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
OEMI0033
Achhan Maharaj
Legendary Kathak dancer of Lucknow
0.1888
?
Lucknow
1946
?
?
Kalkadin Prasad and Bindadin Prasad
17
P00158
OEMI0882
Ishitiaq Ahmad
Sarod player
1919
?
1967
?
Kalidas Pal
445
OEMI1697
Raja Nawab Ali
patron,
scholar, patron, first president of the Marris(now Bhatkhande)
?
1935
?
Kale Khan,Mohammad Ali Khan,Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
861
OEMI2278
Mugna Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1915
?
?
saarangi ghaaraana
Kale Khan
691
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
OEMI1349
Mohammad Hussain(Sarangi)
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1907
09??
Haryana
1988
0927
Maharashtra
Kader Bakhsh
680
OEMI1430
Nagabhushanachar,V.
1932
?
Krishnapur,Mysore district,Karnataka
K.Veerappachar
714715
OEMI1551
Nomita Ghose
vocalist
vocalist
1959
1211
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Jashoda Ghose,P.C.Gomes,Barin Mazumdar
766
OEMI1640
Prasunkumar Banerji
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Kolkata
1926
0815
?
Jamini Ganguly, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Jnan Prakash Ghosh
826
P02382
OEMI1773
Ramlal Bareth
Kathak dancer, teacher
?
1936
0306
?
Jailal Maharaj
881
P00062
OEMI1267
Manik Varma
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1926
05??
Pune,Maharashtra
1996
1110
Mumbai
Benares and Punjabi style
Jagannath-bua Purohit,Bholanath Bhatt,and Azmat Hussain Khan
640
OEMI2208
Vincent Somapala
teacher, composer, author
Teacher, composer, and author
1906
0517
Gorakana, Panadura, Sri Lanka
1989
0607
J. Sadiris Silva and H.W.Rupasinha
1131
P00105
OEMI0691
Ghulam Sabir Khan （Bade）
Saarangi maestro
?
1962
?
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
363
OEMI2079
Surdas
singer
Blind singer
0.1478
Sihi village, near Delhi
?
It is not known
1035
OEMI1099
Krishna Iyer （Kundrakkudi）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1816
Kundrakkudi, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu
1889
?
It is not known
569
OEMI2266
Zinnat Barkatullah
Noted danseuse
1951
1003
Dhaka, Bangladesh
include Gauhar Jamil, G.A. Mannan, Dulal Talukdar, Rahija Khanam Jhunu, and Baburam Singh
1160
OEMI0963
Joshi, D.T.
sitar player
Sitar player and teacher of the Imdaadkhaani tradition
1914
10??
?
1993
10??
Kolkata
Inayat Khan, father of sitar maestro Vilayat Khan
489
OEMI1526
Nazir Khan(Mumbai)
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
Bijnor Moradabad district,Uttar Pradesh
1920
?
Mumbai
Bhendi Bazaar
Inayat Hussain Khan
755
OEMI0289
Balwantrao Pohre
vocalist
Reputed Khayaal singer of the last quarter of the 19th cent
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Inayat Hussain Khan
116
OEMI2237
Walter Kaufmann
composer
Composer,conductor,pianist,scholar,and author from Europe
1907
0401
Karlsbad,Germany
1984
0908
Bloomington,USA
in music from his uncle Moritz Kaufmann,and in composing from Fidelio F.Finke.
11441145
OEMI1339
Mohammad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
vocalist
Sikandarabad,near Agra
1890
?
Imam Bakhsh Hande
677
OEMI0781
Haidar Khan （Saharanpur）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Imam Bakhash, brother Bairam Khan
400
OEMI1784
Ramzan Khan (Vocal)
vocalist
tappaa singer
tappaa
?
?
Imam Badi
885
OEMI0338
Bhaiyya-saheb Joshi
vocalist
Exponent of the Gwalior vocal style
?
1920
Mumbai
Gwalior
his well-known father Vasudev-bua Joshi
154
OEMI2089
Suryanarayana, R.K.
composer
Noted veena player and composer
1937
0614
Mysore
2003
1225
?
his well-known father R.S. Kesavamurthy
1039
OEMI2192
Venkatesa Devaru
Noted mridangam player of the Mysore durbar of Maharaja Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
1908
Tirupadi Puliyar, near Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
1963
?
his well-known father Muthuswami Tewar
1123
OEMI1448
Nanhe Khan （Sarod）
Sarod player?
?
1868
Gwalior
his weii-known father Ghulam Ali Khan
722723
P00811
OEMI0883
Ishtiaq Hussain Khan
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist of the Rampur tradition
1907
?
1980
1108
Kolkata
his vocalist-father Mushtaq Hussain Khan
445
P00018
OEMI0452
Chambai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
1896
0830
Chembai village, Palghat district, Kerala
1974
1016
Chembai village
his vocalist-father Anantha Bhagavatar, Dakshina Moorthy Pillai
227228
OEMI0239
Bade Ramdas Mishra
vocalist
Reputes vocalist of Benares
Benares
1887
0123
?
1960
0111
?
his vocalist father Shiv Nandan, Shiv Sahai, Jaikaran Mishra
9798
OEMI0213
Azhaganambi Pillai
Mridangam performer of Kumbhakonam, Tamil Nabu
1863
Srirangam
0.1926
His uncles, Swaminatha Pillai and Venka Pillai
90
P00016
OEMI2185
Venkata Rao （Chintalapalli）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1875
?
1969
Mysore
his uncles Bhaskar Rao and Venkataramayya and some others
1121
P00248
OEMI2207
Vinayakrao Patwardhan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
1898
0722
Miraj, a princely state of Maharashtra
1975
0823
Pune
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
his uncle, vocalist Keshavrao Patwardhan, Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
11301131
OEMI0986
Kale Khan （Kasurwale; Patiala）
vocalist
Emiinent vocalist
Mumbai
0.187
Patiala, Punjab
0.1915
Kanpur
his uncle Ustaad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
502503
OEMI0992
Kalka Prasad Maharaj
Legendary Kathak dancer
1850
Lucknow
190010
Lucknow
his uncle Thakur Prasad
505
OEMI2117
Thakur Jagdish Singh 'Din'
tabla player
Noted pakhaawaj and tabla player
1905
0113
Raigarh Madhya Pradesh
1982
1215
Raigarh
his uncle Thakur Lakshman Singh and in pakhaawaj from Baba Thakurdas and in tabla from Munir Khan,Natthu Khan,and Abid Hussain
1071
P00115
OEMI0126
Amudon Sharma
Eminent guru of Manipuri dance
1886
1125
Imphal
1976
0316
Imphal
his uncle Takhenchongbam Kanhai Sharma, his father Khomdon Sharma, Aribam Gopal Sharma
5354
P00073
OEMI1545
Nivrutti-bua Sarnaik
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher
1912
0704
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1994
0216
?
his uncle Shankarrao Sarnaik
764765
OEMI0572
Dhir Ali-miya
Flute player and music director
1920
0101
Mushiganj,Bangladesh
1984
1214
?
his uncle Sadiq Ali
286
OEMI0214
Azim Bakhsh
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
1857
probably Indore
1908
?
his uncle Ramzan Khan
90
OEMI0274
Baldevji
vocalist
Nineteenth-century dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Raja Vikram Singhji of Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
?
?
?
?
his uncle Ram Gulamji,and Bade Mohammad Khan and Nabi Khan
112
P06273
OEMI2234
Wajid Hussain Khan
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
1918
?
Lucknow
Lucknow
His uncle Munne Khan and Abid Hussain Khan
1144
OEMI1957
Sheik Chinna Moula
Well-known naagaswaram player
1924
0512
Karavadi, Andhra Pradesh
1999
0413
?
his uncle Madar-sahib, Sheik Adam-sahib, and Duraikkannu Pillai
971
P05631
OEMI0235
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
0.1901
0404
Kasur
1968
0423
Hyderabad
his uncle Kale Khan, his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale
95
OEMI1513
Natthan Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.184
?
Agra
0.1907
?
Mysore
Agra
his uncle Ghulam Abbas Khan
741
OEMI2183
Vengichan Swami （Thiruvilwamala）
Performer of the drum, maddalam, for Kathakali
0.1873
Thiruvilwaamala, Thrissur district, Kerala
?
his uncle Chittan Pattar and Chinnaswami Bhagavatar （maddalam）
1121
OEMI0320
Belakavadi Srinivasa lyengar
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Mysore durbar
Mysore
1888
Sivagiripuram, near Siva Ganga, Karnataka
1936
?
his uncle and Krishna Bhagavatar
135
OEMI2081
Surendranath Bandopadhyay
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Vishnupur gharaanaa
1886
1117
Vishnupur, Bengal
1972
?
the Vishnupur gharaanaa
his reputed father, Anantlal, eldest brother Ram Prasanna Bandopadhyay
1036
OEMI0601
Duraiswami Iler （Manattattai）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1865
?
0.1926
?
his paternal uncle Manattattai Ramaswami Iyer
303
P00864
OEMI1181
Lalgudi Jayaraman
vocalist
Violin maestro
Chennai
1930
0917
Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu
his paternal uncle Kandaswamy, father Gopalan
593
OEMI0780
Haidar Khan （Jaipur-Atrauli）
vocalist
Competent vocalist and teacher of the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa
?
1936
?
the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa
his paternal uncle Jahangir Khan, Rajasthan, and his famous brother Alladiya Khan
400
OEMI1963
Sher Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
khayaal
0.1792
Agra
0.1862
Agra
Agra
his paternal uncle Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
971
P00219
OEMI1932
Shambhu Maharaj
dancer
Veteran Kathak dancer, Padma Shri awardee
Kathak
0.1907
?
1970
1104
Delhi
his paternal uncle Bindadin Maharaj and brother Achhan Maharaj
964
OEMI1622
Phuljhuri Khan
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
1920
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
1982
Dhaka
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
809
P01827
OEMI1653
Purushottam Das
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
1921
Barpeta Assam
1994
0620
Guwahati
his parents Krishnakanta Das and Boroda Bala Das, Bishuprasad Radha, and Bonkowar Anandiram Das
831
OEMI0286
Balwantrao Bhaiyya
vocalist,
Vocalist of Gwalior
Gwalior
?
?
1925
?
?
Gwalior
his mother,the famous dancer Chandrabhaga
115
P00043
OEMI0994
Kalpakam Swaminathan
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
Chennai
1922
0815
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
506
OEMI1897
Satyanarayana, R.
Reputed author and scholar of music and dance
1927
Mysore city, Karnataka
his mother Varalakshmi
953
P00055
OEMI0440
Chandrasekaran, M.
violinist
Noted violinist
1937
Kolkata
?
his mother Charubala Mohan
221
OEMI0224
Babu Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tablaa player?
Delhi
1899
Kolkata
his mother
93
OEMI1543
Nitai Charan Sinha
vocalist
Vocalist
1916
02??
Cuttack, Orissa
his maternal uncle Gopal Charan Gosh, few teachers
764
OEMI2087
Suryaboro Singh
Noted exponent of nata sankeertana music and dance of Manipur
0.189
Imphal, Manipur
1939
Imphal
his maternal uncle Chingsubam Ibeton Singh
1039
OEMI2098
Syama Sastri
composer
composer
1762
0426
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1827
Thanjavur
his maternal uncle
1048
OEMI2188
Venkatagiriyappa
veena player
Veena maestro of the Mysore durbar
Mysore
1887
0426
Heggadedevana Kote village, near Mysore
1951
?
his maternal grandmother Dodda Subbarao, maternal uncle Chikka Subbarao
1122
OEMI2005
Siyaram Tiwari
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1921
0121
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
his maternal grandfather Vishnudeva Pathak
989
OEMI0789
Hamid Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
1840
Agra
1909
Mysore
Agra
his maternal grandfather Nanhe Khan
401
OEMI1094
Kotiswara Iyer
composer
Composer
1869
Nandanur, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu
1938
1021
?
his maternal grandfather Kavi Kunjara Bharati, Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar, Ramanathapuram Srinivasa Iyengar
568
OEMI0312
Bashir Ahmad Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
1903
Agra
Kolkata
his maternal grandfather Kallan Khan
129
P02053
OEMI0866
Imrat Khan
sitar player
Noted exponent of sitar and surbahaar
1936
Kolkata
his maternal grandfather Bande Hassan Khan, maternal uncle Sinde Hassan Khan, his father's brother Wahid Khan
440
OEMI2277
Mehdi Hussain Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1884
Rampur
1960
Kolkata
his illustrious father, Buniyad Hussain Khan. Mitthu Khan,
666667
OEMI2149
Umrao Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1845
0.192
Hyderabad
his illustrious father Tanras Khan
1102
OEMI0464
Chhota Naubat Khan
rudra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
0.1756
?
?
his illustrious father Jeevan Khan
236
P02120
OEMI0447
Chathunni Panikkar （Kavungal）
Kathakali artiste
1922
Thichoor village, Thrissur district, Kerala,1922
his granduncle Sankara Panikkar, K. M. Gopalan Nair
224
OEMI2271
Majhiram Urav
Folk artiste
Tilanga, Kohpani village, Raigarh district, Madhya Pradesh
His grandmother. His Paternal uncles, Magraram, Thilleram, and Bunduram
623
OEMI1160
Lakshmandas Sandhu
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
?
?
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
589
P00204
OEMI2272
Maman Khan
Recipient of the Central Sangeeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for folk music of Haryana
folk music of Haryana
1945
Hissar, Haryana
his grandfather Peer Mauj Khan and father Munshi Khan
633
P00072
OEMI1542
Nissar Hussain Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of yesteryears
1907
0403
?
1993
0716
?
his grandfather Haidar Khan
764
P00034
OEMI0716
Gopal Mishra
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
0.192
Benares
1977
1222
Delhi
his grandfather Ganeshji Mishra, Bade Ramdas Mishra
372373
OEMI1888
Sarat Chandra Sarma
singer
1913
Vyasapara village, Darrang district, Assam
?
his grandfather and father, Bhabiram Sarma
948949
P02707
OEMI1746
Ramani, N.
Reputed flute player
1934
Tiruvanur, Tamil Nadu
his grandfather A. Narayanaswami Iyer, T.R. Mahalingam
874
OEMI0257
Bakhshu-miya
tabla player
Founder of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa which emerged between 1775 and 1800
0.175
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
his grand-father Siddhar Khan Dhaadi, Bade Kale Khan
106
OEMI1541
Nissar Hussain Khan （Gwalior）
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
0.1844
Gwalior
0.1916
?
his foster-father Natthu Khan
763764
OEMI0532
Dattatraya Narayan Panchakshari
Harmonium player
1912
0512
?
1981
0821
Baroda,Gujarat
his father,Narayan Panchakshari
259
OEMI1540
Nissar Ali Khan （Seni）
sursingaar player,rabaab player
Sursingaar and rabaab exponent
0.1814
Lucknow
0.188
Benares
his father, Zaffar Khan, his elder brother, Sadiq Ali
763
P00026
OEMI0595
Doreswamt Iyengar, V.
veena player
Well-known veena player of Mysore
Mysore
1920
Mysore
his father, Venkatesa Iyengar
300
P02274
OEMI2260
Zakir Hussain
tabla player
Well-known tabla exponent
1951
0309
Mumbai
his father, tabla maestro Allah Rakha Qureshi
11581159
OEMI0303
Durga Prasad
Noted Kathak dancer, also known as Pande Maharaj
0.192
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
his father, Sukhdev Maharaj,and later from Achchan Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj
304
OEMI2187
Venkatadri Bhagavatar
Eminent veena player of the durbar of Swaati Tirunaal
1814
?
1884
Thiruvananthapuram
his father, scholar-musician Raja of Kodungallur
1122
OEMI1414
Muthusamy, R.
violinist
Violinist and music director of Sinhalese films
1928
0105
Nagarcoil, Tamil Nadu
1988
0627
Sri Lanka
his father, Ramayya Bhagavatar
705
OEMI0676
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
1932
Agra
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
360
OEMI0401
Bobbili Kesavayya
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent vocalist
?
?
his father, Gopalayya
197
OEMI0677
Ghulam Ali
Well-known ghazal singer
Pakistan
1940
Kaleke village, Sialkot district
his father, Ghulam Ali Khan, his brothers Barqat Ali Khan and Mubarak Ali Khan
360
OEMI0647
Gama Maharaj
tabla player
Tabla player
1911
?
Benares
1974
0116
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
his father, Gama Maharaj （real name was Ramayan Prasad Mishra）
326
P04603
OEMI0605
Dwaram Bhava Narayana Rao
violinist
Well-known violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik style
1924
Visakhapatnam
1999
0724
?
his father, Dwaram Venkaraswamy Naidu
306
OEMI0674
Ghasit Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer of the Fatehpur Sikri tradition
dhrupad
0.18
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
0.188
Fatehpur Sikri
his father, Dulhe Khan. Haidar Khan
356
OEMI0648
Gami Khan
tabla player
Reputed tabla exponent of the Delhi gharaanaa
1882
Delhi
1956
06??
Lahore, Pakistan
Delhi gharaanaa
his father, Chhote Kale Khan
327
P00246
OEMI2265
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
rudra veena player
Noted rudra veena （biin） player
1929
Udaipur, Rajasthan
1990
0928
Mumbai
his father Ziauddin Dagar
1160
OEMI2275
Mehbob Khan
vocalist
Vocalist and composer, well-known by his pen-name 'Daras-piyaa'
0.1839
Atrauli
0.1915
Atrauli
his father Zahur Khan, Tanras Khan
666
P00207
OEMI2133
Tombi Singh
pung player
Veteran player of pung, the drum used in Manipuri dance; based in Imphal, Manipur
Imphal, Manipur
1905
Imphal region, Manipur
his father Y.Sanajaoba Singh, K. Koklei Singh, S. Themba Singh, and L. Kotrang Singh, etc...
1088
OEMI0667
Ghagge Nazir Khan
vocalist
Well-known khayaal singer
khayaal
0.1845
Agra
1910
Agra
Mewaati gharaanaa
his father Wazir Khan, Haddu Khan
353354