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
P00126
Ashraf Khan
?
OEMI0194
83
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Asghar Ali
?
OEMI0186
81
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actor of the pioneer Alfred Theatre of Mumbai
Norjahan
OEMI1556
767
1928
2000
1223
20
Kassur village,near Lahore,Pakistan
Lahore
singer-actress
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
Rukmani Devi
0115
OEMI1823
904
1923
1978
1028
20
Ramboda, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Colombo
singer-actress
Fani Bala
?
OEMI0621
317
Kolkata
?
?
?
Singer-actress
Radhabai
OEMI1668
842
?
?
singer-actress
P00242
Rani
OEMI1795
887
?
?
singer-actress
Gaforan
?
OEMI0638
323
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
Chhota Rani
OEMI0465
236
?
?
Singer-actress of Bengali plays
P00118
Angurbala Devi
OEMI0142
60
1901
1984
0106
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
vocalist
Singer-actress of Bengali plays and films; also well-known as a light classical vocalist and a radio singer
Gauri Shankar, Kali Misra, Jamiruddin Khan
Subashi
?
OEMI2034
1010
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer-actress of early 20th cent
Kiron
OEMI1081
558
Kolkata
20
?
?
Singer-actress of early 20th cent.
Minakshi Shirodkar
?
OEMI1307
661662
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actress of Marathi films and the stage
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
0531
OEMI0188
82
1938
20
Mumbai
Singer-actress of Marathi plays
Bindu Bala
OEMI0386
193
?
?
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1013
OEMI1559
769
1948
1997
0816
20
Lyallpur,Punjab region of Pakistan
London
composer
singer-composer
Malkajan Chulbulewali
OEMI1250
630
?
?
singer-dancer
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
Saigal, K.L.
0411
OEMI1847
914915
1904
1947
0118
20
Nawashehr, Jammu
Jullundar, Punjab
singer, actor
Samraj
OEMI1863
924
1613
1700
17
?
?
composer
singer, composer
Rupasinha, H.W.
1124
OEMI1828
905
1895
1971
0424
19-20
Matara, Sri Lanka
?
composer
singer, composer
M.G.Perera
Nilufar Yasmin
0213
OEMI1535
761
1948
20
Khulna, Bangkadesh
Singer, noted for Nazrul-geeti and some other forms of songs, presented on the Bangladesh radio, television, in films, and contests
P.C. Gomes and some other
Narahari Chakravarti
OEMI1458
725
?
?
Singer, poet, and scholar of Bengal
Ranjana Devi
0117
OEMI1797
887888
1949
20
?
singer, teacher
Y.Gulap Singh, Ibemcha Devi, Y. Gambhini Devi
Parvatiprasad Baruah
OEMI1606
800
1904
1964
20
Sibsagar district,Assam
?
composer
singer,composer
Papanasam Sivan
OEMI1594
795
1890
1973
19-20
Polagam,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
composer
singer,composer of devotional songs
Mahadeva Bhagavathar(Noorani),Vaidyanatha Iyer(Konerirajapuram)
Parasu Sekh Ojha
OEMI1600
798
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
singer.dancer
Mahesh Chandra Sarkar
OEMI1235
621
1818
1887
19
Benares
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Jiwanlal Maharaj
OEMI0943
480481
1828
1888
19
Morvi,Gujarat
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
Sitar and rudra veena player
Pannalal Goswami
OEMI1591
794795
19
?
?
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
Ambalal Sitari
0222
OEMI0104
4748
1922
1987
0310
20
Bilimora,Valsad district,Gujarat
Mumbai
sitar player, rudra veena player,
Sitar and rudra veena player,who later took to instrument designing
Prabhatdevji Sisodiya of the royal family of Dharampur state,South Gujarat.
Abid Hussain Khan(Dhaka)
0401
OEMI0027
14
1928
20
Shibpur,Comilla district
sitar player, sarod player
Sitar and sarod player
Ayet Ali Khan(brother of Allauddin Khan of Maihar)
Amritsen
OEMI0124
5253
0.1813
0.1893
19
Jhajjar, near Delhi
Jaipur
sitar player
Sitar and surabin （string） maestro
his father Rahimsen
Bamacharan Bhattacharya
?
OEMI0292
116
0.1839
1896
?
19
Ranaghat,Bengal
?
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
Kali Prasanna Banerji
OEMI0989
503
1842
1900
19
Kolkata
?
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
Kshetra Mohan, Jyotirindranath Tagore, his brother Sourindra Mohan Tagore
Ayet Ali Khan
0426
OEMI0206
89
1884
1967
09??
19-20
Shibpur, Bangladesh
?
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player, and teacher
Family
Haricharan Das Swami
OEMI0811
412
Dhaka
18
?
?
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
?
OEMI0119
51
1670
0.1742
?
17-18
probably Delhi
Delhi
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
Abdul Ghani Khan
?
OEMI0008
2
1938
?
19-20
Khajurgaon[present-day Rae Bareilly],Uttar Pradesh
Khajurgaon
sitar player
sitar player
Azami Khan Kalpiwale
P00001
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
0218
OEMI0009
3
1929
20
Jawara,Madhya Pradesh
sitar player
sitar player
Iliyas Khan
OEMI0857
439
1920
1989
0302
20
Lucknow
Lucknow
sitar player
Sitar player
Karim Khan
OEMI1029
519
1857
1919
19-20
Jaipur
?
sitar player
sitar Player
Rahimat Khan
OEMI1690
858
1863
1954
19-20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Dharwad,Karnataka
sitar player
sitar player
Ghulam Hussain Khan
Rais Khan
1125
OEMI1695
860
1939
20
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
sitar player
sitar player
Mohammad Khan
Mangal Khan
?
OEMI1259
638
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Savaliya Khan
OEMI1898
954
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Pyar Khan
P00063
Manilal Nag
?
OEMI1269
640
1939
20
Bankura,West Bengal
sitar player
Sitar player
Gokul Nag
Nazir Khan(Mathura)
?
OEMI1525
755
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
1890
?
19
?
Hyderabad
sitar player
Sitar player
Amir Bakhsh(Gaundpuri) of Jaipur
Barkat Ali Khan （Sitar）
OEMI0307
123
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Ajoy Sinha Roy
1201
OEMI0065
30
Kolkata
1920
20
?
sitar player
Sitar player
P05978
Balram Pathak
?
OEMI0282
115
1930
1991
0216
No
20
Ishwarpur village,Bihar
?
sitar player
sitar player
Rahimsen
OEMI1691
858
1785
1850
18-19
Gwalior
Jhajjar
sitar player
sitar player
Sukhsen
Haidar Khan （Jaipur）
OEMI0779
400
1898
19-20
Jaipur
Delhi
sitar player
Sitar player
Rahmat Khan (Sitar)
OEMI1693
858
1985
03??
20
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Mangi Singh,L.
?
OEMI1261
639
1929
20
Imphal,Manipur
sitar player
Sitar player
Chandam Tarakanta Singh
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
Inayat Hussain Khan （Sitar）
OEMI0870
441442
1894
1938
19-20
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata
sitar player
Sitar player ?
his father Imdad Khan, Allabande Khan, Daulat Khan, Alladiya Khan
Sudarshan Shastri
?
OEMI2045
1013
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player and author
Krishnarao Ashtewale
OEMI1110
572
Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
1841
19
?
?
sitar player,patron,
sitar player and patron of Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
Raghumatharao
Joshi, D.T.
10??
OEMI0963
489
1914
1993
10??
20
?
Kolkata
sitar player
Sitar player and teacher of the Imdaadkhaani tradition
Inayat Khan, father of sitar maestro Vilayat Khan
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
?
OEMI0080
38
?
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
Rameshwar Pathak
OEMI1765
879
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of early 20th cent. Darbhanga, Bihar
Balkrishnapati Bajpeyi
?
OEMI0281
114
Gwalior
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of Gwalior
Shamsuddin Khan （Sitar）
OEMI1937
965
Mumbai
19
1920
19-20
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jaipur gharaanaa
his father Amir Khan
Pir Bakhsh
OEMI1617
807
Jodhpur
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar
Bhajan Khan
OEMI0339
155
Jodhpur
19
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar during 1845-61
Jodhpur durbar
Himanta Kishore Deb Burman
OEMI0831
423
1918
1991
20
Agartala
Agartala
sitar player
Sitar player of Tripura
Qutub-ud-Daula
?
OEMI2225
838839
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
Wazir Chand
?
OEMI2239
1145
?
20
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player.
Master Ratan of Punjab
Indramohan Das
OEMI0878
443444
19
?
?
sitar player
Sitar-maker of late 19th cent
Nagaridev
?
OEMI1432
715
1547
?
16
?
?
Sixteenth-century devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
Achyutappa Nayak
?
OEMI0036
17
Tamil Nadu
?
16
?
?
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Baz Bahadur
OEMI0317
131132
152530
0.1594
16
?
?
musician
sixteenth-century musician and ruler of Mandu in Malwa, Rajasthan
Mirabai
?
OEMI1314
663664
0.1504
1546
?
16
Kudki,near Merta,former Jodhpur state of Rajasthan
?
Sixteenth-century saint-poet of legendary fame
Suraj Khan
OEMI2076
1034
16
?
?
vocalist
Sixteenth-century vocalist
Chanchal Sasi
OEMI0428
214
?
?
composer
Sixteenth-century voclist and composer
Pyar Khan (Rudra Vina)
OEMI1663
834
1737
18
Delhi
?
son of Bhupat Khan,grandson of khaayal luminary Sadaarang
Fida Hussain Khan(Sitar)
?
OEMI0633
320
0.1875
0.1927
?
19-20
?
?
sitar player
Son of Gwalior sitar veteran,Amir Khan.
Amir Khan
Basaveswara
OEMI0311
128129
0.1139
0.1196
12
Bagewadi, Bijasur district, Karnataka
Kudala Sangama, Bagalkot district, Karnaraka
Spiritual leader of the Veena Saiva movement of Karnataka
Edwin Samaradivakara
0622
OEMI0609
309
1916
1959
1008
20
Katna, Sri Lanka
?
composer
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and composer
Anil Mihiripenna
0810
OEMI0146
61
1933
20
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and teacher
Charles Dias Amaratunga
OEMI0445
223
1876
1944
19-20
?
?
Sri Lankan protagonist of the arts
Gunadasa Kapuge
0807
OEMI0758
387
Sri Lanka
1945
2003
0402
20-21
Miriswatta, Galle district, Sri Lanka
?
vocalist, composer
Sri Lankan singer and composer
Suhasini Mulgaonkar
?
OEMI2050
1025
Marathi
1989
0612
20
?
Mumbai
Stage artiste known for her one-woman shows in Marathi
Narayanaswami Iyer （Bharatam）
OEMI1482
728
20
?
?
Stage artiste of early 20th cent.
Radhakrishna Iyer (Kanjira)
OEMI1669
842843
?
?
Stalwart of kanjiraa,a south Indian rhythmic instrument of the tambourine family.
Mohammad Khan
OEMI1351
680
1845
1910
19-20
Kolkata
sitar player
Surbahaar and sitar exponent
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
OEMI1848
915
19
?
?
surbahaar exponent
Yadavendra Nandan Mahaparta
?
OEMI2244
1148
Bengal
1864
1930
?
19-20
?
?
Surbahaar player
Bamasharan Bhattacharya, Jadu Bhatta, and some others.
Nissar Ali Khan （Seni）
OEMI1540
763
0.1814
0.188
19
Lucknow
Benares
sursingaar player,rabaab player
Sursingaar and rabaab exponent
his father, Zaffar Khan, his elder brother, Sadiq Ali
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
Chamman Khan-saheb
OEMI0426
213
1878
1922
19-20
Rampur
Rampur
sursingaar player,patron,
Sursingaar exponent and patron of musicians
Bahadur Hussain Khan
OEMI0246
101
0.1808
0.187
19
?
?
sursingaar player
Sursingaar maestro of the Rampur royal durbar
Rampur royal durbar
Asad Ali Khan(Rampur)
?
OEMI0180
78
0.1858
0.1918
?
19
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
Rampur
Sursinger maestro
Phuljhuri Khan
OEMI1622
809
1920
1982
20
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
Dhaka
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
Jnan Prakash Ghosh
OEMI0946
481
1911
1997
0218
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
tabla, harmonium player, composer
tabla and harmonium exponent,composer,and teacher
Samta Prasad Mishra
0719
OEMI1864
924925
1921
1994
0531
20
Benares
Pune, Maharashtra
tabla player
tabla exponent
Bikku Maharaj
Keshav Chandra Bandopadhyay
0106
OEMI1052
540
1892
19-20
near Dhaka, Bangladesh
?
tabla player
Tabla exponent
Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Maulaviram Mishra, Natthu Khan
Narayanrao Indorekar
0108
OEMI1490
730
1907
1989
0602
20
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
?
tabla player
Tabla exponent
his father Gopalrao, Jahangir Khan, Gammi Khan
P00235
Swapan Chaudhuri
OEMI2094
1044
1947
20
Kolkata
tabla player
tabla exponent

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