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
OEMI0466
Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist
1910
Kasur, Punjab
1986
1229
Lahore, Pakistan
Qavvaal Bacche gharaanaas
Haji Amir Bakhsh, Chhajju Khan, Mohammad Khan
236237
OEMI0894
Jadunath Bhattacharya
musician
All-round musician,popularly known as Jadu Bhatta
1840
Vaidikpara,Vishnupur,Bengal
1883
Vishnupur
448
OEMI1068
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
?
?
546547
OEMI1064
Khadim Hussain Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher of the Agra tradition
1905
Atrauli, Uttar Pradesh
1993
0111
Mumbai
his father Altaf Hussain Khan, grandfather Inayat Khan, paternal grand-uncle Mehboob Khan, maternal great grand-uncle Kallan Khan
543
OEMI2066
Sundarabai of Surat
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
?
?
1030
OEMI0237
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
Reputed exponent
?
0.1912
Lucknow
97
OEMI1655
Purushottam Telang
vocalist
Vocalist
1852
Karwar taluka, Karnataka
1920
?
Tanras Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan
831832
OEMI0880
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
Mumbai
Mumbai
444445
OEMI1837
Sadiq Ali Khan (Seni)
rudra veena player,rabaab player
exponent of the rudra veena and rabaab
1805
?
1970
?
Zaffar Khan, Pyar Khan, Basat Khan
909
OEMI1885
Saraswati (Anis Khaton)
vocalist
Talented daughter of Taansen
1545
Rewa
1620
Delhi
947
OEMI1063
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
1959
?
542543
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
P00137
OEMI0393
Bishan Dass Sharma
Maker of musical instruments
Delhi
1929
Lahore
his father Rikhi Ram Sharma
195
OEMI0959
Joseph David Penkar
writer
Writer of musical plays on Jewish religious themes, in Marathi, in the early 20th cent,
Mumbai
1949
0906
Mumbai
488
OEMI1629
Poluri Govinda Kavi
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
?
?
813
OEMI1647
Priyambada Mohanty
Noted odissi danseuse
1939
Cuttack, Orissa
Banbihari Maity, Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar, Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Debaprasad Das
827828
OEMI1656
Purushottam Thakur
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
1561
Patbausi, near Barpeta
1619
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
832
OEMI0145
Anil Krishna Deb Burman
musician
Noted musician of Tripura
Tripura
1899
Agartala, Tripura
1942
Agartala
61
OEMI0424
Challagali Krishnayyar
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
213
OEMI0773
Haidar Ali Khan （Nawab）
rudra veena player,sursingaar player
Sursingaar and rudra veena player
1846
?
1901
?
Amir Khan, Bahadur Hussain Khan
398399
OEMI0782
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
Rampur
?
?
some elders
400
OEMI0865
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
?
?
Sahaswaan
440
OEMI2068
Sundarabai of Charkhari
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
?
?
1030
OEMI2261
Zakiruddin Khan Dagar
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Daagar tradition
?
1927
?
within family
1159
OEMI0676
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
1932
Agra
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
360
OEMI0846
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
?
?
436
OEMI0123
Amrital Datta
A pioneer of the theatre variety of band-music in Bengal.
band-music
Bengal
1858
Kolkata
1912
Kolkata
52
P00118
OEMI0142
Angurbala Devi
vocalist
Singer-actress of Bengali plays and films; also well-known as a light classical vocalist and a radio singer
1901
Kolkata
1984
0106
Kolkata
Gauri Shankar, Kali Misra, Jamiruddin Khan
60
OEMI0156
Annu Akhtar
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
?
?
Agra
66
P00092
OEMI0212
Azambai Pisal
vocalist
Noted vocalist
1905
Maharashtra
1986
0728
Koolhapur, Maharashtra
Bhurji Khan, Govindrao Saligram, Vishwanath-bua Jadhav
90
OEMI0214
Azim Bakhsh
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
1857
probably Indore
1908
?
his uncle Ramzan Khan
90
OEMI0220
Babaji Rane
Playwright and singer-actor of Marathi drama
1874
Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra
1913
1122
?
92
OEMI0243
Badri Prasad Mishra
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1903
1980
0423
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
98
OEMI0249
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
Eminent exponent
0.1765
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
102
OEMI0305
Bapu-saheb Budhkar
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1790
Maharastra
1850
Abdulla Khan
121
OEMI0315
Bauli Bakhsh
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
?
?
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
130
OEMI0353
Bhatt, K.H.
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mumbai
?
?
168
OEMI0386
Bindu Bala
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
?
?
193
OEMI0392
Biru Mishra
tabla player
Reputed tabla and pakhaawaj player
Nepal durbar
188696
Benares
0.1935
?
Vishwanath Prasad, Madan Mohan Mishra
194
OEMI0399
Biswanath Rao
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and teacher
1872
Benares
1925
1218
Kolkata
Benares
Kashinath Mishra
196197
OEMI0476
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
?
?
238
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0599
Duliya Rana
writer, performer
Writer and performer of Shekhaawati khyaals of Rajasthan
0.1855
?
0.1935
Jaipur
303
OEMI0658
Gauharjan
Singer-dancer, a legend in her lifetime
18705
probably Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
1929
Mysore
her mother, Adeline Victoria Hemmings, Becha Mishra, Ali Bakhsh, Nazir Khan
343344
OEMI0677
Ghulam Ali
Well-known ghazal singer
Pakistan
1940
Kaleke village, Sialkot district
his father, Ghulam Ali Khan, his brothers Barqat Ali Khan and Mubarak Ali Khan
360
OEMI0766
Habib Paintar
Qavvaali singer
1915
?
1987
0222
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
396
OEMI0777
Haidarijan
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
?
?
399400
OEMI0821
Hasrat Mohani
poet
Urdu poet
1880
Mohan, Uttar Pradesh
1951
0513
Lucknow
418
OEMI0891
Jadhurama Devangan
Performer of Paandavani
1926
Madhya Pradesh
448
OEMI0893
Jadunandan Das
Well-known keertan singer and teacher of Bengal
448
OEMI0895
Jadunath Singh
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
449
OEMI0907
Jagu Ojha
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
451
OEMI0923
Jatadhar
Early 18th-cent. pakhaawaj veteran of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.
464
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI1023
Kannuswami Rao
Performer of svarabat, a small harp
1855
?
1936
?
517
P02145
OEMI1030
Kartik Ram
Kathak dancer
1910
Rajasthan
1980
?
Shivnarayan,Jaylalji Maharaj,Achan Maharaj,Shival,Mohanlal
523
OEMI1037
Kasinatha Kavi
composer
Composer
?
?
525
OEMI1043
Kitijan
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
?
?
537
OEMI1125
Kudau Singh
renowned pakhaawaj exponent
1815
Banda
1907
Datia
Laalaa Bhavaani Prasaad
576
OEMI1144
Kutub Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
OEMI1170
Lal Kavi
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
?
?
591
OEMI1173
Lal Khan Sani
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzab
?
?
591
OEMI1174
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
?
?
591
OEMI1241
Mahmuda Jan
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
?
?
622
OEMI1350
Mohammad Jan
saarangi player
saarangi player
?
?
Fida Hussain
680
OEMI1457
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
724
OEMI1537
Niranjan Kar
Singer of Paalaa keertan
1910
Deshpur, Kendrapada, Orissa
Duryodhan Panda
762
OEMI1538
Nirmal Shah
rudra veena player
Eminent performer of the rudra veena
0.176
Lucknow
0.183
Benares
his father Jeevan Shah
762
OEMI1556
Norjahan
singer-actress
1928
Kassur village,near Lahore,Pakistan
2000
1223
Lahore
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
767
OEMI1558
Nunnijan
vocalist
vocalist, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
768769
OEMI1563
Padma Nath
instrumentalist
Kolkata
?
?
780
OEMI1620
Phatik Chandra Kalita Ojha
Noted singer of Maanasaa Ojaapaali of Assam
Assam
1910
Phithakhowa village, Darrang district, Assam
1973
Phithakhowa
Thanuram Kalita Ojha
809
P00196
OEMI1635
Pradip Chaliha
Teacher and propagator of tradition Assamese dance and music
Assam
1919
Golaghat, Assam
824
P01827
OEMI1653
Purushottam Das
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
1921
Barpeta Assam
1994
0620
Guwahati
his parents Krishnakanta Das and Boroda Bala Das, Bishuprasad Radha, and Bonkowar Anandiram Das
831
OEMI1717
Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma
musician
Musician and literary scholar
1893
Rallapaali Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh
1979
Mysore
Yatindra Swamy
867868
OEMI1729
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
870
OEMI1803
Rasik Kavi
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
1920
?
1988
0211
Chhabra, near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
891
OEMI1836
Sadiq Ali Khan (Jaipur)
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
1893
Jaipur, Rajasthan
1964
0717
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
909
OEMI1887
Saraswatibai
vocalist
vocalist
1850
?
?
Sakharam
948
P00223
OEMI1973
Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalwan
composer
Nautankii artiste and writer-composer
Nautanki
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
974
OEMI2017
Somnath Das
vocalist,
Vocalist of Odissi music
1906
Puri, Orissa
?
993
OEMI2057
Sukumar Ray
musicologist
Musicologist and author
1912
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hakim Mohammad Hussain and Gul Mohammad Khan
1028
OEMI2061
Sultan Bakhsh
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
?
?
Ratan Chand Das
1029
OEMI2069
Sundarabai Jadhav
vocalist
Noted vocalist, especially of light classical varieties
0.1886
?
1953
0603
Mumbai
Thakurdas-bua, Ghulam Rasool Khan, and Gamman Khan
1030
OEMI2077
Suratsen
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1539
Rewa, Madhta Pradesh
0.1615
Agra
his father Taansen
1034
OEMI2139
Tulsidas
Saint-poet, celebrated author of Raama Charita Maanas, the story of Sri Raama, in Avadhi, a dialect of the Hindi-speaking region of India
0.1532
?
1623
?
Naraharidaas
10951096
OEMI2199
Vidur Mallick
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist and teacher
1936
Amta village, near Darbhanga, Bihar
2002
0721
?
Darbhanga Dhrupad gharaanaa
his father Sukhdev Mallick
11261127
OEMI2255
Zahur Khan （Khayal）
He belonged to Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
17805
?
?
1157
OEMI2256
Zahur Khan （Khurja）
vocalist,composer
Noted vocalist （dhrupad, hoori, and khayaal） and composer
kdhrupad, hoori,,hayaal
0.185
?
20
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
11571158
OEMI2258
Zahur Khan Kalavant
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 19th cent.
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
?
?
1158
OEMI0870
Inayat Hussain Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player ?
1894
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
1938
Kolkata
his father Imdad Khan, Allabande Khan, Daulat Khan, Alladiya Khan
441442
OEMI0781
Haidar Khan （Saharanpur）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Imam Bakhash, brother Bairam Khan
400
OEMI0974
Kader Bakhsh （Pakhawaj）
Scion of an early （18th cent.） pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Laalaa Bhavaanidaas
494
OEMI1042
Kedamangalam Sadanandan
performer of Kathaa prasangam
1924
Paravur,Ernakulam district,Kerala
2008
0413
Paravur
533
OEMI1548
Nizamuddin Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla performer of the Lucknow tradition
1932
Jawra, Madhya Pradesh
2000
0623
Mumai
Lucknow
his father Azim Bakhsh Jewerwale and Ahmedjan Thirakwa
766
OEMI1632
Prabhakar Datar Sahir
composer
Composer of laavani and powaasaa in Marathi
1755
Gangapur, Nasik district, Maharashtra
1843
?
821
OEMI1016
Kandappa Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
1899
?
1941
02??
Chennai
Kannuswami Pillai, Nellaiyappa
515
P00186
OEMI1360
Mohan Chandra Barman
artiste of Bhaaonaa
1900
Kaihatti village,Assam
682
OEMI1413
Muthurama Kavirayar
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
?
?
704705