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
Fazal Hussain
?
OEMI0625
318319
0.1878
0.1949
?
19-20
?
?
sitar player
Eminent sitar player of the Seni lineage
Agra,Seni
Amir Khan
P00146
Fida Hussain
?
OEMI0631
319
1899
?
19-20
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre
Kalu-miya
?
OEMI0995
506
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Kamalbai
?
OEMI1007
509
?
?
?
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
Lochan Kavi
?
OEMI1206
607
?
17
?
?
Author of Raaga Taranginii(17th cent.)
Madanapala
?
OEMI1211
611
?
?
?
A prince of Andhra, author of Ananda Sanjeevan
Mujaddid Niazi
0224
OEMI1377
691692
1924
?
20
Dera Ismailkhan,now in Pakistan
Lucknow
vocalist
Vocalist
Khurshid Ali,Abdul Wahid Khan,and Mustaq Hussain Khan
Munnibai
?
OEMI1390
695
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Nabi Bakhsh
?
OEMI1428
712
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar.
Nagaridas
?
OEMI1431
715
?
?
?
Devotional poet of Vrindavan
Najukjan
?
OEMI1436
717
?
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Nawabjan
?
OEMI1519
751
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Sosale Ramadas
?
OEMI2024
995
1890
1950
?
19-20
Sosale,Mysore district,Karnataka
Mysore
Harikathaa exponent and kanjiraa player
Srikantha
?
OEMI2028
1008
Kathiawad(now in Gujarat)
?
?
?
Author
Subashi
?
OEMI2034
1010
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer-actress of early 20th cent
Subbanna
?
OEMI2037
1011
1854
1939
?
19-20
Mysore
Mysore
composer
Eminent veena player and composer
Dodda Seshanna and Sadasiva Rao
Sudhakalasa
?
OEMI2047
1021
?
?
?
Author
Wali Dakkani
?
OEMI2236
1144
1668
1742
?
17-18
?
?
Early Urdu poet
Attor Krishna Prisharati
?
OEMI0202
87
1876
1964
?
19-20
Attur village,Kerala
?
Author of Sangeeta Chandrikaa
Alladiya Khan (Sarangi, Biturwale)
?
OEMI0086
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Jind, Punjab
Amvadas-pant Agali
?
OEMI0103
47
1920
1972
?
20
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
?
Well-known pakhaawaj player
his father Sakharam-pant Agale in the Panse tradition
Bhupat Khan(Maharang)
?
OEMI0368
183
0.1696
0.1778
?
17-18
?
?
rudra veena player
A master of rudra veena in the Seni tradition.
Seni
his father Sadaarang
Dakshinamorti Pillai
?
OEMI0516
252
1876
1937
?
19-20
?
?
Distinguished mridangam player
Masilamani Mudaliyar
?
OEMI1292
655
Chennnai
?
19
?
?
violinist
Reputed Chennnai-based violinist of the late 19th cent.
P00189
Mysore Vasudevachar
?
OEMI1425
710
0.1865
1961
?
19-20
Mysore
?
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
?
OEMI2021
994
?
?
?
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist
Kalyana Krishna Bhagavatar
?
OEMI0997
506
1846
1888
?
19
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram
Eminent veena player
his father Venkatadri Bhagavatar
Baliram Pandey
?
OEMI0275
112
?
20
Mohappa,near Nagpur,Maharashtra
?
Pakhaawaj player of the early 20th cent.
Dhabakoti Ammal
?
OEMI0563
281
Tamil Nadu
1920
?
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Manmathnath Ray
?
OEMI1276
643
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Amir Khan(Seni,Rampur)
?
OEMI0113
50
0.182
0.1873
?
19
Banda,Uttar Pradesh
Rampur
vocalist, rudra veena player,
Reputed rudra veena player,proficient as a vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar as well.
his father Umrao Khan
Amir Khan Gulab Sagar
?
OEMI0115
50
?
?
?
Jaltarang player in the Baroda state Indian orchestra.
Balkrishna Dhamanaskar
?
OEMI0277
112
?
19
?
?
Author of 19th-cent
Bhupendra Krishna Ghosh
?
OEMI0370
184
1896
1941
?
19-20
Bengal
?
patron,musician
Patron of musicians.
Chacha Vrindavandas
?
OEMI0418
207208
16971712
1791
?
17-18
Vrindavan Uttar Pradesh
?
composer
Prolific poet composer of devotional songs
Dakshinamorti Sastri
?
OEMI0515
252
?
19
?
?
composer
Composer(19th cent.) of Telugu devotional songs
Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer
?
OEMI1222
618
Thanjavur
1844
1893
?
19
Vaiyacheri village,near Thanjavur town,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,composer
Legendary vocalist-composer of Thanjavur
Manohar Prasad Mishra
?
OEMI1279
643
1794
1874
?
18-19
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Nagaswami Bhagavatar
?
OEMI1433
715
1894
1952
?
19-20
Madurai,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Kathaa Kaalaksheepam
Maniram Dutta Bayan(Muktiar)
?
OEMI1271
640
1879
1966
?
19-20
?
Kamalabari Sattra,Majuli,Assam
Noted exponent of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
Bholanath Bayan Atoi
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
?
OEMI0055
27
?
?
?
?
singer
An early singer for disc-records
Amir Khan(Seni,Gwalior)
?
OEMI0112
50
0.1847
0.1915
?
19
Gwalior
Gwalior
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
Balkrishnapati Bajpeyi
?
OEMI0281
114
Gwalior
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of Gwalior
Balwantrao Ketkar
?
OEMI0287
115116
Sangli,Maharashtra
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Sangli,Maharashtra
Antu-bua Apte
khayaal
Balwantrao Panse
?
OEMI0288
116
0.1886
?
?
?
Reputed mridang player
P00106
Dilip Chandra Vedi
0324
OEMI0585
295
Delhi
1901
1991
?
20
?
Delhi
vocalist
Noted vocalist
patiaalaa
Uttam Singh
Kamakoti Sastri
?
OEMI1000
507
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
composer
Composer of kritis
Mansukhram Nayak
?
OEMI1287
645
?
?
?
vocalist,musician
Vocalist, chief musician
Munnan Khan(Murshidabad)
?
OEMI1386
694
Murshidabad (now in Bangladesh)
?
19
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player(second half, 19th cent.)
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
Natthan Pir Bakhsh
?
OEMI1514
741
0.176
0.1837
?
18
Gwalior
Gwalior
vocalist
Khayaal pioneer of Gwalior
his father Pir Bakhsh
khayaal
Nazir Khan(Mumbai)
?
OEMI1526
755
1920
?
19-20
Bijnor Moradabad district,Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Bhendi Bazaar
Inayat Hussain Khan
Subbayyar Jhanjhamritam
?
OEMI2039
1011
Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
Sudarshan Shastri
?
OEMI2045
1013
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player and author
Tanibai Ghorpade
?
OEMI2103
1058
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
1875
1931
?
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Kolhapur,Maharashtra
her mother Krishna Kolhapurkarin and Alladiya Khan
khayaal
Tiruvottiyur(Kuppayyar)
?
OEMI2130
1085
1798
1904
?
18-20
?
Chennai
veena player,vocalist,composer
Veena player,vocalist,and composer
Tyaagaraaja
Wahid Khan(Rudra Vina)
?
OEMI2232
11431144
Indore
?
19
Agra
Indore
musician
Noted musician of the Indore durbar
Bande Ali Khan
Wahid Khan（Sitar）
?
OEMI2233
1144
1895
?
19-20
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
sitar player
Well-known sitar and surbahaar player
his father Imdad Khan
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
0218
OEMI2235
1144
1781
1874
?
18-19
probably Ayyampettai,former kingdom of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
Walajapet,near Chennai
composer
Illustrious disciple of composer Tyaagaraaja
his father Nalluswaamy
Yashwant-bua Thakurdas
?
OEMI2247
1153
?
19
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher,late 19th cent.
Balkrishna-bua lchalkaranjikar
?
OEMI0279
113
1849
1926
?
19-20
Bedag,Maharashtra
Miraj,Maharashtra
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and chief protagonist of the Gwalior khayaal style in Maharashtra.
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
khayaal
Ashtaputre(Bhau Sastri)
?
OEMI0195
83
Pune
0.1825
0.1875
?
19
?
Pune
Author of Gaayan Prakaasa
Farid-saheb Satarmaker
?
OEMI0623
317318
1827
1898
?
19
?
?
Maker of musical instruments
Munnibai(mid-19th cent.)
?
OEMI1392
695
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Murad Khan(Rudra Vina)
?
OEMI1396
696697
1864
1927
?
19-20
Jawra,Madhya Pradesh
?
Eminent propagator of Bande Ali Kahn's veena tradition.
Mughlu Khan
Arunachala Sastri
?
OEMI0175
76
?
19
?
?
composer
Composer of the post-1850 period remembered for his Sanskrit songs
Dhirendranath Bose
?
OEMI0575
287
1878
1953
?
19-20
Bengal
Kolkata
Sarod player and teacher
Asadulla Khan and Karamatulla Khan
Manoharlal Sharma
?
OEMI1282
644
1970
?
20
?
?
Performer of swaang a type of folk musical play
Mansa Singh(Bhai)
?
OEMI1285
645
?
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Sikh sacred music(sabad)
Nazir Khan(Jodhpur)
?
OEMI1524
755
Jodhpur
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(late 19th cent.) of the Jodhpur durbar
Balwantrao Bhaiyya
?
OEMI0286
115
Gwalior
1925
?
19-20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Gwalior
Gwalior
his mother,the famous dancer Chandrabhaga
Bhupat Khan(Jodhpur)
?
OEMI0367
183
Gwalior
?
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Dakshina Charan Sen
?
OEMI0514
251252
Bengal
1860
1925
?
19-20
probably Maheshpur,Bengal
Kolkata
A pioneer of orchestra in Bengal
Devji-bua Paranjape
?
OEMI0560
279
0.1798
1878
?
18-19
Pune,Maharashtra
Dhar,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and teacher
Gadgil-bua
Narottamdas Thakur
?
OEMI1497
731
0.1533
?
16
Kheturi,Bengal
?
composer
Vaishnava devotee and composer
Vaishnava saint-musician
Natesa Ayyar(Nimam)
?
OEMI1510
740
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and ascetic known also as Nataraja Bhagavatar
Tarabai Welingkar
?
OEMI2106
1065
Mumbai
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal and thumrii singer of the 1930s
Muraba Govekar and Ali Hussain
Khayaal,thumrii
Tirumalayya Naidu,C.
?
OEMI2128
1083
?
19-20?
?
?
Author
Brahmananda Paradesi
?
OEMI0404
199
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
Matrubhotayya(Kavi)
?
OEMI1299
657
?
?
?
composer
Noted composer of the pre-Tyaagaraaja period
Minakshi Shirodkar
?
OEMI1307
661662
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actress of Marathi films and the stage
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai â… 
?
OEMI1308
662
Tamil Nadu
1971
?
20
?
?
composer
Composer of Tamil songs
Sukavi Narayanadeva
?
OEMI2053
1026
?
17
?
?
poet and compiler of Manasaa Ojaapaali songs
Dharmapuri Subbarayar
?
OEMI0568
284
?
?
?
composer
Well-known composer of jaavali
Dharmayya Ramasamayya
?
OEMI0569
285
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
Eminent veena player and scholar
Natharam Sharma Gaur
?
OEMI1511
740
1874
1943
?
19-20
Dariyapur village, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh
Hathras
writer
Writer and artiste of nautanki plays
nautanki plays
Vrindavan Devacharya
?
OEMI2227
11401141
?
18
?
?
composer
Poet-composer of devotional songs.
Aga Amir
?
OEMI0045
23
Pakistan
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Peshawar
Aga Shergul
?
OEMI0047
23
Pakistan
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Ahobal Pandit
?
OEMI0059
29
probably born near Benares
?
16
?
?
author
Well-known author of Sangeet Paarijaat(16th cent.)
Akbar (Emperor)
1123
OEMI0066
3031
1542
1605
?
16
Amarkot, Rajasthan
Agra
patron,
Mughal Emperor, great patron of the arts
Ammakannu
?
OEMI0121
52
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Augustus Willard
?
OEMI0204
88
?
?
?
British author of A Treatise on the Music of Hindoostan(1834)
Baldevji
?
OEMI0274
112
Raja Vikram Singhji of Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Nineteenth-century dhrupad singer
his uncle Ram Gulamji,and Bade Mohammad Khan and Nabi Khan
dhrupad
Bhava Bhatta
?
OEMI0359
169170
?
Dhavalpur,in Malwa,Rajasthan
?
author
Damodara
?
OEMI0520
253
?
16
?
?
Author of the 16th-cent.
Damodardas
?
OEMI0521
253
1617
1647
?
17
?
?
Poet-devotee of Braja-bhoomi
Dargahi Mishra
?
OEMI0524
257
Benares
1849
1926
?
19-20
Benares
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher of Benares
Dasari
?
OEMI0525
258
?
?
?
Reputed naagaswaram exponent of the first half of the 19th cent
Dasganu
?
OEMI0526
258
1868
1962
?
19-20
?
?
Poet and singer of Marathi keertans
Dasopant
?
OEMI0529
259
1551
1616
?
16-17
?
?
Poet

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