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
Sudhakalasa
?
OEMI2047
1021
?
?
?
Author
Tirumalayya Naidu,C.
?
OEMI2128
1083
?
19-20?
?
?
Author
Inayat Khan （Author）
OEMI0871
442
?
?
Author
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
OEMI0941
480
Kolkata
Author
Bhava Bhatta
?
OEMI0359
169170
?
Dhavalpur,in Malwa,Rajasthan
?
author
Devenacharya
?
OEMI0554
275
?
?
?
Author
Govindamatya
OEMI0741
381
?
?
Author
Mohammad Reza
OEMI1355
681
?
?
author
Parsvadeva
OEMI1602
799
?
?
author
Vangamani
OEMI2163
1113
17
?
?
author
Krishnananda Vyas 'Ragasagar'
OEMI1107
571
1795
1888
18-19
Udapiur,Rajasthan
probably Kolkata
Author
Maheswara Mahapatra
OEMI1237
621622
?
?
author
Day,C.R.
?
OEMI0539
261
?
?
?
Author
Srinivas Pandit
?
OEMI2030
1009
?
?
?
Author
Anandiram Das
OEMI0132
57
1909
1960
20
?
?
Assamese song writer
Lakshminath Bezbarua
OEMI1168
591
1868
1938
19-20
?
?
Assamese Litterateur, also known for his patriotic songs
P00197
Pratima Barua Pandey
OEMI1644
827
1934
20
Gauripur, Assam
singer
Assamese folk singer
Ramadeva Ata
OEMI1737
872
?
Kaljhar, near Bhavanipur, now in Barpeta district, Assam
composer
Assamese composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs
Bhavanipuriya Gopal Aataa
Sohirobanath Ambiye
OEMI2007
990
Paliye town, near Pedne, in Goa
1714
1792
18
?
Goa
singer
Ascetic poet and singer of Marathi bhafans of the Naath sect
Ram Prasad Sen
OEMI1725
869870
0.1723
0.1783
18
Halisahar-Kumarhatta in Nadia [now in Bangladesh]
?
musician
Ascetic musician of 18th-cent. Bengal
Sheikh Bahauddin Burnawa
OEMI1958
970971
0.158
0.168
16-17
musician
Ascetic musician
P00186
Mohan Chandra Barman
OEMI1360
682
1900
20
Kaihatti village,Assam
artiste of Bhaaonaa
Bhatta Gopala
OEMI0355
168
11
?
?
Ancient writer on music quoted by the 11th-cent. autor
Yashtka
?
OEMI2246
1153
?
2-3
?
?
musicologist
Ancient musicologist
Vasuki
OEMI2176
1118
?
?
Ancient authority
Visvavasu
OEMI2218
1138
?
?
?
ancient author
Bhupen Hazarika
?
OEMI0369
183184
1926
20
Sadia district,Assam
An eminent name in Assamese music.
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
OEMI0880
444445
Mumbai
Mumbai
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
?
OEMI0055
27
?
?
?
?
singer
An early singer for disc-records
Lalu Rababi
?
OEMI1193
601
?
?
?
rabaab player
An early rabaab player
Lala Bhavanidas
OEMI1176
592
16
?
?
An early propagator of the 16th-cent. Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Amarendra Nath Dutt
?
OEMI0101
47
1876
1916
0106
19-20
Kolkata
?
An early participant in the Indian sound recording industry and a theatre personality of Bengal.
John Foulds
OEMI0954
487
1880
1939
19-20
Manchester, England
Kolkata
An early European pioneer in exploring Indian music
Gina Blau
0428
OEMI0692
364
1906
1998
1023
20
?
New York
American exponent of Indian dances
Bhupesh Gupta
La Meri
OEMI1146
583
?
?
American danseuse
Ragini Devi
OEMI1686
857
1896
19-20
Michigan,USA
?
American danseuse
Ted Shawn
1021
OEMI2114
1070
1891
1972
0109
19-20
Kansas City,USA
USA
American dancer, a pioneer among Westerners to learn Indian dance idioms
Martha Graham,Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidmen.
Kallinath Pandit
OEMI0993
505506
?
?
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
Kantimati
OEMI1025
517
19
?
?
Along with her danseuse-colleague Gowri and guru Kannuswami.
Jadunath Bhattacharya
OEMI0894
448
1840
1883
19
Vaidikpara,Vishnupur,Bengal
Vishnupur
musician
All-round musician,popularly known as Jadu Bhatta
Adil Shah Sur
?
OEMI0040
22
1524
1557
?
16
?
?
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
OEMI1068
546547
?
?
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
Ruparam
OEMI1827
905
20
?
?
actor, writer
Swamy Naidu, A.
OEMI2093
1042
20
?
?
actor, singer
actor, singer
Sohrabji R. Dhondi
OEMI2010
991992
20
?
?
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the New Alfred Theatre of the early 20th cent.
Pransukhlal Nayak
04??
OEMI1639
825
1910
20
Jagudan village, Mehsana district, Gujarat
?
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the Gujarati stage
Perera, M.G.
1212
OEMI1618
807808
Petah
1875
1942
0419
19-20
Colombo
?
Activist and author of early music books in Sinhalese
Abid Hussain Khan(Tabla)
?
OEMI0029
1415
1867
1936
0612
19-20
Lucknow
Lucknow
tabla player
Ace performer of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa
Lucknow
Mohammad Khan(d.1879) and Munne Khan
Dhannabai
?
OEMI0566
283
?
?
?
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist,a pupil of the khayaal pioneer Sadaarang
Pannaabaai
khayaal
Badi Motibai
OEMI0242
98
Benares
0.1885
1977
0214
19-20
Darbhanga, Bihar
Benares
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist of Benares
Siyaji Maharaj, Mithailalji, Maujuddin Khan
Aniruddha
OEMI0147
62
1553
1626
16-17
?
?
composer
Acclaimed composer of Vaishnava-Sattriya music of Assam
Gopala Ata, Yadumoni
Utpala Deva
OEMI2152
1104
11
?
?
Abhinava Gupta's parama-guru in Saiva theology.
Ghulam Ali Khan
OEMI0678
360361
19
?
?
sarod player
A sarod pioneer of the 19th-cent.
Inayat Ali Khan
OEMI0867
440441
1790
0.1883
18-19
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Dhaka
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
his father Hussain Ali Khan
Kambal
?
OEMI1008
509
?
?
?
musician
A sage-musician of ancient times
Madanapala
?
OEMI1211
611
?
?
?
A prince of Andhra, author of Ananda Sanjeevan
Amrital Datta
OEMI0123
52
Bengal
1858
1912
19-20
Kolkata
Kolkata
A pioneer of the theatre variety of band-music in Bengal.
band-music
Meruswami
OEMI1321
669
?
?
A pioneer of south Indian Harikathaa during the reigns of Maratha kings.
Harikathaa
Ramachandra Chakravarti
OEMI1733
871
Bengal
1803
1861
19
Kolkata
Kolkata
pakhaawaj player
A pioneer of pakhaawaj in Bengal
Lala Keval Kishan
Dakshina Charan Sen
?
OEMI0514
251252
Bengal
1860
1925
?
19-20
probably Maheshpur,Bengal
Kolkata
A pioneer of orchestra in Bengal
Himendra Mohan Bose
OEMI0832
424
1864
1916
0828
19-20
Jayasiddhi, Mymensingh district
Kolkata
A pioneer of commercial sound recording in India
Radhamohan Sendas
OEMI1670
843
1770
1840
18-19
Kolkata
Kolkata
musicologist,
a pioneer musicologist,scholar
Dwarkanath Ghosh
OEMI0607
307
1847
1938
19-20
24 Parganas region, now in Bangladesh
Kolkata
A pioneer in the manufacture of harmonium
Dholekar,A.S.
?
OEMI0577
289
1895
1969
05??
19-20
Mumbai
Mumbai
A pioneer in broacasting and allied media
Chinnaswamy Mudaliar, A.M.
OEMI0486
240
20
?
?
A pioneer in modern compilation of musical compositions
Gopalakrishna Sastri
OEMI0724
375
18
?
?
A pioneer （18th cent.） in theatrical arts
Chinnayya Mudaliyar （Manali）
OEMI0489
241
Manali near Chennai
?
?
patron,
A patron and feudal landlord of Manali near Chennai
P00099
Mahalingam,T.R.(Mali)
11??
OEMI1229
619620
1926
1986
0531
20
Thalainayar village,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
?
flute player
A master of the flute
Bhupat Khan(Maharang)
?
OEMI0368
183
0.1696
0.1778
?
17-18
?
?
rudra veena player
A master of rudra veena in the Seni tradition.
Seni
his father Sadaarang
Haidar Khan Seni
OEMI0783
400
0.177
0.184
18
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
?
vocalist
A master of dhrupad and dhamaar
his father Jeevan Khan,
dhrupad,dhamaar
P00239
Uday Shankar
1208
OEMI2142
11001101
1900
1977
0926
20
Udaipur
Kolkata
A legend in dance, a pioneer of modern Indian ballet
Anna Pavlova, Sankaran Namboodiri
Antu-bua Apte
OEMI0160
68
Maharashtra
0.182
0.191
19
Ramdurg, Karnataka
?
vocalist
A khayaal pioneer of Maharashtra, particularly of the Lucknow style
Lucknow
Mahadev Gokhale
khayaal
Gopala Ata
OEMI0719
374
1541
1611
16-17
Khokhoragaon, near Gadgaon
?
A disciple of Maadhavadeva and innovator in the Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
Maadhavadeva
Mansingh Tomar
?
OEMI1286
645
1450
1517
?
15-16
?
?
?
Ahoran Simson Ashtamkar
?
OEMI0060
29
Poet and autor of Keertan-aakhyaans on Jewish devotional themas, in Marathi
1856
1894
?
19
Mumbai
Mumbai
Nagabhushanachar,V.
?
OEMI1430
714715
1932
20
Krishnapur,Mysore district,Karnataka
K.Veerappachar
Bade Munne （Tabla）
OEMI0238
97
0.1845
0.1905
19
?
Lucknow
his father Mohammad Khan, Mamman Khan

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