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
P02054
OEMI0122
Ammannur Madhava Chakyar
Celebrated performer if Koodiyaattam,a theatrical art firm staged in Kerala temples.
1917
Irinjalakuda,Thrissur district,Kerala
1998
0114
?
52
P01797
OEMI0173
Arun Kumar Sen
vocalist, educationist
Vocalist and educationist
1928
0606
Rajim town,Raipur district,Chhattisgarh
2001
1214
Mumbai
Vishnu Krishna Joshi
76
P02179
OEMI0756
Gulab-bai
Well-known nautanki performer in the Kanpur tradition
1920
Balpurva, Farukhabad district, Uttar Pradesh
1996
0713
?
Trimohanlal, Mohammad Khan-saheb
386387
P02135
OEMI0125
Amubi Singh （Maisnam）
Well-known Manipuri dance guru
Manipur
1881
1121
Imphal, Manipur
1972
0629
Imphal
Oja Jhulonmacha Singh
53
P02464
OEMI0178
Asa Singh Mastana
Noted singer of Punjabi folk music
Punjabi folk music
1926
?
Lahore
1999
0523
Delhi
77
P06309
OEMI0285
Balwantrai Bhatt
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1921
?
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Omkarnath Thakur
115
P02305
OEMI0170
Ariyakudi Ramanuja lyengar
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist of Karnatik music
1890
0519
Aariyaakudi,Tamil Nadu
1967
0123
?
Poochi Iyengae
7374
P01413
OEMI0748
Govindrao Rajurkar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1916
?
1983
0517
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Raja-bhaiya Poochwale
382
P02378
OEMI0048
Agat A. Sangma
vocalist, instrumentalist
Vocalist and instrumentalist
1945
?
Selbalgre,West Garo Hills,Meghalaya
23
P02665
OEMI0193
Ashok Ranade
musicologist,vocalist
Musicologist,author,and vocalist
Mumbai
1937
1025
?
82
P05978
OEMI0282
Balram Pathak
sitar player
sitar player
1930
?
Ishwarpur village,Bihar
1991
0216
?
115
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
P05290
OEMI0732
Gopinath
Kathakali artiste
Veteran Kathakali artiste
Kathakali
1908
?
?
1987
1009
?
377
P01280
OEMI0735
Govind Narayan Natu
vocalist, teacher
Veteran teacher of vocal music at Bhatkhande College of Music, Lucknow
1905
0514
?
?
V.N.Bhatkhande, Raja-bhaiya Poonchwale
380
P06662
OEMI0157
Anokhelal Mishra
tabla player
Noted tabla player
1914
Benares
1958
0310
?
Bhairav Prasad Mishra of Benares
66
P02049
OEMI0747
Govindrao Burhanpurkar
Distinguished pakhaawaj exponent
1880
Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh
1957
?
382
OEMI1856
Saloman Shalom Aptekar
author of keertan-aakhyaans and musical plays in Marathi on Jewish devotional themes
1863
Mumbai
1957
Mumbai
918
P03011
OEMI0446
Charu Sija Mathur
Performer of Manipuri dance
1940
Delhi
R. K. Singhajit Singh
224
P01441
OEMI0155
Annavarupa Ramaswamy
violinist
Violinist of the Karnatik style
1926
Somavarappadu, Andhra Pradesh
Maganti Jagannatha Chowdary, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
65
P00325
OEMI0158
Antonio de Figueiredo
Noted exponent of Western classical music
Loutolim, Salcete, Goa
1981
1105
?
67
P02426
OEMI0266
Balakrishna Sastrigal,T.S.
Harikathaa performer
1918
0818
Chennnai
110
P04603
OEMI0605
Dwaram Bhava Narayana Rao
violinist
Well-known violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik style
1924
Visakhapatnam
1999
0724
?
his father, Dwaram Venkaraswamy Naidu
306
OEMI1852
Sakharam-pant Agale
pakhaawaj player
1858
Vaijapur, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra
1918
Satara, Maharashtra
Nana Panse
916
P01069
OEMI0159
Antsher Lobo
Well-known exponent of comparative music and musicology
1905
0305
Calangute, Goa
1986
0616
Mumbai
A. Scrinzi, O. Savini, Alladiya Khan
6768
P01721
OEMI0296
Bangalore K. Venkataram
Eminent ghatam player
1934
0110
?
2003
1018
Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
119
P02697
OEMI0503
Chowdiah, T.
vocalist
Violin celebrity
1895
0101
Tirumakudalu, Karnataka
1967
0119
?
Bidaram Krishnappa
244245
P02765
OEMI0480
Chimanlal Nayak
Singer-actor of the Gujarati stage and exponent of Bhavaai, a Gujarati stage from
1916
0414
Unava village, Mehsana district, Gujarat
1977
1023
?
239
P02301
OEMI0504
Chunilal Pandya
Well-known performer of Gujarati aakhyaan
Modasa, North Gujarat
1948
?
245
P01225
OEMI0475
Chidanand Nagarkar
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
1919
1120
Malleswaram, Bangalore
1971
0526
Mumbai
238
P00152
OEMI0798
Hare Krishna Behera
Exponent of dance and dance music
1938
Balasore area, Orissa
410
P02301
OEMI0570
Dharmiklal Pandya
Noted exponent of Gujarati aakhyaan
1932
0811
Baroda,Gujarat
his father Chunilal Govindram Pandya
285
P02937
OEMI0031
Acharyalu,C.R.
Kuchipudi dance guru
?
?
1998
0322
Ahmedabad
16
P00364
OEMI0269
Balasaraswati,T.
Legendary exponent of Bharata Naatyam and its music
1918
0513
Chennai
1984
0209
?
110111
P06123
OEMI0014
Abdul Latif Khan
saarangi player
saarangi player
1934
0322
Gohad,Bhand district,Madhya Pradesh
2003
0423
?
Chhotu Khan and Udaya Khan and Sikandar Khan
5
OEMI0015
Abdul Majid Khan
saarangi player
Reputed saarangi player
0.1888
?
?
1977
0319
Mumbai
Abdulla Khan(d.1917)and Kale Khan
5
OEMI0016
Abdul Rahim Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.186
?
Delhi
0.193
?
probably Hyderabad
his family(Ghulam Gaus Khan and Tanras Khan
6
OEMI0019
Abdul Wahid Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1878
?
Kirana, Uttar Pradesh
0.1949
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
Haidar Bakhsh
6
OEMI0005
Abdul Aziz Khan
musician
Durbar musician of Dharampur
Dharampur
?
?
1940
?
Mumbai
2
OEMI0008
Abdul Ghani Khan
sitar player
sitar player
?
Khajurgaon[present-day Rae Bareilly],Uttar Pradesh
1938
?
Khajurgaon
Azami Khan Kalpiwale
2
OEMI0011
Abdul Kadar Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1910
?
Rajasthan
1970
0309
?
3
OEMI0004
Abudul Azis Khan
saarangi player
saarangi
0.1875
?
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
1946
?
?
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
2
OEMI0013
Abdul Latif
composer
Singer and composer
1930
?
Barisal,Bangladesh
Surendranath Das
5
P00001
OEMI0009
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
sitar player
sitar player
1929
0218
Jawara,Madhya Pradesh
3
OEMI1920
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
Sindhi devotional poet
1690
Sind [now in Pakistan]
1757
?
963
OEMI0018
Abdul Sattar
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
6
OEMI0182
Asadullah Khan
Reputed sarod player
1858
?
Kolkata
1915
?
Kolkata
7879
OEMI0537
Daulat Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
1920
?
Mumbai
Natthu Khan Khandare
260
OEMI0007
Abdul Gani Bayati
composer
Singer and composer,especially of zari
1909
?
Nurullahpur,Barisal district,Bangladesh
1978
0819
Dhaka
2
OEMI0002
Abban Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
Dhrupad
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
1922
Saharanpur
Behnam Khan Dagar(c.1800-1887)
1
OEMI0006
Abdul Gafur
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
?
?
?
?
2
OEMI0017
Abdul Salam
composer
Composer,a contemporary of the famous Kazi Nazrul Islam(b.1899)
?
?
?
?
6
OEMI0042
Afruddin Khan
Qavvaali singer
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0057
Ahmed Ali Khan
Distinguished sarod player
0.1875
?
Rampur
1920
?
Rampur
2728
OEMI0081
Alimulla Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
39
OEMI0084
Allabande Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Dagar lineage
?
0.1875
?
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
1925
?
Alwar, Rajasthan
39
P00004
OEMI0090
Allah Rakha Khan
tabla player
Celebrated tabla maestro
?
1919
0429
Gurdaspur, Punjab
2000
0203
Mumbai
4142
OEMI0097
Amanat Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
0.1928
?
probably Narsingarh, Madhya Pradesh
1968
0103
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
46
P05908
OEMI0120
Amjad Ali Khan
Well-known sarod player of an admirable instrumental tradition,traced to Bangash,Afghanistan.
Delhi
1945
1009
Gwalior
his father Hafiz Ali Khan
51
OEMI0183
Asgar Ali Khan
Well-known sarod player of the durvar of Darbhanga,Bihar
0.1841
?
Gwalior
0.1912
?
Darbhanga
81
OEMI0190
Ashiq Ali Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
1948
?
Patiala
82
P00126
OEMI0194
Ashraf Khan
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
83
OEMI0206
Ayet Ali Khan
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player, and teacher
1884
0426
Shibpur, Bangladesh
1967
09??
?
Family
89
OEMI0233
Bade Agha Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1892
Baghdad
0.1944
Lucknow
96
OEMI0244
Badru Zaman Khan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
1938
Hyderabad
his family
98
OEMI0597
Dulha Khan
vocalist
Noted 18th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer of Jaipur
dhrupad
Jaipur
0.1745
?
0.182
?
303
OEMI0622
Faqirullah Saif Khan
Author of Raaga Darpan
17
?
?
1684
0826
Allahabad
317
P00176
OEMI1143
Kutub Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
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
P06002
OEMI2062
Sultan Khan
saarangi player
Veteran saarangi player
Mumbai
1941
Sikar, Rajasthan
Gulab Khan, Amir Khan
1029
P00244
OEMI2250
Yusuf Ali Khan
sitar player
Reputed sitar exponent
0.1887
?
Lucknow
1962
1014
?
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
11551156
OEMI0010
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
?
?
?
?
3
P00699
OEMI0690
Ghulam Sabir Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Moradabad
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh
363
OEMI0053
Ahmad Hussain Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer and teacher at Bhatkhande College of Music
dhrupad
Lucknow
1887
?
Thakurganj, Lucknou
1963
1123
Lucknow
27
OEMI0626
Fazal Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore of the early 1900s
Lahore
?
?
?
?
319
OEMI0043
Aftabuddin Khan
Instrumentalist
0.1862
?
Shibpur,Bangladesh
1933
?
?
Ramdhan and Ramkanai Sheel(violin),and other instruments from Kasim Ali
23
OEMI0054
Ahmad Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of llate 18th cent.,
?
?
?
?
?
27
P00114
OEMI0076
Ali Bakhsh Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the reputed duo Alia-Fattu
0.185
?
?
1925
?
?
38
OEMI0216
Azmatullah Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the mid-19th cent.
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
Agra region
his father Rahmatullah Khan
91
OEMI0240
Bade Sabri Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
?
1962
Lahore
98
OEMI0314
Basit Khan
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
0.1787
?
0.1887
?
129
OEMI0376
Bilas Khan
vocalist,composer
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
0.154
?
Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
0.1621
?
?
189
OEMI0752
Gul Bardhan
Dancer of Manipuri, Chhaau, and some regional folk dances of Rajasthan and Gujarat
1928
Mumbai
Shanti Bardhan, Maisnam Amubi Singh
386
OEMI0771
Hafiz Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.185
Jaipur
0.1909
?
his father Mammu Khan
398
OEMI0857
Iliyas Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
1920
Lucknow
1989
0302
Lucknow
439
P02053
OEMI0866
Imrat Khan
sitar player
Noted exponent of sitar and surbahaar
1936
Kolkata
his maternal grandfather Bande Hassan Khan, maternal uncle Sinde Hassan Khan, his father's brother Wahid Khan
440
OEMI0965
Juma Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
?
?
Nirmal Shah Seni
490
OEMI0984
Kalbe Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of Rampur state
0.1836
?
0.1887
?
502
OEMI1029
Karim Khan
sitar player
sitar Player
1857
Jaipur
1919
?
519
OEMI1077
Khushal Khan
vocalist
Vocalist, the foremost luminary of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
0.16
Agra
168090
Delhi
his father Laai Khan Seni
555
P02009
OEMI1293
Masit Khan
Innovator of the Mastikhaani gat
0.173
?
?
0.18
?
?
655
OEMI1301
Maujuddin Khan
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
?
?
?
?
658659
OEMI1337
Modu Khan
tabla player
Tabla player
?
?
676
P06695
OEMI1384
Munir Khan
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
1857
?
Laliyana,near Meerut,Uttar Pradesh
1938
0911
Raigarh,Madhya Pradesh
694
OEMI1399
Muravvat Khan
sitar player,vocalist
Durbar musician. vocalist and sitar player
0.186
?
?
0.1945
?
?
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
698
OEMI1401
Musharraf Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player(19th cent.)
Jaipur Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
699
OEMI1688
Rahim Khan
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
?
?
Amritsen
857
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
P06015
OEMI1699
Rajab Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist
1874
0903
Narsinghar,Madhya Pradesh
1959
0108
?
Mughlu Khan
861862
OEMI1802
Ras Rag Khan
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
888