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
Daulat Khan
?
OEMI0537
260
Kolkata
1920
?
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
Natthu Khan Khandare
Afruddin Khan
?
OEMI0042
23
?
?
?
Qavvaali singer
Akil Ahmed Khan
?
OEMI0068
33
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
Agra
Alimulla Khan
?
OEMI0081
39
Lucknow
?
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
P00126
Ashraf Khan
?
OEMI0194
83
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
P00176
Kutub Ali Khan
OEMI1143
582
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ghulam Sabir Khan
OEMI0690
363
Moradabad
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his father Hussain Bakhsh
P06191
Anwar Hussain Khan
OEMI0161
70
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Haidar Bakhsh Khan
OEMI0776
399
0.1875
?
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
his father Changay Khan
Bughara Khan
?
OEMI0412
204
?
?
?
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent
Delhi
Juma Khan
OEMI0965
490
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
Nirmal Shah Seni
Maujuddin Khan
?
OEMI1301
658659
?
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Modu Khan
OEMI1337
676
?
?
tabla player
Tabla player
Niyamat Khan
OEMI1546
765
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Qavvaal-bbachche style
Qavvaal-bbachche style
khayaal
Rahim Khan
OEMI1688
857
?
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
Amritsen
Ras Rag Khan
OEMI1802
888
?
?
tabla player
tabla player
Shah Mir Khan
OEMI1922
963
Indore
?
?
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore
Sujan Khan
?
OEMI2051
10251026
?
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Agra
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
?
OEMI0021
7
Delhi
?
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ghulam Raza Khan
OEMI0689
363
?
?
sitar player
Innovator of the Raazaakhaani-gat, a composition for string instruments like the sitar and sarod
Bilas Baras Khan
?
OEMI0375
189
Pune
?
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Pune durbar
Pune durbar
dhrupad
Ghulam Ghaus Khan
OEMI0679
361
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of Atraululi, Uttar Pradesh, of the early 19th cent.
dhrupad
Hamid Hussain Khan
OEMI0788
401
1950
?
Lucknow
sitar player
Noted sitar player and teacher
his father Tullan Khan, uncle Turab （or Turav） Khan
Abhilasha
?
OEMI0025
10
south India
?
?
Author of Sangeet Chandra
Chhange Khan
OEMI0459
231
0.1857
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Chhote Kale Khan
OEMI0467
237
?
?
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
Delhi gharaanaa
Chimman Khan
OEMI0481
239
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
Kayam Khan
OEMI1040
532
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Mangal Khan
?
OEMI1259
638
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Mirza Khan
OEMI1329
672
?
?
author
Mitthu Khan
OEMI1335
673
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Samwal Khan
OEMI1865
925
?
?
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Savaliya Khan
OEMI1898
954
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Pyar Khan
Shad Khan
OEMI1916
962963
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra
Shahab Khan
OEMI1923
963
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
his father （name not known）
Sulaiman
OEMI2059
1029
Lucknow
?
?
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and tappaa singer of Lucknow
Rajab Ali Khan
khayaal
P00159
Jaffar Hussain Khan
OEMI0896
449
Sahaswan,Uttar Pradesh
Noted qavvaali singer
Surujbai Khande
OEMI2086
10381039
Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Contemporary singer of folk songs of Madhya Pradesh. Particulary bharthari, dholaa maaru, chandaini, alha, and Raam kissaa songs
Family, Jawaharlal Baghel and Pritam Pahadi
folk songs of Madhya Pradesh
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0884
445
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
Appukkutti Nattuvan
OEMI0166
7172
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri （1762-1827）of the Karnnatik trinity
Khwaja Ahmad Khan
OEMI1079
556
0.187
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
family
Amara Simha
?
OEMI0099
46
?
?
?
?
patron,
Patron and playwright
Badi Maina
OEMI0241
98
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
Benares
Gulab Bai
OEMI0753
386
0.191
?
Mysore
Well-known singer of Jaipur
Haidar Bakhsh
Ilahijan
OEMI0855
439
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Jadumani Dasi
OEMI0892
448
Kolkata
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolkata
Jhire Khan
OEMI0937
478
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
OEMI1323
671
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
Dilawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI0583
295
Rewa
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
Agra
khayaal
Jagannath Kumhar
OEMI0902
450
Mathia Gosain village,Raisen district,Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Folk singer,born in a family of folk artisites
his father
folk
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
OEMI1068
546547
?
?
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
OEMI0237
97
0.1912
?
Lucknow
Reputed exponent
Allah Dad Dhadhi
?
OEMI0088
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
?
OEMI0080
38
?
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
Ashiq Ali Khan(Jaipur)
?
OEMI0191
82
0.1905
?
?
Jaipur
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
OEMI0880
444445
Mumbai
Mumbai
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
?
OEMI0056
27
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
?
OEMI0179
78
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra
his family
Poluri Govinda Kavi
OEMI1629
813
?
?
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
?
OEMI0077
38
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Seni
Challagali Krishnayyar
OEMI0424
213
Thanjavur
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0782
400
Rampur
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
some elders
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0865
440
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
Sahaswaan
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0676
360
1932
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
OEMI0846
436
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
P00003
Abhinava Gupta
?
OEMI0026
11
?
?
?
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
Ahmad Bakhsh
?
OEMI0051
27
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ali Bakhsh I
?
OEMI0074
37
Hyderabad
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Aman Ali Khan (Lucknow)
?
OEMI0095
45
Gwalior
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Qavvaal-bachhe
Annu Akhtar
OEMI0156
66
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Bauli Bakhsh
OEMI0315
130
?
?
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
Bindu Bala
OEMI0386
193
?
?
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
OEMI0476
238
?
?
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
Haidarijan
OEMI0777
399400
?
?
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
Jadunandan Das
OEMI0893
448
Well-known keertan singer and teacher of Bengal
Jagu Ojha
OEMI0907
451
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
Kalahasti Ayya
OEMI0981
500
?
?
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Kasinatha Kavi
OEMI1037
525
?
?
composer
Composer
Kitijan
OEMI1043
537
?
?
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
Kutub Bakhsh
OEMI1144
582
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Lal Kavi
OEMI1170
591
?
?
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
Lal Khan Sani
OEMI1173
591
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzab
Mahmuda Jan
OEMI1241
622
?
?
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
Mohammad Jan
OEMI1350
680
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player
Fida Hussain
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
OEMI1457
724
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
Naval Sakhi
?
OEMI1518
749750
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
Performer of devotional dances
Nunnijan
OEMI1558
768769
?
?
vocalist
vocalist, an early disc-record artiste
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
OEMI1729
870
?
?
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
P00223
Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalwan
OEMI1973
974
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
composer
Nautankii artiste and writer-composer
Nautanki
Haidar Khan （Saharanpur）
OEMI0781
400
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Imam Bakhash, brother Bairam Khan
Mubarak Ali Khan(Mumbai)
?
OEMI1372
689690
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Baldev Prasad Nayak
?
OEMI0273
112
?
Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Muthurama Kavirayar
OEMI1413
704705
?
?
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
Rajab Ali Khan (Bade)
OEMI1700
862863
?
?
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Sahaji-saheb
Abbasuddin Ahmed
?
OEMI0003
12
Bengal
?
?
?
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Biswanath Sahai
OEMI0400
197
Benares, second half of the 19th cent.
?
tabla player
Tabla player of the Benares style
Benares
Bhairav Sahai
Maya Lambo(Bhai)
?
OEMI1306
660
?
?
?
vocalist, sabad keertan
Vocalist and leader of a group of sabad keertan singers
Ramsahai Pande
OEMI1778
884
Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh
?
Contemporary performer of folk dances
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
OEMI1549
766
?
?
Qavvaali singer
Aghornath Chakraborti
?
OEMI0050
2324
1920
Rajpur village of 24 Parganas,Bengal
Benares
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
Murad Ali Khan, Daulat Khan, and Srijanbai
dhrupad

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