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
Taranath Rao
0306
OEMI2107
1066
1915
1991
0110
20
Mangalore,Karnataka
Pune,Maharashtra
tabla player
Noted tabla player and teacher
Subbarao Ankolekar and Shamshuddin Khan
Palghat Mani Iyer
OEMI1576
784
1912
1981
0530
20
Tiruvilvamalai,near Palghat[now Palakkad],Kerala
Kochi
Mridangam player
Mridangam maestro
Subba Iyer(Chattapuram),Viswanatha Iyer,and Vaidyanatha Iyer(Thanjavur)
Sakharama Rao
OEMI1851
915916
1881
1930
19-20
Tiruvidaimarudur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
goottuvaadyam maestro
Srinivasa Rao
Gurumurti Sastri （Paidala）
OEMI0761
392
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
Paidala Gurumorti Sastri
OEMI1573
782
Chennai
18
Kayatar village,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
composer,vocalist
composer,vocalist
Sonti Venkata Subbaya
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0782
400
Rampur
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
some elders
Sanjida Khatun
0404
OEMI1869
937
1933
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
singer
Sohrab Hussain, Mastan Gama, Munshi Raisuddin, Husna Bano Khanam
Rohini Bhate
OEMI1816
901
1924
20
Pune, Maharashtra
kathak danseuse
Sohan Lal , Munna Lal, Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, Lachhu Maharaj
Badi Motibai
OEMI0242
98
Benares
0.1885
1977
0214
19-20
Darbhanga, Bihar
Benares
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist of Benares
Siyaji Maharaj, Mithailalji, Maujuddin Khan
Rangayya, C.
OEMI1793
887
1895
1984
19-20
Chilakunda village, Mysore district, Karnataka
Mysore city
vocalist, composer, teacher
vocalist, composer, teacher
Sivaramayya, Chikka Subba Rao
Kshirabdi Sastri
OEMI1121
574
Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
19
?
?
composer
composer
Sivarama Yogi
Bageswari Devi
OEMI0245
101
1940
2000
0920
20
Kolkata
Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
Benares
Sitaram Misra and Ganesh Prasad Misra
Radha Krishna Bhanj
1105
OEMI1667
842
1928
20
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
singer
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
Radharani Mohapatra
0406
OEMI1671
843
1934
20
Cuttack,Orissa
vocalist
Odissi vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar,Balakrishna Dash,Dhiren Das,Khitish Maitra
Odissi
Shyamamani Devi
OEMI1979
975
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
Kashinath Pajapanda
0315
OEMI1034
524
1921
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist,
vocalist of Odissi music
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
Sukadev Patri
?
OEMI2052
1026
1927
20
Kendrapada,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar,Kundaladi Narayan Rao,and Khitish Chandra Maitra.
Bishnu Priya Samantasinghar
0205
OEMI0395
195
Cuttack
1927
20
Puri, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist, first woman artiste of All India Radio, Cuttack
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅱ
0903
OEMI1309
662
1894
1949
0213
19-20
Needamangalam,Tamil Nadu
?
tavil player
Tavil player
Singaram Pillai and Govinda Pillai
P00117
Kartik Ram
OEMI1030
523
1910
1980
20
Rajasthan
?
Kathak dancer
Shivnarayan,Jaylalji Maharaj,Achan Maharaj,Shival,Mohanlal
Sunderlal Gangani
OEMI2073
1031
?
Kathak dancer and teacher
Shivnarayan and Gauri Shankar
Gul Bardhan
OEMI0752
386
1928
20
Mumbai
Dancer of Manipuri, Chhaau, and some regional folk dances of Rajasthan and Gujarat
Shanti Bardhan, Maisnam Amubi Singh
Ramchandra, C.
0112
OEMI1755
876877
1918
1982
0105
20
Puntambe Chitli, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra
Mumbai
composer
Well-known composer of mainly Hindi film music
Shankarro Sapre
Hindi film music
Shankar Abhyankar
0519
OEMI1939
965966
Mumbai
1934
20
Satara, Maharashtra
sitar player, teacher
Veteran sitar player and teacher
Shankarrao Vyas, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan
Madhukar Pednekar
0227
OEMI1219
614615
1916
1967
0720
20
Mumbai
?
Reputed harmonium player
Shankarrao Rajapurkar and Annasaheb Mainkar
P00050
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
0708
OEMI1116
573
1893
1989
0822
19-20
Gwalior
Gwalior
vocalist
vocalist
Shankarrao Pandit,Eknath,Ganpatrao Pandit
Bhaiyya-saheb Malvankar
OEMI0336
153
20
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of the 1930s
Shankarrao Pandit
Masit Khan(Sarangi)
?
OEMI1294
655656
1925
1992
?
20
?
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Jhajjar
Shamman Khan
Imam Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0861
439
Khurjaa, Uttar Pradesh
Khurjaa
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent）
the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Shahab Khan
Imam Badi
OEMI0858
439
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the 1850s from Benares
Shadi Khan
Tarapada Chakravarti
04??
OEMI2108
10661067
1909
1975
0901
20
Kotalipara[now in Bangladesh]
Kolkata
vocalist
Well-known vocalist,an early exponent of khayaal in Bengali language.
Satkadi Malakar and Girija Shankar Chakravarti
khayaal
Kittappa, S.G.
OEMI1085
560
1906
1933
20
Tamil Nadu
?
Well-known singer and actor of the Tamil stage
Sankara Doss Swamikal
P06119
Bundu Khan
?
OEMI0415
204205
1880
1955
0113
19-20
Delhi
Karachi
saarangi player
Celebrated saarangi player
Sangi Khan and maternal uncle Mamman Khan
P00204
Mamman Khan
?
OEMI1255
633
0.1859
1940
0602
19-20
Delhi
Delhi
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
Sangi Khan and Ghulam Hussain Khan
P00023
Narayana Iyengar, A.
OEMI1471
727
1905
1987
20
Devakottai, Tamil Nadu
?
veena player, teacher
Veena exponent and teacher
Sakharama Rao
Saraswatibai
OEMI1887
948
1850
19
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sakharam
Venabai
OEMI2182
1121
1627
1678
17
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
?
Performer of Marathi keertans
saint-poet Raamdaas
Rajab Ali Khan (Bade)
OEMI1700
862863
?
?
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Sahaji-saheb
Sakhawat Hussain Khan
OEMI1853
916
1877
1955
07??
19-20
Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
sarod player
Safayet Hussain Khan, Asadullah Khan, Karamatullah Khan
Shovana Narayan
OEMI1969
973974
1950
20
Kolkata
Kathak dancer
Sadhana Bose, Kundanlal, Birju Maharaj
Abraham Panditar
0802
OEMI0030
15
1859
1919
0831
19-20
Sambavar Vadakarai,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
Scholar,music activist,and a pioneer of music conferences
Sadayandi Pattar and a local naagaswaram player(name not available)
Loknath Pal
0320
OEMI1208
608
1923
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Sadashiv Pal,and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar and Khitish Maitra
Adarang(Feroze Khan)
?
OEMI0037
19
0.1692
0.1776
?
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of the durbar
Sadaarang
Khitish Chandra Maitra
1008
OEMI1073
554
1906
1980
20
Balasore district, Orissa
Orissa
One of the early teachers of Hindustani classical music in Orissa
S.N.Ratanjankar
Honavar Krishnabhat
OEMI0843
434
0.1878
1942
19-20
Gokarn, South Karnataka
Shirali, in the same region
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
S.N. Ratanjankar, S.C.R. Bhat
P00042
Ginde, K.G.
1226
OEMI0693
365
1925
1994
0713
20
Belhongale, Belgaum district, Karnataka
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher
S.N. Ratanjankar
Jog, V.G.
OEMI0952
484485
Kolkata
1922
2004
0131
20-21
Wai, Satara region, Maharashtra
Kolkata
Eminent exponent of the violin
S.N. Ratanjankar
Palanivel,A.K.
OEMI1575
783
1948
20
Haridwaramangalam,Tamil Nadu
performer and teacher of the drum,tavil.
S.Kumarvel Pillai,G.Muthukumaraswamy Pillai
Shankar Hombal
12??
OEMI1941
966
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
1927
20
Dharwar, Karnataka
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Rukmini Devi Arundale's Kalakshetra, Chennai
Sarada Subramaniam
OEMI1881
944
1915
20
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
Rukmini Devi Arundale, Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur), Bhairavan Pillai
P00157
Indira P.P. Bora
OEMI0877
443
1949
20
Golaghat, Assam
Performer of Assamese Sattriya dance
Rosheswar Saikia Barbayan, Ghanakant Bora, Pradip Chaliha
Padmanabhan Nair(Kalamandalam)
OEMI1566
780
1925
20
Kuruvattur,Palakkad district,Kerala
Kathakali artiste,teacher
Ravunni Menon(Pattikkamthodi)
Kathakali
P00237
Ramankutty Nair （Kalamandalam）
OEMI1747
874
1925
20
Palakkad district, Kerala
Kathakali performer and guru
Ravunni Menon
P00172
Kumaran Nair(Kizhpatam)
0530
OEMI1128
578
1915
20
Kerala
Kathakali artiste and teacher
Ravunni Menon
P00193
Pankaj Charan Das
0317
OEMI1586
792793
1925
2003
0611
20-21
Orissa
Puri,Orissa
Odissi dancer
Veteran Odissi dancer and choreographer
Ratnaprava Mahari,
Sultan Bakhsh
OEMI2061
1029
19
?
?
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
Ratan Chand Das
Ramanathan, S.
0408
OEMI1745
873874
1917
1986
0519
20
Tirukoilur, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,musicologist
Noted musicologist, teacher, and vocalist
Ramudu Bhagavatar, Manalurpettai Subrahmanya Diikshitar, Tiger Varadachariar, and Valadi Krishna Iyer
Vasudevan （Neyyantinkara）
OEMI2173
1118
1940
20-
Neyyaantinkara, central Kerala
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramnad Krishnan and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Pannalal Goswami
OEMI1591
794795
19
?
?
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
Tarabai Shirodkar
?
OEMI2105
1065
1889
1949
0706
Shiroda,Goa
?
Noted khyaal singer
Agra
Ramkrishnabua Vaze,Bhasker-bua Bakhle,and Natthan Khan of Agra
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
Bapurao Pendharkar
1210
OEMI0304
121
1892
1937
0315
19-20
Jamkhindi, Maharashtra
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
Nana-saheb Chaphekhar
0120
OEMI1441
720
1896
1969
0115
19-20
?
Pune, Maharashtra
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
Ramkrishna-bua Vase
Rekibuddin Ahmed
OEMI1815
899
1940
20
Balihat, Golaghat district, Assam
singer of jikir (also zikr), a variety of Islamic devotional songs found in Assam.
Ramizuddin Ahmed
Aftabuddin Khan
?
OEMI0043
23
0.1862
1933
?
19-20
Shibpur,Bangladesh
?
Instrumentalist
Ramdhan and Ramkanai Sheel(violin),and other instruments from Kasim Ali
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
0302
OEMI1140
580
1935
2008
0908
20-21
Kunnakudi,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
violinist
violinist
Ramaswamy Sastri
Shubha Mudgal
OEMI1976
975
1959
20
Allahabad
vocalist
Well-known vocalist, recipient of the Padma Shri in 2000
Ramasray Jha, Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, Vasant Thakkar, Naina Devi, Jitendra Abhisheki, and Kumar Gandharva, Shubha
Baburam Sahai
OEMI0225
9394
Allahabad
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of Allahabad
Ramanujdas, Narayandas
Laila Arjumand Banu
0105
OEMI1152
586
1926
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramani Mohan Bhattacharya, Manju Khan, Gul Mohammad Khan, Yusuf Khan Koraishi, Gopal Dasgupta
Sundaram, V.P.K.
OEMI2071
10301031
1915
2003
0309
20-21
Tamil Nadu
?
musicologist
Musicologist and author
Ramanathapuram Sivam （basic lessons in music）
Mathor Shankara Murthy
?
OEMI1298
657
1922
1993
0705
20
Muthalapura,Karnataka
Bangalore
vocalist
Vocalist of the Karnatik style
Rama Jois,Simizhi Sundaram Iyer,R.R.Keshavamurthy,Belakavadi Varadaraja Iyengar,and Sattur Krishna Iyengar
Narasimha Bhagavatar
OEMI1460
725
19
?
?
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
Rama Iyengar
Bhairav sahai
OEMI0335
151
Benares
0.1839
0.191
19
?
?
tabla player
Noted tabla player of Benares
Ram Sahai, Modu Khan
Hira Singh Boralia
0612
OEMI0835
431
1934
20
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
Ram Narayan, Harlal Makwana, Bhailal Barot, Devilal Samar
Keshab Chandra Mitra
OEMI1051
540
0.1822
1901
19-20
Bhavanipur, Kolkata
?
Reputed pakhaawaj player
Ram Chakravarty
P00212
Ramkumar Chatterji
OEMI1772
881
1920
20
Kolkata
?
vocalist
vocalist
Rajendralal Chatterji, Zamiruddin Khan
Sadiq Ali Khan
OEMI1835
909
1910
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
vocalist, innovator of behalaavaa or lachaav-ki-thumrii
Raje Khan
Ganpatrao Dewaskar
?
OEMI0650
329
0.1896
1978
0717
19-20
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Mumbai
vocalist,
Vocalist and singer-actor of Marathi plays
Rajab Ali Khan, Haidar Khan
Sulaiman
OEMI2059
1029
Lucknow
?
?
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and tappaa singer of Lucknow
Rajab Ali Khan
khayaal
Nandlal Sharma
0611
OEMI1445
722
1909
1990
1130
20
Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teadher
Rajab Ali Khan
Ramchandra Agnihotri
OEMI1754
876
20
1982
0630
20
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Gwalior
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Rajaa-bhaiyaa Poochwale
P01413
Govindrao Rajurkar
OEMI0748
382
1916
1983
0517
No
20
?
Jaipur, Rajasthan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Raja-bhaiya Poochwale
Nayak Bakhshu
?
OEMI1521
751752
0.146
0.1535
?
15
?
?
vocalist
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
Raja Maansingh Toomar
dhrupad
Ratnakant Ramnathkar
OEMI1810
894
1900
20
Mumbai
Mumbai
vocalist
harmonium player and vocalist
Raghuvir Ramnathkar, Nanhe Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
Dhruba Charan Ratha
0415
OEMI0578
290
1917
20
Ghantiali,Cuttack,Orissa
tabla player
Tabla player
Raghunath Mallick and Balaichand Das
Krishnarao Ashtewale
OEMI1110
572
Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
1841
19
?
?
sitar player,patron,
sitar player and patron of Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
Raghumatharao
P00222
Sharada Sinha
OEMI1950
968
1953
20
Hulas, Bihar
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for Bihari folk music
Raghu Jha, Hari Dandekar, and Panna Devi
Girija Shankar Chakravarti
1218
OEMI0696
366
Bengal
1885
1948
0425
19-20
Behramupur, Murshidabad region, Bengal
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher, a pioneer in revitalizing the khayaal in Bengal
Radhika Prasad Goswami, Muzaffar Khan, Mohammad Ali Khan
khayaal
P00015
Buddhadev Dasgupta
0201
OEMI0410
203
Kolkata
1933
20
Bhagalpur,Bihar
Eminent sarod player
Seni Shahjahanour
Radhika Mohan Moitra
Urmila Singh
OEMI2151
1104
?
singer
Contemporary folk singer
Radhesharan Singh
folk
Siddheshwar Sen
OEMI1984
976
Malwa, Rajasthan
20
Ujjjain, Madhya Pradesh
Folk artiste known for the theatrical form called Maach of Malwa, Rajasthan
Radha Kishan Guru
P00098
Rukmini, T.
1127
OEMI1825
904905
1936
20
Shimoga, Karnataka
violinist
violinist
R.R.Keshava Murthy
Muthachar, T.N.
OEMI1407
703704
1993
?
?
vocalist, composer,
Vocalist, composer, and teacher
R.K. Ramanathan
P03011
Charu Sija Mathur
OEMI0446
224
1940
No
20
Delhi
Performer of Manipuri dance
R. K. Singhajit Singh
Qutub-ud-Daula
?
OEMI2225
838839
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
Latif Khan
?
OEMI1197
604
1875
19-20
Agra Uttar Pradesh
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra tradition
Agra
Pyar Khan
Majru Khan
OEMI1243
623
1810
1884
19
?
?
Sarod player
Pyar Khan
Savaliya Khan
OEMI1898
954
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Pyar Khan
Raza Hussain
OEMI1814
897
Baroda
1891
19-20
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist, jaltarang player
vocalist and jaltarang player of the Baroda durbar.
Pyar Khan

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