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
P00115
OEMI0126
Amudon Sharma
Eminent guru of Manipuri dance
1886
1125
Imphal
1976
0316
Imphal
his uncle Takhenchongbam Kanhai Sharma, his father Khomdon Sharma, Aribam Gopal Sharma
5354
OEMI0133
Anant Barve
Playwright of Marathi musicals
1856
Manmad, Maharashtra
1923
Pune
57
P06143
OEMI0208
Ayodhya Prasad
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1891
?
Datia, a small princely state in Madhya Pradesh
1977
1228
?
Family
8990
OEMI0230
Bachu Bawa
tabla player
Tabla player
?
1914
?
94
OEMI0374
Bikku Maharaj
tabla player
Eminent tabla player of Benares
Benares
1863
?
?
1949
?
?
188
OEMI0433
Chandra Prabha
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Bhavnagar durbar, Gujarat
Bhavnagar durbar, Gujarat
1860
?
1925
?
Bhavnagar durbar,
217
OEMI0477
Chikka Rama Rao
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the royal durbar of Mysore
Mysore
1890
Kurudi Kotah district, Karnataka
1945
?
238239
OEMI0510
Curt Sachs
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and author of works on instruments
1881
0129
Berlin
1959
0205
New York
248
OEMI0625
Fazal Hussain
sitar player
Eminent sitar player of the Seni lineage
0.1878
?
?
0.1949
?
?
Agra,Seni
Amir Khan
318319
P00146
OEMI0631
Fida Hussain
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre
1899
?
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
319
OEMI0851
Ibomcha Sharma
Veteran teacher of Manipuri nata sankeertana
Manipuri nata sankeertana
Manipur
1897
0101
Imphal, Manipur
?
Chongtham Chaoba, Nongmaithem Kanhai Singh, Laisram Mangaljao Singh, Thokcho Angou Singh, Loitam Jhulon
438
OEMI0973
Kader Bakhsh
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
0.188
?
1934
?
his father Axim Bakhsh
494
OEMI1036
Kasim Ali
rabaab player
rabaab player
1827
Benares
1905
Bhawal,Bangladesh
524
OEMI1062
Khadilkar, K.P.
Playwright of Marathi musicals
1872
1123
?
1948
0826
Pune, Maharashtra
542
OEMI1147
Lachhiram
performer and writer of Rajasthani khyaals of the Kuchaamani style
1867
Budasu,Rajasthan
1937
?
585
OEMI1179
Lalchand Boral
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1870
Kolkata
1907
?
592593
OEMI1454
Nannu Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player
1892
Benares
1926
?
723
OEMI1464
Narayan Das
vocalist, dancer, tabla player
Vocalist, dancer and tabla player associated with a drama troupe
1870
Falaudi, Rajasthan
1934
?
Navalram and Balaprasad
726
OEMI1705
Rajanikant Sen
composer
Reputed poet-composer of a type of Bengali songs, identified by his name as Kaanta-geeti
1865
Bhangabari, Pabna district （now Bangladesh）
1910
?
864
OEMI1851
Sakharama Rao
goottuvaadyam maestro
1881
Tiruvidaimarudur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1930
Thanjavur
Srinivasa Rao
915916
OEMI2008
Sohni Singh
Well-known harmonium player of eastern India
1879
?
?
Kanailal Dhendi （esraaj）, his father （khayaal）
991
OEMI2024
Sosale Ramadas
Harikathaa exponent and kanjiraa player
1890
?
Sosale,Mysore district,Karnataka
1950
?
Mysore
995
OEMI2037
Subbanna
composer
Eminent veena player and composer
1854
?
Mysore
1939
?
Mysore
Dodda Seshanna and Sadasiva Rao
1011
OEMI2200
Vidyadhari Devi
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and thumrii singer
khayaal
Kolkata
1874
Bhadoi, near Benares
1971
0510
Delhi
1127
OEMI2217
Vissa Appa Rao
musicologist
teacher, musicologist
physics of music
1884
04??
Peddapuram, East Godavari district, Andhra
1966
0130
Hyderabad
11371138
OEMI0202
Attor Krishna Prisharati
Author of Sangeeta Chandrikaa
1876
?
Attur village,Kerala
1964
?
?
87
P00020
OEMI0499
Chittor Subrahmania Pillai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1898
0622
Gollamachannapalli, Andhra Pradesh
1975
1018
?
Kanchipuram Naina Pillai
243
OEMI0696
Girija Shankar Chakravarti
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher, a pioneer in revitalizing the khayaal in Bengal
khayaal
Bengal
1885
1218
Behramupur, Murshidabad region, Bengal
1948
0425
Kolkata
Radhika Prasad Goswami, Muzaffar Khan, Mohammad Ali Khan
366
OEMI1015
Kanchipuram Naina Pillai
vocalist
Vocalist
1887
0725
?
1934
0502
?
515
P00065
OEMI1374
Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer
vocalist
Veteran vocalist
1887
1015
Mudicondan,Tamil Nadu
1975
0914
Chennai
Vedaranyam Swaminatha Iyer
690
OEMI0328
Bhagawan Chandra Das
sitar player
Noted sitar player
1852
Murshidabad
1931
Dhaka
148
OEMI0516
Dakshinamorti Pillai
Distinguished mridangam player
1876
?
?
1937
?
?
252
OEMI0881
Isak Salom Awaskar
Poet and keertankaar of Jewish devotional themes in Marathi
1856
Awas village, near Mumbai
1910
Mumbai
445
P00051
OEMI1131
Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai
violinist
Karnatik violinist
Karnatik
1898
0805
Kumbakonam,Tamil Nadu
1970
Tamil Nadu
Tirukodikaval Ramaswamy Iyer,Namakkal Narasimha Iyengar
578
P06532
OEMI1425
Mysore Vasudevachar
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer
0.1865
?
Mysore
1961
?
?
710
P00201
OEMI1706
Rajaram-bhau Kadam
Doyen of the Marathi folk form, gondhal
1887
Parbhani, Maharashtra
1990
12??
?
864
OEMI1238
Mahindranath Mukhopadhyaya
vocalist
dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1873
?
1918
?
622
OEMI1685
Raghuvir-mama Ramnathkar
pioneer harmonium player
1877
0212
Ramnath,Goa
?
857
OEMI2081
Surendranath Bandopadhyay
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Vishnupur gharaanaa
1886
1117
Vishnupur, Bengal
1972
?
the Vishnupur gharaanaa
his reputed father, Anantlal, eldest brother Ram Prasanna Bandopadhyay
1036
OEMI0227
Baburao Gokhale
Pakhaawaj player and teacher
1893
10??
Kurundwad, Maharashtra
1969
0525
?
Gurudev Patwardhan
94
OEMI0563
Dhabakoti Ammal
vocalist
Vocalist
Tamil Nadu
?
?
1920
?
?
281
OEMI0721
Gopala Krishna Iyer （Marungapuri）
violinist
Well-known violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik style
1883
0424
Madurai
1968
1215
?
Karur Venkataramayya
374
OEMI0991
Kalipada Pathak
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
0.189
Howrah, Kolkata
?
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
505
OEMI1215
Madhav Patankar
writer, producer
Writer and producer of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
1862
?
?
1916
0203
Maharashtra
612
OEMI1728
Rama Bhagavatar
vocalist,
Vocalist of Karnatik music
1888
1015
?
1957
?
870
OEMI2210
Vishnudas Bhave
Father of the Marathi musical play
Marathi musical play
18191823
Sangli, Maharashtra
1901
0809
Sangli
1135
OEMI0327
Bhagabai Nadkaikarin
vocalist
Vocalist and early singer for discrecords during 1900-10
Mumbai
?
?
145
OEMI0351
Bhate-bua （Ganpatrao）
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
1882
Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra
1943
?
Balkrishhna-bua Ichalkaranjikar
164
OEMI0370
Bhupendra Krishna Ghosh
patron,musician
Patron of musicians.
1896
?
Bengal
1941
?
?
184
OEMI0438
Chandrakantadeva Sarma
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
1829
Vyasapara village, Darrang district, Assam
1907
Vyasapara
218
OEMI0443
Chandrika Prasad Dube
Competent esraaj player of Bihar
1875
Pawai, Gaya district, Bihar
?
Kanailal Dhendi
222
OEMI0947
Jnan Prasanna Mukherji
patron,
Music patron,scion of a fedual family of Gobardanga,Bengal
1860
?
1915
Kolkata
482
OEMI1071
Khapru-mama Parvatkar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1880
Parvat village, Goa
1953
0903
Parvat village
his father Raghuvir-mama
547
OEMI1265
Mani Madhava Chakyar
Eminent Kootiyaattam performer
1898
?
Palakkad district,Kerala
1990
0615
Kerala
Vasu Nambeesan,Sankaran Nambootiri(Panisseri),and Parikshit Rama Varma Tampuran
639
OEMI1433
Nagaswami Bhagavatar
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Kathaa Kaalaksheepam
1894
?
Madurai,Tamil Nadu
1952
?
?
715
OEMI1634
Prabhatdevji Sisodiya
rudra veena player
Noted rudra veena performer, teacher, and propagator
1882
1106
Valsad district, South Gujarat
1943
0125
Dharampur, South Gujarat
822823
OEMI2082
Surendranath Mazumdar
vocalist
Vocalist （dhrupads and tap-khayaals） of Kolkata, a contemporary of Dwijendralal Roy （1863-1913）
khayaal,dhrupad
?
?
1036
OEMI2224
Vitthalrao Korgaonkar
harmonium player and connoisseur
1880
Mumbai
1974
1231
Belgaum, Karnataka
Kiraanaa
Bhagawat-bua of the troupe,and Bacchubhai Bhandare
1139
OEMI0780
Haidar Khan （Jaipur-Atrauli）
vocalist
Competent vocalist and teacher of the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa
?
1936
?
the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa
his paternal uncle Jahangir Khan, Rajasthan, and his famous brother Alladiya Khan
400
OEMI1052
Keshav Chandra Bandopadhyay
tabla player
Tabla exponent
1892
0106
near Dhaka, Bangladesh
?
Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Maulaviram Mishra, Natthu Khan
540
OEMI1271
Maniram Dutta Bayan(Muktiar)
Noted exponent of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
1879
?
?
1966
?
Kamalabari Sattra,Majuli,Assam
Bholanath Bayan Atoi
640
OEMI0128
Ananda K. Comaraswamy
Well-known historian of Indian art and culture
1877
0822
Colombo, Sri Lanka
1947
0909
Needham, Massachusetts, USA
56
P02049
OEMI0747
Govindrao Burhanpurkar
Distinguished pakhaawaj exponent
1880
Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh
1957
?
382
OEMI1058
Keshavrao Bhosale
singer-actor
Eminent singer-actor of the Marathi satge
Marathi satge
1890
0809
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1921
1004
?
541
OEMI1260
Mangeshrao Telang
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
1856
08??
Baad,near Karwar,Karnataka
1949
08??
Karwar
639
OEMI1412
Muthukumara Pillai
dancer
Well-known dancer and guru of Bharata Naatyam
Bharata Naatyam
1874
1027
Kattumannar Koil, near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu
1960
0822
Kattumannar Koil
704
OEMI1526
Nazir Khan(Mumbai)
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
Bijnor Moradabad district,Uttar Pradesh
1920
?
Mumbai
Bhendi Bazaar
Inayat Hussain Khan
755
OEMI1856
Saloman Shalom Aptekar
author of keertan-aakhyaans and musical plays in Marathi on Jewish devotional themes
1863
Mumbai
1957
Mumbai
918
OEMI1978
Shyam Sundar Dhir
vocalist
Vocalist
1897
Gadamadhupur, Cuttack, Orissa
1988
0116
?
his father Jagabandhu Dhir, Hanuman Prasad Jaipurwale and Ram Prasad
975
OEMI1981
Shyamlal Kshetri
patron
Noted patron of musicians
Kolkata
1858
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
1927
Kolkata
975
OEMI2011
Sokar Bapuji Trilokekar
Late 19th-cent. author of Marathi musical plays
1836
Mumbai
1908
?
992
OEMI2035
Subba Ayyar(Chattapuram)
Mridangam player and teacher
1894
1227
Palghat district,Kerala
1961
0617
?
1010
OEMI2103
Tanibai Ghorpade
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Kolhapur,Maharashtra
khayaal
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
1875
?
?
1931
?
Mumbai
her mother Krishna Kolhapurkarin and Alladiya Khan
1058
OEMI2233
Wahid Khan（Sitar）
sitar player
Well-known sitar and surbahaar player
1895
?
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
his father Imdad Khan
1144
OEMI0279
Balkrishna-bua lchalkaranjikar
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and chief protagonist of the Gwalior khayaal style in Maharashtra.
khayaal
1849
?
Bedag,Maharashtra
1926
?
Miraj,Maharashtra
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
113
OEMI0223
Babu Khan （Rudra Vina）
Noted performer and teacher
0.1892
Narwar, Madhhya Pradesh
1941
1125
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Murad Khan
93
OEMI0649
Ganapati-bua Bhilavadikar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist, reputed teacher, and an early musical guide of V.N. Bhatkhande
0.1861
Vathar village, near Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1927
0823
Sangli, Maharashtra
Vasudev-bua Joshi
328329
OEMI0662
Gaurikanta Deva Goswami
Eminent guru of Vaishnava-Sattriya dance
1890
Jarabari Sattra, Sibsagar district, Assam
Nityananda
349350
OEMI0670
Ghanshyamdas Pakhawaji
Pakhaawaj player
1880
Rajasthan
0.1915
?
his father Shankarlal
354355
OEMI1184
Lalit Mohan Mukhopadhya
vocalist
Talented dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1898
Kolkata
1944
Kolkata
his father Mahindra Nath
595
OEMI1396
Murad Khan(Rudra Vina)
Eminent propagator of Bande Ali Kahn's veena tradition.
1864
?
Jawra,Madhya Pradesh
1927
?
?
Mughlu Khan
696697
OEMI1441
Nana-saheb Chaphekhar
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1896
0120
?
1969
0115
Pune, Maharashtra
Ramkrishna-bua Vase
720
OEMI1450
Nanhe Khan （Vocal, Agra）
vocalist?
Vocalist?
1899
Mysore
0.1945
Agra
Agra gharaanaa?
Kallan Khan
723
OEMI2172
Vasudev Narayan Dongre
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1850
?
1905
?
1118
OEMI0337
Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
harmonium player
Wizard of the harmonium, exponent of thumrii
thumrii
Rampur
1852
Gwalior
1920
Dhaulpur
Bande Ali Khan
153154
OEMI0383
Bindadin Maharaj
Eminent exponent of Kathak dance
0.1838
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
1918
Lucknow
Thakur Prasad
192
OEMI0426
Chamman Khan-saheb
sursingaar player,patron,
Sursingaar exponent and patron of musicians
1878
Rampur
1922
Rampur
213
OEMI0430
Chand Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of years
1888
1980
1220
Delhi
Delhi saarangi gharaanaa
Mamman Khan, Sangi Khan
214
OEMI0575
Dhirendranath Bose
Sarod player and teacher
1878
?
Bengal
1953
?
Kolkata
Asadulla Khan and Karamatulla Khan
287
OEMI0607
Dwarkanath Ghosh
A pioneer in the manufacture of harmonium
1847
24 Parganas region, now in Bangladesh
1938
Kolkata
307
OEMI0889
Jadava Krishna Basu
patron,
Patron,organizer,and promoter of music education;based in the Kolkata region.
1848
Bengal
1926
447
OEMI0939
Jigar Moradabadi
poet
Urdu poet,known for his ghazals
ghazals
1890
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
1960
0909
Gonda,Uttar Pradesh
479
OEMI1368
Moroba Waghulikar
Pioneer singer-actor of the Marathi stage
?
1908
0120
?
686
OEMI1408
Muthaiah Bhagavatar （Harikesanallur）
vocalist, composer
Well-known vocalist, Harikathaa exponent, and composer
Harikathaa
1877
1115
Punalveli village, near Srivilliputtur, Tamil Nadu
1945
0630
Mysore
704
OEMI1447
Nanhe Khan （Mumbai）
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
Gujarat and Mumbai
0.1872
?
0.194
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh, his elder brother Ghasit Khan
722
OEMI1582
Panchakshari Gawai
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher,pioneer of Hindustani music in karnataka
1892
0202
Kadashettihalli,Hanagal taluk,Karnataka
1944
0611
?
Harapanahali Bheemarayappa(vocal 1900-2)
789
OEMI1694
Rahmat Khan (Vocal)
vocalist
vocalist
1850
Gwalior,Madhya Pradesh
1922
Kurundwad,Maharashtra
858859
OEMI1718
Ram Ganesh Gadkari
author
Well-known author of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
1885
0526
Navsari, Gujarat
1919
0123
Mumbai
868
OEMI1830
Sabhisa Iyer, T.S.
vocalist, violinist, teacher
vocalist, violinist, teacher
1872
Agra Mangudi, Tamil Nadu
1948
0522
Chennai
Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer,
907
OEMI2149
Umrao Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1845
0.192
Hyderabad
his illustrious father Tanras Khan
1102