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
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
P01784
OEMI0613
Eknath Sarolkar
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
?
?
?
?
Gwalior
311
OEMI0099
Amara Simha
patron,
Patron and playwright
?
?
?
?
?
46
OEMI0179
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Agra
his family
78
OEMI0051
Ahmad Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
OEMI0974
Kader Bakhsh （Pakhawaj）
Scion of an early （18th cent.） pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Laalaa Bhavaanidaas
494
OEMI1306
Maya Lambo(Bhai)
vocalist, sabad keertan
Vocalist and leader of a group of sabad keertan singers
?
?
?
?
660
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
OEMI1418
Muthuswami Tiwar
Mridangam player
Tirupadi Puliyar,near Cuddalore,Tamil Nadu
1931
Mysore
Subbaraya Tewar
706
OEMI1302
Maula Bakhsh(Sarangi)
father of Allam Khan and Mohammad Khan
Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
659
OEMI0761
Gurumurti Sastri （Paidala）
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
?
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
392
OEMI0230
Bachu Bawa
tabla player
Tabla player
?
1914
?
94
OEMI0704
Godavari
vocalist,
Vocalist and prolific disc-record artiste of 1900-10, in Telugu and Tamil
?
?
370
OEMI0844
Husnabai
vocalist
Khayaal singer of Benares
khayaal
Benares
?
1938
?
436
OEMI1431
Nagaridas
Devotional poet of Vrindavan
?
?
?
?
715
OEMI1843
Sahachari Sukh
composer
composer
?
?
911
OEMI2028
Srikantha
Author
Kathiawad(now in Gujarat)
?
?
?
?
1008
OEMI2155
Vadiraja
author of dance-dramas and songs
Hoovinakere, Kundapurtaluk, Karnataka
?
1107
OEMI1600
Parasu Sekh Ojha
singer.dancer
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
798
OEMI0115
Amir Khan Gulab Sagar
Jaltarang player in the Baroda state Indian orchestra.
?
?
?
?
50
OEMI2082
Surendranath Mazumdar
vocalist
Vocalist （dhrupads and tap-khayaals） of Kolkata, a contemporary of Dwijendralal Roy （1863-1913）
khayaal,dhrupad
?
?
1036
OEMI1477
Narayanadeva Dvija
Seventeeth-century poet of Maanasaa Ojaapaali songs of Assam
?
?
728
OEMI1481
Narayanaswami Ayyar
vocalist
Vocalist 19th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI0330
Bhagwandas
mridang player
Veteran player and teacer of mridang
?
1976
0414
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh
148
OEMI0460
Chhataki
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Wazir Khan
231
OEMI0791
Hamirji
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
?
?
404
OEMI1571
Pahad Singh
pakhaawaj player
pakhaawaj player
?
?
Jaawli
781
OEMI1659
Putli
vocalist
vovalist
?
?
834
OEMI1804
Rasikdev
poet-devotee
?
?
891892
OEMI1934
Shambhu Qavval
Qavvaali singer who usually sang with his brother Shankar （d. 1984）
?
?
964
P00203
OEMI2042
Subramaniam,L
violinist
Well-known violinist and composer
?
?
1012
OEMI2163
Vangamani
author
?
?
1113
OEMI1359
Mohan Chand Basu
composer
composer
?
?
?
?
682
OEMI0805
Hari Prasad Bandopadhya
Singer-actor of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
411
OEMI0389
Birchandra Manikya
patron,
King of Tripura, poet and a great patron of music and alied arts
?
?
194
OEMI1731
Rama Poduval N.P.
vocalist
Veteran singer of sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
Alanalloor, Kerala
his father Sankunni Poduval, famous Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
870871
OEMI0278
Balkrishna-bua(Bade)
vocalist
Well-known vocalist 19th-cent
?
?
?
?
112113
OEMI0482
Chinna Pakkiri
Celebrated naagasrwaram player of early 20th cent.
?
?
240
OEMI0703
Giriyappagaru
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu and Sanskrit
Telugu devotional songs
?
?
368
OEMI1095
Krishna Bhamini
vocalist
Vocalist
?
0.1922
Kolkata
569
OEMI1290
Marris,W.S.
Governor of the United Provinces in the 1920s in British India
?
?
?
?
652
OEMI1625
Pitambara Dvija
Singer and poet of Assam
?
?
812
OEMI2032
Srinivasulu
composer
Composer
Tamil nadu
?
?
?
?
1009
P00699
OEMI0690
Ghulam Sabir Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Moradabad
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh
363
OEMI1301
Maujuddin Khan
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
?
?
?
?
658659
OEMI2076
Suraj Khan
vocalist
Sixteenth-century vocalist
?
?
1034
P00692
OEMI0681
Ghulam Hussain Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
?
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Imam Khan
361
OEMI1259
Mangal Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
?
?
638
OEMI0892
Jadumani Dasi
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolkata
Kolkata
448
OEMI2116
Tej Khan
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
?
?
?
?
1070
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI1350
Mohammad Jan
saarangi player
saarangi player
?
?
Fida Hussain
680
OEMI1339
Mohammad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
vocalist
Sikandarabad,near Agra
1890
?
Imam Bakhsh Hande
677
OEMI0687
Ghulam Rasol （Jodhpur）
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh of Jodhpur
Jodhpur
Lahore
?
362
OEMI0778
Haidar Khan （Dagar）
vocalist,
Vocalist, son of Imam Bakhsh
?
?
400
OEMI1465
Narayan Moreshwar Khare
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
726
OEMI1026
Karam Imam(Mohammad)
Author of the Urdu work
?
1865
?
518
OEMI0131
Anandadasa
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist of Kannanda javalis and performer of Harikatha
Kannanda javalis
56
OEMI0408
Brhat Kasyapa
Quoted as an author
?
?
?
?
201
P00033
OEMI0715
Gopal Krishna
Noted vichitra veena player
Delhi
his father Nand Kishore, Khubchand Brahmchari
372
OEMI1211
Madanapala
A prince of Andhra, author of Ananda Sanjeevan
?
?
?
?
611
OEMI1436
Najukjan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
?
?
717
OEMI1646
Prem Singh
Singer of Sikh devotional hhymns
?
?
827
OEMI2034
Subashi
Singer-actress of early 20th cent
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
1010
OEMI2156
Vadyanadha Iyer
singer
disc-record singer of south India
?
?
1107
OEMI1142
Kushaba Nana Bhide
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
?
?
581
OEMI0563
Dhabakoti Ammal
vocalist
Vocalist
Tamil Nadu
?
?
1920
?
?
281
OEMI0277
Balkrishna Dhamanaskar
Author of 19th-cent
?
?
?
?
112
OEMI1287
Mansukhram Nayak
vocalist,musician
Vocalist, chief musician
?
?
?
?
645
OEMI0987
Kale Khan （Lahore）
Singer of light classical varieties such as daadraa and qavvaali
?
?
503
OEMI1510
Natesa Ayyar(Nimam)
vocalist
Vocalist and ascetic known also as Nataraja Bhagavatar
?
?
?
?
740
OEMI0871
Inayat Khan （Author）
Author
?
?
442
OEMI1492
Narayanrao Mangalwedhekar
Reputed pakhaawaj player and teacher
?
1980
0613
?
731
OEMI0743
Govindasambayya （Margadarsi）
Pioneer of taana-varnams
?
?
381382
OEMI0231
Bachubai
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Abdul Karim Khan, Suresh-babu Mane
94
OEMI0461
Chhedilal
composer
Producer and writer-composer of nautanki musical plays of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, during the 1920s-30s
?
?
235
OEMI0953
John de Silva
Late 19th-cent. pioneer of Sri Lankan Noorti plays
?
?
487
OEMI1332
Misra
vocalist,dancer
vocalist,dancer
?
1890
?
672
OEMI1452
Nanhibai
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent. singer in the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpur
?
?
723
OEMI1935
Shamim
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Lucknow
?
?
964965
OEMI2164
Vansiali
poet
?
?
1114
OEMI1903
Sawai Ram Singh
patron,musician
Patron, musician, and Maharaja of Jaipur （r.1835-80）
Jaipur
?
?
958
OEMI1158
Lakshmanachariar
Sanskrit scholar and noted Harikathaa performer
?
1919
?
588589
OEMI0338
Bhaiyya-saheb Joshi
vocalist
Exponent of the Gwalior vocal style
?
1920
Mumbai
Gwalior
his well-known father Vasudev-bua Joshi
154
OEMI1123
Kshirod Prasad
playwright
Bengal
?
?
575
OEMI1328
Mirza Ghalib
poet
?
?
672
OEMI1628
Pohre-bua
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
812813
OEMI2038
Subbanna(Mugur)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
Andalanuru Subbayya
1011
OEMI0412
Bughara Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent
?
?
?
?
Delhi
204
OEMI1337
Modu Khan
tabla player
Tabla player
?
?
676
OEMI1346
Mohammad Bashir Khan
vocalist
vocalist
Aligarh
1936
Jabra,Uttar Pradesh
679
OEMI0678
Ghulam Ali Khan
sarod player
A sarod pioneer of the 19th-cent.
?
?
360361
OEMI1854
Salem Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
Agra gharaanaa
917