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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OEMI1827
Ruparam
actor, writer
?
?
905
OEMI1843
Sahachari Sukh
composer
composer
?
?
911
OEMI1851
Sakharama Rao
goottuvaadyam maestro
1881
Tiruvidaimarudur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1930
Thanjavur
Srinivasa Rao
915916
P00218
OEMI1880
Sarada Hoffman
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
1929
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Pandanallur Chokkalingam Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Ambu Panikker, Chandu Panikker
944
OEMI1919
Shafikul Hassan
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist of the 1950s
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
Ata Hussain Khan, Khadim Hussain Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
963
OEMI1949
Shanti Vardhan
Choreographer and dancer of Manipuri
1916
Comilla, Bangladesh
1954
0903
?
968
P00222
OEMI1950
Sharada Sinha
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for Bihari folk music
1953
Hulas, Bihar
Raghu Jha, Hari Dandekar, and Panna Devi
968
P05890
OEMI1976
Shubha Mudgal
vocalist
Well-known vocalist, recipient of the Padma Shri in 2000
1959
Allahabad
Ramasray Jha, Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, Vasant Thakkar, Naina Devi, Jitendra Abhisheki, and Kumar Gandharva, Shubha
975
OEMI1984
Siddheshwar Sen
Folk artiste known for the theatrical form called Maach of Malwa, Rajasthan
Malwa, Rajasthan
Ujjjain, Madhya Pradesh
Radha Kishan Guru
976
OEMI1987
Simha
Author of a late 16th-cent. Kannada work on dance, Laasya Ranjanaa
?
?
977
OEMI2000
Sivakkolundu Desikar (Kottaiyur)
composer
Composer of the Tamil opera
Kottaiyur village, Thanjavur
?
987
OEMI2008
Sohni Singh
Well-known harmonium player of eastern India
1879
?
?
Kanailal Dhendi (esraaj), his father (khayaal)
991
OEMI2079
Surdas
singer
Blind singer
0.1478
Sihi village, near Delhi
?
It is not known
1035
P00207
OEMI2133
Tombi Singh
pung player
Veteran player of pung, the drum used in Manipuri dance; based in Imphal, Manipur
Imphal, Manipur
1905
Imphal region, Manipur
his father Y.Sanajaoba Singh, K. Koklei Singh, S. Themba Singh, and L. Kotrang Singh, etc...
1088
OEMI2137
Tulaja the First
Maharaja of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
1095
OEMI2151
Urmila Singh
singer
Contemporary folk singer
folk
?
Radhesharan Singh
1104
OEMI2152
Utpala Deva
Abhinava Gupta's parama-guru in Saiva theology.
?
?
1104
OEMI2154
Vadammal
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
11061107
OEMI2155
Vadiraja
author of dance-dramas and songs
Hoovinakere, Kundapurtaluk, Karnataka
?
1107
OEMI2156
Vadyanadha Iyer
singer
disc-record singer of south India
?
?
1107
OEMI2162
Vanasri Rao
kuuchipuudi danseuse
?
?
1112
OEMI2189
Venkatamakhi
musicologist
Outstanding musicologist of the 17th cent
Thanjavur
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
Nothing authentic is known
11221123
OEMI2200
Vidyadhari Devi
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and thumrii singer
khayaal
Kolkata
1874
Bhadoi, near Benares
1971
0510
Delhi
1127
OEMI2259
Zainul Abedin
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
18
in or around Lucknow
0.1887
Hyderabad
1158
OEMI2263
Zebanjan
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent. She dang daadraa, ghazal, tappaa, and gavvaali
Jhajjar, near Delhi
?
?
1160
OEMI2271
Majhiram Urav
Folk artiste
Tilanga, Kohpani village, Raigarh district, Madhya Pradesh
His grandmother. His Paternal uncles, Magraram, Thilleram, and Bunduram
623
OEMI0322
Bellari M. Venkatesachar
vocalist
Vocalist
Mysore
1933
Bellari, Karnataka
his father Mundaragi Raghavendrachar, his elder brother Narasimha
135
OEMI0831
Himanta Kishore Deb Burman
sitar player
Sitar player of Tripura
1918
Agartala
1991
Agartala
423
OEMI1658
Purushottamadas Pakhawaji
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player of the Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Nathadwara
0.1907
Nathadwara
?
Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Goswami Govindlalji
832
OEMI1714
Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
Noted exponent of Manipuri dance
1932
Imphal
Amubi Singh, Thambal Angou Singh, Chaoba Singh
866
OEMI1861
Samokhan Singh (Maharaj)
rudra veena player,vocalist
rudra veena player and singer of dhruvapada
1495
?
1556
?
923
OEMI1958
Sheikh Bahauddin Burnawa
musician
Ascetic musician
0.158
0.168
970971
OEMI1998
Sitaram-bua Phatarphekar
vocalist
Vocalist
0.191
near Phatarphe, Goa
the Agra gharaanaa
Parshuram-bua Parsekar, Yashwantrao Lolekar, and Vilayat Hussain Khan
986
P00122
OEMI0167
Appukutty Poduval, K.
Well-known player of the drum maddalam
1923
Tiruvilvamala, near Palakkad, Kerala
Venkichan Swamy
72
OEMI0326
Bhadrachala Ramadas
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
0.162
Nelakondapalle, Golkonda, Andhra Pradesh
0.168
?
145
OEMI0328
Bhagawan Chandra Das
sitar player
Noted sitar player
1852
Murshidabad
1931
Dhaka
148
OEMI0474
Chidambara Bhagavatar
Eminent Harikathaa performer of the 1930s.
?
?
238
OEMI0485
Chinnaswami Dikshitar
vocalist, veena player
Vocalist and veena player
1778
tamil Nadu
1823
?
240
OEMI0772
Haibati Pusesavalikar
vocalist, composer
Laavani composer and Marathi keertan singer
Laavani,Marathi keertan
1794
?
1854
?
398
OEMI0881
Isak Salom Awaskar
Poet and keertankaar of Jewish devotional themes in Marathi
1856
Awas village, near Mumbai
1910
Mumbai
445
OEMI0908
Jahangir Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Indore durbar
Indore
Benares
1976
0511
451
OEMI0976
Kadigai Mokku Pulavar
composer
Composer (19rh cent.) and Tamil scholar who sesrved the Ettayapuram ruler of his time
?
?
494
OEMI0989
Kali Prasanna Banerji
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
1842
Kolkata
1900
?
Kshetra Mohan, Jyotirindranath Tagore, his brother Sourindra Mohan Tagore
503
OEMI1018
Kanika Bandopadhyaya
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist,teacher
1924
?
2000
0405
Kolkata
515
OEMI1100
Krishna Kamal Goswami
composer
Composer of jatraa songs of Bengal
1810
?
1888
?
569
OEMI1142
Kushaba Nana Bhide
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
?
?
581
OEMI1235
Mahesh Chandra Sarkar
sitar player,rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
1818
Benares
1887
?
621
OEMI1578
Pallikurike Somanatha
author
Telugu author
Telugu
?
?
785
OEMI1609
Pashupati Sevak Mishra
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Mishra Lineage of Benares
Benares
?
?
801
OEMI1673
Radheshyam Sandilya
musician
contemporary folk musician
contemporary folk
Harda village,Hoshangabad district,Madhya Pradesh
?
843
P00201
OEMI1706
Rajaram-bhau Kadam
Doyen of the Marathi folk form, gondhal
1887
Parbhani, Maharashtra
1990
12??
?
864
P02854
OEMI1857
Samanduram Tondon Devi
exponent of Manipuri dance
Imphal, Manipur
Amubi Singh, Haobam Atomba Singh, Amudon Sharma
921
P00231
OEMI2060
Suleman Juma Jumani
Veteran of folk music of Kutch, Gujarat
folk music
Kutch, Gujarat
1905
Kutch
his father Juma Jumani and Langa Bachhu Ustad
1029
OEMI0739
Govinda Marar (Shat-kala)
vocalist
Early 19th-cent. Karnatik vocalist
1798
Ramamangalam, Muvattupuzha district, Kerala
0.1842
Pandharpur, Maharashtra
Haripad Ramaswami Bhagvatar
380381
OEMI1238
Mahindranath Mukhopadhyaya
vocalist
dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1873
?
1918
?
622
OEMI1251
Mallayadas Kripanandavari
performer of Kathaa Kaalaksheepam
1906
Kangeyanellore,Tmil Nadu
1990
?
631
OEMI1341
Mohammad Ali Khan(Hyderabad)
singer
?
1925
Hyderabad
Khudratullah Khan
677
OEMI0341
Bhanudatta Misra
Author of a Sanskrit work
?
?
156
OEMI0401
Bobbili Kesavayya
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent vocalist
?
?
his father, Gopalayya
197
OEMI0652
Ganesilal Chaube
vocalist,
Vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Ganesilal
?
?
331
OEMI0770
Hafiz Kalandhari
poet
Urdu poet
1901
Jalandhar, Punjab
1981
1221
Pakistan
398
OEMI0900
Jagajjyotirmalla
Maharaana(king)of Nepal;ruled between 1617-33
449
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
OEMI0993
Kallinath Pandit
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
?
?
505506
OEMI1127
Kuloi Chandra Sen
musician
musician
?
?
578
OEMI1150
Lahari Deb Burman
Sarod player of Tripuna
1922
Agartala
1988
Agartala
586
OEMI1252
Mallika Pukhraj
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
1910
Akhnur town,Kashmir
2004
0204
Lahore,Pakistan
Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale,Akhtar Hussain
631
OEMI1600
Parasu Sekh Ojha
singer.dancer
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
798
OEMI1738
Ramakanta Ata
Compser of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
1649
Bali Sattra
1717
in the present Vasudeva Than, on the banks of the Sowansiri, Lakhimpur district, Assam
his father Daamodara Aataa
872
OEMI1813
Raya Ramananda
composer
Oriya composer of devotional songs, mainly of the kaavya-geeti variety.
1467
?
1525
?
897
P00219
OEMI1932
Shambhu Maharaj
dancer
Veteran Kathak dancer, Padma Shri awardee
Kathak
0.1907
?
1970
1104
Delhi
his paternal uncle Bindadin Maharaj and brother Achhan Maharaj
964
P02594
OEMI1985
Siddheshwari Devi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist, noted especially for thumrii, tappaa, and daadraa
1908
Benares
1977
0318
Delhi
her reputed grandmother, Badi Maina, Siyaji Maharaj, Bade Ramdasji
976
OEMI2088
Suryaji Mahatme
sitar player
Author and sitar exponent
1837
Goa
1899
1213
?
1039
OEMI2093
Swamy Naidu, A.
actor, singer
actor, singer
?
?
1042
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
OEMI0425
Chaluvaraya Swamy, M.
veena player, author
Veena player, and author
1908
Mysore
1988
?
Chikka Subba Rao, M. Venkatesa Iyengar
213
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
OEMI0498
Chitti Babu Naidu, B.
Author of Key to Hindu Music, an early work in English by an Indian, on this topic
?
?
243
OEMI0723
Gopalakrishna Bharati
vocalist,composer
Celebrated composer and vocalist
1810
Narimanan, near Mudikondon, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1896
375
OEMI0848
Hussain Khan Kalpiwale
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player who founded the Kalpi tradition
?
?
436437
OEMI0947
Jnan Prasanna Mukherji
patron,
Music patron,scion of a fedual family of Gobardanga,Bengal
1860
?
1915
Kolkata
482
OEMI1017
Kandaswami Pillai,M.N.
Mridangam player
1927
?
1995
0430
Chennai
his father
515
P00168
OEMI1066
Khaidem Lokeshwar Singh
Manipuri dance exponent
1920
Imphal
1990
?
his father Khoidong Singh, Ojha Chaoba Singh, Khoidum Sharma, Tharongoubi Devi
543
OEMI1071
Khapru-mama Parvatkar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1880
Parvat village, Goa
1953
0903
Parvat village
his father Raghuvir-mama
547
OEMI1417
Muthuswami Pillai,V.S.
Bharata Naatyam exponent
1921
Vaitheeswaran Koil,Tamil Nadu
1992
Chennai
VazhdvoorvManicka Nattuvanar,Muthukumara Pillai
706
OEMI1734
Ramachandra Rao, S.K.
musicologist
Noted musicologist and scolar with achievements in several fields
1926
Karnataka
871
OEMI1783
Ramzan Khan (Sarangi)
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Delhi region
1897
Mumbai
Lal Khan
885
OEMI1810
Ratnakant Ramnathkar
vocalist
harmonium player and vocalist
1900
Mumbai
Mumbai
Raghuvir Ramnathkar, Nanhe Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
894
OEMI2082
Surendranath Mazumdar
vocalist
Vocalist (dhrupads and tap-khayaals) of Kolkata, a contemporary of Dwijendralal Roy (1863-1913)
khayaal,dhrupad
?
?
1036
OEMI2147
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Assam
?
?
1102
OEMI2187
Venkatadri Bhagavatar
Eminent veena player of the durbar of Swaati Tirunaal
1814
?
1884
Thiruvananthapuram
his father, scholar-musician Raja of Kodungallur
1122
OEMI2224
Vitthalrao Korgaonkar
harmonium player and connoisseur
1880
Mumbai
1974
1231
Belgaum, Karnataka
Kiraanaa
Bhagawat-bua of the troupe,and Bacchubhai Bhandare
1139
OEMI0321
Bellari M. Seshagiriachar
vocalist, violinist
Well-known vocalist and violinist
1935
Bellari
1985
Bangalore
his elder brother Narasimha Murthy
135
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
OEMI1031
Kartika Tirunal Maharaja
patron,
patron and poet who ruled Travancore,a princely state in Kerala.
1724
?
1798
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
523
OEMI1475
Narayana Sastrulu (Loka)
vocalist
Vocalist (19th cent.) and compiler of the first published volume of Tyaagaraaja's operatic works
?
?
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
728
OEMI1928
Shalomo Aharonji Bhastekar
Author of the musical play
Mumbai, region
?
964