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
P00126
OEMI0194
Ashraf Khan
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
83
OEMI0186
Asghar Ali
Singer-actor of the pioneer Alfred Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
81
OEMI1556
Norjahan
singer-actress
1928
Kassur village,near Lahore,Pakistan
2000
1223
Lahore
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
767
OEMI1823
Rukmani Devi
singer-actress
1923
0115
Ramboda, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
1978
1028
Colombo
904
OEMI0621
Fani Bala
Singer-actress
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
317
OEMI1668
Radhabai
singer-actress
?
?
842
P00242
OEMI1795
Rani
singer-actress
?
?
887
OEMI0638
Gaforan
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
323
OEMI0465
Chhota Rani
Singer-actress of Bengali plays
?
?
236
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
OEMI2034
Subashi
Singer-actress of early 20th cent
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
1010
OEMI1081
Kiron
Singer-actress of early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
558
OEMI1307
Minakshi Shirodkar
Singer-actress of Marathi films and the stage
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
661662
OEMI0188
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
Singer-actress of Marathi plays
1938
0531
Mumbai
82
OEMI0386
Bindu Bala
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
?
?
193
OEMI1559
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
composer
singer-composer
1948
1013
Lyallpur,Punjab region of Pakistan
1997
0816
London
769
OEMI1250
Malkajan Chulbulewali
singer-dancer
?
?
630
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
OEMI1847
Saigal, K.L.
singer, actor
1904
0411
Nawashehr, Jammu
1947
0118
Jullundar, Punjab
914915
OEMI1863
Samraj
composer
singer, composer
1613
?
1700
?
924
OEMI1828
Rupasinha, H.W.
composer
singer, composer
1895
1124
Matara, Sri Lanka
1971
0424
?
M.G.Perera
905
OEMI1535
Nilufar Yasmin
Singer, noted for Nazrul-geeti and some other forms of songs, presented on the Bangladesh radio, television, in films, and contests
1948
0213
Khulna, Bangkadesh
P.C. Gomes and some other
761
OEMI1458
Narahari Chakravarti
Singer, poet, and scholar of Bengal
?
?
725
OEMI1797
Ranjana Devi
singer, teacher
1949
0117
?
Y.Gulap Singh, Ibemcha Devi, Y. Gambhini Devi
887888
OEMI1606
Parvatiprasad Baruah
composer
singer,composer
1904
Sibsagar district,Assam
1964
?
800
OEMI1594
Papanasam Sivan
composer
singer,composer of devotional songs
1890
Polagam,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
1973
Chennai
Mahadeva Bhagavathar(Noorani),Vaidyanatha Iyer(Konerirajapuram)
795
OEMI1600
Parasu Sekh Ojha
singer.dancer
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
798
OEMI1235
Mahesh Chandra Sarkar
sitar player,rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
1818
Benares
1887
?
621
OEMI0943
Jiwanlal Maharaj
sitar player,rudra veena player
Sitar and rudra veena player
1828
Morvi,Gujarat
1888
?
480481
OEMI1591
Pannalal Goswami
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
?
?
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
794795
OEMI0104
Ambalal Sitari
sitar player, rudra veena player,
Sitar and rudra veena player,who later took to instrument designing
1922
0222
Bilimora,Valsad district,Gujarat
1987
0310
Mumbai
Prabhatdevji Sisodiya of the royal family of Dharampur state,South Gujarat.
4748
OEMI0027
Abid Hussain Khan(Dhaka)
sitar player, sarod player
Sitar and sarod player
1928
0401
Shibpur,Comilla district
Ayet Ali Khan(brother of Allauddin Khan of Maihar)
14
OEMI0124
Amritsen
sitar player
Sitar and surabin （string） maestro
0.1813
Jhajjar, near Delhi
0.1893
Jaipur
his father Rahimsen
5253
OEMI0292
Bamacharan Bhattacharya
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
0.1839
?
Ranaghat,Bengal
1896
?
?
116
OEMI0989
Kali Prasanna Banerji
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
1842
Kolkata
1900
?
Kshetra Mohan, Jyotirindranath Tagore, his brother Sourindra Mohan Tagore
503
OEMI0206
Ayet Ali Khan
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player, and teacher
1884
0426
Shibpur, Bangladesh
1967
09??
?
Family
89
OEMI0811
Haricharan Das Swami
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Dhaka
?
?
412
OEMI0119
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
1670
?
probably Delhi
0.1742
?
Delhi
51
OEMI0008
Abdul Ghani Khan
sitar player
sitar player
?
Khajurgaon[present-day Rae Bareilly],Uttar Pradesh
1938
?
Khajurgaon
Azami Khan Kalpiwale
2
P00001
OEMI0009
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
sitar player
sitar player
1929
0218
Jawara,Madhya Pradesh
3
OEMI0857
Iliyas Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
1920
Lucknow
1989
0302
Lucknow
439
OEMI1029
Karim Khan
sitar player
sitar Player
1857
Jaipur
1919
?
519
OEMI1690
Rahimat Khan
sitar player
sitar player
1863
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
1954
Dharwad,Karnataka
Ghulam Hussain Khan
858
OEMI1695
Rais Khan
sitar player
sitar player
1939
1125
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
Mohammad Khan
860
OEMI1259
Mangal Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
?
?
638
OEMI1898
Savaliya Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
Pyar Khan
954
P05933
OEMI1269
Manilal Nag
sitar player
Sitar player
1939
?
Bankura,West Bengal
Gokul Nag
640
OEMI1525
Nazir Khan(Mathura)
sitar player
Sitar player
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
1890
?
Hyderabad
Amir Bakhsh(Gaundpuri) of Jaipur
755
OEMI0307
Barkat Ali Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
123
OEMI0065
Ajoy Sinha Roy
sitar player
Sitar player
Kolkata
1920
1201
?
30
P05978
OEMI0282
Balram Pathak
sitar player
sitar player
1930
?
Ishwarpur village,Bihar
1991
0216
?
115
OEMI1691
Rahimsen
sitar player
sitar player
1785
Gwalior
1850
Jhajjar
Sukhsen
858
OEMI0779
Haidar Khan （Jaipur）
sitar player
Sitar player
1898
Jaipur
Delhi
400
OEMI1693
Rahmat Khan (Sitar)
sitar player
sitar player
?
1985
03??
?
858
OEMI1261
Mangi Singh,L.
sitar player
Sitar player
1929
?
Imphal,Manipur
Chandam Tarakanta Singh
639
OEMI1589
Pannalal Bajpayi
sitar player
sitar player
?
?
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
794
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
OEMI2045
Sudarshan Shastri
sitar player
Sitar player and author
?
?
?
?
1013
OEMI1110
Krishnarao Ashtewale
sitar player,patron,
sitar player and patron of Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
1841
?
?
Raghumatharao
572
OEMI0963
Joshi, D.T.
sitar player
Sitar player and teacher of the Imdaadkhaani tradition
1914
10??
?
1993
10??
Kolkata
Inayat Khan, father of sitar maestro Vilayat Khan
489
OEMI0080
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
?
?
?
?
?
38
OEMI1765
Rameshwar Pathak
sitar player
Sitar player of early 20th cent. Darbhanga, Bihar
?
?
879
OEMI0281
Balkrishnapati Bajpeyi
sitar player
Sitar player of Gwalior
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
114
OEMI1937
Shamsuddin Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jaipur gharaanaa
Mumbai
19
?
1920
?
his father Amir Khan
965
OEMI1617
Pir Bakhsh
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpur
?
?
807
OEMI0339
Bhajan Khan
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar during 1845-61
Jodhpur
?
?
Jodhpur durbar
155
OEMI0831
Himanta Kishore Deb Burman
sitar player
Sitar player of Tripura
1918
Agartala
1991
Agartala
423
OEMI2225
Qutub-ud-Daula
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
?
?
?
?
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
838839
OEMI2239
Wazir Chand
sitar player
Sitar player.
?
?
?
?
Master Ratan of Punjab
1145
OEMI0878
Indramohan Das
sitar player
Sitar-maker of late 19th cent
?
?
443444
OEMI1432
Nagaridev
Sixteenth-century devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
1547
?
?
?
?
715
OEMI0036
Achyutappa Nayak
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
17
OEMI0317
Baz Bahadur
musician
sixteenth-century musician and ruler of Mandu in Malwa, Rajasthan
152530
?
0.1594
?
131132
OEMI1314
Mirabai
Sixteenth-century saint-poet of legendary fame
0.1504
?
Kudki,near Merta,former Jodhpur state of Rajasthan
1546
?
?
663664
OEMI2076
Suraj Khan
vocalist
Sixteenth-century vocalist
?
?
1034
OEMI0428
Chanchal Sasi
composer
Sixteenth-century voclist and composer
?
?
214
OEMI1663
Pyar Khan (Rudra Vina)
son of Bhupat Khan,grandson of khaayal luminary Sadaarang
1737
Delhi
?
834
OEMI0633
Fida Hussain Khan(Sitar)
sitar player
Son of Gwalior sitar veteran,Amir Khan.
0.1875
?
?
0.1927
?
?
Amir Khan
320
OEMI0311
Basaveswara
Spiritual leader of the Veena Saiva movement of Karnataka
0.1139
Bagewadi, Bijasur district, Karnataka
0.1196
Kudala Sangama, Bagalkot district, Karnaraka
128129
OEMI0609
Edwin Samaradivakara
composer
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and composer
1916
0622
Katna, Sri Lanka
1959
1008
?
309
OEMI0146
Anil Mihiripenna
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and teacher
1933
0810
Sri Lanka
61
OEMI0445
Charles Dias Amaratunga
Sri Lankan protagonist of the arts
1876
?
1944
?
223
OEMI0758
Gunadasa Kapuge
vocalist, composer
Sri Lankan singer and composer
Sri Lanka
1945
0807
Miriswatta, Galle district, Sri Lanka
2003
0402
?
387
OEMI2050
Suhasini Mulgaonkar
Stage artiste known for her one-woman shows in Marathi
Marathi
?
?
1989
0612
Mumbai
1025
OEMI1482
Narayanaswami Iyer （Bharatam）
Stage artiste of early 20th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI1669
Radhakrishna Iyer (Kanjira)
Stalwart of kanjiraa,a south Indian rhythmic instrument of the tambourine family.
?
?
842843
OEMI1351
Mohammad Khan
sitar player
Surbahaar and sitar exponent
1845
1910
Kolkata
680
OEMI1848
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
surbahaar exponent
?
?
915
OEMI2244
Yadavendra Nandan Mahaparta
Surbahaar player
Bengal
1864
?
?
1930
?
?
Bamasharan Bhattacharya, Jadu Bhatta, and some others.
1148
OEMI1540
Nissar Ali Khan （Seni）
sursingaar player,rabaab player
Sursingaar and rabaab exponent
0.1814
Lucknow
0.188
Benares
his father, Zaffar Khan, his elder brother, Sadiq Ali
763
OEMI0773
Haidar Ali Khan （Nawab）
rudra veena player,sursingaar player
Sursingaar and rudra veena player
1846
?
1901
?
Amir Khan, Bahadur Hussain Khan
398399
OEMI0426
Chamman Khan-saheb
sursingaar player,patron,
Sursingaar exponent and patron of musicians
1878
Rampur
1922
Rampur
213
OEMI0246
Bahadur Hussain Khan
sursingaar player
Sursingaar maestro of the Rampur royal durbar
0.1808
?
0.187
?
Rampur royal durbar
101
OEMI0180
Asad Ali Khan(Rampur)
Sursinger maestro
0.1858
?
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1918
?
Rampur
78
OEMI1622
Phuljhuri Khan
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
1920
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
1982
Dhaka
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
809
P00686
OEMI0946
Jnan Prakash Ghosh
tabla, harmonium player, composer
tabla and harmonium exponent,composer,and teacher
1911
Kolkata
1997
0218
Kolkata
481
OEMI1864
Samta Prasad Mishra
tabla player
tabla exponent
1921
0719
Benares
1994
0531
Pune, Maharashtra
Bikku Maharaj
924925
OEMI1052
Keshav Chandra Bandopadhyay
tabla player
Tabla exponent
1892
0106
near Dhaka, Bangladesh
?
Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Maulaviram Mishra, Natthu Khan
540
OEMI1490
Narayanrao Indorekar
tabla player
Tabla exponent
1907
0108
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
1989
0602
?
his father Gopalrao, Jahangir Khan, Gammi Khan
730
P00235
OEMI2094
Swapan Chaudhuri
tabla player
tabla exponent
1947
Kolkata
1044