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
Tej Khan
?
OEMI2116
1070
?
19
?
?
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
Ajan Fakir (Shah Milan)
?
OEMI0061
29
?
17
?
Saraguri
composer
Seventeeth-century Assamese composer of Jilirs
Ata Hussain Khan(Vocal)
?
OEMI0198
8485
1898
1980
0810
19-20
Arauli
Kolkata
vocalist
vocalist
Agra
Gokulchandra Srichandan
OEMI0709
371
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
OEMI1323
671
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
Dilawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI0583
295
Rewa
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
Agra
khayaal
Fazue Lal Pandit
?
OEMI0627
319
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Shehnai player of the early 20th cent.
Khurshed Ali Khan
OEMI1076
555
1852
1950
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Lucknow gharaanaa
the Lucknow gharaanaa
Madurai Mani lyer
1025
OEMI1221
617618
1912
1968
0608
20
Madurai
Chennai
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist of Karnatik music
Karnatik music
Nilakantha Sivan
OEMI1530
756757
1839
1900
0728
19
Nagorcoil area, now in Tamil Nadu, then part of the Travancore princely state of Kerala
?
composer
Well-known composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
Nimai Harichandan
0709
OEMI1536
761762
1901
1983
0720
20
Kendrapada, Cuttack district, Orissa
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Niyamatullah Khan
OEMI1547
765766
0.1816
0.1902
19-20
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
Delhi
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
Ata Hussain Khan(Tabla)
?
OEMI0197
84
0.183
0.1907
?
19
Lucknow
Bhawal,Bengal
tabla player
table player
Farukhaabaad
Jadunath Bhattacharya
OEMI0894
448
1840
1883
19
Vaidikpara,Vishnupur,Bengal
Vishnupur
musician
All-round musician,popularly known as Jadu Bhatta
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
OEMI1068
546547
?
?
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
P00008
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
?
OEMI0181
78
1937
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
Sundarabai of Surat
OEMI2066
1030
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
OEMI0237
97
0.1912
?
Lucknow
Reputed exponent
Dharmapuram Swaminathan
?
OEMI0567
284
1923
20
Veerakkam,Tamil Nadu
Singer (Oduvar) of traditional Tamil hymns
Allah Dad Dhadhi
?
OEMI0088
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
?
OEMI0080
38
?
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
Ashiq Ali Khan(Jaipur)
?
OEMI0191
82
0.1905
?
?
Jaipur
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
OEMI0880
444445
Mumbai
Mumbai
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
Adibhatla Narayana Dasa
?
OEMI0039
21
1864
1945
?
19-20
?
?
Well-known Harikathaa performer and teacher
Murad Ali Khan(Darbhanga)
?
OEMI1393
696
?
19
?
?
sarod player
Nineteenth-century sarod player
Saraswati (Anis Khaton)
OEMI1885
947
1545
1620
16-17
Rewa
Delhi
vocalist
Talented daughter of Taansen
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
OEMI1063
542543
1959
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
OEMI0990
503504
20
?
?
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
?
OEMI0056
27
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Ajoy Bhattacharya
?
OEMI0063
2930
?
20
?
?
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
Ali Bakhsh (Khyal)
?
OEMI0075
3738
Rajasthan
1864
1902
?
19-20
Mandawar, in the former state of Alwar, Rajasthan
Mandawar
writer
Writer of khyaals, a form of folk opera of Rajasthan
khyaals, a form of folk opera of Rajasthan
Joseph David Penkar
OEMI0959
488
1949
0906
20
Mumbai
Mumbai
writer
Writer of musical plays on Jewish religious themes, in Marathi, in the early 20th cent,
Poluri Govinda Kavi
OEMI1629
813
?
?
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
Purushottam Thakur
OEMI1656
832
1561
1619
16-17
Patbausi, near Barpeta
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
?
OEMI0077
38
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Seni
P00005
Allauddin Khan (Maihar)
?
OEMI0092
4243
?
0.1881
1972
0906
19-20
Shibpur, Tripura
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
musician
Celebrated guru and all-round musician
Aman Ali Khan (Mumbai)
?
OEMI0096
4546
?
1888
1953
0211
19-20
Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and teacher of the Bhendi Bazaar gharaanaa
Bhendi Bazaar
Anil Krishna Deb Burman
OEMI0145
61
Tripura
1899
1942
19-20
Agartala, Tripura
Agartala
musician
Noted musician of Tripura
Atmanatha Bhagavatar
?
OEMI0200
86
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent)
Challagali Krishnayyar
OEMI0424
213
Thanjavur
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0865
440
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
Sahaswaan
Janaki Ballabh Mohanty
0614
OEMI0915
461
1925
20
Puridistrict,Orissa
Oriya literatteur whose works include collections of lyrical poetry and songs
Sundarabai of Charkhari
OEMI2068
1030
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
Hazrat Inayat Khan Pathan
0405
OEMI0827
420
1882
1929
0205
19-20
Baroda
Delhi
musician
Noted Sufi musician and missionary
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
OEMI0846
436
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
P00003
Abhinava Gupta
?
OEMI0026
11
?
?
?
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
Aghawan
?
OEMI0049
23
Unav,near Lucknow
?
19
?
?
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Ahmad Bakhsh
?
OEMI0051
27
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ahmad Faraz
1212
OEMI0052
27
Peshawar,Pakistan, and London
1931
20
Noushera,Pakistan
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Alain Danielou
1004
OEMI0070
34
France
1907
1994
0127
20
Paris
?
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Indian heritage
Alamsen
?
OEMI0071
34
0.183
0.19
?
19
Gwalior
Gwalior
Eminent dhrupad exponent
Ali Bakhsh I
?
OEMI0074
37
Hyderabad
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Alla Rakhi
?
OEMI0083
39
?
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Allah Bandi
?
OEMI0087
41
Rajasthan
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Allahdi
?
OEMI0091
42
Delhi
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Altaf Mahmud
1220
OEMI0094
4445
?
1930
1971
0830
20
Barisal, Bangladesh
Dhaka
Singer and music director
Aman Ali Khan (Lucknow)
?
OEMI0095
45
Gwalior
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Qavvaal-bachhe
Amara Ranatunga
0822
OEMI0098
46
?
1939
20
Sri Lanka
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
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.
Ambayiram
?
OEMI0106
48
?
19
?
?
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
Amir Bakhsh
?
OEMI0109
48
1882
1962
?
19-20
?
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Jhajjar
Amir Minai
?
OEMI0117
51
1828
1900
?
19
Lucknow
Hyderabad
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Amirjan
?
OEMI0118
51
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Amrital Datta
OEMI0123
52
Bengal
1858
1912
19-20
Kolkata
Kolkata
A pioneer of the theatre variety of band-music in Bengal.
band-music
Anil Mihiripenna
0810
OEMI0146
61
1933
20
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and teacher
Annu Akhtar
OEMI0156
66
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
P06142
Arvind Parikh
?
OEMI0177
77
Mumbai
1927
?
20
?
?
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
Athar Nafis
?
OEMI0199
85
1932
1980
1121
20
?
?
Pakistani poet
Babaji Rane
OEMI0220
92
1874
1913
1122
19-20
Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra
?
Playwright and singer-actor of Marathi drama
Badri Prasad Mishra
OEMI0243
98
0.1903
1980
0423
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Bhatt, K.H.
OEMI0353
168
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Bindu Bala
OEMI0386
193
?
?
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
OEMI0476
238
?
?
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
Comi Wadia
0806
OEMI0509
248
Mumbai
1933
20
Mumbai
pianist, singer,conductor
Veteran pianist, singer, and conductor of the Paranjoti Chorus, of Mumbai, Maharashtra
Dodda Subba Rao
OEMI0591
299300
Mysore
19-20
?
?
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Duliya Rana
OEMI0599
303
0.1855
0.1935
19
?
Jaipur
writer, performer
Writer and performer of Shekhaawati khyaals of Rajasthan
Gaforan
?
OEMI0638
323
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
Habib Paintar
OEMI0766
396
1915
1987
0222
20
?
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Qavvaali singer
Haidarijan
OEMI0777
399400
?
?
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
Hasrat Mohani
OEMI0821
418
1880
1951
0513
19-20
Mohan, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
poet
Urdu poet
Jadhurama Devangan
OEMI0891
448
1926
20
Madhya Pradesh
Performer of Paandavani
Jadunandan Das
OEMI0893
448
Well-known keertan singer and teacher of Bengal
Jadunath Singh
OEMI0895
449
17
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
Jagu Ojha
OEMI0907
451
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
Jaisukhlal Shah
0413
OEMI0912
457
1907
1989
0118
20
Bharuch,Gujarat
Mumbai
scholar and teacher
Jatadhar
OEMI0923
464
18
Early 18th-cent. pakhaawaj veteran of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.
Kalahasti Ayya
OEMI0981
500
?
?
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Kannuswami Rao
OEMI1023
517
1855
1936
19-20
?
?
Performer of svarabat, a small harp
Kasinatha Kavi
OEMI1037
525
?
?
composer
Composer
Kitijan
OEMI1043
537
?
?
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
Kutub Bakhsh
OEMI1144
582
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Lal Kavi
OEMI1170
591
?
?
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
Lal Khan Sani
OEMI1173
591
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzab
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
OEMI1174
591
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
Layanuram Bhattacharya
?
OEMI1200
606
1840
1933
?
19-20
Vyasapara,Darrang district,Assam
Vyasapara
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
Mahmuda Jan
OEMI1241
622
?
?
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
Mir Taqi Mir
?
OEMI1312
662
1722
1810
?
18-19
Akbarabad,near Agra,Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
Reputed Urdu poet
Mukunda Das
?
OEMI1381
692693
1878
1934
?
19-20
Barisal [now in Bangladesh]
?
composer
Poplar composer
Mushtaribai
?
OEMI1404
699700
0.19
1933
?
20
most probably Fatehbad or Fatehpur,Agra region,Uttar Pradesh
Agra
vocalist
Vocalist
Nabani Das
?
OEMI1426
711
1964
?
20
?
?
Singer of baaul

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