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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Bakhshu-miya
OEMI0257
106
0.175
18
?
?
tabla player
Founder of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa which emerged between 1775 and 1800
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
his grand-father Siddhar Khan Dhaadi, Bade Kale Khan
Devidas
?
OEMI0558
278
Pune,Maharashtra
?
18
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player at the turn of the 18th cent.
Bijaram
Haidar Khan Seni
OEMI0783
400
0.177
0.184
18
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
?
vocalist
A master of dhrupad and dhamaar
his father Jeevan Khan,
dhrupad,dhamaar
Lalit Mohinidev
OEMI1185
595
0.1727
0.1805
18
?
?
Poet-devotee of Braja Pradesh
Pannabai
OEMI1588
793794
18
?
?
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile(r.1719-48)
Ram Prasad Sen
OEMI1725
869870
0.1723
0.1783
18
Halisahar-Kumarhatta in Nadia [now in Bangladesh]
?
musician
Ascetic musician of 18th-cent. Bengal
Sukhsen
?
OEMI2055
1027
0.175
0.18
?
18
Gwalior
Gwalior
Reputed dhrupad exponent of the Seni tradition
Seni
William Jones
0920
OEMI2243
1147
1746
1794
?
18
England
Kolkata
Eminent scholar of Sanskrit, author, and jurist
Virabhadrayya (Melattur)
OEMI2178
1120
Melattur, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
18
?
?
composer
Composer (18th cent.)
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)
Kovana Samayya
OEMI1093
568
18
?
?
composer
Noted 18th-cent. composer of the pre-Trinity period of south India
Moropant
OEMI1369
686687
1729
1794
18
Kolhapur district,Maharashtra
?
poet,keertan singer
Brajaranjana Deva
?
OEMI0405
201
1732
1787
?
18
Assam
Assam
composer
Composer of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs
Jivan Khan(Seni)
OEMI0933
472
1748
1790
18
most probably Jaipur
princely state of Banda,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist,
vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar
his father
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
OEMI1920
963
1690
1757
17-18
Sind [now in Pakistan]
?
Sindhi devotional poet
Bullah Shah
?
OEMI0414
204
1680
1752
?
17-18
Lulani,near Lahore,Pakistan
?
poet
Mystic poet
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
?
OEMI0119
51
1670
0.1742
?
17-18
probably Delhi
Delhi
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
Sadarang (Niyamat Khan)
OEMI1833
908
1670
1747
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
pioneer of khayaal?
khayaal
Shah Latif
OEMI1921
963
1689
1752
17-18
Sind, Pakistan
?
poet
Mystic poet
Adarang(Feroze Khan)
?
OEMI0037
19
0.1692
0.1776
?
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of the durbar
Sadaarang

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