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
OEMI1528
Nilakantan Nambisan （Kalamandalam）
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of Kathakali music
Kathakali
1919
1101
Kothachira, Palakkad district, Kerala
1980
Cherpalasseri, Kerala
Pulappatta Kyttan Bhagavatar, Kakkad Karanavappad, Kavassery Sanikkutty Bhagavatar, Venkatakrishna Bhagavatar
756
OEMI0556
Devendranath Changkatti
vocalist
Vocalist
1890
?
Guwahati,Assam
?
?
probably Lakshmiram Barooah
275
OEMI1052
Keshav Chandra Bandopadhyay
tabla player
Tabla exponent
1892
0106
near Dhaka, Bangladesh
?
Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Maulaviram Mishra, Natthu Khan
540
OEMI0104
Ambalal Sitari
sitar player, rudra veena player,
Sitar and rudra veena player,who later took to instrument designing
1922
0222
Bilimora,Valsad district,Gujarat
1987
0310
Mumbai
Prabhatdevji Sisodiya of the royal family of Dharampur state,South Gujarat.
4748
OEMI1297
Master Ratan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1914
1110
Hadiyabad town,
Shaam Chauraasi
Poorna Chandra
657
OEMI2184
Venkata Kavi Othukadu
composer
Composer
1700
Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu
1765
?
Pooranur Natesa Bhagavatar
1121
P02305
OEMI0170
Ariyakudi Ramanuja lyengar
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist of Karnatik music
1890
0519
Aariyaakudi,Tamil Nadu
1967
0123
?
Poochi Iyengae
7374
OEMI0991
Kalipada Pathak
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
0.189
Howrah, Kolkata
?
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
505
OEMI1630
Pochi Srinivasa Iyengar
vocalist, composer
Veteran vocalist and composer
1860
?
1919
?
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
813
OEMI1045
Kempegauda
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
538
P00247
OEMI2096
Swarna Venkatesa Dikshitar, V.V.
composer
composer
1921
0721
Tamil Nadu
2002
0316
?
Pataka Sundaram Pillai
1045
P00025
OEMI0592
Domada Chittiabbayi
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award for naagaswaram in 1995
1933
0801
Andhra
Pasupuleti Venkata Rao, Daliparti Pitchahari
300
OEMI2095
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Chennai
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
10441045
P00057
OEMI0141
Anantharaman, M.S.
violinist
Violinist
1924
Chennai
Parur A. Sundaram Iyer
5859
P00054
OEMI0267
Balamurali Krishna,M.
vocalist,composer
Eminent vocalist and composer
1930
07??
Sankaragupta region,Andhra Pradesh
Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
110
OEMI1998
Sitaram-bua Phatarphekar
vocalist
Vocalist
0.191
near Phatarphe, Goa
the Agra gharaanaa
Parshuram-bua Parsekar, Yashwantrao Lolekar, and Vilayat Hussain Khan
986
OEMI1562
Pachu Pillai(Champakulam)
Kathakali dancer
Kathakali
1907
10??
Champakulam,Kerala
Paramu Pillai,Vechoor Raman Pillai
779
OEMI1676
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
vocalist
vocalist
1826
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
855
OEMI0342
Bhanumathi, K.
Bharata Naatyam danseuse
1922
12??
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Papanasam Vadivelu Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma
157
P00143
OEMI0555
Devendra Murdeshwar
Maestro of Hindustani flute
1923
0919
North Kanara district,Karnataka
2000
0129
Mumbai
Pannalal Ghosh(flute) and Amir Hussain Khan(vocal music)
275
OEMI0566
Dhannabai
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist,a pupil of the khayaal pioneer Sadaarang
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Pannaabaai
283
P02712
OEMI1678
Raghunath Dutta
Odissi dancer,choreographer,teacher
1933
0201
Masundapur village,Cuttack district,Orissa
Pankaj Charan Das,Gurudayal Sharan,Kelucharan Mahapatra
856
P06255
OEMI2084
Suresh Talwalkar
tabla player
Noted performer of tabla
Mumbai
1948
0720
?
Pandharinath Nageshkar
1036
P00218
OEMI1880
Sarada Hoffman
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
1929
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Pandanallur Chokkalingam Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Ambu Panikker, Chandu Panikker
944
OEMI1141
Kuppayya Pillai(Tiruvidaimarudur)
Bharata Naatyam dancer and guru
1886
Thanjavur region,Tamil Nadu
1981
Mumbai
Panchapakesa Nattuvanar
580
OEMI0744
Govindaswami Pillai
violinist
Well-known violinist
1878
Achyutamangalam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1931
03??
?
Panchapakesa Iyer, Ettayapuram Ramachandra Bhagvatar
382
OEMI1662
Putturaj Gawai
vocalist
vocalist
1914
Dharwar district,Karnataka
Panchakshari Gawai
834
P00103
OEMI0549
Deodhar,B.R.
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and eminent teacher
1901
0911
Miraj,Maharashtra
1990
0310
Mumbai
Paluskar
266267
OEMI1487
Narayanaswamy, K.V.
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
1923
Palakkad, Kerala
Palghat Mani Iyer, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, C.S. Krishna Iyer, K.S. Venkataramayya
729
P00049
OEMI2194
Venkateswara Rao （Atluri）
Mridangam player
1910
Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh
1982
0823
?
Palghat Mani
1123
P00035
OEMI0763
Guruvayur Dorai
Mridangam player
1935
Guruvayur, Kerala
Palakkad Subba Iyer, Palani Subramania Pillai
392
OEMI0727
Gopalayya （Pallavi）
vocalist
Prominent vocalist and veena player of the durbar of King Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
Pachhimiriyam Adiappayya
375
P06664
OEMI0232
Badal Khan
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Paanipat gharaanaa
0.1834
?
0.1937
Agra
Paanipat
95
P00171
OEMI1105
Krishnan Kutty Nair （Kottakkal）
Kathakali performer
1928
Palakkad, Kerala
P.S. Varrier Natyasangham
571
P00108
OEMI1645
Prem Lata Sharma
musicologist
Well-known Sanskrit scholar, university professor, researcher, and musicologist
1927
0510
Nakodar, Punjab
1998
1204
Benares
P.L. Vaidya and Gopinath Kaviraj, and Omkarnath Thakur
827
OEMI1535
Nilufar Yasmin
Singer, noted for Nazrul-geeti and some other forms of songs, presented on the Bangladesh radio, television, in films, and contests
1948
0213
Khulna, Bangkadesh
P.C. Gomes and some other
761
OEMI1980
Shyamdas Mishra
vocalist
Vocalist
1948
0713
Mungher district, Bihar
Omkarnath Thakur and Balwantrai Bhatt
975
P06309
OEMI0285
Balwantrai Bhatt
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1921
?
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Omkarnath Thakur
115
P02135
OEMI0125
Amubi Singh （Maisnam）
Well-known Manipuri dance guru
Manipur
1881
1121
Imphal, Manipur
1972
0629
Imphal
Oja Jhulonmacha Singh
53
OEMI2189
Venkatamakhi
musicologist
Outstanding musicologist of the 17th cent
Thanjavur
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
Nothing authentic is known
11221123
OEMI2016
Someswara Bhagavatar
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Bangalore
1891
?
1943
?
Noorani Mahadeva Bhagavatar
993
OEMI0492
Chintamani Mishra
vocalist
Dhupad vocalist; lived during the first half of the 19th cent.
?
?
no raliable information
241
OEMI1027
Karamatullah Khan(Sarod)
sarod player
1848
Bulandshahr,Uttar Pradesh
1933
Lucknow
Niyamatullah Khan
518
OEMI0662
Gaurikanta Deva Goswami
Eminent guru of Vaishnava-Sattriya dance
1890
Jarabari Sattra, Sibsagar district, Assam
Nityananda
349350
OEMI0965
Juma Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
?
?
Nirmal Shah Seni
490
OEMI2186
Venkata Subbayyar （Uttukkadu）
composer
Composer of keertanam in Tamil and Sanskrit
0.17
Uttukkaadu, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1765
?
Nidamangalam Raja Bhagavatar
11211122
OEMI2230
Wadilal Shivram Nayak
vocalist
Scholar,vocalist,and music director of the Gujarati stage
1882
?
Gujarat
1947
?
?
Nazir Khan and V.N.Bhatkhande
1143
OEMI1696
Raja Hussain Khan
violinist
violinist
1938
Bramhabaria
1989
0306
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Nayeb Ali Khan,Bahadur Khan,Khadim Hussain Khan,Akbar Khan
861
P00096
OEMI1379
Mukta,T.
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1914
?
Chennai
Nayana Pillai
692
OEMI1464
Narayan Das
vocalist, dancer, tabla player
Vocalist, dancer and tabla player associated with a drama troupe
1870
Falaudi, Rajasthan
1934
?
Navalram and Balaprasad
726
OEMI0537
Daulat Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
1920
?
Mumbai
Natthu Khan Khandare
260
OEMI0629
Feroze Khan(Patiala)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Patiaalaa gharaanaa
0.1881
?
?
1971
0826
?
Patiaalaa
Natthe Khan
319
OEMI0222
Bablibai Salgaonkar
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of her time
khayaal
0.186
Salgaon, Goa
0.1925
Mumbai
Agra
Natthan Khan
93
OEMI1352
Mohammad Khan(vocal)
vocalist?
vocalist?
1870
Agra
1922
Agra
Natthan Khan
680
OEMI1878
Sarabha Sasti
flautist
1872
Kumbhakonam
1904
Chennai
Natesa Pillai, Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar, Manambuchavadi Venkatasubba Ayyar
944
OEMI2092
Swaminatha Pillai, T.N.
performer of the flute
1900
Tirupamburam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1961
Chennai
Nataraja Sundaram Pillai
1042
OEMI1118
Krishnaswamy lyengar,N.S.
vocalist
Karnatik vocalist
1914
0131
Kanchipuram,Tamil Nadu
1998
0603
Bangalore
Narsimhachariar,Tiger Varadachariar,Naina Pillai
573
OEMI1764
Ramesh Nadkarni
vocalist
Noted vocalist and radio executive
1921
0813
Bankikodala, Karnataka
1995
0707
Mumbai
Narayanrao Datar, Baburao Gokhale, Shivkumar Shukla, Aman Ali Khan
879
OEMI1478
Narayana-maharaj Jalvankar
Performer and writer of Marathi keertans
1806
?
1868
?
Narayanbhat Devrukhe
728
OEMI1704
Rajam, N.
violinist
violinist
1938
Chennai
Narayana Iyer, Musiri Subramanya Iyer
863
OEMI1289
Markandeya Mohapatra Sharma
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1915
0718
Puri,Orissa
Narayan Mohapatra Sharma and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar.
652
OEMI1230
Mahapurush Mishra
tabla player
Tabla player
1934
Vaishali town,Bihar
1987
0215
Kolkata
Narayan Mishra
620
OEMI2139
Tulsidas
Saint-poet, celebrated author of Raama Charita Maanas, the story of Sri Raama, in Avadhi, a dialect of the Hindi-speaking region of India
0.1532
?
1623
?
Naraharidaas
10951096
OEMI0357
Bhausaheb Guruji
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior tradition
?
?
?
?
Gwalior
Nanubhaiya Telang
169
OEMI1291
Masidullah Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent and teacher
0.189
?
?
1974
1216
?
Farukhaabaad
Nanne Khan
655
OEMI1852
Sakharam-pant Agale
pakhaawaj player
1858
Vaijapur, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra
1918
Satara, Maharashtra
Nana Panse
916
P00188
OEMI1422
Mylapore Gowri Amma
dancer
Noted dancer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam
0.1892
?
Chennai
1971
06??
Chennai
Nallur Munuswamy Nattavanar, Chinnayya Naidu and her mother.
707
OEMI0519
Damodar Pandit
vocalist,
Vocalist and poet(13th cent.)
?
?
?
?
Naagdevaachaarya
253
OEMI1906
Selvapillai Iyengar, M.S.
vocalist
Vocalist
1915
Melukote, Tamil Nadu
1993
Mysore
N. Ramaswamy Iyengar, Bidaram Krishnappa
960
P02635
OEMI0983
Kalanidhi Narayanan
Bharata Naatyam teacher and danseuse
1927
Tamil Nadu
Mylapore Gowri Amma, Kanchipuram Kannappa Pillai, Chinnayya Naidu
500
OEMI1006
Kamalam
Danseuse of Tiruvarur
?
?
?
?
Muvvalur Sabhapati Iyer
508509
P00022
OEMI0544
Debu Chaudhuri
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Delhi
1935
?
Mymansingh,now in Bangladesh
Mustaq Ali Khan(sitar) and Sukhendu Goswami(vocal)
262
OEMI0604
Durlabh Chandra Bhattacharya
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1872
?
1938
Kolkata
Murari Mohan Gupta
306
OEMI0584
Dilawar Khan
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
Bengal
?
?
1909
?
Delhi
Delhi
Murad Khan
295
OEMI0223
Babu Khan （Rudra Vina）
Noted performer and teacher
0.1892
Narwar, Madhhya Pradesh
1941
1125
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Murad Khan
93
OEMI0050
Aghornath Chakraborti
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
?
Rajpur village of 24 Parganas,Bengal
1920
Benares
Murad Ali Khan, Daulat Khan, and Srijanbai
2324
OEMI1344
Mohammad Amir Khan
sarod player
1873
?
1934
Kolkata
Murad Ali
678679
OEMI2106
Tarabai Welingkar
vocalist
Khayaal and thumrii singer of the 1930s
Khayaal,thumrii
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
Muraba Govekar and Ali Hussain
1065
OEMI1938
Shamsuddin Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla maestro
1890
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
1968
Mumbai
Munir Khan, and Abdul Karim Khan
965
OEMI0044
Afzal Hussain
vocalist
Vocalist
1916
0801
Nagina,near Lucknow
Muhammad Hussain
23
P06015
OEMI1699
Rajab Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist
1874
0903
Narsinghar,Madhya Pradesh
1959
0108
?
Mughlu Khan
861862
OEMI0533
Dattibai
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist.
?
?
?
?
Mughlu Khan
259
OEMI1396
Murad Khan(Rudra Vina)
Eminent propagator of Bande Ali Kahn's veena tradition.
1864
?
Jawra,Madhya Pradesh
1927
?
?
Mughlu Khan
696697
OEMI1787
Ranade, J.L.
Marathi bhaav-geet singer
1905
0327
Ichalkaranji
1999
?
Moroba Gondhali
885886
OEMI1111
Krishnarao Chonkar
Singer-actor
1908
1225
?
1996
0912
Mumbai
Mohanrao Palekar,Gulubhai Jasdanwala
572
P00205
OEMI2274
Mayadhar Raut
Noted teacher of Odissi dance
Odissi dance
1933
Kantapahara, near Banki, Orissa
Mohan Mahapatra, Yudhishtira Mahapatra, Mohan Sunderdev Goswami, and Pankaj Charan Das
660
P02330
OEMI0541
Deba Prasad Das
Well-known Odissi dancer,choreographer,and teacher
1932
?
Kantapada near Cuttack,Orissa
1986
0716
?
Mohan Mahapatra and Singari Shyam Sundar Kar
262
OEMI0029
Abid Hussain Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
Ace performer of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa
1867
?
Lucknow
1936
0612
Lucknow
Lucknow
Mohammad Khan(d.1879) and Munne Khan
1415
OEMI1695
Rais Khan
sitar player
sitar player
1939
1125
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
Mohammad Khan
860
OEMI1959
Sheikh Dawod
tabla player
Noted tabla player
1916
1216
Solapur, Maharashtra
1992
0321
Hyderabad
Mohammad Kasim and Tajamull Hussain, Alladiya Khan, and Mehboob Khan
971
OEMI1303
Maula Bakhsh(Tabla)
Rahim Bakhsh`s child
1878
?
?
?
?
Lucknow
Mohammad Hussain Khan
659
OEMI1954
Shaukat Ali Khan
rabaab player
Rabaab player of the Seni gharaanaa
1911
Gidhaur, Bihar
?
Seni
Mohammad Ali Khan, Raja Nawab Ali
969
OEMI1342
Mohammad Ali Khan (Jaipur)
originator
1825
Jaipur
1905
?
Mohammad Ali
677
OEMI2203
Vilayat Ali （Haji）
tabla player,composer
Tabla wizard, teacher, composer of gats, and founder of the 19th-cent.
18
?
?
Farukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Miyaa Bakhshu
1128
OEMI0023
Abha Alam
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1947
1226
Madaripur,Faridpur district,Bangladesh
1976
1121
Dhaka
Mithun Dey
8
OEMI0407
Brhaspati,K.C.
musicologist
Noted musicologist
1918
?
Rampur
1979
?
?
Mirza Nawab Hussain and Ayodhya Prasad
201
OEMI0786
Hali
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals
ghazals
1837
?
1914
0930
Panipat, Haryana
Mirza Ghalib
401
OEMI1722
Ram Marathe
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and actor of Marathi plays
1924
1023
?
1989
1004
?
Mirashi-bua, Wamantao Sadolikar, Manhar Barve, Master Krishnarao, Jagannath-bua Purohit
868
OEMI0385
Bindijan
vocalist
Vocalist, particularly noted for toppaa
toppaa
1828
Mir Roshan Ali, Khadem Shafi
193
OEMI0653
Ganga Narayan Chattopadhyaya
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher
dhrupad
0.1808
Bilwapushkarini village, Nadia district, Bengal
0.1874
Kolkata
Mir Nasiram
331332