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
Shiv Kumar Bai
OEMI1964
972
Benares
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, lived in early 20th-cent. Benares
Simha Bhopala
OEMI1988
977
c.14-15
?
?
musicologist
King and musicologist of medieval times
Singhanadeva
OEMI1990
982
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of Devgiri, near Aurangabad in Maharashtra
Somaraja Deva
OEMI2014
992
13
?
?
Author of Sangeeta Ratnaavalii, a 13th-dent.
Someswara
OEMI2015
992
13
?
?
patron,
Author and royal patron, quoted by Saarangadeva 13th cent., Saarada Tanaya, and Paarsvade
Somnath Pandit
OEMI2018
993
17
?
?
Author of Raaga Viboodha, written in 1609
Srijanbai
?
OEMI2027
1008
Lucknow
?
?
?
singer
Competent singer
Ghasit Khan
P00203
Subramaniam,L
?
OEMI2042
1012
?
violinist
Well-known violinist and composer
P06255
Suresh Talwalkar
0720
OEMI2084
1036
Mumbai
1948
20
?
tabla player
Noted performer of tabla
Pandharinath Nageshkar
Talim Hussain
?
OEMI2102
1055
Lucknow
?
20
?
?
Shehnai player of 1900s
Tiwadi Tejkaran
OEMI2132
1085
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh （r.1803-43）, from 1830 till 1851.
Trimohanlal
OEMI2135
1089
about 20
?
?
Pioneer artiste, writer, and producer of swaang and nautanki of the Kanpur style
P00240
Uma Sharma
OEMI2145
1102
20
?
Kathak danseuse, recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1987
（Kathak） Sunder Prasad, Shambhu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj, （Raas dance of Vrindavan） Ladli Sharanji Sharma and Devaki Nandanji
Vangamani
OEMI2163
1113
17
?
?
author
Vansiali
OEMI2164
1114
19
?
?
poet
Vasuki
OEMI2176
1118
?
?
Ancient authority
Vema Bhopala
OEMI2180
11201121
?
?
Author and Komati king of Kondaveedu, Andhra
Vishnudas Nama
OEMI2211
1135
16
?
?
composer
Composer and performer of Marathi aakhyaan for some years after 1550
Qutub-ud-Daula
?
OEMI2225
838839
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
Sailabai
?
OEMI2226
915
?
20
?
Singer and dancer of early 20th-cent. Kolkata
Yashtka
?
OEMI2246
1153
?
2-3
?
?
musicologist
Ancient musicologist
Zauk Dehalvi
OEMI2262
1160
1789
1854
18-19
?
Delhi
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Zohrabai
OEMI2268
1161
?
?
Singer
Abdul Karim Khan （Kiraanaa） and Abdul Wahid Khan
Mehbobjan
OEMI2276
666
Pune, Maharashtra
0.1898
1970
?
Solapur, Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Tupelkhan Sitariya
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
OEMI0488
240241
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
Krishna Iyengar （Madurai）
OEMI1098
569
Mumbai
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for pallavi rendition
Krishnayyar 'Dasavadyam'
OEMI1120
573
19
?
?
Instrumentalist
Virabhadrayya （Melattur）
OEMI2178
1120
Melattur, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
18
?
?
composer
Composer （18th cent.）
Balwantrao Pohre
?
OEMI0289
116
?
?
?
vocalist
Reputed Khayaal singer of the last quarter of the 19th cent
Inayat Hussain Khan
khayaal
Dewan Raghunath
?
OEMI0562
280
?
?
?
composer
Composer of Syaamaa songs of Bengal
Ganesh Chaturvedi
OEMI0651
331
1864
1939
19-20
?
Mathura
tabla player
Mridang and tabla player of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Girin Chakraborty
OEMI0697
366
?
?
singer
Folk singer
folk
Giriraja Brahmam
OEMI0699
367
?
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional song
Govinda Dikshitar
OEMI0738
380
?
?
musicologist
Musicologist and statesman; author of Sangeeta Sudhaa
Imamuddin Dagar
OEMI0862
439
?
?
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher of the 1920s and 1930s
his father and other elders in the family, elder brother Nasiruddin
dhrupad
Kalyana Bharati
?
OEMI0996
506
Tamil Nadu
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Krishnarao Date
OEMI1112
572
?
?
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
Gwaalior
Lauji,Viswanath
?
OEMI1198
604
?
?
?
musician
Musician from Kaathiawar,Gujarat
Mohan Chand Basu
?
OEMI1359
682
?
?
?
composer
composer
Muthachar, T.N.
OEMI1407
703704
1993
?
?
vocalist, composer,
Vocalist, composer, and teacher
R.K. Ramanathan
Natarajan,A.K.C.
?
OEMI1509
739
?
?
?
clarinet player
Noted clarinet player
A.K.Chinnakrishnan
Nilamma Kadambai
OEMI1531
757
1908
1998
1214
20
?
Mysore
veena player
Veena player
her father Venkatesachar and later from Mysore Venkatagiriappa
Raja Nawab Ali
OEMI1697
861
1935
20
?
?
patron,
scholar, patron, first president of the Marris(now Bhatkhande)
Kale Khan,Mohammad Ali Khan,Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
Ramananda Dvija
OEMI1743
873
17
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
his father Raamadeva Aataa
Sawai Ram Singh
OEMI1903
958
Jaipur
19
?
?
patron,musician
Patron, musician, and Maharaja of Jaipur （r.1835-80）
Shiv Sevak Mishra
OEMI1965
972
1884
1933
19-20
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Shyamamani Devi
OEMI1979
975
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
Sinnayya （Ghanam）
OEMI1992
982
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of padam and keertana
padam and keertana
Sitaram Mundale
OEMI1996
986
0.1891
1947
1205
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
Vaidiswarankoil
OEMI2157
1108
19
?
?
composer
composer
Vishwanath Ringe
OEMI2215
1137
1921
20
?
vocalist, teacher, author
vocalist, teacher, author
Gwaalior
Krishnarao Pandit
Viswanath Lauji
OEMI2219
1138
20
?
?
musician
musician
Vithaldas Joshi
OEMI2222
1139
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player, singer
keertan singer and pakhaawaj player.
pakhaawaj
keertan
Hari Prasad Bandopadhya
OEMI0805
411
Kolkata
20
?
?
Singer-actor of the 1900s
Shori-miya （Ghulam Nabi）
OEMI1968
973
0.174
1803
18-19
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer
his father Ghulaam Rasool, Nawab Suja-ud-daulaa
Narayanaswami Pillai （Sirkazhi）
OEMI1484
729
19
?
?
violinist
Well-known violinist 19th cent.
Satyanarayana Murthy （Ariparala）
OEMI1896
953
1904
1993
0512
20
?
?
violinist
Violinist, teacher, and composer of Karnatik music
Varanasi Brahmayya Sastri
Narayanaswami Iyer （Pudukottai）
OEMI2279
728
20
?
?
violinist
Violinist of early 20th cent.
Balkoba Natekar
?
OEMI0276
112
1855
1910
?
19-20
?
?
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
Wazir Khan Dhrupadiya
Balwant-bua Bapat
?
OEMI0284
115
19039
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Vasudev-bua Joshi(Gwalior gharaanaa),Kolhapur and Pune Gayan Samaj
Bhausaheb Guruji
?
OEMI0357
169
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior tradition
Gwalior
Nanubhaiya Telang
Birchandra Manikya
OEMI0389
194
?
?
patron,
King of Tripura, poet and a great patron of music and alied arts
Damodar Nevalkar
?
OEMI0518
253
1884
1919
?
19-20
?
?
writer
Writer of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
Dhanapandian,D.A.
?
OEMI0565
281
1921
1997
1110
20
?
?
Performer of Tamil Kathaa Kaalakshepam
Durgavara Kayastha
OEMI0602
305
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent. Assam
Lakshmanachariar
OEMI1158
588589
1919
19-20
?
?
Sanskrit scholar and noted Harikathaa performer
Mirza Mahmod Ali
OEMI1330
672
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player,teacher
Murad Khan(Vocal)
?
OEMI1397
697
1889
?
19
?
Delhi
Reputed dhrupad singer
Nanhe Khan （Sarod）
OEMI1448
722723
1868
19
?
Gwalior
Sarod player?
his weii-known father Ghulam Ali Khan
Narasayya （Padala）
OEMI1459
725
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th cent.）, noted for singing devotional songs with great fervour
Narayan Swami
OEMI1469
726727
Gwalior
?
?
composer
Composer of Raas-leelaa songs and some other varieties of devotional songs
Raas-leelaa songs
Narayana Tirtha
OEMI1476
728
?
?
Playwright
Nijaguna Sivayogi
OEMI1532
760
1500
16
?
?
composer
Author and composer of devotional songs
Nor Khan(Jodhpur)
OEMI1553
766
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Venkatesa Iyengar
OEMI2193
1123
1888
1973
19-20
?
Mysore
veena player
Veena player
Chikka Subba Rao and Venkatagiriyappa
Vishwanath Joshi
OEMI2214
1137
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Krishnarao Pandit
Wazir Khan(Hapur)
?
OEMI2240
1145
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist
his father Nizam Khan
Balakram Worlikar
?
OEMI0264
109
1930
2002
0419
20-21
?
Mumbai
composer
Composer of Koli fisherfolk songs
Bhatta Devacharya
OEMI0354
168
?
?
Devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
Gopalakrishna Yati
OEMI0725
375
?
?
composer
Composer of Telugu devotional songs
Telugu devotional songs
Harinath Majumdar
OEMI0814
415
19
?
?
singer, poet
Baaul singer and poet of the 19th cent
Baaul
Lakshmandas Sandhu
OEMI1160
589
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
Maheswara Mahapatra
OEMI1237
621622
?
?
author
Munnan Khan(Rampur)
?
OEMI1387
695
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
Pannalal Goswami
OEMI1591
794795
19
?
?
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
Ramchandra Gosavi
OEMI1756
877
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbau of Bajirao Peshwa II
Sahaji Maharaja
OEMI1844
911
Thanjavur
17-18
?
?
musician
musician-king of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1680-1712.
Sakharam Sarnaik
OEMI1850
915
19
?
?
poet, playwright
Ulsor Krishna Iyer
OEMI2144
1102
19
?
?
vocalist
Durbar vocalist of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar r.1799-1860 of Mysore state
Syaamaa Saastri
Vasudev-bua Joshi
OEMI2175
1118
0.189
19
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Hassu Khan
Kunjari Raja(Guru)
OEMI1136
579
?
?
performer of svarabat
Narahari Chakravarti
OEMI1458
725
?
?
Singer, poet, and scholar of Bengal
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
OEMI2179
1120
Thanjavur
18
?
?
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Balkrishna-bua(Bade)
?
OEMI0278
112113
?
?
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist 19th-cent
Bhaiyya-saheb Joshi
OEMI0338
154
1920
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Exponent of the Gwalior vocal style
Gwalior
his well-known father Vasudev-bua Joshi
Doraswamy Iyer, N.S.
OEMI0594
300
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, and a disc-record singer of the 1900s.
Kesavayyar （Polagam）
OEMI1050
540
20
?
?
violinist
Noted violinist of the early 20th cent.
Malkajan Agrewali
OEMI1249
629630
?
?
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
Parashuram-bua Barve
OEMI1599
798
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
Vishnupant Chhatre

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