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
name
date of birth
OEMI ID
page
place
year of birth
year of death
date of death
century
birth place
place of death
profession
explanation about profession
gharana
guru
music field
P00152
Hare Krishna Behera
OEMI0798
410
1938
20
Balasore area, Orissa
Exponent of dance and dance music
P02426
Balakrishna Sastrigal,T.S.
0818
OEMI0266
110
1918
20
Chennnai
Harikathaa performer
P01280
Govind Narayan Natu
0514
OEMI0735
380
1905
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Veteran teacher of vocal music at Bhatkhande College of Music, Lucknow
V.N.Bhatkhande, Raja-bhaiya Poonchwale
P02378
Agat A. Sangma
?
OEMI0048
23
1945
20
Selbalgre,West Garo Hills,Meghalaya
vocalist, instrumentalist
Vocalist and instrumentalist
P00377
Ashesh Chandra Banerji
1216
OEMI0189
82
1920
20
Vishnupur,Bankura district,Bengal
esraaj player
Well-known esraaj player and teacher
Vishnupur
P02120
Chathunni Panikkar （Kavungal）
OEMI0447
224
1922
20
Thichoor village, Thrissur district, Kerala,1922
Kathakali artiste
his granduncle Sankara Panikkar, K. M. Gopalan Nair
P05853
Gautam, M.R.
0319
OEMI0664
350
1924
20
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist, teacher
Teacher, author, and vocalist
vocal music; Dilip Chandra Vedi, Vilayat Hussain Khan
P06309
Balwantrai Bhatt
?
OEMI0285
115
1921
20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Omkarnath Thakur
P02665
Ashok Ranade
1025
OEMI0193
82
Mumbai
1937
20
?
musicologist,vocalist
Musicologist,author,and vocalist
P01784
Eknath Sarolkar
?
OEMI0613
311
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
Gwalior
P03011
Charu Sija Mathur
OEMI0446
224
1940
20
Delhi
Performer of Manipuri dance
R. K. Singhajit Singh
P02301
Dharmiklal Pandya
0811
OEMI0570
285
1932
20
Baroda,Gujarat
Noted exponent of Gujarati aakhyaan
his father Chunilal Govindram Pandya
P01070
Anjanibai Lolekar
OEMI0148
62
Mumbai
1928
20
Goa
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra
her brother Yashwantao Lolekar, husband R.L. Borkar, Anwar Hussain Khan
P01441
Annavarupa Ramaswamy
OEMI0155
65
1926
20
Somavarappadu, Andhra Pradesh
violinist
Violinist of the Karnatik style
Maganti Jagannatha Chowdary, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
P05973
Amjad Ali Khan
1009
OEMI0120
51
Delhi
1945
20
Gwalior
Well-known sarod player of an admirable instrumental tradition,traced to Bangash,Afghanistan.
his father Hafiz Ali Khan
Yusuf Khan
?
OEMI2251
1156
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Haapur
Mirza Khan
OEMI1329
672
?
?
author
Samwal Khan
OEMI1865
925
?
?
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Chhota Naubat Khan
OEMI0464
236
0.1756
18
?
?
rudra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
his illustrious father Jeevan Khan
Chhote Mohammad Khan
OEMI0469
237
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent.）
Haddu Khan
Jatan Kathak
OEMI0924
464
Benares
19
Mid-19th cent.saarangi player of Benares.
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
?
OEMI0080
38
?
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
Gaforan
?
OEMI0638
323
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
P00196
Pradip Chaliha
OEMI1635
824
Assam
1919
20
Golaghat, Assam
Teacher and propagator of tradition Assamese dance and music
Sankaran Kutty Panikkar (Kavungal)
0306
OEMI1873
940
1909
20
Thrissur district, Kerala
Kathakali artiste
Konthumi Panikkar (Kalluvazhi), Appuni Poduval (Killikurissimangalam), Ravunni Menon (Pattikkamthodi)
Mughlu Khan(Kolhapur)
?
OEMI1376
691
?
probably Narsinghar,Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Gwalior
Paidala Gurumorti Sastri
OEMI1573
782
Chennai
18
Kayatar village,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
composer,vocalist
composer,vocalist
Sonti Venkata Subbaya
Ghulam Rasol （Lucknow）
OEMI0688
362363
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist, fonder of the Lucknow khayaal gharaanaa
the Lucknow khayaal gharaanaa
khayaal
Baiju Bawra
OEMI0256
105
?
?
There are a few legends on the identity and life of Baiju
Don Bastian, C.
OEMI0593
300
?
?
Late 19th-cent. pioneer of Noorti plays of Sri Lanka
P02334
Ibopishak Sharma
0402
OEMI0852
438
1918
20
Imphal, Manipur
Manipuri dance guru
his father Iboton Sharma, Higoksana Singh, Aton Singh, Gourachandra Sharma, Amudon Sharma
Kirtidhara
OEMI1082
558
?
?
One of the commentators of Bharata-muni's Naatyasaastra
Madanlal Vyas
?
OEMI1212
611
Mumbai
1922
20
Jodhpur,Rajasthan
Scholar,noted for his translation of work on music from Bengal
Raghunath Rath
OEMI1681
856
?
?
author
Vanasri Rao
OEMI2162
1112
20
?
?
kuuchipuudi danseuse
Chidambara Bhagavatar
OEMI0474
238
20
?
?
Eminent Harikathaa performer of the 1930s.
Ganesilal Chaube
OEMI0652
331
Ganesilal
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Raghunath Nanda
0812
OEMI1679
856
1920
20
Puri,Orissa
singer
Govind Charan Nanda
Bhagabai Nadkaikarin
OEMI0327
145
Mumbai
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and early singer for discrecords during 1900-10
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
OEMI2147
1102
Assam
20
?
?
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Balkrishnapati Bajpeyi
?
OEMI0281
114
Gwalior
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of Gwalior
Gurusami Disikar
OEMI0762
392
?
?
Well-known singer of Tamil Tevaaram hymns
Morgaumkar Bhave
OEMI1367
686
Morgon village,near Pune,Maharashtra
?
composer
composer
Tarun Kumar Singh
?
OEMI2111
1068
1912
20
Imphal,Manipur
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award for Mnipuri dance in 1987
Amubi Singh and some other veterans
Gaurikanta Deva Goswami
OEMI0662
349350
1890
19-20
Jarabari Sattra, Sibsagar district, Assam
Eminent guru of Vaishnava-Sattriya dance
Nityananda
P00097
Kamala Murthy,T.R.
?
OEMI1003
508
1932
20
Lakshmikudi,Tamil Nadu
Harikathaa performer
Annasami Bhagavatar,Embar Vijaya Raghavachariar,and Venkatasubramania Sastrigal
Nazir Khan(Jodhpur)
?
OEMI1524
755
Jodhpur
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(late 19th cent.) of the Jodhpur durbar
Pransukhlal Nayak
04??
OEMI1639
825
1910
20
Jagudan village, Mehsana district, Gujarat
?
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the Gujarati stage
Inayat Khan 'Rasikh'
OEMI0873
442
?
?
musician
Author of an Urdu work in music and musicians
Sukavi Narayanadeva
?
OEMI2053
1026
?
17
?
?
poet and compiler of Manasaa Ojaapaali songs
Narayanaswamy, K.V.
OEMI1487
729
1923
20
Palakkad, Kerala
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
Palghat Mani Iyer, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, C.S. Krishna Iyer, K.S. Venkataramayya
Ammakannu
?
OEMI0121
52
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Bharati Sivaji
OEMI0345
161
?
dancer
Noted contemporary dancer
Lalita Sastri
Chhoti Maina I
OEMI0471
237
?
?
vocalist, dancer
Vocalist and dancer
Gopalasambayya
OEMI0726
375
?
?
vocalist
Noted veena player and vocalist
Hari Vallabh II
OEMI0809
411
?
?
Author of a commentary on the Bhagavad Geetaa
P00173
Kumkum Mohanty
OEMI1133
579
Cuttack,Orissa
contemporary Odissi danseuse
Malkajan Chulbulewali
OEMI1250
630
?
?
singer-dancer
Nannu-miya
OEMI1455
723
?
?
Well-known performer of dholak
Sanyal, A.N.
OEMI1877
943
?
?
author, teacher
Sukadev Patri
?
OEMI2052
1026
1927
20
Kendrapada,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar,Kundaladi Narayan Rao,and Khitish Chandra Maitra.
Lalji Srivastava
1124
OEMI1188
600
1924
20
Prayag, near Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
tabla player
Tabla player
Yusuf Khan, Shyamlal, Jiyalal
P00216
Sangameshwar Gurav
1207
OEMI1867
926
1931
20
Madarakhandi, Bijapur district, Karnataka
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Ramchandra Gosavi
OEMI1756
877
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbau of Bajirao Peshwa II
Janardhanrao Joshi
OEMI0918
462
Pakhaawaj player
Jaya Senapati
OEMI0927
467
13
Mid-13th-cent.Telugu author,better known as Japaya,who wrote Nritta Ratnaavali.
Kuvarpal Swami
OEMI1145
582
?
?
composer
composer
Mithas Joshi
OEMI1333
673
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sarasdev
OEMI1884
946
?
?
poet-devotee of Braja Pradesh
Subrahmanyam,G.N.
?
OEMI2041
1012
1919
20
Bangalore
Noted veena player
T.Venkatarao
Abdul Sattar
?
OEMI0018
6
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
P06191
Anwar Hussain Khan
OEMI0161
70
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Mugna Khan
OEMI2278
691
1915
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
saarangi ghaaraana
Kale Khan
Mitthu Khan
OEMI1335
673
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Savaliya Khan
OEMI1898
954
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Pyar Khan
P00159
Jaffar Hussain Khan
OEMI0896
449
Sahaswan,Uttar Pradesh
Noted qavvaali singer
Asgarijan
?
OEMI0185
81
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
Agra
Jhire Khan
OEMI0937
478
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
Lalgudi Jayaraman
0917
OEMI1181
593
Chennai
1930
20
Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist
Violin maestro
his paternal uncle Kandaswamy, father Gopalan
Sundarabai of Charkhari
OEMI2068
1030
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
Anil Mihiripenna
0810
OEMI0146
61
1933
20
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and teacher
Bauli Bakhsh
OEMI0315
130
?
?
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
Mubarak Ali Khan(Mumbai)
?
OEMI1372
689690
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Pundarika Vitthal
OEMI1650
829
16
Satanur village, near Sivaganga, Bangalor region, Karnataka
?
musicologist
Eminent 16th-cent. musicologist
P00197
Pratima Barua Pandey
OEMI1644
827
1934
20
Gauripur, Assam
singer
Assamese folk singer
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
0531
OEMI0188
82
1938
20
Mumbai
Singer-actress of Marathi plays
Mussammat Lajjat Bakhsh
OEMI1406
703
?
?
Thumrii and ghazal singer of Farukhabad
thumrii
Varadarao Kamalakar Rao
OEMI2165
1114
1937
20
Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh
Mridangam player
V.V.Narayan Sastry, Yella Somanna, Palghat Mani Iyer
Bal Chaturvedi
07??
OEMI0258
107
1919
20
Mehboob Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
his famous father Chandan Chaube
Chandrarekha
OEMI0439
220
Thanjavur
?
?
The most privileged danseuse of the durbar of Thanjavur Maharaja Vijaya Raghava Nayak
Gopal Nayak
OEMI0717
373374
?
?
musician
there are at least five medieval musicians of the same name, mentioned in different sources
Ilahi Bakhsh
OEMI0854
439
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rangile gharaanaa
Rangile
Mahendra Bhatt
01??
OEMI1233
621
1989
20
Rajasthan
violinist
violinist
Manmohan Bhatt
Nanja Raja
OEMI1453
723
?
?
Author of Sangeeta Gangaadhara
Raghunath Seth
1215
OEMI1682
856
1931
20
Gwalior
flute player
P00218
Sarada Hoffman
OEMI1880
944
1929
20
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
Pandanallur Chokkalingam Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Ambu Panikker, Chandu Panikker
Sudhakalasa
?
OEMI2047
1021
?
?
?
Author
Venkatamakhi
OEMI2189
11221123
Thanjavur
17
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
musicologist
Outstanding musicologist of the 17th cent
Nothing authentic is known
Balwantrao Ketkar
?
OEMI0287
115116
Sangli,Maharashtra
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Sangli,Maharashtra
Antu-bua Apte
khayaal
Munnan Khan(Murshidabad)
?
OEMI1386
694
Murshidabad (now in Bangladesh)
?
19
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player(second half, 19th cent.)
Bade Rajab Ali Khan

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