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
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅱ
0903
OEMI1309
662
1894
1949
0213
19-20
Needamangalam,Tamil Nadu
?
tavil player
Tavil player
Singaram Pillai and Govinda Pillai
P00082
Ramrao Naik
OEMI1777
883884
1909
1998
1021
20
Neeralagi, Savanur taluk, Karnataka
Bangalore
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Bhadrachala Ramadas
OEMI0326
145
0.162
0.168
17
Nelakondapalle, Golkonda, Andhra Pradesh
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
Gopalkrishna Bhobhe
0806
OEMI0728
375
1921
1968
0213
20
Nerul, Goa
?
Music critic
Shailaja Ranjan Majumdar
OEMI1926
963964
1900
1992
06??
20
Netrakona, Mymensing district, Bangladesh
?
Eminent exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
P00091
Sesha Iyer （Pallavi）
OEMI1911
961962
1908
19-20
Neykkarapatti, Salem district, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer of the poet-Tyaagaraaja period
Vasudevan （Neyyantinkara）
OEMI2173
1118
1940
20-
Neyyaantinkara, central Kerala
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramnad Krishnan and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
P00029
Gahan Chandra Goswami
0404
OEMI0640
324
1900
1979
0118
20
Nikamul Sattra,Tezpur
Nikamul Sattra
Noted exponent of traditional Assamese drama
Dipali Barthakur
OEMI0589
298
Assam
1941
20
Nilmoni Tea Estate, Dibrugarh district, Assam
Noted singer of modern Assamese songs
By her uncle Bhaben Barthakur
modern Assamese songs
P00190
Nokot Khriam
OEMI1550
766
1944
20
Nongblai,Meghalaya
Maker of musical instruments
P00143
Devendra Murdeshwar
0919
OEMI0555
275
1923
2000
0129
20
North Kanara district,Karnataka
Mumbai
Maestro of Hindustani flute
Pannalal Ghosh(flute) and Amir Hussain Khan(vocal music)
Fox-Strangways,A.H.
?
OEMI0636
321
1859
1948
?
19-20
Norwich,England
Salisbury,England
Author of The Music of Hindostan
Ahmad Faraz
1212
OEMI0052
27
Peshawar,Pakistan, and London
1931
20
Noushera,Pakistan
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Abdul Gani Bayati
?
OEMI0007
2
1909
1978
0819
20
Nurullahpur,Barisal district,Bangladesh
Dhaka
composer
Singer and composer,especially of zari
Chandra Sakhi
OEMI0434
217
Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
?
Eighteenth-century poet of Vaishnava padas
Balkrishna Swami
Hariram Vyas
OEMI0817
415416
1492
0.1598
15-16
Orchha, Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the river Betwa
?
vocalist
Noted story-teller and vocalist
P00193
Pankaj Charan Das
0317
OEMI1586
792793
1925
2003
0611
20-21
Orissa
Puri,Orissa
Odissi dancer
Veteran Odissi dancer and choreographer
Ratnaprava Mahari,
Jagabandhu Sahu
0119
OEMI0897
449
1914
1990
20
Orissa
?
vocalist, vocalist, teacher
Violin player,Vocalist,and teacher
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
OEMI1770
881
1871
1945
0505
19-20
Ozare, Sawantwadi [former princely state] Maharashtra
?
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Vithoba-anna Hadap
Eknath
?
OEMI0611
310
1548
1599
?
16
Paithan,Maharashtra
Paithan
Eminent saint-poet of Maharashtra
Durgeswar Nath Oja
0307
OEMI0603
305306
1927
1994
0305
20
Pakadali, Darrang district, Assam
Pakadali, Assam
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
his family, and Cheniram Nath, Ghotaram, and Haliram Sarma
P00237
Ramankutty Nair （Kalamandalam）
OEMI1747
874
1925
20
Palakkad district, Kerala
Kathakali performer and guru
Ravunni Menon
Sivaraman （Kottakkal）
OEMI2001
988
1936
2010
0719
20-21
Palakkad district, Kerala
Karalmanna, Kerala
Kathakali artiste
Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair
Mani Madhava Chakyar
?
OEMI1265
639
1898
1990
0615
19-20
Palakkad district,Kerala
Kerala
Eminent Kootiyaattam performer
Vasu Nambeesan,Sankaran Nambootiri(Panisseri),and Parikshit Rama Varma Tampuran
Parameswara Bhagavatar (Palakkad)
OEMI1598
798
1815
1892
19
Palakkad region,Kerala
?
vocalist
vocalist
P00171
Krishnan Kutty Nair （Kottakkal）
OEMI1105
571
1928
20
Palakkad, Kerala
Kathakali performer
P.S. Varrier Natyasangham
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
Ramachandran, V.A.
06??
OEMI1736
871872
1915
1993
1231
20
Palakkad, Kerala
Hyderabad
Mridangam player
his father Arunachala Sastrigal, Peethambara Desai, Sakotai Rangu Iyengar
Palakkad Raghu,R.
OEMI1574
783
1928
20
Palakkad,Kerala
mridangam player
Subba Ayyar(Chattapuram)
1227
OEMI2035
1010
1894
1961
0617
19-20
Palghat district,Kerala
?
Mridangam player and teacher
P00192
Palladam Sanjiva Rao
1018
OEMI1577
784
1882
1962
19-20
Palladam,Coimbatore district,Tamil Nadu
?
flute player
flute player
Karnatik
Jhandilal Dwivedi
OEMI0936
475
1909
1992
0915
20
Palta,Chhatrapur district,Madhya Pradesh
Mridang player
Malbarao Sardesai
1231
OEMI1247
627
1911
20
Panaji,Goa
performer of the pot drum ghumat,author
Narayanrao Patwardhan
1125
OEMI1493
731
1925
2000
0103
20
Panchgani, Maharashtra
Delhi
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist, teacher, and radio executive
his father
radio
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai(Pandanallur)
0922
OEMI1310
662
1869
1952
10??
19-20
Pandanallur,near Kumbhakonam,Tamil Nadu
?
dancer
Well-known exponent of Bharata Naatyam
Bharata Naatyam
Namdev
OEMI1439
718719
1270
1350
13-14
Pandharpur, Maharashtra
?
He was a contemporary of the celebrated saint-poet Jnaaneswar
P00147
Gangadhar Pradhan
OEMI0655
332
1948
20
Panikula village, Orissa
Odissi teacher and dancer
Mahadev Rout, Minati Mishra, D.N. Patnaik, Kelucharan Mohapatra
Bade Changeh Khan
OEMI0234
96
0.177
0.1857
18-19
Panipat
?
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of the durbar of Mughal king Bahadur Shah Zafar
khayaal
P01145
Bhubaneswar Mishra
?
OEMI0366
183
1927
1993
0507
20
Paralakhemundi;Orissa
?
violinist,composer
Noted violinist and composer.
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu and Dwaram Narsinga Rao
Kedamangalam Sadanandan
OEMI1042
533
1924
2008
0413
20-21
Paravur,Ernakulam district,Kerala
Paravur
performer of Kathaa prasangam
P00201
Rajaram-bhau Kadam
OEMI1706
864
1887
1990
12??
19-20
Parbhani, Maharashtra
?
Doyen of the Marathi folk form, gondhal
Alain Danielou
1004
OEMI0070
34
France
1907
1994
0127
20
Paris
?
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Indian heritage
Shridhar Parsekar
OEMI1971
974
1920
1964
0911
20
Parse, Goa
?
violinist
Noted violinist
Gajananrao Joshi
Khapru-mama Parvatkar
OEMI1071
547
1880
1953
0903
19-20
Parvat village, Goa
Parvat village
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father Raghuvir-mama
Dattaram Parvatkar
?
OEMI0531
259
0.1898
1973
0715
19-20
Parvati town,Goa
Mumbai
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Khaprumama Parvatkar and Balkrishna-bua and Laxmanrao
Sahir Sable
OEMI1845
914
1923
20
Pasarani, Maharashtra
exponent of folk music and folk drama
Purushottam Thakur
OEMI1656
832
1561
1619
16-17
Patbausi, near Barpeta
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
P00011
Rajam Iyer, B.
07??
OEMI1703
863
1922
20
Patharakkudi village, near Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist
vocalist
Ganapathy Iyer
Sourindra Mohan Tagore
?
OEMI2025
998999
1840
1914
0605
19-20
Pathuriaghata,Kolkata
Kolkata
musicologist,patron
Reputed musicologist and patron
Amir Khusrau
?
OEMI0116
5051
0.1253
1325
?
13-14
Patiala
?
poet-musician, Sufi mystic
Thirteenth-century poet-musician and Sufi mystic of the Delhi Sultanate
Qavvaal
P06562
Barkat Ali Khan
OEMI0306
123
1950
No
20
Patiala, Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale, his uncle Kale Khan
Kale Khan （Kasurwale; Patiala）
OEMI0986
502503
Mumbai
0.187
0.1915
19-20
Patiala, Punjab
Kanpur
vocalist
Emiinent vocalist
his uncle Ustaad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Miyajan Khan
OEMI1336
675
1880
1919
19-20
Patiala,Punjab
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
vocalist
Kalu Khan
Bhairav Prasad Misra
OEMI0334
150
0.1844
1940
1221
19-20
Patna
probably Benares
tabla player
Noted tabla player of the Benares gharaanaa
Benares gharaanaa
Bhagat Maharaj
P00153
Hari Uppal
OEMI0807
411
1926
20
Patna, Bihar
Exponent of folk dances, especially of Bihar
Tatachar,T.S.
05??
OEMI2113
1068
1917
2001
1208
20-21
Pavgada,Tumkur district,Karnataka
Bangalore
violinis
Veteran violinist of the Karnatik style
his father T.Srinivasachar,uncle T.Seshachar,Krishnamachar(veena),and Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma
Karnatik
Chandrika Prasad Dube
OEMI0443
222
1875
19-20
Pawai, Gaya district, Bihar
?
Competent esraaj player of Bihar
Kanailal Dhendi
Vissa Appa Rao
04??
OEMI2217
11371138
1884
1966
0130
19-20
Peddapuram, East Godavari district, Andhra
Hyderabad
musicologist
teacher, musicologist
physics of music
Sangameswara Sastri
OEMI1868
926
1879
1931
19-20
Peethapuram, Andhra
?
veena player
veena maestro
Nala Najan
0628
OEMI1437
718
1932
2002
0107
20-21
Pennsylvania,USA
New York,USA
Performer
Phatik Chandra Kalita Ojha
OEMI1620
809
Assam
1910
1973
20
Phithakhowa village, Darrang district, Assam
Phithakhowa
Noted singer of Maanasaa Ojaapaali of Assam
Thanuram Kalita Ojha
Gopalrao Joshi
OEMI0729
376
1897
1953
19-20
Pimpalgaon, Nashik district, Maharashtra
Nashik town
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Abdul Karim Khan, V.N.Bhatkhande, V.D.Paluskar
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
?
OEMI2122
1076
1974
?
20
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
Pithakowapara
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
Tarini Charan Patra
?
OEMI2109
1067
1901
1979
0304
20
Pittal village,Ganjam district,Orissa
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist.
his elder brother Kamal Adika Parta
Papanasam Sivan
OEMI1594
795
1890
1973
19-20
Polagam,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
composer
singer,composer of devotional songs
Mahadeva Bhagavathar(Noorani),Vaidyanatha Iyer(Konerirajapuram)
P00229
Sudharani Raghupathy
0321
OEMI2048
1021
Chennai
1944
20
Pollachi,Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
V.S.Kaushik,U.S.Krishna Rao,Chandrabhaga Devi,and Kittappa Pillai
P00084
Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
OEMI1792
887
1932
20
Poongulam, Tamil Nadu
veena player and teacher
Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
Helmholtz, Hermann
0831
OEMI0829
421
1821
1894
0908
19
Postdam, Germany
Berlin
Eminent German scientist
Manasvi
OEMI1258
635
1904
1969
0703
20
Prantij village near Ahmedabad,Gujarat
?
Poet,known also for his lyrics in Gujarati plays and films
Prajnanananda （Swami）
OEMI1637
825
Kolkata
1907
20
Prasadpur, Bengal
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Vedaanta
Lalji Srivastava
1124
OEMI1188
600
1924
20
Prayag, near Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
tabla player
Tabla player
Yusuf Khan, Shyamlal, Jiyalal
Pyar Khan (Seni;sursingar)
OEMI1664
834835
1782
1849
18-19
presumably Lucknow
Lucknow
sursingaar player
Generally considered to be the co-innovator of the sursingaar along with his brother Zaffar Khan.
Chhajju Khan
Sripada Pinakapani
0803
OEMI2033
1009
1913
20
Priyagraharam village, Srikakulam district.Andhra
vocalist
Noted vocalist
V.S.Lakshman Rao,Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu, and Rangaramanuja Iyengar
Faiz Mohammad Khan
?
OEMI0619
316
Baroda
0.1835
0.1904
?
19-20
probably Agra
Baroda,Gujarat
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Baroda durbar
Baroda durbar
Fateh Mohammad and Ghasit Khan
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
0218
OEMI2235
1144
1781
1874
?
18-19
probably Ayyampettai,former kingdom of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
Walajapet,near Chennai
composer
Illustrious disciple of composer Tyaagaraaja
his father Nalluswaamy
Gauharjan
OEMI0658
343344
18705
1929
19-20
probably Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Mysore
Singer-dancer, a legend in her lifetime
her mother, Adeline Victoria Hemmings, Becha Mishra, Ali Bakhsh, Nazir Khan
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
?
OEMI0119
51
1670
0.1742
?
17-18
probably Delhi
Delhi
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
Feroze Khan （Sitar）
OEMI2269
319
0.17
0.1768
18
probably Delhi
Delhi
composer,sitar player
Well-known composer of Feroze-khaani sitar-gat
his father Amirkhan-Khusraukhan, Sadaarang
Inayat Ali Khan
OEMI0867
440441
1790
0.1883
18-19
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Dhaka
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
his father Hussain Ali Khan
Azim Bakhsh
OEMI0214
90
1857
1908
19-20
probably Indore
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
his uncle Ramzan Khan
Chhajju Khan Seni
OEMI0458
230231
1740
1806
18-19
probably Jaipur
?
vocalist,rabaab player
Vocalist, rabaab player, and innovator
Bade Mohammad Khan
OEMI0236
97
1755
1840
18-19
probably Lucknow
?
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and innovator
his father Shakkar Khan, his uncle Makkhan Khan
Dakshina Charan Sen
?
OEMI0514
251252
Bengal
1860
1925
?
19-20
probably Maheshpur,Bengal
Kolkata
A pioneer of orchestra in Bengal
Amanat Khan
?
OEMI0097
46
?
0.1928
1968
0103
20
probably Narsingarh, Madhya Pradesh
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Mughlu Khan(Kolhapur)
?
OEMI1376
691
?
probably Narsinghar,Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Gwalior
Barkatullah Khan
OEMI0308
123
0.186
1928
19-20
probably Patiala
Mumbai
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Anna-saheb Gharpure
OEMI0152
65
0.185
1920
19-20
probably Pune district, Maharashtra
Pune
sitar player,udra veena player
Rudra veena and sitar player
Vinayakrao Limaye
Muthaiah Bhagavatar （Harikesanallur）
1115
OEMI1408
704
1877
1945
0630
19-20
Punalveli village, near Srivilliputtur, Tamil Nadu
Mysore
vocalist, composer
Well-known vocalist, Harikathaa exponent, and composer
Harikathaa
Krishnarao Mulay
1223
OEMI1114
572
1864
1944
0721
19-20
Pune
Bilimora,South Gujarat
rudra veena player
performer of rudra veena
Annasaheb Gharpure,Ganesh Krishna Apte
Bal Gandharva
0626
OEMI0259
107109
1888
1967
0715
19
Pune, Maharashtra
?
Legendary singer-actor of the Marathi stage
Mehboob Khan
P00166
Keshav Lakshman Badge
OEMI1053
540
1941
20
Pune, Maharashtra
Well-known performer of gondhal a folk play of Maharashtra
P00076
Prabha Atre
0913
OEMI1631
821
Mumbai
1932
20
Pune, Maharashtra
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of the Kiraanaa tradition
Kiraanaa
Rohini Bhate
OEMI1816
901
1924
20
Pune, Maharashtra
kathak danseuse
Sohan Lal , Munna Lal, Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, Lachhu Maharaj
Vishnu Mahajani
11??
OEMI2209
1134
1851
1923
02??
19-20
Pune, Maharashtra
?
Poet and playwright
Devji-bua Paranjape
?
OEMI0560
279
0.1798
1878
?
18-19
Pune,Maharashtra
Dhar,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and teacher
Gadgil-bua
P00062
Manik Varma
05??
OEMI1267
640
1926
1996
1110
20
Pune,Maharashtra
Mumbai
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Benares and Punjabi style
Jagannath-bua Purohit,Bholanath Bhatt,and Azmat Hussain Khan
Gokhibai
OEMI0706
370371
0.182
187580
19
Punjab
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and dancer, sometimes mentioned as Gorkhibai
Bairam Khan
Ramchandra, C.
0112
OEMI1755
876877
1918
1982
0105
20
Puntambe Chitli, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra
Mumbai
composer
Well-known composer of mainly Hindi film music
Shankarro Sapre
Hindi film music
Purandaradasa
OEMI1651
830831
0.1471
1564
0102
15-16
Purandaragad village
Hampi Karnataka
musician
Saint-musician, usually called the grandfather of present-day Karnatik music
Somnath Das
OEMI2017
993
1906
20
Puri, Orissa
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Odissi music

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