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
P03011
OEMI0446
Charu Sija Mathur
Performer of Manipuri dance
1940
Delhi
R. K. Singhajit Singh
224
P02301
OEMI0570
Dharmiklal Pandya
Noted exponent of Gujarati aakhyaan
1932
0811
Baroda,Gujarat
his father Chunilal Govindram Pandya
285
P01070
OEMI0148
Anjanibai Lolekar
vocalist
Vocalist
Mumbai
1928
Goa
Agra
her brother Yashwantao Lolekar, husband R.L. Borkar, Anwar Hussain Khan
62
P01441
OEMI0155
Annavarupa Ramaswamy
violinist
Violinist of the Karnatik style
1926
Somavarappadu, Andhra Pradesh
Maganti Jagannatha Chowdary, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
65
P00152
OEMI0798
Hare Krishna Behera
Exponent of dance and dance music
1938
Balasore area, Orissa
410
P02426
OEMI0266
Balakrishna Sastrigal,T.S.
Harikathaa performer
1918
0818
Chennnai
110
P01280
OEMI0735
Govind Narayan Natu
vocalist, teacher
Veteran teacher of vocal music at Bhatkhande College of Music, Lucknow
1905
0514
?
?
V.N.Bhatkhande, Raja-bhaiya Poonchwale
380
P02378
OEMI0048
Agat A. Sangma
vocalist, instrumentalist
Vocalist and instrumentalist
1945
?
Selbalgre,West Garo Hills,Meghalaya
23
P00377
OEMI0189
Ashesh Chandra Banerji
esraaj player
Well-known esraaj player and teacher
1920
1216
Vishnupur,Bankura district,Bengal
Vishnupur
82
P02120
OEMI0447
Chathunni Panikkar （Kavungal）
Kathakali artiste
1922
Thichoor village, Thrissur district, Kerala,1922
his granduncle Sankara Panikkar, K. M. Gopalan Nair
224
P05853
OEMI0664
Gautam, M.R.
vocalist, teacher
Teacher, author, and vocalist
1924
0319
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
vocal music; Dilip Chandra Vedi, Vilayat Hussain Khan
350
P06309
OEMI0285
Balwantrai Bhatt
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1921
?
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Omkarnath Thakur
115
P02665
OEMI0193
Ashok Ranade
musicologist,vocalist
Musicologist,author,and vocalist
Mumbai
1937
1025
?
82
P01784
OEMI0613
Eknath Sarolkar
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
?
?
?
?
Gwalior
311
OEMI0382
Binaoani Mohanty
sitar player,vocalist
Vocalist,sitar player,and teacher.
1928
0628
Cuttack,Orissa
Allauddin Khan and Inayat Hussain Khan
192
OEMI0865
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
?
?
Sahaswaan
440
OEMI0049
Aghawan
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Unav,near Lucknow
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0118
Amirjan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
51
OEMI0249
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
Eminent exponent
0.1765
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
102
OEMI0578
Dhruba Charan Ratha
tabla player
Tabla player
1917
0415
Ghantiali,Cuttack,Orissa
Raghunath Mallick and Balaichand Das
290
OEMI0923
Jatadhar
Early 18th-cent. pakhaawaj veteran of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.
464
OEMI1297
Master Ratan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1914
1110
Hadiyabad town,
Shaam Chauraasi
Poorna Chandra
657
OEMI1563
Padma Nath
instrumentalist
Kolkata
?
?
780
OEMI2061
Sultan Bakhsh
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
?
?
Ratan Chand Das
1029
OEMI1413
Muthurama Kavirayar
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
?
?
704705
OEMI1549
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
Qavvaali singer
?
?
766
OEMI0975
Kader Bakhsh （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla player
1902
Lahore
?
his father Fakir Bakhsh
494
OEMI1373
Muddu Venkatamakhi
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
?
?
?
?
690
P06774
OEMI1224
Mahadev Prasad Mishra
vocalist
Vocalist
1907
?
Allahabad
619
OEMI0307
Barkat Ali Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
123
OEMI1698
Raja Ramchan Waghela
patron,
ruler,royal patron
?
?
861
OEMI1385
Munir Khaton Begum
vocalist
Vocalist
1934
0202
Allahabad,Uttar Pradesh
Kiraanaa
Habib Khan
694
P02280
OEMI0961
Joseph Kaimaparamban
Performer of Kathaa Prasangam, a veteran of the modern form of this art in Kerala
1924
Cherthala, Alapuzha district, Kerala
488
OEMI1652
Purushottam Damodar
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
831
OEMI0700
Giriraja Kavi
composer
Eminent 18th-cent. composer of Telugu origin
?
?
367
OEMI1025
Kantimati
Along with her danseuse-colleague Gowri and guru Kannuswami.
?
?
517
OEMI1206
Lochan Kavi
Author of Raaga Taranginii(17th cent.)
?
?
?
?
607
OEMI1428
Nabi Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar.
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
712
OEMI1617
Pir Bakhsh
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpur
?
?
807
OEMI1827
Ruparam
actor, writer
?
?
905
OEMI2154
Vadammal
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
11061107
OEMI0401
Bobbili Kesavayya
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent vocalist
?
?
his father, Gopalayya
197
OEMI1810
Ratnakant Ramnathkar
vocalist
harmonium player and vocalist
1900
Mumbai
Mumbai
Raghuvir Ramnathkar, Nanhe Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
894
OEMI0705
Gokalram （Bhagat）
vocalist,patron,
Vocalist attached to the temples of Jodhpur, directly patronized by the royal palace
Jodhpur
?
?
370
P05977
OEMI1248
Malini Rajurkar
vocalist
vocalist
1941
Ajmer,Rajasthan
Govindrao Rajurkar
629
OEMI2045
Sudarshan Shastri
sitar player
Sitar player and author
?
?
?
?
1013
OEMI1663
Pyar Khan (Rudra Vina)
son of Bhupat Khan,grandson of khaayal luminary Sadaarang
1737
Delhi
?
834
OEMI1488
Narayan-bua Gogate
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of tappaa and keertana of Maharashtra during the second half of the 19th cent.
?
?
729
OEMI2128
Tirumalayya Naidu,C.
Author
?
?
?
?
1083
OEMI2183
Vengichan Swami （Thiruvilwamala）
Performer of the drum, maddalam, for Kathakali
0.1873
Thiruvilwaamala, Thrissur district, Kerala
?
his uncle Chittan Pattar and Chinnaswami Bhagavatar （maddalam）
1121
OEMI0835
Hira Singh Boralia
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
1934
0612
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Ram Narayan, Harlal Makwana, Bhailal Barot, Devilal Samar
431
OEMI1460
Narasimha Bhagavatar
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
?
?
Rama Iyengar
725
OEMI1910
Sesha Ayyangar （Margadarsi）
vocalist
Early 18th-cent. composer and vocalist of Karnatik music
?
?
961
P00112
OEMI0064
Ajoy Chakrabarty
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Kolkata
1953
?
Kolkata
30
OEMI0329
Bhagwan Nayak
Late 15th-cent. dhrupad singer
?
?
148
OEMI0520
Damodara
Author of the 16th-cent.
?
?
?
?
253
P00032
OEMI0695
Girija Devi
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Kolkata
1929
0508
Benares
365366
OEMI0790
Hamidanbai
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th cent.
?
?
401
OEMI0929
Jayapa
Author of Nritta Ratnaavali,a 13th-cent
470
OEMI1009
Kamleshwari Devi
vocalist,
Vocalist,mainly sang thumriis
thumrii
?
?
?
?
510
OEMI1089
Kohala
Generally believed to be the autor of a Sanskrit work, in verse, titled Sangeeta Meru, on drama and music
?
?
560561
OEMI1218
Madhavi Mudgal
Odissi danseuse
1951
?
Delhi
Harekrishna Behra and Kelucharan Mahapatra
613
OEMI1443
Nanda Malini
singer, music director
Contemporary Sri Lankan singer and music director
Contemporary Sri Lankan
1943
0823
Levvan Duva, Alutgama, Sri Lanka
721
OEMI1555
Norbai
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
?
Vrindavan,Yttar Pradesh
767
OEMI1797
Ranjana Devi
singer, teacher
1949
0117
?
Y.Gulap Singh, Ibemcha Devi, Y. Gambhini Devi
887888
OEMI1930
Shamanna
veena player,
Veena vidwaan - popular as Veena Shamanna - of the durbar of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar （r.1799-1868）
?
?
964
P00240
OEMI2145
Uma Sharma
Kathak danseuse, recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1987
?
（Kathak） Sunder Prasad, Shambhu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj, （Raas dance of Vrindavan） Ladli Sharanji Sharma and Devaki Nandanji
1102
OEMI2268
Zohrabai
Singer
?
?
Abdul Karim Khan （Kiraanaa） and Abdul Wahid Khan
1161
OEMI1781
Ramtaran Sanyal
musician
Musician associated with old Bengali plays.
Faridpur district [now in Bangladesh]
?
Kana Jogen, Gopal Chandra Chakravarty
884
OEMI2222
Vithaldas Joshi
pakhaawaj player, singer
keertan singer and pakhaawaj player.
keertan
?
?
pakhaawaj
1139
OEMI0357
Bhausaheb Guruji
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior tradition
?
?
?
?
Gwalior
Nanubhaiya Telang
169
OEMI0725
Gopalakrishna Yati
composer
Composer of Telugu devotional songs
Telugu devotional songs
?
?
375
OEMI1591
Pannalal Goswami
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
?
?
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
794795
OEMI2179
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Thanjavur
?
?
1120
P02680
OEMI0698
Giriraj Prasad
Performer of swaang
?
?
366367
OEMI0886
Ivor Dennis
vocalist, composer, teacher
Vocalist, composer, and teacher
1932
0528
Seeduwa, Sri Lanka
445
OEMI2031
Srinivasan,M.B.
Music director of south Indian films
1925
?
Chittoor,Andhra
1009
OEMI2218
Visvavasu
ancient author
?
?
1138
OEMI1812
Ravji-bua Gogate
vocalist
vocalist
Maharashtra
?
897
OEMI0930
Jayarama lyer,T.K.
violinist
Violinist and a former conductor
1894
Kuttalam,near Kumbakonam,Tamli Nadu,
470
OEMI0013
Abdul Latif
composer
Singer and composer
1930
?
Barisal,Bangladesh
Surendranath Das
5
OEMI0010
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
?
?
?
?
3
OEMI2051
Sujan Khan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
?
?
?
Agra
10251026
OEMI0375
Bilas Baras Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Pune durbar
dhrupad
Pune
?
?
?
?
Pune durbar
189
OEMI0540
Dayar Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1760s.
?
?
?
?
Maharaja Takhat Singh
262
P06043
OEMI1831
Sabri Khan
saarangi player
contemporary player of the saarangi
1927
0410
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Haji Mohammad Khan, Chhajju Khan
908
P00220
OEMI1936
Shamim Ahmad Khan
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
1938
Baroda
the Agra sharaanaa
maestro Ravi Shankar
965
OEMI0099
Amara Simha
patron,
Patron and playwright
?
?
?
?
?
46
OEMI0179
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Agra
his family
78
OEMI0915
Janaki Ballabh Mohanty
Oriya literatteur whose works include collections of lyrical poetry and songs
1925
0614
Puridistrict,Orissa
461
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
P02635
OEMI0983
Kalanidhi Narayanan
Bharata Naatyam teacher and danseuse
1927
Tamil Nadu
Mylapore Gowri Amma, Kanchipuram Kannappa Pillai, Chinnayya Naidu
500
OEMI1568
Padmavati Gokhale (Shaligram)
vocalist
vocalist
Mumbai
1929
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
Govindrao Shaligram,a pupil of Alladiya Khan
780
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