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
Vema Bhopala
OEMI2180
11201121
?
?
Author and Komati king of Kondaveedu, Andhra
Venabai
OEMI2182
1121
1627
1678
17
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
?
Performer of Marathi keertans
saint-poet Raamdaas
Vishnudas Nama
OEMI2211
1135
16
?
?
composer
Composer and performer of Marathi aakhyaan for some years after 1550
Zauk Dehalvi
OEMI2262
1160
1789
1854
18-19
?
Delhi
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Zohrabai
OEMI2268
1161
?
?
Singer
Abdul Karim Khan （Kiraanaa） and Abdul Wahid Khan
Mehbobjan
OEMI2276
666
Pune, Maharashtra
0.1898
1970
?
Solapur, Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Tupelkhan Sitariya
Sayajirao （III）, Gaekwad （Maharaja）
OEMI1904
958959
1863
1939
19-20
Kavllana, Khandesh district, Maharashtra
Baroda
patron,
Great patron of the arts; enlightened ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda
Krishnananda Vyas 'Ragasagar'
OEMI1107
571
1795
1888
18-19
Udapiur,Rajasthan
probably Kolkata
Author
Kuppayya Pillai(Tiruvidaimarudur)
OEMI1141
580
1886
1981
19-20
Thanjavur region,Tamil Nadu
Mumbai
Bharata Naatyam dancer and guru
Panchapakesa Nattuvanar
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
OEMI0488
240241
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
Govindarajan （Sirkazhi）
OEMI0742
381
1933
1988
0323
20
Seerkazhi, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist, teacher, and singer-actor in Tamil films
Swaminatha Pillai
Tamil films
Krishna Iyengar （Madurai）
OEMI1098
569
Mumbai
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for pallavi rendition
Krishnayyar 'Dasavadyam'
OEMI1120
573
19
?
?
Instrumentalist
Virabhadrayya （Melattur）
OEMI2178
1120
Melattur, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
18
?
?
composer
Composer （18th cent.）
Chhajju Khan Seni
OEMI0458
230231
1740
1806
18-19
probably Jaipur
?
vocalist,rabaab player
Vocalist, rabaab player, and innovator
Ganesh Chaturvedi
OEMI0651
331
1864
1939
19-20
?
Mathura
tabla player
Mridang and tabla player of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Girin Chakraborty
OEMI0697
366
?
?
singer
Folk singer
folk
Giriraja Brahmam
OEMI0699
367
?
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional song
Govinda Dikshitar
OEMI0738
380
?
?
musicologist
Musicologist and statesman; author of Sangeeta Sudhaa
Imamuddin Dagar
OEMI0862
439
?
?
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher of the 1920s and 1930s
his father and other elders in the family, elder brother Nasiruddin
dhrupad
P00157
Indira P.P. Bora
OEMI0877
443
1949
20
Golaghat, Assam
Performer of Assamese Sattriya dance
Rosheswar Saikia Barbayan, Ghanakant Bora, Pradip Chaliha
Krishnarao Date
OEMI1112
572
?
?
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
Gwaalior
Muthachar, T.N.
OEMI1407
703704
1993
?
?
vocalist, composer,
Vocalist, composer, and teacher
R.K. Ramanathan
Mutthu Thandavar
OEMI1419
706
16
16
Sirkazhi,south of Chidambaram,Tamil Nadu
?
composer
composer
Narayan Prasad
OEMI1468
726
1908
1958
0912
20
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Jaipur
Kathak dancer
Nilamma Kadambai
OEMI1531
757
1908
1998
1214
20
?
Mysore
veena player
Veena player
her father Venkatesachar and later from Mysore Venkatagiriappa
Nor Khan(Ratlam)
OEMI1554
766767
1870
19
Delhi
Ratlam,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
vocalist
Raja Nawab Ali
OEMI1697
861
1935
20
?
?
patron,
scholar, patron, first president of the Marris(now Bhatkhande)
Kale Khan,Mohammad Ali Khan,Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
Ramananda Dvija
OEMI1743
873
17
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
his father Raamadeva Aataa
Ramtaran Sanyal
OEMI1781
884
19
Faridpur district [now in Bangladesh]
?
musician
Musician associated with old Bengali plays.
Kana Jogen, Gopal Chandra Chakravarty
Sawai Ram Singh
OEMI1903
958
Jaipur
19
?
?
patron,musician
Patron, musician, and Maharaja of Jaipur （r.1835-80）
Seshanna （Vina）
OEMI1913
962
Mysore
1852
1926
0725
19-20
Mysore
?
Eminent performer of the Mysore durbar, often called Mysore Veena Seshanna
Shiv Sevak Mishra
OEMI1965
972
1884
1933
19-20
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Shridhar Nazrekar
OEMI1970
974
1658
1729
17-18
Khadki, near Pune, Maharashtra
?
Performer of Marathi keertan and author of aakhyaans
Shyamamani Devi
OEMI1979
975
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
Sinnayya （Ghanam）
OEMI1992
982
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of padam and keertana
padam and keertana
Sitaram Mundale
OEMI1996
986
0.1891
1947
1205
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
Sundarlal Vaidya
OEMI2072
1031
1840
19
Modoi village, Makhira district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Poet, singer, and performer of Raas-leelaa
Vaidiswarankoil
OEMI2157
1108
19
?
?
composer
composer
Vishwanath Ringe
OEMI2215
1137
1921
20
?
vocalist, teacher, author
vocalist, teacher, author
Gwaalior
Krishnarao Pandit
Viswanath Lauji
OEMI2219
1138
20
?
?
musician
musician
Vithaldas Joshi
OEMI2222
1139
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player, singer
keertan singer and pakhaawaj player.
pakhaawaj
keertan
Hari Prasad Bandopadhya
OEMI0805
411
Kolkata
20
?
?
Singer-actor of the 1900s
Krishna Iyer （Kundrakkudi）
OEMI1099
569
1816
1889
19
Kundrakkudi, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
It is not known
Krishnadas （Poet-devoti）
OEMI1102
570
1500
15781585
16
Chilotra, Ahmedabad region, Gujarat
Chilotra
composer
Composer of Raas-leelaa songs
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
OEMI1676
855
1826
19
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
vocalist
vocalist
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
Shori-miya （Ghulam Nabi）
OEMI1968
973
0.174
1803
18-19
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer
his father Ghulaam Rasool, Nawab Suja-ud-daulaa
P00224
Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury
OEMI1993
982
1937
20
Shillong, Meghalaya
violinist
Noted violinist and teacher
V.G. Jog
Narayanaswami Pillai （Sirkazhi）
OEMI1484
729
19
?
?
violinist
Well-known violinist 19th cent.
Satyanarayana Murthy （Ariparala）
OEMI1896
953
1904
1993
0512
20
?
?
violinist
Violinist, teacher, and composer of Karnatik music
Varanasi Brahmayya Sastri
Narayanaswami Iyer （Pudukottai）
OEMI2279
728
20
?
?
violinist
Violinist of early 20th cent.
Birchandra Manikya
OEMI0389
194
?
?
patron,
King of Tripura, poet and a great patron of music and alied arts
Durgavara Kayastha
OEMI0602
305
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent. Assam
P00152
Hanumandas Singh
OEMI0795
408409
0.184
1939
19-20
Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh
Gaya
vocalist
Khayaal singer and founder of the Gaya tradition of esraaj, a string instrument
khayaal
Hirabai Pednekar
OEMI0839
432
1885
1951
19-20
Nashik, Maharashtra
?
music deirector
The first woman Marathi playwright and also the first woman music deirector of the Marathi stage
Marathi stage
Jhandilal Dwivedi
OEMI0936
475
1909
1992
0915
20
Palta,Chhatrapur district,Madhya Pradesh
Mridang player
Lakshmanachariar
OEMI1158
588589
1919
19-20
?
?
Sanskrit scholar and noted Harikathaa performer
Mahapurush Mishra
OEMI1230
620
1934
1987
0215
20
Vaishali town,Bihar
Kolkata
tabla player
Tabla player
Narayan Mishra
Mirza Mahmod Ali
OEMI1330
672
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player,teacher
Nanhe Khan （Sarod）
OEMI1448
722723
1868
19
?
Gwalior
Sarod player?
his weii-known father Ghulam Ali Khan
Narasayya （Padala）
OEMI1459
725
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th cent.）, noted for singing devotional songs with great fervour
Narayan Swami
OEMI1469
726727
Gwalior
?
?
composer
Composer of Raas-leelaa songs and some other varieties of devotional songs
Raas-leelaa songs
Narayana Tirtha
OEMI1476
728
?
?
Playwright
Nijaguna Sivayogi
OEMI1532
760
1500
16
?
?
composer
Author and composer of devotional songs
Nor Khan(Jodhpur)
OEMI1553
766
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ramprasad Mishra
OEMI1775
882
1980
0822
20
Benares region
Gaya, Bihar
vocalist
vocalist
Bade Ramdasji
Sampathkumaracharya, V.S
OEMI1862
923924
1925
20
Venkatayyana Chatra, now Chamarajnagar district, Karnataka
musicologist
musicologist, author, teacher
Venkatesa Iyengar
OEMI2193
1123
1888
1973
19-20
?
Mysore
veena player
Veena player
Chikka Subba Rao and Venkatagiriyappa
Vishwanath Joshi
OEMI2214
1137
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Krishnarao Pandit
Bhatta Devacharya
OEMI0354
168
?
?
Devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
Gauharjan （Jaipur）
OEMI0659
344
1894
1964
05??
19-20
Jaipur, Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Vocalist
family
Ghanshyam Mukherji
OEMI0669
354
1872
1930
0101
19-20
Shantipur, Naidia district, Bengal
Shantipur
violinist
Violinist
Dakshina Charan Sen
Gopalakrishna Yati
OEMI0725
375
?
?
composer
Composer of Telugu devotional songs
Telugu devotional songs
P00150
Gopi （Kalamandalam）
OEMI0731
376
1937
20
Kothachira village, Palakkad district, Kerala
Kathakali exponent and guru
Harinath Majumdar
OEMI0814
415
19
?
?
singer, poet
Baaul singer and poet of the 19th cent
Baaul
Jankibai(Udaipur)
OEMI0921
463
vocalist,
Vocalist of Marwari songs
Lakshmandas Sandhu
OEMI1160
589
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
Maheswara Mahapatra
OEMI1237
621622
?
?
author
Palakkad Raghu,R.
OEMI1574
783
1928
20
Palakkad,Kerala
mridangam player
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
Pannalal Goswami
OEMI1591
794795
19
?
?
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
Rama Poduval N.P.
OEMI1731
870871
Alanalloor, Kerala
vocalist
Veteran singer of sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
his father Sankunni Poduval, famous Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
Ramchandra Gosavi
OEMI1756
877
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbau of Bajirao Peshwa II
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
OEMI1770
881
1871
1945
0505
19-20
Ozare, Sawantwadi [former princely state] Maharashtra
?
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Vithoba-anna Hadap
Sahaji Maharaja
OEMI1844
911
Thanjavur
17-18
?
?
musician
musician-king of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1680-1712.
Sakharam Sarnaik
OEMI1850
915
19
?
?
poet, playwright
Satyanarayana, R.
OEMI1897
953
1927
20
Mysore city, Karnataka
Reputed author and scholar of music and dance
his mother Varalakshmi
Ulsor Krishna Iyer
OEMI2144
1102
19
?
?
vocalist
Durbar vocalist of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar r.1799-1860 of Mysore state
Syaamaa Saastri
Vasudev-bua Joshi
OEMI2175
1118
0.189
19
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Hassu Khan
Janardhanrao Joshi
OEMI0918
462
Pakhaawaj player
Kunjari Raja(Guru)
OEMI1136
579
?
?
performer of svarabat
Makhanji Pakhawaji
OEMI1244
623
1876
1951
19-20
Mathura Uttar Pradesh
Mathura
pakhaawaj player
Madan Mohan,Gangaram,Bhawani Shankar
Narahari Chakravarti
OEMI1458
725
?
?
Singer, poet, and scholar of Bengal
Panchanadayyar(Tarangambadi)
OEMI1583
792
1824
1874
19
Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,composer
vocalist,composer
Parvat Singh(Chhote)
OEMI1605
800
1876
1951
0718
19-20
Gwalior
?
pakhaawaj player
Ramzan Khan Rangile
OEMI1785
885
1800
18751900
19
Sikandarabad, Agra region, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sangameswara Sastri
OEMI1868
926
1879
1931
19-20
Peethapuram, Andhra
?
veena player
veena maestro
P00091
Sesha Iyer （Pallavi）
OEMI1911
961962
1908
19-20
Neykkarapatti, Salem district, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer of the poet-Tyaagaraaja period
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）
Bhaiyya-saheb Joshi
OEMI0338
154
1920
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Exponent of the Gwalior vocal style
Gwalior
his well-known father Vasudev-bua Joshi

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