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
photo
century
birth place
place of death
profession
explanation about profession
gharana
guru
music field
Vidyadhari Devi
OEMI2200
1127
Kolkata
1874
1971
0510
19-20
Bhadoi, near Benares
Delhi
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and thumrii singer
khayaal
P00015
Buddhadev Dasgupta
0201
OEMI0410
203
Kolkata
1933
20
Bhagalpur,Bihar
Eminent sarod player
Seni Shahjahanour
Radhika Mohan Moitra
Lalan Fakir
OEMI1177
592
0.1774
1891
18-19
Bhandra, Kustia district, Bengal
?
singer-composer
Baaul singer-composer
Baaul
Rajanikant Sen
OEMI1705
864
1865
1910
19-20
Bhangabari, Pabna district （now Bangladesh）
?
composer
Reputed poet-composer of a type of Bengali songs, identified by his name as Kaanta-geeti
Govinda Swami
OEMI0740
381
1509
1589
16
Bharatpur region, Rajasthan
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
Jaisukhlal Shah
0413
OEMI0912
457
1907
1989
0118
20
Bharuch,Gujarat
Mumbai
scholar and teacher
Ratanjankar, S.N.
1231
OEMI1807
893894
1900
1974
0214
20
Bhatwadi, near the Opera House area, Mumbai
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher, scholar
teacher, scholar, vocalist
Krishnaji Bhatt Honavar, Anant Manohar Joshi
Keshab Chandra Mitra
OEMI1051
540
0.1822
1901
19-20
Bhavanipur, Kolkata
?
Reputed pakhaawaj player
Ram Chakravarty
Rahimat Khan
OEMI1690
858
1863
1954
19-20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Dharwad,Karnataka
sitar player
sitar player
Ghulam Hussain Khan
P06309
Balwantrai Bhatt
?
OEMI0285
115
1921
No
20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Omkarnath Thakur
Hiru Ganguli
OEMI0841
432
1911
1990
20
Bhawanipur, near Kolkata
Kolkata, mid-
tabla player
Noted tabla player
his father Manmathnath and later from Abid Hussain Khan, Nagendranath Basu
Manoranjan Sastri
03??
OEMI1284
644645
1911
1988
0104
20
Bheruwa,Darrang district,Assam
Guwahati,Assam
Reputed scholar of Ojaapaali music of Assam
Jibeswar Goswami
10??
OEMI0938
479
1904
1982
0408
20
Bholaguri Sattra,Nagaon district,Assam
Guwahati,Assam
exponent of traditional Assamese Sattriiya devotional music and dance
Assamese Sattriiya
Narayana Iyengar, K.S.
OEMI1472
727
0.1905
1959
0111
20
Bhootapandi, Tamil Nadu
Bangalore
gottu vaadyam player
Veteran of the string instrument, gottu vaadyam
Kodaganallur Subbayya Bhagavatar, Sakharama Rao
Ramnidhi Gupta
OEMI1774
882
1741
1838
18-19
Bihar
Kolkata
vocalist,composer
vocalist,composer of tappaas
tappaa
Ibrahim Adil Shah
OEMI0853
438
1580
1627
16-17
Bijapur
?
musician
Musician-king of Bijapur, Karnataka
P00125
Asgaribai
08??
OEMI0184
81
Tikamgarh in Uttar Pradesh
1918
20
Bijaya,Chattarpur,Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Zahur Khan
Nazir Khan(Mumbai)
?
OEMI1526
755
1920
?
19-20
Bijnor Moradabad district,Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Bhendi Bazaar
Inayat Hussain Khan
Chhajju Khan
OEMI0457
230
19
Bijnor, Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of the mid-19th cent.
his father Dilawar Khan , Inayat Hussain Khan
Aman Ali Khan (Mumbai)
?
OEMI0096
4546
?
1888
1953
0211
19-20
Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and teacher of the Bhendi Bazaar gharaanaa
Bhendi Bazaar
Allah Jilaibai
?
OEMI0089
41
?
1998
0903
20
Bikaner, Rajasthan
?
Singer of Rajasthani folk music
Ambalal Sitari
0222
OEMI0104
4748
1922
1987
0310
20
Bilimora,Valsad district,Gujarat
Mumbai
sitar player, rudra veena player,
Sitar and rudra veena player,who later took to instrument designing
Prabhatdevji Sisodiya of the royal family of Dharampur state,South Gujarat.
Khagendranath Das
0908
OEMI1065
543
1916
20
Bilortarihat, Barpeta, Assam
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father Golok Chandra Das, paternal uncle Motilal Das, Bhatkhande College
Ganga Narayan Chattopadhyaya
OEMI0653
331332
0.1808
0.1874
19
Bilwapushkarini village, Nadia district, Bengal
Kolkata
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher
Mir Nasiram
dhrupad
Anantadas Goswami
OEMI0138
58
1790
18-19
Birbhum, West Bengal
?
composer
Singer and composer of baul songs and a highly esteemed baul guru
baul songs
Abudul Azis Khan
?
OEMI0004
2
0.1875
1946
?
19-20
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
?
saarangi player
saarangi
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
Sambamorthy, P.
0214
OEMI1858
922
1901
1973
1023
20
Bitragunta, now in Andhra Pradesh
Chennai
musicologist
musicologist, teacher
Raja Hussain Khan
OEMI1696
861
1938
1989
0306
20
Bramhabaria
Dhaka,Bangladesh
violinist
violinist
Nayeb Ali Khan,Bahadur Khan,Khadim Hussain Khan,Akbar Khan
Phuljhuri Khan
OEMI1622
809
1920
1982
20
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
Dhaka
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
Lachhiram
OEMI1147
585
1867
1937
19-20
Budasu,Rajasthan
?
performer and writer of Rajasthani khyaals of the Kuchaamani style
Niyamatullah Khan
OEMI1547
765766
0.1816
0.1902
19-20
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
Delhi
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
Karamatullah Khan(Sarod)
OEMI1027
518
1848
1933
19-20
Bulandshahr,Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
sarod player
Niyamatullah Khan
Gwaria Baba
OEMI0765
395
1843
1938
19-20
Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh
near Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist and ascetic
his father and Dandi Swaami
P00152
Hanumandas Singh
OEMI0795
408409
0.184
1939
19-20
Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh
Gaya
vocalist
Khayaal singer and founder of the Gaya tradition of esraaj, a string instrument
khayaal
Kamalakant Bhattacharya
?
OEMI1005
508
1770
1820
?
18-19
Burdwan district,Bengal
Burdwan district,Bengal
composer
Singer and composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
Mahmudunnabi
1216
OEMI1242
622
1941
1990
1220
20
Burdwan region,Bengal
Dhaka,Bangladesh
singer
Azad Rahman
OEMI0210
90
Bangladesh
1944
20
Burdwan, West Bengal
composer
Singer and music composer
P02049
Govindrao Burhanpurkar
OEMI0747
382
1880
1957
No
19-20
Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh
?
Distinguished pakhaawaj exponent
P01069
Antsher Lobo
0305
OEMI0159
6768
1905
1986
0616
No
20
Calangute, Goa
Mumbai
Well-known exponent of comparative music and musicology
A. Scrinzi, O. Savini, Alladiya Khan
Narayan Chandra Goswami
OEMI1463
726
1942
20
Chamguri Sattra, Majuli, Jarhar region of Assam
Exponent of Sattriiya music, drama, and the Sanskrit language
Pachu Pillai(Champakulam)
10??
OEMI1562
779
1907
20
Champakulam,Kerala
Kathakali dancer
Paramu Pillai,Vechoor Raman Pillai
Kathakali
Nayak Baiju
?
OEMI1520
751
0.1465
0.154
?
15
Champaner village,North Gujarat
?
One of the finest singers of dhrupad of the 15th cent.
Ramapati Bandopadhyaya
OEMI1749
874
1872
19
Chandrakona, Midnapore, Bengal
?
composer
Composer of kavigaan and some other forms of Bengali music
his father Gangabishnu
Ghantasala
1214
OEMI0672
355
1922
1974
?
20
Chautapelle, Andhra Pradesh
?
composer
Well-known singer-composer of south Indian films
P00018
Chambai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
0830
OEMI0452
227228
1896
1974
1016
19-20
Chembai village, Palghat district, Kerala
Chembai village
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
his vocalist-father Anantha Bhagavatar, Dakshina Moorthy Pillai
P00139
Chengannur Raman Pillai
?
OEMI0454
229
1884
1980
1128
19-20
Chengannur, Kerala
?
Well-known Kathakali actor
Kesava Panikkar, Kunju Krishna Panikkar
Indrani Rahman
0919
OEMI0879
444
1930
1999
0207
20
Chennai
New York
dancer
Well-known exponent of Bharata Naatyam and Odissi
her mother Ragini Devi, Mohini Aattam
Bharata Naatyam
Mrinalini Sarabhai
0507
OEMI1370
689
1928
20
Chennai
dancer,choreographer
Vijay Raghava Rao
1103
OEMI2202
1127
Mumbai
1925
20-
Chennai
Well-known flute exponent and music director
Chokkalingam Pillai （music and dance）
P00177
Lakshmi Viswanathan
OEMI1163
590
1944
20
Chennai
Bharata Naatyam dancer
Kanchipuram Ellappa Pillai
Handel Manuel
0427
OEMI0792
407408
1918
1994
1022
20
Chennai
Chennai
Eminent pianist, organist, and conductor
Ranga Rao, V.A.K.
OEMI1789
886
1930
20
Chennai
discographer,collector,columnist,music and dance historian
P00057
Anantharaman, M.S.
OEMI0141
5859
1924
20
Chennai
violinist
Violinist
Parur A. Sundaram Iyer
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
OEMI2095
10441045
20-21
Chennai
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
P00214
Rukmini Devi Arundale
0229
OEMI1824
904
1904
1986
0224
20
Chennai
Chennai
dance exponent
Vasanthakumari, M.L.
0603
OEMI2168
11161117
1928
1990
1031
20
Chennai
Chennai
vocalist
vocalist
Ayyaswami Ayyar, Madras Lalithangi, G.N.Balasubramaniam, Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer, Vasanthakumari
Kesi, Narayanaswamy
OEMI1059
541
1919
20
Chennai
Noted flute player
T. Brinda
P00096
Mukta,T.
?
OEMI1379
692
1914
20
Chennai
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Nayana Pillai
Rajam, N.
OEMI1704
863
1938
20
Chennai
violinist
violinist
Narayana Iyer, Musiri Subramanya Iyer
Dhanammal(Vina)
?
OEMI0564
281
1867
1938
1015
19-20
Chennai
Chennai
veena player
Veena celebrity
P00188
Mylapore Gowri Amma
?
OEMI1422
707
0.1892
1971
06??
19-20
Chennai
Chennai
dancer
Noted dancer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam
Nallur Munuswamy Nattavanar, Chinnayya Naidu and her mother.
Parthasarathy,T.S.
0908
OEMI1603
799
1913
2006
1013
20-21
Chennai
?
scholar,writer,promoter in the field of performing arts
Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury
OEMI0346
162
1930
2003
0804
20-21
Chennai
New York, USA
Dancer and choreographer
Kanan,A.
06??
OEMI1013
514
1920
2004
0912
20-21
Chennai
Kolkata
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Girija Shankar Chakravarti and Amir Khan
P00364
Balasaraswati,T.
0513
OEMI0269
110111
1918
1984
0209
No
20
Chennai
?
Legendary exponent of Bharata Naatyam and its music
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
P00154
Harishankar, G.
OEMI0818
416
1958
2002
0211
20-21
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
?
Performer of the rhythm instrument khanjiraa
his father Thukharamarao Govindrao, Rammathapuram Murugabhoopathy, Palakkad Mani Iyer
P00114
Alarmel Valli
?
OEMI0072
36
1956
20
Chennai, Ttamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Kanaka Srinivasan
?
OEMI1012
513514
1947
20
Chennnai
Dancer and choreographer of Bharata Naatyam
Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai
P02426
Balakrishna Sastrigal,T.S.
0818
OEMI0266
110
1918
No
20
Chennnai
Harikathaa performer
Saroja, M.K.
OEMI1892
951
1931
20
Chennnai
Bharata Naatyam danseuse, film actress
Joseph Kaimaparamban
OEMI0961
488
1924
20
Cherthala, Alapuzha district, Kerala
Performer of Kathaa Prasangam, a veteran of the modern form of this art in Kerala
Krishnan Nair （Kalamandalam）
OEMI1106
571
Tripunithura
1914
1990
0816
20
Cheruthazham, Kannur distict, Kerala
Tripunithura, near Kochi, Kerala
Well-known Kathakali performer and guru
Chandu Panikker
P00183
Mani,R.(Karaikudi)
?
OEMI1266
639340
1945
20
Chettinad,near Karaikudi,Tamil Nadu
Mridangam player
Karaikudi Rangu Iyengar,T.R.Harihara Sarma,and K.N.Vaidyanathan
Pingalshi Gadhvi
0727
OEMI1623
811
1914
1998
0531
20
Chhatvawa village, Junagadh district, Gujarat
Jamnagar, Gujarat
singer, author
Folk-singer and author of Gujarati folk literature of many genres
Gujarati folk
P00167
Keshava Murthy, H.R.
OEMI1054
540
1920
20
Chickmaglur district, Karnataka
Bharata Naatyam teacher
Guru Gundappa
Rangayya, C.
OEMI1793
887
1895
1984
19-20
Chilakunda village, Mysore district, Karnataka
Mysore city
vocalist, composer, teacher
vocalist, composer, teacher
Sivaramayya, Chikka Subba Rao
Jaddanbai
OEMI0890
447
1900
1949
20
Chilbia village,near Allahabad
Mumbai
Noted thumrii and ghazal singer of her time,later a singer-actress in Hindi films of Mumbai;mother of the celebrated movie star Nargis.
Krishnadas （Poet-devoti）
OEMI1102
570
1500
15781585
16
Chilotra, Ahmedabad region, Gujarat
Chilotra
composer
Composer of Raas-leelaa songs
Srinivasan,M.B.
?
OEMI2031
1009
1925
20
Chittoor,Andhra
Music director of south Indian films
Lila,P.
?
OEMI1202
606
1933
2005
1029
20-21
Chittoor,Kochi region,Kerala
Ernakulam district
Playback singer
Ramaratnam, V.
OEMI1750
874875
1917
20
Chittor, Andhra Pradesh
vocalist, teacher, author
Vocalist, teacher, and author
D. Subbaramayya, Palghat Someswara Bhagavator, Mysore Vasudevacher, T. Chowdiah
P00133
Banni Bai
OEMI0299
120
1912
1999
0227
20
Chittukkadu, Andhra Pradesh
?
Veteran Harikat
Ratilal Bhavsar
0617
OEMI1809
894
1928
2001
1024
20-21
Chopade town, Jalgaom district, Maharashtra
near Pune
vocalist, singer-actor
vocalist, singer-actor
Kazi Nazrul Islam
0524
OEMI1041
532
1899
1976
0829
19-20
Churulia,Burdwan district,Bengal
Dhaka,Bangladesha
musician
poet-musician
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
1031
OEMI1523
754755
1927
20
Clifton, England
Professor Emeritus of music and ethnomusicology,University of California,author and audio-visual documentator.
P00195
Pithukuli Murugadas
OEMI1627
812
1920
20
Coimbatore, Taml Nadu
Singer of south Indian bhajans
Brahmananda Paradesi
Perera, M.G.
1212
OEMI1618
807808
Petah
1875
1942
0419
19-20
Colombo
?
Activist and author of early music books in Sinhalese
Somapala, P.L.A.
0913
OEMI2013
992
1921
1991
0326
20
Colombo
Colombo
vocalist, music director
Vocalist and music director
T.S. Sandarasekara
Ananda K. Comaraswamy
0822
OEMI0128
56
1877
1947
0909
19-20
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Needham, Massachusetts, USA
Well-known historian of Indian art and culture
Mohammad Sali
0716
OEMI1356
681
1930
1988
0413
20
Colombo,Sri Lanka
Colombo
harmonium player
Shahadat Hussain Khan
07??
OEMI1924
963
1958
20
Comilla, Bangladesh
Sarod player
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
Shanti Vardhan
OEMI1949
968
1916
1954
0903
20
Comilla, Bangladesh
?
Choreographer and dancer of Manipuri
Ajay Bardan
?
OEMI0062
29
Kolkata
1917
1991
0328
20
Comilla, now in Bangladesh
Mumbai
Flute player
Himangsu Dutta
OEMI0833
424425
1908
1944
20
Comilla, now in Bangladesh
Kolkata
composer
Composer of light classical Bengali songs, popularly called raaga-pradhaan songs
light classical Bengali song
Syed Abdul Hadi
0701
OEMI2099
1049
1940
20-
Comilla,Bangladesh
Singer of light forms of music
P00179
Lila Samson
?
OEMI1203
606
1951
20
Coonoor,Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam exponent
Priyambada Mohanty
OEMI1647
827828
1939
20
Cuttack, Orissa
Noted odissi danseuse
Banbihari Maity, Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar, Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Debaprasad Das
Nitai Charan Sinha
02??
OEMI1543
764
1916
20
Cuttack, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist
his maternal uncle Gopal Charan Gosh, few teachers
Sunanda Patnaik
1107
OEMI2064
10291030
1934
20
Cuttack, Orissa
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Vinayakrao Patwardhan, Omkarnath Thakur

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