0710
Gokuldas Dhanji
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
371
OEMI1063
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
1959
?
542543
OEMI0200
Atmanatha Bhagavatar
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent)
?
?
?
?
86
OEMI0476
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
?
?
238
OEMI0893
Jadunandan Das
Well-known keertan singer and teacher of Bengal
448
OEMI2258
Zahur Khan Kalavant
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 19th cent.
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
?
?
1158
OEMI0586
Dimbh Muni Krishnadas
Poet
?
?
?
?
296
OEMI0977
Kadigai Namasivaya Pulavar
Author of the Tamil dance-drama
?
?
494
OEMI2153
Uttam Singh (Bhai)
Sabad keertan performer and teacher of Amritsar, Punjab.
?
?
Bhai Gurmukh Singh, Bhai Harsa Singh
1104
OEMI0849
Hussain Sharqi （Sultan）
patron,musician
Patron and musician
?
?
437
OEMI1902
Sawai Pratap Singh
patron,
Patron, Scholar, and Maharaja of Jaipur who reigned during 1779-1804
?
?
Chand Khan
958