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
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
OEMI0363
Bhoja Raja
patron,
Ruler,patron,and writer
?
?
?
?
179
OEMI0527
Ali Bakhsh II
vocalist
Vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
?
?
37
OEMI0810
Harichandan
Author of the work
?
?
412
OEMI0995
Kalu-miya
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
?
?
?
506
OEMI1358
Mohammad Usman
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,senior teacher
Barabanki district,Uttar Pradesh
?
Ashiq Ali Khan,Baba Nasir Khan
681682
OEMI2000
Sivakkolundu Desikar （Kottaiyur）
composer
Composer of the Tamil opera
Kottaiyur village, Thanjavur
?
987
OEMI2137
Tulaja the First
Maharaja of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
1095
OEMI0976
Kadigai Mokku Pulavar
composer
Composer （19rh cent.） and Tamil scholar who sesrved the Ettayapuram ruler of his time
?
?
494
P02854
OEMI1857
Samanduram Tondon Devi
exponent of Manipuri dance
Imphal, Manipur
Amubi Singh, Haobam Atomba Singh, Amudon Sharma
921
OEMI0275
Baliram Pandey
Pakhaawaj player of the early 20th cent.
?
Mohappa,near Nagpur,Maharashtra
?
?
112
OEMI1475
Narayana Sastrulu （Loka）
vocalist
Vocalist （19th cent.） and compiler of the first published volume of Tyaagaraaja's operatic works
?
?
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
728
OEMI1162
Lakshmi Narayana
musician
Musician and author of Sangeeta Suryodaya
?
?
589
OEMI0823
Hassan Khan Dhadhi
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and eminent rudra veena player
?
?
418
OEMI1282
Manoharlal Sharma
Performer of swaang a type of folk musical play
?
?
1970
?
?
644
OEMI1918
Shadi Khan （Delhi）
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar （r.1837-57）, the last Mughal emperor
?
?
963
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
OEMI0008
Abdul Ghani Khan
sitar player
sitar player
?
Khajurgaon[present-day Rae Bareilly],Uttar Pradesh
1938
?
Khajurgaon
Azami Khan Kalpiwale
2
OEMI0068
Akil Ahmed Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
?
?
?
?
Agra
33
OEMI0240
Bade Sabri Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
?
1962
Lahore
98
OEMI1835
Sadiq Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist, innovator of behalaavaa or lachaav-ki-thumrii
?
1910
Lucknow
Raje Khan
909
P00896
OEMI0985
Kale Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
?
1942
Jaipur, Rajasthan
the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his elder brother Azim Bakhsh
502
OEMI2143
Ujir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
?
?
Jaipur
1101
OEMI0470
Chhote Munne Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of Lucknow
Lucknow
?
1927
Lucknow
237
OEMI1079
Khwaja Ahmad Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
?
0.187
Tonk, Rajasthan
family
556
P02179
OEMI0753
Gulab Bai
Well-known singer of Jaipur
?
0.191
Mysore
Haidar Bakhsh
386
OEMI0088
Allah Dad Dhadhi
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0424
Challagali Krishnayyar
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
213
OEMI0106
Ambayiram
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0895
Jadunath Singh
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
449
P00223
OEMI1973
Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalwan
composer
Nautankii artiste and writer-composer
Nautanki
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
974
OEMI0774
Haidar Bakhsh （Chhaprauli）
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
?
1930
Kolhapur
the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
family and Bande Ali Khan
399
OEMI0675
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Pakhawaj）
For some time from 1828 he was attached to Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Sabha as a pakhaawaj player
?
?
360
OEMI0755
Gulab Singh （Sant）
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
?
?
386
OEMI0108
Ambikagiri Roy Chowdhuri
composer
Twentieth-century composer of Assam
Assam
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI1391
Munnibai(late 19th cent.)
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
Babu Khuda Bakhsh
695
OEMI0105
Ambaram
Pioneer singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays.
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0205
Awadabai
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
?
?
?
?
89
OEMI0372
Bi Rahimanbai
Mid 19th cent. singer of Charkhari,Uttar Pradesh
Charkhari
?
?
?
?
184
OEMI1570
Paglibai
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
781
OEMI1801
Ras Baras
author
?
?
888
OEMI0341
Bhanudatta Misra
Author of a Sanskrit work
?
?
156
OEMI1928
Shalomo Aharonji Bhastekar
Author of the musical play
Mumbai, region
?
964
OEMI1166
Lakshmikanta Maharaja
composer
Composer and Sanskrit scholar of Andhra
?
?
591
OEMI1669
Radhakrishna Iyer (Kanjira)
Stalwart of kanjiraa,a south Indian rhythmic instrument of the tambourine family.
?
?
842843
OEMI1285
Mansa Singh(Bhai)
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Sikh sacred music(sabad)
?
?
?
?
645
OEMI2095
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Chennai
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
10441045
OEMI1308
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅰ
composer
Composer of Tamil songs
Tamil Nadu
?
?
1971
?
?
662
OEMI1818
Roprasik Devacharya
composer
composer
?
?
902
OEMI0045
Aga Amir
vocalist,
Vocalist of Peshawar
Pakistan
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0432
Chandidasa
Medieval poet whose works have influenced Bengali devotional music
?
?
215216
OEMI0500
Chokhamela
Poet of Marathi abhangs
?
0.1338
Mangalwedha, near Sangli, Maharashtra
243
OEMI0925
Jatto
vocalist
Vocalist
465
OEMI1081
Kiron
Singer-actress of early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
558