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
Ramsingh Thakur
OEMI1780
884
1909
2002
0418
20-21
Khhanjara town, Himachal Pradesh
Lucknow
singer
Ravji-bua Gogate
OEMI1812
897
19
Maharashtra
?
vocalist
vocalist
Samina Choudhuri
0824
OEMI1860
923
1966
20
Khulna, Bangladesh
singer
Shankar Abhyankar
0519
OEMI1939
965966
Mumbai
1934
20
Satara, Maharashtra
sitar player, teacher
Veteran sitar player and teacher
Shankarrao Vyas, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan
Subrahmanyam,G.N.
?
OEMI2041
1012
1919
20
Bangalore
Noted veena player
T.Venkatarao
Sukhendu Goswami
?
OEMI2054
1026
1911
1983
0716
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist
Girija Shankar Chakravarti
Victor Perera, B.
0223
OEMI2198
1126
1931
1998
0326
20
Dematagoda, Sri Lanka
?
violinist
Violinist, vocalist, and teacher
H. Don Vincent, J. Sadiris Silva, and Edmund Silva （of Peliyagoda）, C.R. Vyas, S.C.R. Bhat. and Chindanand Nagarkar, Shridhar Parsekar
Balwantrao Vaidya
?
OEMI0291
116
1823
1895
?
19
Jamkhindi area,Maharashtra
?
Pakhaawaj player
Bhaskar-bua Joshi
1231
OEMI0348
163
1914
20
Karanj, Pune district, Maharastra
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze, Shivram-bua Vaze, Dinkar Pathak, Haribhau Ghangrekar
P00055
Chandrasekaran, M.
OEMI0440
221
1937
20
Kolkata
?
violinist
Noted violinist
his mother Charubala Mohan
Haridas Mukherji
OEMI0812
412
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s, based in Kolkata
P00087
Janakiraman,S.R.
0712
OEMI0916
461
1928
20
Lalgudi,Tamil Nadu
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Jnanam(Tiruvarur)
OEMI0948
482
danseuse of Tiruvarur,Thanjavur district,Tamli Nadu
Kavasji Jamshedji
OEMI1039
532
?
?
Singer-actor
Manohar-bua Joshi
?
OEMI1281
644
1888
?
19
Wadatha village,Maharashtra
Aundh region,Maharashtra
vocalist
Noted 19-cent. vocalist.
Ramchandra Vaidya
OEMI1759
877
1871
19
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain
Poet and performer of Marathi keertans
Fox-Strangways,A.H.
?
OEMI0636
321
1859
1948
?
19-20
Norwich,England
Salisbury,England
Author of The Music of Hindostan
Jayarama lyer,T.K.
OEMI0930
470
1894
19-20
Kuttalam,near Kumbakonam,Tamli Nadu,
violinist
Violinist and a former conductor
Kulatillake,C.de S.
1214
OEMI1126
577578
1926
20
Ambalangoda,Sri Lanka
musicologist
musicologist
P00183
Mani,R.(Karaikudi)
?
OEMI1266
639340
1945
20
Chettinad,near Karaikudi,Tamil Nadu
Mridangam player
Karaikudi Rangu Iyengar,T.R.Harihara Sarma,and K.N.Vaidyanathan
Marcellene Jayakody
0603
OEMI1288
650
1902
1998
0115
20
Dankotuva,Sri Lanka
?
musician
Musician,noted for his contributions to the church music
Puttaswamayya,T.M.
OEMI1660
834
1906
1982
20
Tagadur,Mysore district,Karnataka
Tagadur
mridangam player
Maregowda,Yelandur Rangacharya
Ramchandra Trivedi
OEMI1758
877
1911
1988
0322
20
?
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Kalyaan Bharati, Omkarnath Thakur
Chennakesavayya, N.
1105
OEMI0455
229
1895
1986
19-20
Natanahalli village, near Mangalore, Mandya district, Karnataka
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Bose,R.N.
?
OEMI0403
198
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali songs
Chaggan(Master)
?
OEMI0419
208
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer-actor of the 1900s.
Debo
?
OEMI0543
262
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s
Gaisberg,F.W.
?
OEMI0641
324
1872
?
19
?
?
Pioneer sound recordist of early 20th cent.
Hargovind Swami
OEMI0802
411
Januthar village, Bharatour region, Uttar Pradesh
Reputed contemporary artiste of Raas-leelaa performances
Jacome Gonsalvez
OEMI0888
447
1676
1742
17-18
Pioneer of Sinhala Christian music in Sri Lanka.
P00074
Jasraj(Pandit)
0120
OEMI0922
463
1930
20
Hissar,Haryana
vocalist
Eminent present-day vocalist and foremost exponent of the Mewaati tradition.
Kachchi Sastri
OEMI0972
493
19
?
?
vocalist, violinist
Vocalist and violinist （19th cent.）
Londhe,G.M.
0718
OEMI1209
608
1902
1944
1027
20
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
Mumbai
Noted singer-actor of the Marathi stage
Mani Embrantiri
?
OEMI1264
639
1885
1954
?
19-20
Tchilakodu village,Manjeswaram,South Karnataka
Aluva
Singer of Kathakali music
Manohar Chimote
03??
OEMI1278
643
Mumbai
1929
20
Nagpur,Maharashtra
Well-known harmonium player
Bhishmadev Vedi,Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale,and Amir Hussain Khan
Pankaj Mullick
0510
OEMI1587
793
1905
1978
0219
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
vocalist,
vocalist,creative musician,trendsetter of the 1930s
first by Durgadas Banerji,and later by Dhirendranath Tagore.
Parvin Mushtari
1213
OEMI1608
801
1954
20
Bangladesh
Singer of classical forms and Nazrul-geeti
Sambamorthy, P.
0214
OEMI1858
922
1901
1973
1023
20
Bitragunta, now in Andhra Pradesh
Chennai
musicologist
musicologist, teacher
Sastry, B.V.K.
OEMI1893
952
Bangalore
1916
2003
0922
20
Nanjangud, Mysore district, Karnataka
Bangalore
Noted author and columnist
Shambhu （Master）
OEMI1931
964
20
?
?
Singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays of the 1900s
Srikrishna Dalvi
?
OEMI2029
1008
1926
2004
01??
20-21
?
Mumbai
Music critic and actor of Marathi plays
Sundaram, V.P.K.
OEMI2071
10301031
1915
2003
0309
20-21
Tamil Nadu
?
musicologist
Musicologist and author
Ramanathapuram Sivam （basic lessons in music）
P00235
Swapan Chaudhuri
OEMI2094
1044
1947
20
Kolkata
tabla player
tabla exponent
Vincent Somapala
0517
OEMI2208
1131
1906
1989
0607
20
Gorakana, Panadura, Sri Lanka
teacher, composer, author
Teacher, composer, and author
J. Sadiris Silva and H.W.Rupasinha
P00345
Azmat Hussain Khan
0305
OEMI0215
9091
Mumbai
1911
1975
0726
No
20
Atrauli, near Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Altaf Hussain Khan
P06664
Badal Khan
OEMI0232
95
0.1834
0.1937
No
19
?
Agra
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Paanipat gharaanaa
Paanipat
P00352
Bahadur Khan
OEMI0247
101
1989
10??
No
20
?
Kolkata
sarod player
Noted sarod player
P06562
Barkat Ali Khan
OEMI0306
123
1950
No
20
Patiala, Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale, his uncle Kale Khan
P01269
Baba Nasir Ahmed Khan
OEMI0219
92
1880
1944
No
20
Hyderabad
Delhi
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Mohammad Siddiq Khan
P06740
Dhyanesh Khan
0506
OEMI0581
293
1942
1991
1011
No
20
Maihar,Madhya Pradesh
Kolkata
Sarod player
Allauddin Khan,Ali Akbar, and Annapurna Devi
P02120
Chathunni Panikkar （Kavungal）
OEMI0447
224
1922
No
20
Thichoor village, Thrissur district, Kerala,1922
Kathakali artiste
his granduncle Sankara Panikkar, K. M. Gopalan Nair
P02054
Ammannur Madhava Chakyar
OEMI0122
52
1917
1998
0114
No
20
Irinjalakuda,Thrissur district,Kerala
?
Celebrated performer if Koodiyaattam,a theatrical art firm staged in Kerala temples.
P01797
Arun Kumar Sen
0606
OEMI0173
76
1928
2001
1214
No
20-21
Rajim town,Raipur district,Chhattisgarh
Mumbai
vocalist, educationist
Vocalist and educationist
Vishnu Krishna Joshi
P02179
Gulab-bai
OEMI0756
386387
1920
1996
0713
No
20
Balpurva, Farukhabad district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Well-known nautanki performer in the Kanpur tradition
Trimohanlal, Mohammad Khan-saheb
P02135
Amubi Singh （Maisnam）
1121
OEMI0125
53
Manipur
1881
1972
0629
No
19-20
Imphal, Manipur
Imphal
Well-known Manipuri dance guru
Oja Jhulonmacha Singh
P02464
Asa Singh Mastana
?
OEMI0178
77
1926
1999
0523
No
20
Lahore
Delhi
Noted singer of Punjabi folk music
Punjabi folk music
P06309
Balwantrai Bhatt
?
OEMI0285
115
1921
No
20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Omkarnath Thakur
P02305
Ariyakudi Ramanuja lyengar
0519
OEMI0170
7374
1890
1967
0123
No
19-20
Aariyaakudi,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist of Karnatik music
Poochi Iyengae
P01413
Govindrao Rajurkar
OEMI0748
382
1916
1983
0517
No
20
?
Jaipur, Rajasthan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Raja-bhaiya Poochwale
P02378
Agat A.Sangma
?
OEMI0048
23
1945
No
20
Selbalgre,West Garo Hills,Meghalaya
vocalist, instrumentalist
Vocalist and instrumentalist
P02665
Ashok Ranade
1025
OEMI0193
82
Mumbai
1937
No
20
?
musicologist,vocalist
Musicologist,author,and vocalist
P05978
Balram Pathak
?
OEMI0282
115
1930
1991
0216
No
20
Ishwarpur village,Bihar
?
sitar player
sitar player
P05853
Gautam, M.R.
0319
OEMI0664
350
1924
No
20
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist, teacher
Teacher, author, and vocalist
vocal music; Dilip Chandra Vedi, Vilayat Hussain Khan
P05290
Gopinath
?
OEMI0732
377
1908
1987
1009
No
20
?
?
Kathakali artiste
Veteran Kathakali artiste
Kathakali
P01280
Govind Narayan Natu
0514
OEMI0735
380
1905
No
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Veteran teacher of vocal music at Bhatkhande College of Music, Lucknow
V.N.Bhatkhande, Raja-bhaiya Poonchwale
P06662
Anokhelal Mishra
OEMI0157
66
1914
1958
0310
No
20
Benares
?
tabla player
Noted tabla player
Bhairav Prasad Mishra of Benares
P02049
Govindrao Burhanpurkar
OEMI0747
382
1880
1957
No
19-20
Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh
?
Distinguished pakhaawaj exponent
Saloman Shalom Aptekar
OEMI1856
918
1863
1957
No
19-20
Mumbai
Mumbai
author of keertan-aakhyaans and musical plays in Marathi on Jewish devotional themes
P03011
Charu Sija Mathur
OEMI0446
224
1940
No
20
Delhi
Performer of Manipuri dance
R. K. Singhajit Singh
P01441
Annavarupa Ramaswamy
OEMI0155
65
1926
No
20
Somavarappadu, Andhra Pradesh
violinist
Violinist of the Karnatik style
Maganti Jagannatha Chowdary, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
P00325
Antonio de Figueiredo
OEMI0158
67
1981
1105
No
20
Loutolim, Salcete, Goa
?
Noted exponent of Western classical music
P02426
Balakrishna Sastrigal,T.S.
0818
OEMI0266
110
1918
No
20
Chennnai
Harikathaa performer
P04603
Dwaram Bhava Narayana Rao
OEMI0605
306
1924
1999
0724
No
20
Visakhapatnam
?
violinist
Well-known violinist of the Karnatik style
his father, Dwaram Venkaraswamy Naidu
Karnatik style
Sakharam-pant Agale
OEMI1852
916
1858
1918
No
19-20
Vaijapur, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra
Satara, Maharashtra
pakhaawaj player
Nana Panse
P01069
Antsher Lobo
0305
OEMI0159
6768
1905
1986
0616
No
20
Calangute, Goa
Mumbai
Well-known exponent of comparative music and musicology
A. Scrinzi, O. Savini, Alladiya Khan
P01721
Bangalore K. Venkataram
0110
OEMI0296
119
1934
2003
1018
No
20-21
?
Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
Eminent ghatam player
P02697
Chowdiah, T.
0101
OEMI0503
244245
1895
1967
0119
No
19-20
Tirumakudalu, Karnataka
?
vocalist
Violin celebrity
Bidaram Krishnappa
P02765
Chimanlal Nayak
0414
OEMI0480
239
1916
1977
1023
No
20
Unava village, Mehsana district, Gujarat
?
Singer-actor of the Gujarati stage and exponent of Bhavaai, a Gujarati stage from
P02301
Chunilal Pandya
OEMI0504
245
1948
No
20
Modasa, North Gujarat
?
Well-known performer of Gujarati aakhyaan
P01225
Chidanand Nagarkar
1120
OEMI0475
238
1919
1971
0526
No
20
Malleswaram, Bangalore
Mumbai
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
P00152
Hare Krishna Behera
OEMI0798
410
1938
No
20
Balasore area, Orissa
Exponent of dance and dance music
P02301
Dharmiklal Pandya
0811
OEMI0570
285
1932
No
20
Baroda,Gujarat
Noted exponent of Gujarati aakhyaan
his father Chunilal Govindram Pandya
P02937
Acharyalu,C.R.
?
OEMI0031
16
1998
0322
No
20
?
Ahmedabad
Kuchipudi dance guru
P00364
Balasaraswati,T.
0513
OEMI0269
110111
1918
1984
0209
No
20
Chennai
?
Legendary exponent of Bharata Naatyam and its music
Latif Khan
?
OEMI1197
604
1875
19-20
Agra Uttar Pradesh
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra tradition
Agra
Pyar Khan
Akil Ahmed Khan
?
OEMI0068
33
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
Agra
P06191
Anwar Hussain Khan
OEMI0161
70
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
P06099
Yunus Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2249
1155
1938
1991
0926
20
?
Delhi
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Agra
his famous father,Vilayat Hussain Khan
Hamid Khan
OEMI0789
401
1840
1909
19-20
Agra
Mysore
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
his maternal grandfather Nanhe Khan
Sujan Khan
?
OEMI2051
10251026
?
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Agra
Abdulla Khan(Agra)
OEMI0020
7
0.1873
19221919
?
19-20
Agra
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa tradition
Agra
Bande Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0294
117
Baroda
1906
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Faiyaz Khan
khayaal
P00645
Faiyaz Khan
0208
OEMI0617
315316
1881
1950
1105
No
19-20
Agra
Baroda
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
Agra
Natthan Khan
?
OEMI1513
741
0.184
0.1907
?
19
Agra
Mysore
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Agra
his uncle Ghulam Abbas Khan
Latafat Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1196
604
1921
1986
1212
20
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Vilayat Hussain Khan and Faiyaz Khan
Asgarijan
?
OEMI0185
81
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
Agra
Sher Khan
OEMI1963
971
0.1792
0.1862
18-19
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
his paternal uncle Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
khayaal
Ata Hussain Khan(Vocal)
?
OEMI0198
8485
1898
1980
0810
19-20
Arauli
Kolkata
vocalist
vocalist
Agra
Dilawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI0583
295
Rewa
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
Agra
khayaal
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
?
OEMI0179
78
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra
his family

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