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
OEMI1446
Nanhaku Maharaj
tabla player
Tabla exponent of the Benares style
1920
?
1995
1014
Benares
Benares
722
OEMI0110
Amir Hussain Khan
tabla player
Tabla maestro
1899
10??
Bankhanda,Uttar Pradesh
1969
0105
?
Farukhaabaad
4849
OEMI0058
Ahmedijan Thirakawa Khan
tabla player
tabla maestro
?
0.1874
?
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
1976
0112
Lucknow
28
OEMI1938
Shamsuddin Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla maestro
1890
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
1968
Mumbai
Munir Khan, and Abdul Karim Khan
965
OEMI1548
Nizamuddin Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla performer of the Lucknow tradition
1932
Jawra, Madhya Pradesh
2000
0623
Mumai
Lucknow
his father Azim Bakhsh Jewerwale and Ahmedjan Thirakwa
766
OEMI0429
Chand Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla pioneer （mid-18th cent.）
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
214
OEMI1994
Sitab Khan
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
982
OEMI1337
Modu Khan
tabla player
Tabla player
?
?
676
OEMI1802
Ras Rag Khan
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
888
OEMI0578
Dhruba Charan Ratha
tabla player
Tabla player
1917
0415
Ghantiali,Cuttack,Orissa
Raghunath Mallick and Balaichand Das
290
OEMI0975
Kader Bakhsh （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla player
1902
Lahore
?
his father Fakir Bakhsh
494
OEMI1799
Ranjit Singh (Bhai)
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
Bhai Gopal Singh
888
OEMI0230
Bachu Bawa
tabla player
Tabla player
?
1914
?
94
OEMI1454
Nannu Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player
1892
Benares
1926
?
723
OEMI1790
Ranganath Mishra
tabla player
Tabla player
1932
0103
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
Bikku Maharaj, Gama Maharaj
887
OEMI0413
Bulakilal Yadav
tabla player
Tabla player
0.1923
?
?
2000
0408
Allahabad
Lalji Shrivastav
204
OEMI0251
Bahadur Singh
tabla player
Tabla player
1903
1019
Kishangarh town, Layalpur district, Punjab
1967
?
Mehtab Singh, Mirambaksh Bilvaliya, Baba Malang
102
OEMI0647
Gama Maharaj
tabla player
Tabla player
1911
?
Benares
1974
0116
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
his father, Gama Maharaj （real name was Ramayan Prasad Mishra）
326
P06289
OEMI1024
Kanthe Maharaj
tabla player
tabla player
1888
Benares
1968
?
Baldev Sahari
517
OEMI1188
Lalji Srivastava
tabla player
Tabla player
1924
1124
Prayag, near Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Yusuf Khan, Shyamlal, Jiyalal
600
OEMI1230
Mahapurush Mishra
tabla player
Tabla player
1934
Vaishali town,Bihar
1987
0215
Kolkata
Narayan Mishra
620
OEMI2026
Srichand Misra
tabla player
Tabla player
0.19
?
Benares
0.197
?
?
his father Sarju Misra and uncle Bikku Maharaj
1008
OEMI1190
Lallu Singh
tabla player
Tabla player and teacher
0.1928
?
2000
0824
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Madho Singh
600
OEMI0400
Biswanath Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player of the Benares style
Benares, second half of the 19th cent.
?
Benares
Bhairav Sahai
197
OEMI0467
Chhote Kale Khan
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
?
?
Delhi gharaanaa
237
OEMI1584
Pandharinath Nageshkar
tabla player
tabla player,teacher
1913
0316
Nageshi,Goa
Yashwant(Valle-mama) Bandiwadekar
792
OEMI1449
Nanhe Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla player?
1850
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
0.1915
probably Kolkata
his father Hussain Ali, Vilayat Ali
723
OEMI2203
Vilayat Ali （Haji）
tabla player,composer
Tabla wizard, teacher, composer of gats, and founder of the 19th-cent.
18
?
?
Farukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Miyaa Bakhshu
1128
OEMI0224
Babu Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tablaa player?
Delhi
1899
Kolkata
his mother
93
OEMI0197
Ata Hussain Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
table player
0.183
?
Lucknow
0.1907
?
Bhawal,Bengal
Farukhaabaad
84
OEMI1885
Saraswati (Anis Khaton)
vocalist
Talented daughter of Taansen
1545
Rewa
1620
Delhi
947
OEMI1184
Lalit Mohan Mukhopadhya
vocalist
Talented dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1898
Kolkata
1944
Kolkata
his father Mahindra Nath
595
OEMI1272
Manji Khan
vocalist
Talented vocalist
1888
?
Atrauli,Rajasthan
1937
?
Mumbai
Haidar Khan
642
OEMI1411
Muthukkumara Pulavar
composer
Tamil composer （19th cent.）
?
?
704
OEMI1784
Ramzan Khan (Vocal)
vocalist
tappaa singer
tappaa
?
?
Imam Badi
885
OEMI0496
Chitrabai
vocalist
Tappaa singer of Benares
tappaa
Benares
?
?
242
OEMI1309
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅱ
tavil player
Tavil player
1894
0903
Needamangalam,Tamil Nadu
1949
0213
?
Singaram Pillai and Govinda Pillai
662
OEMI2170
Vasantrao Kulkarni
teacher
teacher
1917
Maharashtra
1997
0303
Mumbai
Gwaalior and Agra
Anant Manohar Joshi, Jagannath-bua Purohit, Khadim Hussain Khan
1118
OEMI1707
Rajaram, S.
teacher, composer
Teacher and composer
1925
Mysore, Karnataka
864
P00196
OEMI1635
Pradip Chaliha
Teacher and propagator of tradition Assamese dance and music
Assam
1919
Golaghat, Assam
824
OEMI0962
Joshi, D.K.
teacher, scholar
Teacher and scholar
1860
Jamkhandi, Karnataka
1942
0717
?
488489
OEMI1112
Krishnarao Date
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
?
?
Gwaalior
572
OEMI0843
Honavar Krishnabhat
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
0.1878
Gokarn, South Karnataka
1942
Shirali, in the same region
S.N. Ratanjankar, S.C.R. Bhat
434
OEMI1640
Prasunkumar Banerji
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Kolkata
1926
0815
?
Jamini Ganguly, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Jnan Prakash Ghosh
826
OEMI0348
Bhaskar-bua Joshi
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
1914
1231
Karanj, Pune district, Maharastra
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze, Shivram-bua Vaze, Dinkar Pathak, Haribhau Ghangrekar
163
OEMI1758
Ramchandra Trivedi
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
1911
?
1988
0322
Mumbai
Kalyaan Bharati, Omkarnath Thakur
877
OEMI1919
Shafikul Hassan
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist of the 1950s
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
Ata Hussain Khan, Khadim Hussain Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
963
P00811
OEMI0883
Ishtiaq Hussain Khan
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist of the Rampur tradition
1907
?
1980
1108
Kolkata
his vocalist-father Mushtaq Hussain Khan
445
P05853
OEMI0664
Gautam, M.R.
vocalist, teacher
Teacher, author, and vocalist
1924
0319
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
vocal music; Dilip Chandra Vedi, Vilayat Hussain Khan
350
OEMI2208
Vincent Somapala
teacher, composer, author
Teacher, composer, and author
1906
0517
Gorakana, Panadura, Sri Lanka
1989
0607
J. Sadiris Silva and H.W.Rupasinha
1131
OEMI2217
Vissa Appa Rao
musicologist
teacher, musicologist
physics of music
1884
04??
Peddapuram, East Godavari district, Andhra
1966
0130
Hyderabad
11371138
OEMI1807
Ratanjankar, S.N.
vocalist, teacher, scholar
teacher, scholar, vocalist
1900
1231
Bhatwadi, near the Opera House area, Mumbai
1974
0214
Mumbai
Krishnaji Bhatt Honavar, Anant Manohar Joshi
893894
P00078
OEMI1687
Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
vocalist, teacher
teacher, singer
1927
0202
Alwar,Rajasthan
857
OEMI1578
Pallikurike Somanatha
author
Telugu author
Telugu
?
?
785
OEMI0150
Annamacharya （Tallapakam）
composer
Telugu composer （15th cent.） considered to be the pioneer of south Indian keertan
Telugu
1408
Tallapaka village,Cuddapah district, Andhra Pradesh
1503
?
64
OEMI0488
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
?
?
240241
OEMI1992
Sinnayya （Ghanam）
composer
Telugu composer of padam and keertana
padam and keertana
?
?
982
OEMI0839
Hirabai Pednekar
music deirector
The first woman Marathi playwright and also the first woman music deirector of the Marathi stage
Marathi stage
1885
Nashik, Maharashtra
1951
?
432
OEMI0926
Jayachamaraja Wodeyar
patron
The last Maharaja of Mysore, a patron and an ardent lover of the arts.
Mysore
1919
Mysore
1974
?
467
OEMI0439
Chandrarekha
The most privileged danseuse of the durbar of Thanjavur Maharaja Vijaya Raghava Nayak
Thanjavur
?
?
220
OEMI0256
Baiju Bawra
There are a few legends on the identity and life of Baiju
?
?
105
OEMI0717
Gopal Nayak
musician
there are at least five medieval musicians of the same name, mentioned in different sources
?
?
373374
OEMI0116
Amir Khusrau
poet-musician, Sufi mystic
Thirteenth-century poet-musician and Sufi mystic of the Delhi Sultanate
0.1253
?
Patiala
1325
?
?
Qavvaal
5051
OEMI1406
Mussammat Lajjat Bakhsh
Thumrii and ghazal singer of Farukhabad
thumrii
?
?
703
OEMI1249
Malkajan Agrewali
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
?
?
629630
OEMI1057
Keshavrao Bhole
music director
Trend-setting music director of the Marathi stage and films
Marathi stage and films
1896
0523
Amravati, Maharashtra
1967
Mumbai
541
OEMI2147
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Assam
?
?
1102
OEMI0108
Ambikagiri Roy Chowdhuri
composer
Twentieth-century composer of Assam
Assam
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0172
Arun Bhattacharya
University teacher,scholar,and author
Kolkata
1925
02??
Faridpur district,now in Bangladesh
1985
0509
Kolkata
76
OEMI0046
Aga Hashra Kashmiri
Urdu and Hindi playwright
1879
04??
Benares,Uttar Pradesh
1945
0428
Lahore[now in Pakistan]
23
OEMI0821
Hasrat Mohani
poet
Urdu poet
1880
Mohan, Uttar Pradesh
1951
0513
Lucknow
418
OEMI0770
Hafiz Kalandhari
poet
Urdu poet
1901
Jalandhar, Punjab
1981
1221
Pakistan
398
OEMI0786
Hali
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals
ghazals
1837
?
1914
0930
Panipat, Haryana
Mirza Ghalib
401
OEMI0056
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
?
27
OEMI0052
Ahmad Faraz
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Peshawar,Pakistan, and London
1931
1212
Noushera,Pakistan
27
OEMI0117
Amir Minai
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
1828
?
Lucknow
1900
?
Hyderabad
51
OEMI2262
Zauk Dehalvi
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
1789
?
1854
Delhi
1160
OEMI0939
Jigar Moradabadi
poet
Urdu poet,known for his ghazals
ghazals
1890
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
1960
0909
Gonda,Uttar Pradesh
479
OEMI1497
Narottamdas Thakur
composer
Vaishnava devotee and composer
Vaishnava saint-musician
0.1533
?
Kheturi,Bengal
?
?
731
OEMI1217
Madhavadeva
Vaishnava saint-musician
Vaishnava saint-musician of Assam
Assam
1490
?
Letekuphukuri in Narayanpur region,along the north bank of River Brahmaputra
1597
?
Bhela Kakatkuta in the present Cooch-Behar region
613
OEMI0564
Dhanammal(Vina)
veena player
Veena celebrity
1867
?
Chennai
1938
1015
Chennai
281
P00023
OEMI1471
Narayana Iyengar, A.
veena player, teacher
Veena exponent and teacher
1905
Devakottai, Tamil Nadu
1987
?
Sakharama Rao
727
OEMI1868
Sangameswara Sastri
veena player
veena maestro
1879
Peethapuram, Andhra
1931
?
926
OEMI2179
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Thanjavur
?
?
1120
OEMI2191
Venkatasubbayya
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Krishnaraja Wodeyar （III r.1799-1868 ）of Mysore
Mysore
1792
?
1838
Mysore
1123
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0137
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
Mysore
58
OEMI2188
Venkatagiriyappa
veena player
Veena maestro of the Mysore durbar
Mysore
1887
0426
Heggadedevana Kote village, near Mysore
1951
?
his maternal grandmother Dodda Subbarao, maternal uncle Chikka Subbarao
1122
OEMI1859
Sambayya
veena player
veena performer
?
?
922
OEMI1567
Padmanabhayya
veena player,composer
Veena performer and composer
1847
?
1900
Mysore city
Venkatesa Saastri and Shamanna
780
OEMI1531
Nilamma Kadambai
veena player
Veena player
1908
?
1998
1214
Mysore
her father Venkatesachar and later from Mysore Venkatagiriappa
757
OEMI1047
Kesava Murthy,R.S.
veena player
veena player
1904
0304
Rudrapatna village,Hassan district,Karnataka
1982
1217
Basavangudi,Karnataka
539
OEMI2193
Venkatesa Iyengar
veena player
Veena player
1888
?
1973
Mysore
Chikka Subba Rao and Venkatagiriyappa
1123
OEMI1119
Krishnayya(Tsallagali)
veena player
veena player
1822
?
1866
Thanjavur
573
OEMI0476
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
?
?
238
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
P00084
OEMI1792
Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
veena player and teacher
1932
Poongulam, Tamil Nadu
Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
887
OEMI1626
Pitambardas
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
?
?
812
OEMI0479
Chikkaramappa （Begada）
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of KrishnarajaWodeyar III
Mysore
?
?
Venkatasubbayya
239