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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Ghulam Abbas Khan (Pakhawaj)
OEMI0675
360
19
?
?
For some time from 1828 he was attached to Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Sabha as a pakhaawaj player
Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
OEMI0666
353
0.179
0.188
18-19
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Founder of the Agra khayaal tradition
the Agra khayaal
khayaal
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
OEMI1982
976
16
?
?
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
?
OEMI0421
208209
1486
1533
07??
15-16
Nabadwip,Bengal
Puri,Orissa
Founder of the Gaudiya Vaishnava sect
Lala Bhagwandas
OEMI1175
592
?
?
Founder of the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Bakhshu-miya
OEMI0257
106
0.175
18
?
?
tabla player
Founder of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa which emerged between 1775 and 1800
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
his grand-father Siddhar Khan Dhaadi, Bade Kale Khan
Dilaram Mishra
?
OEMI0582
295
Benares
?
17
?
?
Founder(c.17th cent.) of the Benares gharaanaa of vocal music.
Benares
Ramdas Guru
OEMI1762
878
?
?
Fourth Guru of the Sikhs
Kohala
OEMI1089
560561
?
?
Generally believed to be the autor of a Sanskrit work, in verse, titled Sangeeta Meru, on drama and music
Pyar Khan (Seni;sursingar)
OEMI1664
834835
1782
1849
18-19
presumably Lucknow
Lucknow
sursingaar player
Generally considered to be the co-innovator of the sursingaar along with his brother Zaffar Khan.
Chhajju Khan
Narayanaswamy, K. (Umayalpuram)
0504
OEMI1485
729
1929
20
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
Ghatam player
his father Kothandarama Iyer
Kitijan
OEMI1043
537
?
?
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
Mallika Pukhraj
OEMI1252
631
1910
2004
0204
20-21
Akhnur town,Kashmir
Lahore,Pakistan
vocalist
ghazal singer
Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale,Akhtar Hussain
ghazal
Mehndi Hassan
OEMI1319
667
Jaipur
vocalist,composer
ghazal singer ,composer
ghazal
Sakharama Rao
OEMI1851
915916
1881
1930
19-20
Tiruvidaimarudur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
goottuvaadyam maestro
Srinivasa Rao
Marris,W.S.
?
OEMI1290
652
?
20
?
?
Governor of the United Provinces in the 1920s in British India
Kalyanikutty Amma
?
OEMI0999
507
1915
1999
0512
20
Karingavanam,South Malabar,Kerala
Tripunithura,near Kochi.Kerala
Grand veteran of Moohini Aattam
Sayajirao (III), Gaekwad (Maharaja)
OEMI1904
958959
1863
1939
19-20
Kavllana, Khandesh district, Maharashtra
Baroda
patron,
Great patron of the arts; enlightened ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda
Sankaradeva
OEMI1871
939940
1449
1568
15-16
Alipukhuri Bardowa of the present Nagaon district, Assam
Bhela Kakatkuta [near Madhupur] in the old state of Cooch-Behar, now part of Bengal
Great Vaishnava saint of Assam who laid the foundations of the Sattriiya school of devotional music and dance.
Kusumabara
Sosale Ramadas
?
OEMI2024
995
1890
1950
?
19-20
Sosale,Mysore district,Karnataka
Mysore
Harikathaa exponent and kanjiraa player

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