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
OEMI0876
Indira Devi Chowdhurani
Music educator and writer from poet Rabindranath Tagore's family
1873
1229
?
1960
0812
?
443
OEMI0974
Kader Bakhsh （Pakhawaj）
Scion of an early （18th cent.） pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Laalaa Bhavaanidaas
494
OEMI1372
Mubarak Ali Khan(Mumbai)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
689690
OEMI1016
Kandappa Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
1899
?
1941
02??
Chennai
Kannuswami Pillai, Nellaiyappa
515
OEMI1226
Mahadeva Nattuvanar
Dance teacher(19th cent.)of Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
619
OEMI1413
Muthurama Kavirayar
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
?
?
704705
OEMI1423
Mysore Karigiri Rao
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer of the Mysore durbar
1853
?
?
1927
?
Mysore
709
OEMI1424
Mysore Sadasiva Rao
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer
0.18
?
?
1885
?
Mysore
709710
OEMI1700
Rajab Ali Khan (Bade)
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
?
?
Sahaji-saheb
862863
OEMI2067
Sundarabai of Benares
vocalist
She was vocalist of sawaal-jawaab, birhaa, and kajri songs in the 20th-century
Kolkata
?
?
1030
OEMI0003
Abbasuddin Ahmed
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Bengal
?
?
?
?
12
P00012
OEMI0176
Arunagiri Nathar
Author of the celebrated 15th-cent
Vijayanagar kingdom
?
?
?
?
76
OEMI0905
Jagdishnath Ray
patron,
Maharaja of Natore,Bengal. Music patron and pakhaawaj enthusiast
1870
?
1922
?
451
OEMI1306
Maya Lambo(Bhai)
vocalist, sabad keertan
Vocalist and leader of a group of sabad keertan singers
?
?
?
?
660
OEMI2138
Tulaja the Second
Maratha king of Thanjavur （r.1763-87）
?
?
1095
OEMI0604
Durlabh Chandra Bhattacharya
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1872
?
1938
Kolkata
Murari Mohan Gupta
306
OEMI0713
Gopal Chandra Chakravarti
vocalist
Dhrupad singer and an early khayaal singer of Bengal
dhrupad, khyaal
0.1832
?
1899
Kolkata
Gopal Prasad Mishra, Haddu and Hassu Khan
372
OEMI0774
Haidar Bakhsh （Chhaprauli）
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
?
1930
Kolhapur
the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
family and Bande Ali Khan
399
OEMI1410
Muthayya Pillai （Pazhani）
Mridangam player
?
1950
?
704
OEMI1549
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
Qavvaali singer
?
?
766
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
OEMI0001
Shrindhar Pandurang Prabhune
patron,
Music archivist and patron.
1886
0201
?
1973
0912
Pune, Maharashtra
1
OEMI0153
Anna-saheb Kirloskar
Celebrity known for Marathi musical plays
1843
0303
?
1885
1102
Gurlhosur （his hometown）, Karnataka
65
OEMI0586
Dimbh Muni Krishnadas
Poet
?
?
?
?
296
OEMI0775
Haidar Bakhsh （Jaipur）
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of Jaipur
Jaipur
0.1777
?
0.1833
?
Dulhe Khan, Masit Khan
399
OEMI0787
Hamid Ali Khan （Nawab）
Ruler of Rampur state in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
401
OEMI2119
Thakur Lakshman Singh
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player
?
?
1936
?
?
Mahant Gopal Das
1072
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
OEMI0036
Achyutappa Nayak
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
17
OEMI0501
Chokkanatha Naik
Ruler （r.1701-31） of Madurai, Tamil Nadu
?
?
244
OEMI0682
Ghulam Mohammad （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the period of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
?
?
361
OEMI0885
Ismail Khan-Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar during the reign of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Jodhpu
?
?
445
OEMI0977
Kadigai Namasivaya Pulavar
Author of the Tamil dance-drama
?
?
494
OEMI1087
Kodandarama Ayyar
musician
Musician （18th cent.） of Sirgazhi in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
560
OEMI1373
Muddu Venkatamakhi
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
?
?
?
?
690
OEMI1683
Raghunatha Nayak
Maharaja of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1600-34
?
?
857
OEMI1727
Ram Sarop Sharma
Singer-actor of Raas-leelaa and Swang, both these being folk theatres of Uttar Pradesh
?
?
870
OEMI1834
Sadashiv Narayan Thosar
writer
writer
1882
?
1952
0317
?
908
OEMI1982
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
976
OEMI2085
Suresh-babu Mane
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1902
?
1953
0215
Miraj, Maharashtra
his father Abdul Karim Khan, mother Tarabai Barodekar, and an uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
10361037
OEMI2153
Uttam Singh (Bhai)
Sabad keertan performer and teacher of Amritsar, Punjab.
?
?
Bhai Gurmukh Singh, Bhai Harsa Singh
1104
P00072
OEMI1542
Nissar Hussain Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of yesteryears
1907
0403
?
1993
0716
?
his grandfather Haidar Khan
764
OEMI0333
Bhai Uttam Singh Hakim
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Amritsar, Punjab
?
?
149
OEMI0445
Charles Dias Amaratunga
Sri Lankan protagonist of the arts
1876
?
1944
?
223
OEMI0506
Chunnilal Hathraswale
Noted nautanki artiste of Dariyapur, near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
dance by Kalkadin and Bindadin, music by Natharam of Hathras
245
OEMI0849
Hussain Sharqi （Sultan）
patron,musician
Patron and musician
?
?
437
OEMI1022
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam guru of the 19th cent
?
?
516
OEMI1302
Maula Bakhsh(Sarangi)
father of Allam Khan and Mohammad Khan
Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
659
OEMI1406
Mussammat Lajjat Bakhsh
Thumrii and ghazal singer of Farukhabad
thumrii
?
?
703
OEMI1416
Muthuswami Nattuvanar
Dance guru of Chennai
?
?
706
OEMI1641
Pratap Chandra Mehtab
patron,
Patron
1790
?
1858
?
826
OEMI0761
Gurumurti Sastri （Paidala）
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
?
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
392
OEMI1004
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
Well-known promoter of the arts
1903
?
?
1988
1029
?
508
OEMI2244
Yadavendra Nandan Mahaparta
Surbahaar player
Bengal
1864
?
?
1930
?
?
Bamasharan Bhattacharya, Jadu Bhatta, and some others.
1148
OEMI0239
Bade Ramdas Mishra
vocalist
Reputes vocalist of Benares
Benares
1887
0123
?
1960
0111
?
his vocalist father Shiv Nandan, Shiv Sahai, Jaikaran Mishra
9798
OEMI0332
Bhagwatibhai Bhatt
Singer and teacher of haveli songs of the Pushti Maargi Vaishnava sect
?
1977
1217
?
149
OEMI0755
Gulab Singh （Sant）
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
?
?
386
OEMI0847
Hussain Khan Babbar
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.1795
?
0.187
?
his cousin Rahimsen
436
OEMI1234
Mahendra Deb Burman
poet,singer,left oriented journalist
1917
?
1995
?
621
OEMI1525
Nazir Khan(Mathura)
sitar player
Sitar player
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
1890
?
Hyderabad
Amir Bakhsh(Gaundpuri) of Jaipur
755
OEMI1654
Purushottam Dongre
Author of Marathi plays
1853
?
1908
?
831
OEMI1657
Purushottama Mishra
Scholar in the durbar of Gajapati Jagannaatha Naaraayanadeva, king of Paralkhemundi, southern Orissa
Orissa
?
?
832
OEMI2004
Sivendra Nath Basu
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
Benares
1878
?
1941
?
989
OEMI2073
Sunderlal Gangani
Kathak dancer and teacher
?
Shivnarayan and Gauri Shankar
1031
OEMI0114
Amir Khan(Sikandarabad)
vocalist
Vocalist
Sikandarabad,near Agra,Uttar Pradesh.
?
?
1860
?
Bihar
Rangile
his famous uncle Ramzan Khan Rangile
50
OEMI0307
Barkat Ali Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
123
OEMI0688
Ghulam Rasol （Lucknow）
vocalist
Eminent vocalist, fonder of the Lucknow khayaal gharaanaa
khayaal
?
?
the Lucknow khayaal gharaanaa
362363
OEMI1395
Murad Ali Khan(Lucknow)
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th-cent.
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
696
OEMI1585
Pandoba Yavateshwarkar
vocalist, producer
vocalist,pioneer producer of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
1840
?
?
792
OEMI1611
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
1845
?
1902
Thanjavur
Melattur Ganapati Sastrigal, Venkatasubbayyar （Manambuchavadi）
805
OEMI1649
Pulin Chandra Deb Burman
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Tripura
Tripura
1914
?
1973
?
828
OEMI1698
Raja Ramchan Waghela
patron,
ruler,royal patron
?
?
861
OEMI1711
Rajendra Narayan Ray
patron,
Feudatory patron of Bhawal in Bengal
1854
?
1903
?
865
OEMI1937
Shamsuddin Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jaipur gharaanaa
Mumbai
19
?
1920
?
his father Amir Khan
965
OEMI1451
Nanhe Khan （Vocal, Kirana）
vocalist?
Vocalist?
?
?
Kiraanaa
his father Shahab Khan
723
OEMI1929
Sham Singh Adanshahi Mahant
Singer of sabad keertan in the Golden Temple of Amritsar for many decades
0.1803
?
?
964
OEMI0082
Aliya Lingaraja Urs
patron,
Royal patron of Mysore
Mysore
1823
?
?
1874
?
?
39
OEMI0108
Ambikagiri Roy Chowdhuri
composer
Twentieth-century composer of Assam
Assam
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0248
Bahadur Khan （Seni）
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
0.1762
?
0.1805
Delhi
his father Masit Khan
102
OEMI0451
'Chaukam' Sinu Ayyar
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, during the reigns of Sarabhoji II and Sivaji.
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
227
OEMI0489
Chinnayya Mudaliyar （Manali）
patron,
A patron and feudal landlord of Manali near Chennai
Manali near Chennai
?
?
241
OEMI0502
Chodia Imam Bakhsh
tabla player
Eminent 19th-cent. tabla player
?
?
The Fraukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Haji Vilayat Ali Khan
244
OEMI0538
Daulatrao Scindia(Shinde)
patron,
Patron and Maharaja of Gwalior state in Madhya Pradesh
?
?
?
?
Gwalior Khayaal
261
OEMI0712
Gopal Chandra Bandopadhyaya
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
1877
?
1941
Benares
Bakhar Ali, Rahmat Khan
372
OEMI0778
Haidar Khan （Dagar）
vocalist,
Vocalist, son of Imam Bakhsh
?
?
400
OEMI0901
Jagannath Kaviraya
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
1560
?
1660
?
450
OEMI1097
Krishna Chandra Ray
patron,
Music lover and patron
0.171
?
0.1783
?
569
OEMI1129
Kumaraswami Bhaktar
vocalist
vocalist of the 1900s
Kanjeevaram,Tamil Nadu
?
?
578
OEMI1294
Masit Khan(Sarangi)
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1925
?
?
1992
?
Mumbai
Jhajjar
Shamman Khan
655656
OEMI1304
Maula Bakhsh(Vocal)
Reputed dhrupad singer
1823
?
?
1896
?
Baroda
659660
OEMI1375
Mughlu Khan (Jawra)
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and rudra veena player of jawra,Madhya Pradesh.
?
?
?
?
691
OEMI1465
Narayan Moreshwar Khare
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
726
OEMI1782
Ramu-bhaiyya Date
patron,
patron of Hindustani classical music
?
?
884
OEMI1799
Ranjit Singh (Bhai)
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
Bhai Gopal Singh
888
OEMI1890
Sarjan Singh (Bhai)
singer
?
1965
06??
?
950
OEMI1902
Sawai Pratap Singh
patron,
Patron, Scholar, and Maharaja of Jaipur who reigned during 1779-1804
?
?
Chand Khan
958
OEMI0038
Adiappayya(Pachhimiriyam)
composer
Composer of Karnatik music,and guru of Syaamaa Saastri
?
?
?
?
21
OEMI0349
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
?
?
Ganpatrao Pandit
163
OEMI1340
Mohammad Ali Khan(Benares)
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
?
1860
?
his father
677
OEMI1391
Munnibai(late 19th cent.)
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
Babu Khuda Bakhsh
695