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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OEMI0559
Devilal Samar
Promoter of Rajasthani folk arts
1911
?
Udaipur,Rajasthan
1981
1203
Mumbai
Uday Shankar
278279
OEMI0042
Afruddin Khan
Qavvaali singer
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0766
Habib Paintar
Qavvaali singer
1915
?
1987
0222
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
396
OEMI1549
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
Qavvaali singer
?
?
766
OEMI1324
Miraj Ahmed Nizami
qavvaali singer
?
?
671
OEMI1934
Shambhu Qavval
Qavvaali singer who usually sang with his brother Shankar (d. 1984)
?
?
964
OEMI0408
Brhat Kasyapa
Quoted as an author
?
?
?
?
201
OEMI1038
Kasyapa
Quoted as an authority on music
?
?
525
OEMI0077
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
?
Seni
38
OEMI1343
Mohammad Ali Khan(Seni)
rabaab player
rabaab player
1834
Lucknow
1927
Gidhaur,Uttar Pradesh
his father
677678
OEMI1036
Kasim Ali
rabaab player
rabaab player
1827
Benares
1905
Bhawal,Bangladesh
524
OEMI1954
Shaukat Ali Khan
rabaab player
Rabaab player of the Seni gharaanaa
1911
Gidhaur, Bihar
?
Seni
Mohammad Ali Khan, Raja Nawab Ali
969
OEMI2273
Mardana (Bhai)
rabaab player
Rabaab player, loyal accompanist of Guru Nanak, born in a Muslim family of folk musicians
1496
Talwandi, old Punjab Province
0.154
?
650651
OEMI1303
Maula Bakhsh(Tabla)
Rahim Bakhsh`s child
1878
?
?
?
?
Lucknow
Mohammad Hussain Khan
659
P00204
OEMI2272
Maman Khan
Recipient of the Central Sangeeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for folk music of Haryana
folk music of Haryana
1945
Hissar, Haryana
his grandfather Peer Mauj Khan and father Munshi Khan
633
P02466
OEMI2111
Tarun Kumar Singh
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award for Mnipuri dance in 1987
1912
?
Imphal,Manipur
Amubi Singh and some other veterans
1068
P00025
OEMI0592
Domada Chittiabbayi
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award for naagaswaram in 1995
1933
0801
Andhra
Pasupuleti Venkata Rao, Daliparti Pitchahari
300
P00226
OEMI2020
Sonam Tsersing Lepcha
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 in the category of folk music.
1928
0103
Sikkim
993
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
P00688
OEMI1534
Nikhil Ghosh
tabla player,musicologist
Renoened tabla maestro, acclaimed teacher, educationist, and musicologist
1918
1228
Barisal Bangladesh
1995
0303
Mumbai
legends Amir Hussain Khan, Ahmedjan Thirakwa
760761
P01281
OEMI1517
Naushad Ali
composer
Renowned composer of Hindi film music
Hindi film music
1919
1225
Lucknow
2006
0506
Mumbai
745746
OEMI1125
Kudau Singh
renowned pakhaawaj exponent
1815
Banda
1907
Datia
Laalaa Bhavaani Prasaad
576
OEMI0314
Basit Khan
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
0.1787
?
0.1887
?
129
OEMI1897
Satyanarayana, R.
Reputed author and scholar of music and dance
1927
Mysore city, Karnataka
his mother Varalakshmi
953
OEMI1292
Masilamani Mudaliyar
violinist
Reputed Chennnai-based violinist of the late 19th cent.
Chennnai
?
?
?
?
655
OEMI0528
Dasharathi Roy
composer
Reputed composer of paanchaali,kavi-gaan,and other similar Bengali songs.
1806
?
Badhmuda,Burdwan district,Bengal
1857
?
?
258259
OEMI0802
Hargovind Swami
Reputed contemporary artiste of Raas-leelaa performances
Januthar village, Bharatour region, Uttar Pradesh
411
P00008
OEMI0181
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
1937
?
Alwar,Rajasthan
78
P02700
OEMI1719
Ram Gopal
Reputed dancer who, like Uday Shankar, took Indian dances to many parts of the world
0.192
?
2003
1012
London
868
OEMI1506
Nasiruddin Khan Dagar
Reputed dhrupad exponent
1889
0612
Indore
1936
0612
Indore
his father Allabande Khan and an uncle Zakiruddin Khan
733734
OEMI2055
Sukhsen
Reputed dhrupad exponent of the Seni tradition
0.175
?
Gwalior
0.18
?
Gwalior
Seni
1027
OEMI1304
Maula Bakhsh(Vocal)
Reputed dhrupad singer
1823
?
?
1896
?
Baroda
659660
OEMI1760
Ramchatur Mallik
Reputed dhrupad singer
1906
1005
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
1990
0111
Basti, near Patna
his father Ranjitram Mallik, uncle Kshitipal Mallik
877878
OEMI1397
Murad Khan(Vocal)
Reputed dhrupad singer
?
?
1889
?
Delhi
697
OEMI1010
Kanailal Dhendi
Reputed esraaj exponent
0.1861
?
Gaya
1901
?
Gaya
esraaj
Hanumandas Singh
513
OEMI0237
Bade Munne (Khan Khayal)
Reputed exponent
?
0.1912
Lucknow
97
P02265
OEMI2127
Timir Baran Bhattacharya
Reputed exponent of orchestration and noted music director of films in the late 1930s and 1940s.
1904
0110
Kolkata
1987
0329
Kolkata
clarinet lessons from Rajendranath Chattopadhya,vocal music from Radhika Mohan Goswami,and Mohammad Amir Khan,and later Allauddin Khan
1083
OEMI0683
Ghulam Mohammad (Surbahar)
Reputed exponent of surbahaar
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
0.1856
Balarampur, Uttar Pradesh
Umrao Khan Seni, Ghulam Mohammad
362
P02707
OEMI1746
Ramani, N.
Reputed flute player
1934
Tiruvanur, Tamil Nadu
his grandfather A. Narayanaswami Iyer, T.R. Mahalingam
874
OEMI1219
Madhukar Pednekar
Reputed harmonium player
1916
0227
Mumbai
1967
0720
?
Shankarrao Rajapurkar and Annasaheb Mainkar
614615
OEMI2059
Sulaiman
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and tappaa singer of Lucknow
khayaal
Lucknow
?
?
Rajab Ali Khan
1029
OEMI2200
Vidyadhari Devi
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and thumrii singer
khayaal
Kolkata
1874
Bhadoi, near Benares
1971
0510
Delhi
1127
OEMI0222
Bablibai Salgaonkar
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of her time
khayaal
0.186
Salgaon, Goa
0.1925
Mumbai
Agra
Natthan Khan
93
OEMI0234
Bade Changeh Khan
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of the durbar of Mughal king Bahadur Shah Zafar
khayaal
0.177
Panipat
0.1857
?
96
OEMI0289
Balwantrao Pohre
vocalist
Reputed Khayaal singer of the last quarter of the 19th cent
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Inayat Hussain Khan
116
OEMI0288
Balwantrao Panse
Reputed mridang player
?
?
0.1886
?
?
116
OEMI2025
Sourindra Mohan Tagore
musicologist,patron
Reputed musicologist and patron
1840
?
Pathuriaghata,Kolkata
1914
0605
Kolkata
998999
OEMI0378
Bimal Roy
musicologist
Reputed musicologist.
1911
0113
Kalia [now in Bangladesh]
1997
0411
Kolkata
191
OEMI0525
Dasari
Reputed naagaswaram exponent of the first half of the 19th cent
?
?
?
?
258
OEMI1051
Keshab Chandra Mitra
Reputed pakhaawaj player
0.1822
Bhavanipur, Kolkata
1901
?
Ram Chakravarty
540
OEMI1492
Narayanrao Mangalwedhekar
Reputed pakhaawaj player and teacher
?
1980
0613
?
731
OEMI0535
Dattopant Mangalwedhekar(Joshi)
reputed player of pakhaawaj
1905
?
Mangalwedha,Solapur district,Maharashtra
1987
1103
?
Pakhaawaj
260
OEMI1983
Siddharam Jadhav
Reputed player of sundri, a wind instrument of the blowin type
1927
0815
Mangalwedha, Solapur district, Maharashtra
his elder brother Baburao
976
OEMI1705
Rajanikant Sen
composer
Reputed poet-composer of a type of Bengali songs, identified by his name as Kaanta-geeti
1865
Bhangabari, Pabna district (now Bangladesh)
1910
?
864
OEMI2148
Umrao Khan (Rudra Vina)
rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena exponent of the Seni tradition
0.1788
?
0.184
probably Rewa
Seni
his father Chhote Naubat Khan, his uncle Nirmal Shah
1102
P06042
OEMI0511
Dabir Khan
vocalist,rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena player and vocalist
1912
Rampur
1972
Kolkata
249
OEMI0113
Amir Khan(Seni,Rampur)
vocalist, rudra veena player,
Reputed rudra veena player,proficient as a vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar as well.
0.182
?
Banda,Uttar Pradesh
0.1873
?
Rampur
his father Umrao Khan
50
OEMI0015
Abdul Majid Khan
saarangi player
Reputed saarangi player
0.1888
?
?
1977
0319
Mumbai
Abdulla Khan(d.1917)and Kale Khan
5
OEMI0182
Asadullah Khan
Reputed sarod player
1858
?
Kolkata
1915
?
Kolkata
7879
P02319
OEMI1952
Sharan Rani
Reputed sarod player
1929
0409
Delhi
Allauddin Khan and his son Ali Akber Khan
968
OEMI1284
Manoranjan Sastri
Reputed scholar of Ojaapaali music of Assam
1911
03??
Bheruwa,Darrang district,Assam
1988
0104
Guwahati,Assam
644645
OEMI0436
Chandrabhaga
Reputed singer-dancer at the durbar of Maharaja Jiyajirao of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Gujarat
?
1889
Lucknow
Ghasit Khan
217218
P00244
OEMI2250
Yusuf Ali Khan
sitar player
Reputed sitar exponent
0.1887
?
Lucknow
1962
1014
?
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
11551156
P00071
OEMI1533
Nikhil Banerji
sitar player
Reputed sitar player
1931
1014
Kolkata
1986
0127
?
his father Jitendra Banerji, Mustaq Ali Khan, Radhika Mohan Moitra, Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Annapurna Devi
760
OEMI0392
Biru Mishra
tabla player
Reputed tabla and pakhaawaj player
Nepal durbar
188696
Benares
0.1935
?
Vishwanath Prasad, Madan Mohan Mishra
194
OEMI0648
Gami Khan
tabla player
Reputed tabla exponent of the Delhi gharaanaa
1882
Delhi
1956
06??
Lahore, Pakistan
Delhi gharaanaa
his father, Chhote Kale Khan
327
P06425
OEMI0767
Habibuddin Khan
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
1899
Meerut
1972
0720
?
the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
his father Shammu Khan, Munir Khan
396
OEMI0908
Jahangir Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Indore durbar
Indore
Benares
1976
0511
451
OEMI1312
Mir Taqi Mir
Reputed Urdu poet
1722
?
Akbarabad,near Agra,Uttar Pradesh
1810
?
Lucknow
662
P06726
OEMI0644
Gajananrao Joshi
violinist
Reputed violinist
1911
0630
Mumbai
1987
0628
?
325
OEMI0019
Abdul Wahid Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1878
?
Kirana, Uttar Pradesh
0.1949
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
Haidar Bakhsh
6
OEMI2277
Mehdi Hussain Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1884
Rampur
1960
Kolkata
his illustrious father, Buniyad Hussain Khan. Mitthu Khan,
666667
OEMI1513
Natthan Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.184
?
Agra
0.1907
?
Mysore
Agra
his uncle Ghulam Abbas Khan
741
OEMI0139
Anantalal Bandopadhyaya
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1832
Vishnupur
0.1896
Vishnupur
Vishnupur
58
OEMI1376
Mughlu Khan(Kolhapur)
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
?
probably Narsinghar,Rajasthan
?
?
Gwalior
691
OEMI0140
Anantarama Bhagavatar
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1867
1027
Tondikulam, Palakkad, Kerala
1919
?
58
OEMI1179
Lalchand Boral
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1870
Kolkata
1907
?
592593
OEMI0601
Duraiswami Iler (Manattattai)
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1865
?
0.1926
?
his paternal uncle Manattattai Ramaswami Iyer
303
P00132
OEMI0271
Balasubramaniyam,G.N.
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1910
01??
?
1965
0501
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
111112
OEMI0612
Eknath Pandit
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1866
?
Gwalior
1950
0430
?
310311
P00032
OEMI0695
Girija Devi
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Kolkata
1929
0508
Benares
365366
P00062
OEMI1267
Manik Varma
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1926
05??
Pune,Maharashtra
1996
1110
Mumbai
Benares and Punjabi style
Jagannath-bua Purohit,Bholanath Bhatt,and Azmat Hussain Khan
640
P00096
OEMI1379
Mukta,T.
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1914
?
Chennai
Nayana Pillai
692
OEMI1099
Krishna Iyer (Kundrakkudi)
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1816
Kundrakkudi, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu
1889
?
It is not known
569
P05877
OEMI1084
Kishori Amonkar
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Mumbai
1931
0410
?
559
OEMI0362
Bhishmadev Chatterji
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and music director
1909
1108
Hooghly district,Bengal
1977
0808
Kolkata
179
P00073
OEMI1545
Nivrutti-bua Sarnaik
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher
1912
0704
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1994
0216
?
his uncle Shankarrao Sarnaik
764765
P00042
OEMI0693
Ginde, K.G.
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher
1925
1226
Belhongale, Belgaum district, Karnataka
1994
0713
Kolkata
S.N. Ratanjankar
365
OEMI0524
Dargahi Mishra
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher of Benares
Benares
1849
?
Benares
1926
?
?
257
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
OEMI0696
Girija Shankar Chakravarti
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher, a pioneer in revitalizing the khayaal in Bengal
khayaal
Bengal
1885
1218
Behramupur, Murshidabad region, Bengal
1948
0425
Kolkata
Radhika Prasad Goswami, Muzaffar Khan, Mohammad Ali Khan
366
OEMI0154
Annasami Sastri
violinist,vocalist
Reputed vocalist and violinist
1827
0407
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
1900
0217
?
65
OEMI1270
Maniram
vocalist
Reputed vocalist in the Mewaati tradition
1910
?
Hissar,Haryana
1985
0516
?
his father Motiram
640
P01059
OEMI1196
Latafat Hussain Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
1921
?
?
1986
1212
Kolkata
Agra
Vilayat Hussain Khan and Faiyaz Khan
604
OEMI0619
Faiz Mohammad Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Baroda durbar
Baroda
0.1835
?
probably Agra
0.1904
?
Baroda,Gujarat
Baroda durbar
Fateh Mohammad and Ghasit Khan
316
OEMI0241
Badi Maina
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
?
?
Benares
98
OEMI0433
Chandra Prabha
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Bhavnagar durbar, Gujarat
Bhavnagar durbar, Gujarat
1860
?
1925
?
Bhavnagar durbar,
217
OEMI0084
Allabande Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Dagar lineage
?
0.1875
?
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
1925
?
Alwar, Rajasthan
39
OEMI0720
Gopala Iyer (Pallavi)
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the durbar of Maharajas Amara Simha and Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
374
P00248
OEMI2207
Vinayakrao Patwardhan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
1898
0722
Miraj, a princely state of Maharashtra
1975
0823
Pune
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
his uncle, vocalist Keshavrao Patwardhan, Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
11301131