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
OEMI1848
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
surbahaar exponent
?
?
915
OEMI0058
Ahmedijan Thirakawa Khan
tabla player
tabla maestro
?
0.1874
?
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
1976
0112
Lucknow
28
OEMI0119
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
1670
?
probably Delhi
0.1742
?
Delhi
51
OEMI0416
Buniyad Hussain Khan
saarangi player
Distinguished saarangi player of Rampur durbar
Rampur
0.1835
?
Bareilly
1918
?
Rampur
Rampur durbar
205
OEMI2201
Vidyapati Thakur
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
0.136
?
0.1448
?
1127
OEMI0632
Fida Hussain Khan(Sarod)
His distinguished career
1855
?
?
1927
?
Rampur
319320
OEMI1833
Sadarang (Niyamat Khan)
vocalist
pioneer of khayaal?
khayaal
1670
?
1747
Delhi
908
OEMI2122
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
?
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
1974
?
Pithakowapara
1076
OEMI0107
Ambika Charan Guha
patron,
Nineteenth-century teacher and patron
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0166
Appukkutti Nattuvan
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri （1762-1827）of the Karnnatik trinity
?
?
7172
OEMI0172
Arun Bhattacharya
University teacher,scholar,and author
Kolkata
1925
02??
Faridpur district,now in Bangladesh
1985
0509
Kolkata
76
OEMI2080
Surdas Madanmohan
composer
Composer of devotional songs
0.1537
?
1600
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
1035
OEMI0040
Adil Shah Sur
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
1524
?
?
1557
?
?
22
OEMI0062
Ajay Bardan
Flute player
Kolkata
1917
?
Comilla, now in Bangladesh
1991
0328
Mumbai
29
OEMI0099
Amara Simha
patron,
Patron and playwright
?
?
?
?
?
46
P00119
OEMI0143
Anil Bagchi
Music director of Bengali stage and films of yesteryears
1908
0117
Midnapore district, Bengal
1977
0715
Kolkata
6061
P00120
OEMI0144
Anil Biswas
composer
Well-known composer of Hindi film music
Hindi film music
Mumbai
1914
0714
Barisal
2003
0531
Delhi
61
OEMI0185
Asgarijan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
?
?
?
?
Agra
81
OEMI0203
Atulprasad Sen
composer
Composer
1871
?
Lucknow
1934
?
?
87
OEMI0210
Azad Rahman
composer
Singer and music composer
Bangladesh
1944
Burdwan, West Bengal
90
OEMI0241
Badi Maina
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
?
?
Benares
98
OEMI0308
Barkatullah Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.186
probably Patiala
1928
Mumbai
123
OEMI0710
Gokuldas Dhanji
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
371
OEMI0855
Ilahijan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
439
OEMI0892
Jadumani Dasi
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolkata
Kolkata
448
OEMI0924
Jatan Kathak
Mid-19th cent.saarangi player of Benares.
Benares
464
OEMI0937
Jhire Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
478
OEMI1061
Kiwal Kishan
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
?
?
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
542
OEMI1075
Khurshaidjan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Kanpur
?
?
555
OEMI1220
Madhusudan Kan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Bengal
?
?
?
?
616
OEMI1240
Mahmod Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
1920
probably Bhadvar,Rajasthan
622
OEMI1246
Malati Pande
vocalist
vocalist
1930
0419
Wardha,North Maharashtra
625
OEMI1615
Patwardhan
Pakhaawaj player and teacher
1868
Miraj, Maharashtra
0.1916
Miraj
806
OEMI1921
Shah Latif
poet
Mystic poet
1689
Sind, Pakistan
1752
?
963
OEMI2116
Tej Khan
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
?
?
?
?
1070
OEMI0061
Ajan Fakir (Shah Milan)
composer
Seventeeth-century Assamese composer of Jilirs
?
?
?
Saraguri
29
OEMI0198
Ata Hussain Khan(Vocal)
vocalist
vocalist
1898
?
Arauli
1980
0810
Kolkata
Agra
8485
OEMI0709
Gokulchandra Srichandan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
?
?
371
OEMI1323
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
?
?
671
OEMI0583
Dilawar Ali Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
khayaal
Rewa
?
?
?
?
Agra
295
OEMI0627
Fazue Lal Pandit
Shehnai player of the early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
319
OEMI1076
Khurshed Ali Khan
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Lucknow gharaanaa
1852
?
1950
Lucknow
the Lucknow gharaanaa
555
OEMI1221
Madurai Mani lyer
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist of Karnatik music
Karnatik music
1912
1025
Madurai
1968
0608
Chennai
617618
OEMI1530
Nilakantha Sivan
composer
Well-known composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
1839
Nagorcoil area, now in Tamil Nadu, then part of the Travancore princely state of Kerala
1900
0728
?
756757
OEMI1536
Nimai Harichandan
vocalist
Vocalist
1901
0709
Kendrapada, Cuttack district, Orissa
1983
0720
?
761762
OEMI1547
Niyamatullah Khan
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
0.1816
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
0.1902
Delhi
765766
OEMI0197
Ata Hussain Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
table player
0.183
?
Lucknow
0.1907
?
Bhawal,Bengal
Farukhaabaad
84
OEMI0894
Jadunath Bhattacharya
musician
All-round musician,popularly known as Jadu Bhatta
1840
Vaidikpara,Vishnupur,Bengal
1883
Vishnupur
448
OEMI1068
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
?
?
546547
P00008
OEMI0181
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
1937
?
Alwar,Rajasthan
78
OEMI2066
Sundarabai of Surat
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
?
?
1030
OEMI0237
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
Reputed exponent
?
0.1912
Lucknow
97
OEMI0567
Dharmapuram Swaminathan
Singer (Oduvar) of traditional Tamil hymns
1923
?
Veerakkam,Tamil Nadu
284
OEMI0088
Allah Dad Dhadhi
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0080
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
?
?
?
?
?
38
OEMI0191
Ashiq Ali Khan(Jaipur)
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
?
?
0.1905
?
Jaipur
82
OEMI0880
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
Mumbai
Mumbai
444445
OEMI0039
Adibhatla Narayana Dasa
Well-known Harikathaa performer and teacher
1864
?
?
1945
?
?
21
OEMI1393
Murad Ali Khan(Darbhanga)
sarod player
Nineteenth-century sarod player
?
?
?
?
696
OEMI1885
Saraswati (Anis Khaton)
vocalist
Talented daughter of Taansen
1545
Rewa
1620
Delhi
947
OEMI1063
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
1959
?
542543
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0056
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
?
27
OEMI0063
Ajoy Bhattacharya
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
?
?
?
?
2930
OEMI0075
Ali Bakhsh (Khyal)
writer
Writer of khyaals, a form of folk opera of Rajasthan
khyaals, a form of folk opera of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
1864
?
Mandawar, in the former state of Alwar, Rajasthan
1902
?
Mandawar
3738
OEMI0959
Joseph David Penkar
writer
Writer of musical plays on Jewish religious themes, in Marathi, in the early 20th cent,
Mumbai
1949
0906
Mumbai
488
OEMI1629
Poluri Govinda Kavi
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
?
?
813
OEMI1656
Purushottam Thakur
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
1561
Patbausi, near Barpeta
1619
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
832
OEMI0077
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
?
Seni
38
P00005
OEMI0092
Allauddin Khan (Maihar)
musician
Celebrated guru and all-round musician
?
0.1881
?
Shibpur, Tripura
1972
0906
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
4243
OEMI0096
Aman Ali Khan (Mumbai)
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and teacher of the Bhendi Bazaar gharaanaa
?
1888
?
Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh
1953
0211
Mumbai
Bhendi Bazaar
4546
OEMI0145
Anil Krishna Deb Burman
musician
Noted musician of Tripura
Tripura
1899
Agartala, Tripura
1942
Agartala
61
OEMI0200
Atmanatha Bhagavatar
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent)
?
?
?
?
86
OEMI0424
Challagali Krishnayyar
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
213
OEMI0865
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
?
?
Sahaswaan
440
OEMI0915
Janaki Ballabh Mohanty
Oriya literatteur whose works include collections of lyrical poetry and songs
1925
0614
Puridistrict,Orissa
461
OEMI2068
Sundarabai of Charkhari
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
?
?
1030
OEMI0827
Hazrat Inayat Khan Pathan
musician
Noted Sufi musician and missionary
1882
0405
Baroda
1929
0205
Delhi
420
OEMI0846
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
?
?
436
P00003
OEMI0026
Abhinava Gupta
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
?
?
?
?
11
OEMI0049
Aghawan
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Unav,near Lucknow
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0051
Ahmad Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0052
Ahmad Faraz
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Peshawar,Pakistan, and London
1931
1212
Noushera,Pakistan
27
OEMI0070
Alain Danielou
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Indian heritage
France
1907
1004
Paris
1994
0127
?
34
OEMI0071
Alamsen
Eminent dhrupad exponent
0.183
?
Gwalior
0.19
?
Gwalior
34
OEMI0074
Ali Bakhsh I
vocalist
Vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
?
?
37
OEMI0083
Alla Rakhi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
39
OEMI0087
Allah Bandi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0091
Allahdi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Delhi
?
?
?
?
42
OEMI0094
Altaf Mahmud
Singer and music director
?
1930
1220
Barisal, Bangladesh
1971
0830
Dhaka
4445
OEMI0095
Aman Ali Khan (Lucknow)
vocalist
Vocalist
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
Qavvaal-bachhe
45
OEMI0098
Amara Ranatunga
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
1939
0822
Sri Lanka
46
OEMI0101
Amarendra Nath Dutt
An early participant in the Indian sound recording industry and a theatre personality of Bengal.
1876
?
Kolkata
1916
0106
?
47
OEMI0106
Ambayiram
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0109
Amir Bakhsh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1882
?
?
1962
?
Mumbai
Jhajjar
48
OEMI0117
Amir Minai
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
1828
?
Lucknow
1900
?
Hyderabad
51
OEMI0118
Amirjan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
51
OEMI0123
Amrital Datta
A pioneer of the theatre variety of band-music in Bengal.
band-music
Bengal
1858
Kolkata
1912
Kolkata
52
OEMI0146
Anil Mihiripenna
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and teacher
1933
0810
Sri Lanka
61
OEMI0156
Annu Akhtar
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
?
?
Agra
66

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