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
OEMI0710
Gokuldas Dhanji
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
371
P02179
OEMI0753
Gulab Bai
Well-known singer of Jaipur
?
0.191
Mysore
Haidar Bakhsh
386
OEMI0855
Ilahijan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
439
OEMI1061
Kiwal Kishan
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
?
?
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
542
OEMI1075
Khurshaidjan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Kanpur
?
?
555
OEMI1220
Madhusudan Kan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Bengal
?
?
?
?
616
OEMI1240
Mahmod Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
1920
probably Bhadvar,Rajasthan
622
OEMI1327
Mirich Khan
saarangi player
saarangi player
1832
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
Haidar Bakhsh
672
P01205
OEMI1382
Munawar Ali Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
1933
?
?
1989
1013
?
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Barkat Ali Khan
693
P06724
OEMI1927
Shakor Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
1916
?
1975
1006
New Delhi
his father Abdul Gafoor Khan and uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
964
OEMI1989
Sinde Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
1885
?
1950
0617
Mumbai
his father Amir Khan
978979
OEMI2116
Tej Khan
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
?
?
?
?
1070
OEMI0633
Fida Hussain Khan(Sitar)
sitar player
Son of Gwalior sitar veteran,Amir Khan.
0.1875
?
?
0.1927
?
?
Amir Khan
320
OEMI0061
Ajan Fakir (Shah Milan)
composer
Seventeeth-century Assamese composer of Jilirs
?
?
?
Saraguri
29
OEMI0709
Gokulchandra Srichandan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
?
?
371
OEMI1323
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
?
?
671
OEMI0583
Dilawar Ali Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
khayaal
Rewa
?
?
?
?
Agra
295
OEMI0627
Fazue Lal Pandit
Shehnai player of the early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
319
OEMI1076
Khurshed Ali Khan
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Lucknow gharaanaa
1852
?
1950
Lucknow
the Lucknow gharaanaa
555
OEMI1068
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
?
?
546547
OEMI2066
Sundarabai of Surat
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
?
?
1030
OEMI0237
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
Reputed exponent
?
0.1912
Lucknow
97
OEMI0088
Allah Dad Dhadhi
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0037
Adarang(Feroze Khan)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of the durbar
0.1692
?
?
0.1776
?
Delhi
Sadaarang
19
OEMI0080
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
?
?
?
?
?
38
OEMI0191
Ashiq Ali Khan(Jaipur)
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
?
?
0.1905
?
Jaipur
82
OEMI1837
Sadiq Ali Khan (Seni)
rudra veena player,rabaab player
exponent of the rudra veena and rabaab
1805
?
1970
?
Zaffar Khan, Pyar Khan, Basat Khan
909
OEMI0039
Adibhatla Narayana Dasa
Well-known Harikathaa performer and teacher
1864
?
?
1945
?
?
21
OEMI1393
Murad Ali Khan(Darbhanga)
sarod player
Nineteenth-century sarod player
?
?
?
?
696
OEMI1063
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
1959
?
542543
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0056
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
?
27
OEMI0063
Ajoy Bhattacharya
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
?
?
?
?
2930
OEMI0179
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Agra
his family
78
OEMI1629
Poluri Govinda Kavi
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
?
?
813
OEMI0077
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
?
Seni
38
OEMI0200
Atmanatha Bhagavatar
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent)
?
?
?
?
86
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
OEMI0773
Haidar Ali Khan （Nawab）
rudra veena player,sursingaar player
Sursingaar and rudra veena player
1846
?
1901
?
Amir Khan, Bahadur Hussain Khan
398399
OEMI0782
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
Rampur
?
?
some elders
400
OEMI0865
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
?
?
Sahaswaan
440
OEMI2068
Sundarabai of Charkhari
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
?
?
1030
OEMI2261
Zakiruddin Khan Dagar
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Daagar tradition
?
1927
?
within family
1159
OEMI0846
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
?
?
436
P00003
OEMI0026
Abhinava Gupta
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
?
?
?
?
11
OEMI0049
Aghawan
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Unav,near Lucknow
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0051
Ahmad Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0074
Ali Bakhsh I
vocalist
Vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
?
?
37
OEMI0083
Alla Rakhi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
39
OEMI0087
Allah Bandi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0091
Allahdi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Delhi
?
?
?
?
42
OEMI0095
Aman Ali Khan (Lucknow)
vocalist
Vocalist
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
Qavvaal-bachhe
45
OEMI0106
Ambayiram
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0109
Amir Bakhsh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1882
?
?
1962
?
Mumbai
Jhajjar
48
OEMI0118
Amirjan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
51
OEMI0156
Annu Akhtar
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
?
?
Agra
66
P06155
OEMI0171
Arjun Sejwal
Pakhaawaj player
1934
0425
?
1992
1029
Mumbai
Paanse
74
P01321
OEMI0177
Arvind Parikh
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
Mumbai
1927
?
?
?
?
77
OEMI0199
Athar Nafis
Pakistani poet
1932
?
?
1980
1121
?
85
OEMI0315
Bauli Bakhsh
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
?
?
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
130
OEMI0353
Bhatt, K.H.
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mumbai
?
?
168
OEMI0386
Bindu Bala
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
?
?
193
OEMI0411
Buddi Sani
vocalist
Mid-19th-cent. vocalist
?
?
?
?
Balwantrao Vaidya
203
OEMI0476
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
?
?
238
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0599
Duliya Rana
writer, performer
Writer and performer of Shekhaawati khyaals of Rajasthan
0.1855
?
0.1935
Jaipur
303
OEMI0638
Gaforan
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
323
OEMI0766
Habib Paintar
Qavvaali singer
1915
?
1987
0222
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
396
OEMI0777
Haidarijan
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
?
?
399400
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI1023
Kannuswami Rao
Performer of svarabat, a small harp
1855
?
1936
?
517
OEMI1037
Kasinatha Kavi
composer
Composer
?
?
525
OEMI1043
Kitijan
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
?
?
537
OEMI1144
Kutub Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
OEMI1170
Lal Kavi
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
?
?
591
OEMI1173
Lal Khan Sani
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzab
?
?
591
OEMI1174
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
?
?
591
OEMI1241
Mahmuda Jan
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
?
?
622
OEMI1350
Mohammad Jan
saarangi player
saarangi player
?
?
Fida Hussain
680
OEMI1426
Nabani Das
Singer of baaul
?
?
1964
?
?
711
OEMI1457
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
724
OEMI1500
Nasibjan
vocalist,
Vocalist disc-record singer of the early 20th cent
?
?
?
?
732
OEMI1518
Naval Sakhi
Performer of devotional dances
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
749750
OEMI1558
Nunnijan
vocalist
vocalist, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
768769
OEMI1563
Padma Nath
instrumentalist
Kolkata
?
?
780
OEMI1729
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
870
OEMI1803
Rasik Kavi
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
1920
?
1988
0211
Chhabra, near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
891
OEMI1887
Saraswatibai
vocalist
vocalist
1850
?
?
Sakharam
948
P00223
OEMI1973
Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalwan
composer
Nautankii artiste and writer-composer
Nautanki
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
974
OEMI2061
Sultan Bakhsh
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
?
?
Ratan Chand Das
1029
OEMI2069
Sundarabai Jadhav
vocalist
Noted vocalist, especially of light classical varieties
0.1886
?
1953
0603
Mumbai
Thakurdas-bua, Ghulam Rasool Khan, and Gamman Khan
1030
OEMI2139
Tulsidas
Saint-poet, celebrated author of Raama Charita Maanas, the story of Sri Raama, in Avadhi, a dialect of the Hindi-speaking region of India
0.1532
?
1623
?
Naraharidaas
10951096
OEMI2239
Wazir Chand
sitar player
Sitar player.
?
?
?
?
Master Ratan of Punjab
1145
OEMI2242
Wazirjan
vocalist,
vocalist of Beneres of the 1900s.
Beneres
?
?
?
?
1146
OEMI2255
Zahur Khan （Khayal）
He belonged to Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
17805
?
?
1157
OEMI2256
Zahur Khan （Khurja）
vocalist,composer
Noted vocalist （dhrupad, hoori, and khayaal） and composer
kdhrupad, hoori,,hayaal
0.185
?
20
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
11571158
OEMI2258
Zahur Khan Kalavant
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 19th cent.
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
?
?
1158
OEMI0263
Baladev Rath(Kavisuryya)
composer
Composer of champu songs of Odissi music
1789
?
?
1848
?
?
109
OEMI0781
Haidar Khan （Saharanpur）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Imam Bakhash, brother Bairam Khan
400