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
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
P02301
OEMI0570
Dharmiklal Pandya
Noted exponent of Gujarati aakhyaan
1932
0811
Baroda,Gujarat
his father Chunilal Govindram Pandya
285
P03011
OEMI0446
Charu Sija Mathur
Performer of Manipuri dance
1940
Delhi
R. K. Singhajit Singh
224
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
P00740
OEMI0737
Govind Ram
Veteran actor and author of nautanki plays of Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
380
OEMI0826
Haure Gosai
singer-composer
Baaul singer-composer
Baaul
1795
Medtala. Burdwan district, Bengal
?
420
OEMI1151
Lahiri, S.N.
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
586
OEMI1348
Mohammad Hussain
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
679
OEMI1602
Parsvadeva
author
?
?
799
OEMI1684
Raghuram Joshi
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
857
OEMI1762
Ramdas Guru
Fourth Guru of the Sikhs
?
?
878
P02818
OEMI1816
Rohini Bhate
kathak danseuse
1924
Pune, Maharashtra
Sohan Lal , Munna Lal, Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, Lachhu Maharaj
901
OEMI1964
Shiv Kumar Bai
vocalist
Vocalist, lived in early 20th-cent. Benares
Benares
?
?
972
P06255
OEMI2084
Suresh Talwalkar
tabla player
Noted performer of tabla
Mumbai
1948
0720
?
Pandharinath Nageshkar
1036
OEMI0488
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
?
?
240241
OEMI0697
Girin Chakraborty
singer
Folk singer
folk
?
?
366
OEMI1676
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
vocalist
vocalist
1826
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
855
OEMI1313
Mira Khirwadkar
vocalist
Vocalist
1936
0706
Maharashtra
662
OEMI2214
Vishwanath Joshi
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
?
?
Krishnarao Pandit
1137
OEMI1160
Lakshmandas Sandhu
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
?
?
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
589
OEMI1850
Sakharam Sarnaik
poet, playwright
?
?
915
P00180
OEMI1210
Lourembam Tombi Devi
dancer, musician
Veteran of Manipuri dance and its music
Manipuri
1901
0915
Sagolband Nepra Menjor Leikai,Imphal
?
?
Khomdon Sharma,Gourachandra Sharma,and Senjam Angouton Singh
608
OEMI0539
Day,C.R.
Author
?
?
?
?
261
OEMI0750
Gowri
Bharata Naatyam danseuse in 19th-cent. durbar of Baroda
Baroda
?
?
Kannuswaami Nattuvanaar
383
OEMI1216
Madhava Swami
Pakhaawaj player
Allahabad
?
?
?
?
613
OEMI1737
Ramadeva Ata
composer
Assamese composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs
?
Kaljhar, near Bhavanipur, now in Barpeta district, Assam
Bhavanipuriya Gopal Aataa
872
P02951
OEMI1960
Sheikh Gulab
He represented Madhya Pradesh from 1954 to 1985 in presenting folk dances at the Republic Day parades and at All India folk dance festivals
1914
Lakho village, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh
971
P00126
OEMI0194
Ashraf Khan
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
83
OEMI0626
Fazal Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore of the early 1900s
Lahore
?
?
?
?
319
OEMI0686
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
1931
0303
Badayun, Uttar Pradesh
Fida Hussain Khan, Nissar Hussain Khan, K.C. Brahaspati
362
OEMI0679
Ghulam Ghaus Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of Atraululi, Uttar Pradesh, of the early 19th cent.
dhrupad
?
?
361
OEMI0339
Bhajan Khan
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar during 1845-61
Jodhpur
?
?
Jodhpur durbar
155
OEMI0860
Imam Khan
dholak player
Noted dholak player of the mid-19th cent.
?
?
439
OEMI1916
Shad Khan
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra
?
?
962963
OEMI0210
Azad Rahman
composer
Singer and music composer
Bangladesh
1944
Burdwan, West Bengal
90
OEMI1075
Khurshaidjan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Kanpur
?
?
555
P00043
OEMI0994
Kalpakam Swaminathan
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
Chennai
1922
0815
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
506
OEMI1647
Priyambada Mohanty
Noted odissi danseuse
1939
Cuttack, Orissa
Banbihari Maity, Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar, Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Debaprasad Das
827828
OEMI0083
Alla Rakhi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
39
P00123
OEMI0169
Arghya Sen
Exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
Rabindra Sangeet
1935
?
Faridpur,Bangladesh
Debabrata Biswas,Kamal Kumar Dasgupta,and Dilip Kamal Roy
73
OEMI0353
Bhatt, K.H.
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mumbai
?
?
168
OEMI1043
Kitijan
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
?
?
537
P00081
OEMI1724
Ram Narayan
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
Mumbai
1927
1225
Udaipur
his father Nathuji Biawat, Uday Lal
869
OEMI1912
Seshadri Gawai, R.V.
vocalist, harmonium player
Vocalist and harmonium player
1924
Davangere, Chitradurga district, Karnataka
Kalkote Channabasavayya, Panchakshari Gawai, Puttaraji Gawai
962
OEMI2138
Tulaja the Second
Maratha king of Thanjavur （r.1763-87）
?
?
1095
OEMI0682
Ghulam Mohammad （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the period of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
?
?
361
OEMI1727
Ram Sarop Sharma
Singer-actor of Raas-leelaa and Swang, both these being folk theatres of Uttar Pradesh
?
?
870
OEMI0333
Bhai Uttam Singh Hakim
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Amritsar, Punjab
?
?
149
OEMI1507
Nataraja Rama Krishna
Noted performer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam and Kuuchipuudi
1933
?
Bali Island, Indonesia
Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur),Rajamma(Nayudupeta), Lakshmi Narayana Sastri(Vedantam).and Satyabhama(Pendyala)
739
OEMI0451
'Chaukam' Sinu Ayyar
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, during the reigns of Sarabhoji II and Sivaji.
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
227
P00199
OEMI1680
Raghunath Prasanna
shehnai player
1913
Benares
Gauri Shankar,Dauji Mishra
856
P00202
OEMI2270
Kshemavathy(Kalamandalam)
Moohini Aattam choreographer and dancer
Moohini Aattam
1948
?
Viyyoor village,Kerala
Chinnammu Amma and Satyabhama
574
OEMI0032
Acheria
Singer and actress of the early 20th cent
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
16
OEMI0456
Chhaila Bhai
Singer of light classical music
?
?
230
OEMI0624
Fateh Ali
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
?
?
?
?
Patiaalaa
318
OEMI0868
Inayat Hussain
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar during 1873-88
?
?
441
OEMI1146
La Meri
American danseuse
?
?
583
OEMI1456
Nanu Ram
Well-known performer and writer of Shekhaavati khyaals of Rajasthan
?
?
724
OEMI2058
Sukumar Sahu
composer
Oriya composer
1907
0815
Balasore, Orissa
1028
OEMI1714
Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
Noted exponent of Manipuri dance
1932
Imphal
Amubi Singh, Thambal Angou Singh, Chaoba Singh
866
OEMI1685
Raghuvir-mama Ramnathkar
pioneer harmonium player
1877
0212
Ramnath,Goa
?
857
OEMI0900
Jagajjyotirmalla
Maharaana(king)of Nepal;ruled between 1617-33
449
OEMI1790
Ranganath Mishra
tabla player
Tabla player
1932
0103
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
Bikku Maharaj, Gama Maharaj
887
OEMI1000
Kamakoti Sastri
composer
Composer of kritis
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
?
507
OEMI1049
Kesavapalli Seturamayya
composer
Composer （19th cent.） of Telugu keertana
Telugu keertana
?
?
540
P00057
OEMI0141
Anantharaman, M.S.
violinist
Violinist
1924
Chennai
Parur A. Sundaram Iyer
5859
OEMI1115
Krishnarao Sangle
writer
writer
?
?
573
OEMI0779
Haidar Khan （Jaipur）
sitar player
Sitar player
1898
Jaipur
Delhi
400
OEMI0944
Jiyajirao Scindia(Shinde)
patron,
Royal patron of Gwalior state in Madhya Pradesh(r.1843-86)
481
P00167
OEMI1054
Keshava Murthy, H.R.
Bharata Naatyam teacher
1920
Chickmaglur district, Karnataka
Guru Gundappa
540
P00007
OEMI0151
Annapurna Devi
surbahar player
Well-known surbahar player and teacher
Mumbai
1927
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
6465
OEMI0257
Bakhshu-miya
tabla player
Founder of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa which emerged between 1775 and 1800
0.175
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
his grand-father Siddhar Khan Dhaadi, Bade Kale Khan
106
OEMI0478
Chikka Subba Rao
Noted veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
Mysore
?
?
his father Dodda Subba Rao
239
OEMI0741
Govindamatya
Author
?
?
381
OEMI0858
Imam Badi
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the 1850s from Benares
Benares
?
?
Shadi Khan
439
OEMI1610
Patnaik, D.N.
Scholar of Odissi dance and other performing arts of Orissa
Cuttack, Orissa
1933
0201
?
805
OEMI1686
Ragini Devi
American danseuse
1896
Michigan,USA
?
857
OEMI1763
Ramdas Kamat
Well-known Marathi stage actor and singer
1931
0218
Goa
his father Dharma （Shantaram） Kamat
878
OEMI1817
Ropram Katara
Priest and Raas-leelaa performer
?
?
901
OEMI1988
Simha Bhopala
musicologist
King and musicologist of medieval times
?
?
977
OEMI0699
Giriraja Brahmam
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional song
?
?
367
OEMI1485
Narayanaswamy, K. （Umayalpuram）
Ghatam player
1929
0504
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
his father Kothandarama Iyer
729
OEMI1979
Shyamamani Devi
vocalist
Vocalist
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
975
OEMI1330
Mirza Mahmod Ali
saarangi player
saarangi player,teacher
?
?
672
OEMI2240
Wazir Khan(Hapur)
vocalist
Noted vocalist
?
?
?
?
his father Nizam Khan
1145
OEMI1237
Maheswara Mahapatra
author
?
?
621622
OEMI1897
Satyanarayana, R.
Reputed author and scholar of music and dance
1927
Mysore city, Karnataka
his mother Varalakshmi
953
OEMI1249
Malkajan Agrewali
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
?
?
629630
OEMI0069
Akshay Chowdhury
composer
Poet and composer of patriotic songs in Bengali
?
?
?
?
34
OEMI0955
John Menezes
Noted exponent of Western music
1906
Sao Mathias, Divar Island, Goa
?
487