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
Chhote Munne Khan
OEMI0470
237
Lucknow
1927
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of Lucknow
P00036
Hafiz Ahmad Khan
OEMI0768
397
1926
20
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Hindustani vocalist
Nasir Ahmad Khan
0105
OEMI1501
733
1930
20
Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan
P00220
Shamim Ahmad Khan
OEMI1936
965
1938
20
Baroda
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
the Agra sharaanaa
maestro Ravi Shankar
Surujbai Khande
OEMI2086
10381039
Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Contemporary singer of folk songs of Madhya Pradesh. Particulary bharthari, dholaa maaru, chandaini, alha, and Raam kissaa songs
Family, Jawaharlal Baghel and Pritam Pahadi
folk songs of Madhya Pradesh
Chhote Mohammad Khan
OEMI0469
237
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent.）
Haddu Khan
Ibrahim Adil Shah
OEMI0853
438
1580
1627
16-17
Bijapur
?
musician
Musician-king of Bijapur, Karnataka
Inayat Hussain Khan
OEMI0869
441
1849
1919
19-20
?
Benares
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and founder of a prominent branch of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
his father , Bahadur Hussain
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
OEMI1848
915
19
?
?
surbahaar exponent
P00105
Ghulam Sabir Khan （Bade）
OEMI0691
363
1962
20
?
?
Saarangi maestro
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
Khudratullah Khan
OEMI1074
554
Hyderabad, Andhra,
1830
1920
19-20
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Hyderabad, Andhra, during the reign of Nizam Mir Mehboob Ali Khan
his father Rahmatullah Khan
Mohammad Amir Khan
OEMI1344
678679
1873
1934
19-20
?
Kolkata
sarod player
Murad Ali
Vidyapati Thakur
OEMI2201
1127
0.136
0.1448
14-15
?
?
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
Sadarang (Niyamat Khan)
OEMI1833
908
1670
1747
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
pioneer of khayaal?
khayaal
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0884
445
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
Appukkutti Nattuvan
OEMI0166
7172
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri （1762-1827）of the Karnnatik trinity
Khwaja Ahmad Khan
OEMI1079
556
0.187
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
family
Surdas Madanmohan
OEMI2080
1035
0.1537
1600
16
?
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
composer
Composer of devotional songs
Azad Rahman
OEMI0210
90
Bangladesh
1944
20
Burdwan, West Bengal
composer
Singer and music composer
Badi Maina
OEMI0241
98
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
Benares
Barkatullah Khan
OEMI0308
123
0.186
1928
19-20
probably Patiala
Mumbai
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Gokuldas Dhanji
OEMI0710
371
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Gulab Bai
OEMI0753
386
0.191
?
Mysore
Well-known singer of Jaipur
Haidar Bakhsh
Hussain Ali Khan
OEMI0845
436
1850
19
Madhya Pradesh
?
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
Ilahijan
OEMI0855
439
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Inayat Ali Khan
OEMI0867
440441
1790
0.1883
18-19
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Dhaka
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
his father Hussain Ali Khan
Jadumani Dasi
OEMI0892
448
Kolkata
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolkata
Jatan Kathak
OEMI0924
464
Benares
19
Mid-19th cent.saarangi player of Benares.
Jhire Khan
OEMI0937
478
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
Kiwal Kishan
OEMI1061
542
18
?
?
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
Khurshaidjan
OEMI1075
555
Kanpur
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Mahmod Khan
OEMI1240
622
1920
19-20
?
probably Bhadvar,Rajasthan
vocalist
vocalist
Malati Pande
0419
OEMI1246
625
1930
20
Wardha,North Maharashtra
vocalist
vocalist
Mirich Khan
OEMI1327
672
1832
19
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
saarangi player
saarangi player
Haidar Bakhsh
Patwardhan
OEMI1615
806
1868
0.1916
19
Miraj, Maharashtra
Miraj
Pakhaawaj player and teacher
Shah Latif
OEMI1921
963
1689
1752
17-18
Sind, Pakistan
?
poet
Mystic poet
Sher Khan
OEMI1963
971
0.1792
0.1862
18-19
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
his paternal uncle Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
khayaal
Mehbob Khan
OEMI2275
666
0.1839
0.1915
19-20
Atrauli
Atrauli
vocalist
Vocalist and composer, well-known by his pen-name 'Daras-piyaa'
his father Zahur Khan, Tanras Khan
Gokulchandra Srichandan
OEMI0709
371
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
OEMI1323
671
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
Jagannath Kumhar
OEMI0902
450
Mathia Gosain village,Raisen district,Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Folk singer,born in a family of folk artisites
his father
folk
Khurshed Ali Khan
OEMI1076
555
1852
1950
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Lucknow gharaanaa
the Lucknow gharaanaa
Niyamatullah Khan
OEMI1547
765766
0.1816
0.1902
19-20
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
Delhi
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
Jadunath Bhattacharya
OEMI0894
448
1840
1883
19
Vaidikpara,Vishnupur,Bengal
Vishnupur
musician
All-round musician,popularly known as Jadu Bhatta
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
OEMI1068
546547
?
?
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
P00008
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
?
OEMI0181
78
1937
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
Radha Krishna Bhanj
1105
OEMI1667
842
1928
20
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
singer
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
Sundarabai of Surat
OEMI2066
1030
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
OEMI0237
97
0.1912
?
Lucknow
Reputed exponent
Dharmapuram Swaminathan
?
OEMI0567
284
1923
20
Veerakkam,Tamil Nadu
Singer (Oduvar) of traditional Tamil hymns
P00129
Baidyanath Sharma
0823
OEMI0254
104105
1921
1990
20
Nagardini, Ganjam district, Orissa
?
Noted performer of daas kaathiaa, a form of Oriya folk music
Krishna Chandra Sahu
Binaoani Mohanty
0628
OEMI0382
192
1928
20
Cuttack,Orissa
sitar player,vocalist
Vocalist,sitar player,and teacher.
Allauddin Khan and Inayat Hussain Khan
Purushottam Telang
OEMI1655
831832
1852
1920
19-20
Karwar taluka, Karnataka
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Tanras Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
OEMI0880
444445
Mumbai
Mumbai
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
P00043
Kalpakam Swaminathan
0815
OEMI0994
506
Chennai
1922
20
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
Sadiq Ali Khan (Seni)
OEMI1837
909
1805
1970
19-20
?
?
rudra veena player,rabaab player
exponent of the rudra veena and rabaab
Zaffar Khan, Pyar Khan, Basat Khan
Saraswati (Anis Khaton)
OEMI1885
947
1545
1620
16-17
Rewa
Delhi
vocalist
Talented daughter of Taansen
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
OEMI1063
542543
1959
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
OEMI0990
503504
20
?
?
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
?
OEMI0056
27
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
?
OEMI0179
78
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra
his family
P00137
Bishan Dass Sharma
OEMI0393
195
Delhi
1929
20
Lahore
Maker of musical instruments
his father Rikhi Ram Sharma
Lalgudi Jayaraman
0917
OEMI1181
593
Chennai
1930
20
Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist
Violin maestro
his paternal uncle Kandaswamy, father Gopalan
Poluri Govinda Kavi
OEMI1629
813
?
?
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
Priyambada Mohanty
OEMI1647
827828
1939
20
Cuttack, Orissa
Noted odissi danseuse
Banbihari Maity, Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar, Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Debaprasad Das
Purushottam Thakur
OEMI1656
832
1561
1619
16-17
Patbausi, near Barpeta
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
Anil Krishna Deb Burman
OEMI0145
61
Tripura
1899
1942
19-20
Agartala, Tripura
Agartala
musician
Noted musician of Tripura
Challagali Krishnayyar
OEMI0424
213
Thanjavur
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Haidar Ali Khan （Nawab）
OEMI0773
398399
1846
1901
19-20
?
?
rudra veena player,sursingaar player
Sursingaar and rudra veena player
Amir Khan, Bahadur Hussain Khan
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0782
400
Rampur
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
some elders
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0865
440
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
Sahaswaan
Janaki Ballabh Mohanty
0614
OEMI0915
461
1925
20
Puridistrict,Orissa
Oriya literatteur whose works include collections of lyrical poetry and songs
Sundarabai of Charkhari
OEMI2068
1030
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
Zakiruddin Khan Dagar
OEMI2261
1159
1927
?-20
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Daagar tradition
within family
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0676
360
1932
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
OEMI0846
436
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
Markandeya Mohapatra Sharma
0718
OEMI1289
652
1915
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Narayan Mohapatra Sharma and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar.
Afzal Hussain
0801
OEMI0044
23
1916
20
Nagina,near Lucknow
vocalist
Vocalist
Muhammad Hussain
Ahmad Faraz
1212
OEMI0052
27
Peshawar,Pakistan, and London
1931
20
Noushera,Pakistan
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Amara Ranatunga
0822
OEMI0098
46
?
1939
20
Sri Lanka
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Amrital Datta
OEMI0123
52
Bengal
1858
1912
19-20
Kolkata
Kolkata
A pioneer of the theatre variety of band-music in Bengal.
band-music
Anil Mihiripenna
0810
OEMI0146
61
1933
20
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and teacher
Annu Akhtar
OEMI0156
66
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
P00123
Arghya Sen
?
OEMI0169
73
1935
20
Faridpur,Bangladesh
Exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
Debabrata Biswas,Kamal Kumar Dasgupta,and Dilip Kamal Roy
Rabindra Sangeet
P00125
Asgaribai
08??
OEMI0184
81
Tikamgarh in Uttar Pradesh
1918
20
Bijaya,Chattarpur,Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Zahur Khan
Azim Bakhsh
OEMI0214
90
1857
1908
19-20
probably Indore
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
his uncle Ramzan Khan
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
OEMI0249
102
0.1765
18
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
Eminent exponent
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
Bapu-saheb Budhkar
OEMI0305
121
1790
1850
18-19
Maharastra
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
Abdulla Khan
dhrupad
Bauli Bakhsh
OEMI0315
130
?
?
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
Bhanumathi, K.
12??
OEMI0342
157
1922
20
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam danseuse
Papanasam Vadivelu Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma
Bhatt, K.H.
OEMI0353
168
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Bindu Bala
OEMI0386
193
?
?
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
Biru Mishra
OEMI0392
194
Nepal durbar
188696
0.1935
19-20
Benares
?
tabla player
Reputed tabla and pakhaawaj player
Vishwanath Prasad, Madan Mohan Mishra
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
OEMI0476
238
?
?
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
Comi Wadia
0806
OEMI0509
248
Mumbai
1933
20
Mumbai
pianist, singer,conductor
Veteran pianist, singer, and conductor of the Paranjoti Chorus, of Mumbai, Maharashtra
Dipali Nag
0222
OEMI0545
264
1922
20
Agra
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra Rangile
Tassaduq Hussain Khan,Bashir Ahmad Khan,Faiyaz Khan,Vilayat Hussain Khan
Dhruba Charan Ratha
0415
OEMI0578
290
1917
20
Ghantiali,Cuttack,Orissa
tabla player
Tabla player
Raghunath Mallick and Balaichand Das
Dodda Subba Rao
OEMI0591
299300
Mysore
19-20
?
?
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Duliya Rana
OEMI0599
303
0.1855
0.1935
19
?
Jaipur
writer, performer
Writer and performer of Shekhaawati khyaals of Rajasthan
Gauharjan
OEMI0658
343344
18705
1929
19-20
probably Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Mysore
Singer-dancer, a legend in her lifetime
her mother, Adeline Victoria Hemmings, Becha Mishra, Ali Bakhsh, Nazir Khan

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