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
Mohammad Pana
OEMI1353
680
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Mohan Khokar
1230
OEMI1361
682
1924
1999
0917
20
Quetta, now in Pakistan
Chennai
historian,archive-holder of Indian dances
Munnibai
?
OEMI1390
695
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Nabi Bakhsh
?
OEMI1428
712
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar.
Nagaridas
?
OEMI1431
715
?
?
?
Devotional poet of Vrindavan
Najukjan
?
OEMI1436
717
?
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Nanja Raja
OEMI1453
723
?
?
Author of Sangeeta Gangaadhara
Nannu Sahai
OEMI1454
723
1892
1926
19-20
Benares
?
tabla player
Tabla player
Nanu Ram
OEMI1456
724
?
?
Well-known performer and writer of Shekhaavati khyaals of Rajasthan
Naushad Ali
1225
OEMI1517
745746
1919
2006
0506
20-21
Lucknow
Mumbai
composer
Renowned composer of Hindi film music
Hindi film music
Nawabjan
?
OEMI1519
751
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
P00190
Nokot Khriam
OEMI1550
766
1944
20
Nongblai,Meghalaya
Maker of musical instruments
Omdajan
OEMI1561
772
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Paglibai
OEMI1570
781
19
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Papajan
OEMI1593
795
Hyderabad
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Pedda Dasari
OEMI1616
807
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
17
?
?
composer
Composer of keertans in Telugu and Sanskrit
Pir Bakhsh
OEMI1617
807
Jodhpur
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar
Prem Singh
OEMI1646
827
20
?
?
Singer of Sikh devotional hhymns
Raghunath Rath
OEMI1681
856
?
?
author
Raghunath Seth
1215
OEMI1682
856
1931
20
Gwalior
flute player
Rajanikant Sen
OEMI1705
864
1865
1910
19-20
Bhangabari, Pabna district （now Bangladesh）
?
composer
Reputed poet-composer of a type of Bengali songs, identified by his name as Kaanta-geeti
Ram Sahai
OEMI1726
870
0.1815
0.1868
19
Benares
Benares
tabla player
Outstanding tabla player, originator of the Benares tradition in tabla
Benares
Ramamatya
OEMI1740
872
16
?
?
Author of Svara Mela Kalaanidhi, dated around 1550
Ras Baras
OEMI1801
888
17
?
?
author
P06507
Ravi Shankar
0407
OEMI1811
895897
1920
20
Benares
sitar player
musician, wizard of the sitar
Ruparam
OEMI1827
905
20
?
?
actor, writer
Sahachari Sukh
OEMI1843
911
17
?
?
composer
composer
Saigal, K.L.
0411
OEMI1847
914915
1904
1947
0118
20
Nawashehr, Jammu
Jullundar, Punjab
singer, actor
Shanti Vardhan
OEMI1949
968
1916
1954
0903
20
Comilla, Bangladesh
?
Choreographer and dancer of Manipuri
Simha
OEMI1987
977
16
?
?
Author of a late 16th-cent. Kannada work on dance, Laasya Ranjanaa
Sivakkolundu Desikar （Kottaiyur）
OEMI2000
987
Kottaiyur village, Thanjavur
?
composer
Composer of the Tamil opera
Sosale Ramadas
?
OEMI2024
995
1890
1950
?
19-20
Sosale,Mysore district,Karnataka
Mysore
Harikathaa exponent and kanjiraa player
Srikantha
?
OEMI2028
1008
Kathiawad(now in Gujarat)
?
?
?
Author
Subashi
?
OEMI2034
1010
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer-actress of early 20th cent
Sudhakalasa
?
OEMI2047
1021
?
?
?
Author
Sukumar Sahu
0815
OEMI2058
1028
1907
20
Balasore, Orissa
composer
Oriya composer
Sunil Kothari
1220
OEMI2074
1031
Kolkata
1933
20
Mumbai
author
Well-known critic and author of books on dance and related topics
Syed Abdul Hadi
0701
OEMI2099
1049
1940
20-
Comilla,Bangladesh
Singer of light forms of music
Tulaja the First
OEMI2137
1095
about 18
?
?
Maharaja of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Utpala Deva
OEMI2152
1104
11
?
?
Abhinava Gupta's parama-guru in Saiva theology.
Vadammal
OEMI2154
11061107
18
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Vadiraja
OEMI2155
1107
15-16
Hoovinakere, Kundapurtaluk, Karnataka
?
author of dance-dramas and songs
Vadyanadha Iyer
OEMI2156
1107
20
?
?
singer
disc-record singer of south India
Vanasri Rao
OEMI2162
1112
20
?
?
kuuchipuudi danseuse
Vidyadhari Devi
OEMI2200
1127
Kolkata
1874
1971
0510
19-20
Bhadoi, near Benares
Delhi
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and thumrii singer
khayaal
Vissa Appa Rao
04??
OEMI2217
11371138
1884
1966
0130
19-20
Peddapuram, East Godavari district, Andhra
Hyderabad
musicologist
teacher, musicologist
physics of music
Wali Dakkani
?
OEMI2236
1144
1668
1742
?
17-18
?
?
Early Urdu poet
Zainul Abedin
OEMI2259
1158
18
0.1887
18-19
in or around Lucknow
Hyderabad
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Zebanjan
OEMI2263
1160
Jhajjar, near Delhi
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent. She dang daadraa, ghazal, tappaa, and gavvaali
Attor Krishna Prisharati
?
OEMI0202
87
1876
1964
?
19-20
Attur village,Kerala
?
Author of Sangeeta Chandrikaa
Himanta Kishore Deb Burman
OEMI0831
423
1918
1991
20
Agartala
Agartala
sitar player
Sitar player of Tripura
Kanchipuram Naina Pillai
0725
OEMI1015
515
1887
1934
0502
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Narayanrao Lakshman Gune
0406
OEMI1491
730731
1906
1987
0927
20
Lashkar, Maharashtra
Gwalior
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and veteran teacher
Samokhan Singh (Maharaj)
OEMI1861
923
1495
1556
15-16
?
?
rudra veena player,vocalist
rudra veena player and singer of dhruvapada
Sheikh Bahauddin Burnawa
OEMI1958
970971
0.158
0.168
16-17
musician
Ascetic musician
Alladiya Khan (Sarangi, Biturwale)
?
OEMI0086
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Jind, Punjab
Bhadrachala Ramadas
OEMI0326
145
0.162
0.168
17
Nelakondapalle, Golkonda, Andhra Pradesh
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
Bhagawan Chandra Das
OEMI0328
148
1852
1931
19-20
Murshidabad
Dhaka
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Chengalvaraya Sastri
?
OEMI0453
229
1810
1900
0228
19
Marakanam area, Chingleput district, Tamil Nadu
?
composer
Well-known composer of the poet-Tyaagaraaja period
Chidambara Bhagavatar
OEMI0474
238
20
?
?
Eminent Harikathaa performer of the 1930s.
Chinnaswami Dikshitar
OEMI0485
240
1778
1823
18-19
tamil Nadu
?
vocalist, veena player
Vocalist and veena player
Dakshinamorti Pillai
?
OEMI0516
252
1876
1937
?
19-20
?
?
Distinguished mridangam player
Haibati Pusesavalikar
OEMI0772
398
1794
1854
18-19
?
?
vocalist, composer
Laavani composer and Marathi keertan singer
Laavani,Marathi keertan
Isak Salom Awaskar
OEMI0881
445
1856
1910
19-20
Awas village, near Mumbai
Mumbai
Poet and keertankaar of Jewish devotional themes in Marathi
Jagannath-bua Purohit
0312
OEMI0904
450
1904
1968
1022
20
Hyderabad
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Jahangir Khan(Tabla)
OEMI0908
451
Indore
1976
0511
20
Benares
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Indore durbar
Kadigai Mokku Pulavar
OEMI0976
494
19
?
?
composer
Composer （19rh cent.） and Tamil scholar who sesrved the Ettayapuram ruler of his time
Kanika Bandopadhyaya
OEMI1018
515
1924
2000
0405
20
?
Kolkata
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist,teacher
Krishna Kamal Goswami
OEMI1100
569
1810
1888
19
?
?
composer
Composer of jatraa songs of Bengal
Kushaba Nana Bhide
OEMI1142
581
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Mahesh Chandra Sarkar
OEMI1235
621
1818
1887
19
Benares
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Masilamani Mudaliyar
?
OEMI1292
655
Chennnai
?
19
?
?
violinist
Reputed Chennnai-based violinist of the late 19th cent.
P00189
Mysore Vasudevachar
?
OEMI1425
710
0.1865
1961
?
19-20
Mysore
?
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer
Pallikurike Somanatha
OEMI1578
785
Telugu
13
?
?
author
Telugu author
Pashupati Sevak Mishra
OEMI1609
801
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Mishra Lineage of Benares
Radheshyam Sandilya
OEMI1673
843
Harda village,Hoshangabad district,Madhya Pradesh
?
musician
contemporary folk musician
contemporary folk
P00201
Rajaram-bhau Kadam
OEMI1706
864
1887
1990
12??
19-20
Parbhani, Maharashtra
?
Doyen of the Marathi folk form, gondhal
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
?
OEMI2021
994
?
?
?
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist
Mahindranath Mukhopadhyaya
OEMI1238
622
1873
1918
19-20
?
?
vocalist
dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Mallayadas Kripanandavari
OEMI1251
631
1906
1990
20
Kangeyanellore,Tmil Nadu
?
performer of Kathaa Kaalaksheepam
Raghuvir-mama Ramnathkar
0212
OEMI1685
857
1877
19-20
Ramnath,Goa
?
pioneer harmonium player
Akbar Allahabadi
1116
OEMI0067
31
1864
1921
0909
19
?
Allahabad
Noted Urdu poet of grazals and such other forms
Baliram Pandey
?
OEMI0275
112
?
20
Mohappa,near Nagpur,Maharashtra
?
Pakhaawaj player of the early 20th cent.
Bhanudatta Misra
OEMI0341
156
?
?
Author of a Sanskrit work
Bhupen Hazarika
?
OEMI0369
183184
1926
20
Sadia district,Assam
An eminent name in Assamese music.
Dhabakoti Ammal
?
OEMI0563
281
Tamil Nadu
1920
?
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ganesilal Chaube
OEMI0652
331
Ganesilal
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Hafiz Kalandhari
OEMI0770
398
1901
1981
1221
20
Jalandhar, Punjab
Pakistan
poet
Urdu poet
Jagajjyotirmalla
OEMI0900
449
17
Maharaana(king)of Nepal;ruled between 1617-33
Kallinath Pandit
OEMI0993
505506
?
?
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
Kuloi Chandra Sen
OEMI1127
578
19
?
?
musician
musician
Lahari Deb Burman
OEMI1150
586
1922
1988
20
Agartala
Agartala
Sarod player of Tripuna
Madhav Patankar
?
OEMI1215
612
1862
1916
0203
19-20
?
Maharashtra
writer, producer
Writer and producer of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
Manmathnath Ray
?
OEMI1276
643
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
P00064
Mogubai Kurdikar
0715
OEMI1338
676677
1904
2001
0210
20-21
Kurdi,a village in Goa
Mumbai
vocalist
vocalist
Parasu Sekh Ojha
OEMI1600
798
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
singer.dancer
Rama Bhagavatar
1015
OEMI1728
870
1888
1957
19-20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Karnatik music
Raya Ramananda
OEMI1813
897
1467
1525
15-16
?
?
composer
Oriya composer of devotional songs, mainly of the kaavya-geeti variety.
Shaukat Ara Islam
1227
OEMI1955
969
1939
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Singer of ghazals and Nazrul-geeti
P00058
Subbulakshmi,M.S.
0916
OEMI2040
10111012
1916
2004
1211
20-21
Madurai,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist

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