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
OEMI0997
Kalyana Krishna Bhagavatar
Eminent veena player
1846
?
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
1888
?
Thiruvananthapuram
his father Venkatadri Bhagavatar
506
OEMI2003
Sivaramayya
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer of the Mysore durbar
1886
Mysore
1946
?
his father Veena Padmanabhayya, Veena Seshanna
988
OEMI0113
Amir Khan(Seni,Rampur)
vocalist, rudra veena player,
Reputed rudra veena player,proficient as a vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar as well.
0.182
?
Banda,Uttar Pradesh
0.1873
?
Rampur
his father Umrao Khan
50
OEMI0788
Hamid Hussain Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player and teacher
?
1950
Lucknow
his father Tullan Khan, uncle Turab （or Turav） Khan
401
OEMI0982
Kalamani Handique
Well-known singer of Assamese dihaa-naam
1923
11??
Balihat, near Jhanji, Jorhat district, Assam
1991
1020
Balihat
his father Tolan Handique
500
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
P00154
OEMI0818
Harishankar, G.
Performer of the rhythm instrument khanjiraa
1958
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2002
0211
?
his father Thukharamarao Govindrao, Rammathapuram Murugabhoopathy, Palakkad Mani Iyer
416
OEMI1495
Nariswar Sarma Barua
teacher
Well-known teacher
1911
0112
Dipila,Darrang district,Assam
1986
1011
Dipila
his father Tapeswar Sarma and Chandrakantadeva Sarma
731
OEMI2077
Suratsen
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1539
Rewa, Madhta Pradesh
0.1615
Agra
his father Taansen
1034
P00100
OEMI1508
Nataraja Sundaram Pillai,T.S.
Naagaswaram player
Naagaswaram player
1896
0430
?
1994
0312
Chennai
his father T.Swaminatha Pillai
739
OEMI2113
Tatachar,T.S.
violinis
Veteran violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik
1917
05??
Pavgada,Tumkur district,Karnataka
2001
1208
Bangalore
his father T.Srinivasachar,uncle T.Seshachar,Krishnamachar(veena),and Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma
1068
P00037
OEMI0794
Hanuman Prasad Mishra
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player and teacher
1914
Benares
1999
1129
Benares
his father Sursahai Mishra, Bade Ramdasji
408
OEMI2199
Vidur Mallick
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist and teacher
1936
Amta village, near Darbhanga, Bihar
2002
0721
?
Darbhanga Dhrupad gharaanaa
his father Sukhdev Mallick
11261127
P00213
OEMI1751
Ramasray Jha
scholar,vocalist
Noted scholar, university teacher, author, and vocalist
Allahabad
1928
0811
Khajura town, Darbhanga, Bihar
2009
0101
Kolkata
his father Sukhdev Jha, uncle Madhusudan Jha
875
OEMI0824
Hassan Khan Seni
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
0.166
?
0.173
?
his father Sughar （or Sudhar） Khan
418419
OEMI0536
Dattu-bua Inamdar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of Hindustani music
1908
?
Targao,Dharwad district, Karnataka
1986
0927
?
his father Srinivas-bua Thakurdas
260
OEMI0670
Ghanshyamdas Pakhawaji
Pakhaawaj player
1880
Rajasthan
0.1915
?
his father Shankarlal
354355
P06425
OEMI0767
Habibuddin Khan
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
1899
Meerut
1972
0720
?
the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
his father Shammu Khan, Munir Khan
396
OEMI0236
Bade Mohammad Khan
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and innovator
1755
probably Lucknow
1840
?
his father Shakkar Khan, his uncle Makkhan Khan
97
OEMI1451
Nanhe Khan （Vocal, Kirana）
vocalist?
Vocalist?
?
?
Kiraanaa
his father Shahab Khan
723
P05932
OEMI0111
Amir Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of exceptional merit.
1912
04??
Akola,Maharashtra
1974
0213
Kolkata
Bhendi Bazaar
his father Shah Mir Khan(d.1937)
4950
OEMI2026
Srichand Misra
tabla player
Tabla player
0.19
?
Benares
0.197
?
?
his father Sarju Misra and uncle Bikku Maharaj
1008
OEMI1731
Rama Poduval N.P.
vocalist
Veteran singer of sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
Alanalloor, Kerala
his father Sankunni Poduval, famous Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
870871
OEMI2146
Umar Khan
Sarod player
Kolkata
?
1982
0222
Dhaka, Bangladesh
his father Sakhawat Hussain Khan
1102
OEMI0103
Amvadas-pant Agali
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1920
?
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
1972
?
?
his father Sakharam-pant Agale in the Panse tradition
47
OEMI0863
Imdad Hussain Khan
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
0.1848
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
1920
Indore
his father Sahabdad Hussain Khan
439440
OEMI0368
Bhupat Khan(Maharang)
rudra veena player
A master of rudra veena in the Seni tradition.
0.1696
?
?
0.1778
?
?
Seni
his father Sadaarang
183
P00137
OEMI0393
Bishan Dass Sharma
Maker of musical instruments
Delhi
1929
Lahore
his father Rikhi Ram Sharma
195
OEMI2177
Vedantam Prahlada Sarma
Noted Kuuchipuudi dancer and teacher
1923
Kuchipudi village, Andhra
his father Rattayya Sarma and two other gurus Lakshmi Narayana Sastri and Vempati Venkata Narayana
1119
OEMI1760
Ramchatur Mallik
Reputed dhrupad singer
1906
1005
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
1990
0111
Basti, near Patna
his father Ranjitram Mallik, uncle Kshitipal Mallik
877878
P02258
OEMI0685
Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
Singer of Sufiaanaa Kalaam of Kashmir
1940
Srinagar, Kashmir
his father Ramzan Joo, his uncle Mohammad Siddiq
362
OEMI1149
Lachmi Prasad Mishra
vocalist
Noted vocalist and instrumentalist
1860
Sonpuna, Benares
1929
1207
Kolkata
his father Ramkumar Mishra
585
OEMI1732
Ramachandra Ata
composer
Composer of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
1687
Narowa Sattra, Vasudeva Than, Assam
1752
?
his father Ramaakaanta Aataa
871
OEMI1713
Rajkumar Priyogopal Sana
Well-known exponent of Manipuri dance, also an expert in Manipuri martial arts
1910
Imphal, Manipur
his father Rajkumar Suryaboro Singh
866
OEMI0216
Azmatullah Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the mid-19th cent.
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
Agra region
his father Rahmatullah Khan
91
OEMI1074
Khudratullah Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Hyderabad, Andhra, during the reign of Nizam Mir Mehboob Ali Khan
Hyderabad, Andhra,
1830
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
1920
?
his father Rahmatullah Khan
554
OEMI0124
Amritsen
sitar player
Sitar and surabin （string） maestro
0.1813
Jhajjar, near Delhi
0.1893
Jaipur
his father Rahimsen
5253
OEMI1071
Khapru-mama Parvatkar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1880
Parvat village, Goa
1953
0903
Parvat village
his father Raghuvir-mama
547
OEMI0272
Balaswami Dikshitar
vocalist, violinist
Vocalist and the first violinist in south Indian music.
1786
0621
Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
1858
0216
Ettayapuram,Tamil Nadu
His father Raamaswaami and elder brother,Muthuswaami Diikshitar
112
OEMI1743
Ramananda Dvija
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
his father Raamadeva Aataa
873
OEMI2120
Thakur Prasad
Eminent Kathak exponent of the 19th-cent.
?
?
1856
?
Lucknow
his father Prakash Prasaad and Wajid Ali Shah
1072
OEMI1514
Natthan Pir Bakhsh
vocalist
Khayaal pioneer of Gwalior
khayaal
0.176
?
Gwalior
0.1837
?
Gwalior
his father Pir Bakhsh
741
OEMI0165
Appu Marar （Pallavor）
Performer of chendaa, edakka, and taayambakaa
1928
Thiruvanjikkulam, Kochi region, Kerala
his father Patturaikkal Sankara Marar, Adantha Kontha Swamy
71
OEMI0967
Jyotiprasad Agarwala
musician
Well-known Assamese musician and pioneer of the cinema and modern deama in Assam
he cinema and modern deama in Assam
Assam
1903
0617
Tamolbari Tea Estate, Dibrugarh district, Assam
1953
Tezpur
his father Paramananda Agarwala and uncle Gopal Chandra
490
P00130
OEMI0261
Durga Lal
Noted Kathak dancer
1948
?
Mahendragadh, Rajasthan
1990
0131
Delhi
his father Omkar Lai, and Sunder Prasad, and Devi Lal
304
OEMI2240
Wazir Khan(Hapur)
vocalist
Noted vocalist
?
?
?
?
his father Nizam Khan
1145
P00081
OEMI1724
Ram Narayan
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
Mumbai
1927
1225
Udaipur
his father Nathuji Biawat, Uday Lal
869
OEMI1503
Nasir Faiyazuddin Khan Dagar
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
dhrupad
1934
?
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
1989
0207
New Delhi
his father Nasiruddin Khan Dagar and Nasir Moinuddin and Nasir Aminuddin Khan
733
P06047
OEMI1502
Nasir Aminuddin Dagar
vocalist
dhrupad vocalist
dhrupad
1924
1220
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
his father Nasiruddin Khan Dagar
733
OEMI1504
Nasir Moinuddin Dagar
vocalist
Well-known dhrupad vocalist
dhrupad
1921
0512
Alwar,Rajasthan
1966
0524
?
his father Nasiruddin Khan and other elders in the family network
733
P05786
OEMI0769
Hafiz Ali Khan
Sarod maestro of the lineage of Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
1888
Rewa, Madhya Pradesh
1972
1228
Delhi
Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Nanhe Khan, uncle Murad Ali Khan,
397398
P00033
OEMI0715
Gopal Krishna
Noted vichitra veena player
Delhi
his father Nand Kishore, Khubchand Brahmchari
372
OEMI2235
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
composer
Illustrious disciple of composer Tyaagaraaja
1781
0218
probably Ayyampettai,former kingdom of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
1874
?
Walajapet,near Chennai
his father Nalluswaamy
1144
OEMI1752
Ramaswami Dikshitar
composer,vocalist
Well-known composer and vocalist
1735
Virinjiouram near Kanchipuram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
0.1817
Thanjavur
his father Muthuswaami Diikshitar, Melattur Veerabhadrayya, Venkata Vaidyanatha Diikshitar
875
OEMI0322
Bellari M. Venkatesachar
vocalist
Vocalist
Mysore
1933
Bellari, Karnataka
his father Mundaragi Raghavendrachar, his elder brother Narasimha
135
OEMI1270
Maniram
vocalist
Reputed vocalist in the Mewaati tradition
1910
?
Hissar,Haryana
1985
0516
?
his father Motiram
640
P01269
OEMI0219
Baba Nasir Ahmed Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
1880
Hyderabad
1944
Delhi
his father Mohammad Siddiq Khan
92
OEMI0238
Bade Munne （Tabla）
0.1845
?
0.1905
Lucknow
his father Mohammad Khan, Mamman Khan
97
OEMI0248
Bahadur Khan （Seni）
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
0.1762
?
0.1805
Delhi
his father Masit Khan
102
OEMI2253
Zahur Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpu
?
Atrauli
0.19
?
Jodhapur
Jodhpur
his father Mantol Khan
1157
OEMI0841
Hiru Ganguli
tabla player
Noted tabla player
1911
Bhawanipur, near Kolkata
1990
Kolkata, mid-
his father Manmathnath and later from Abid Hussain Khan, Nagendranath Basu
432
OEMI0771
Hafiz Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.185
Jaipur
0.1909
?
his father Mammu Khan
398
OEMI1184
Lalit Mohan Mukhopadhya
vocalist
Talented dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1898
Kolkata
1944
Kolkata
his father Mahindra Nath
595
OEMI1766
Ramji-bhaiyya Agnihotri
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1905
0611
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
1982
0630
?
his father Madhava Rao
879
P05937
OEMI1951
Sharafat Hussain Khan
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
1930
07??
Agra
1985
07??
Delhi
Gwaalior
his father Liyaqut Hussain Khan, Faiyaz Khan, his maternal uncle Ata Hussain and father-in-law Vilayat Hussain Khan
968
OEMI0302
Bapurao Ketkar
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage and teacher
1898
?
Ramdurg, Maharashtra
1954
1129
Pune, Maharashtra
his father Laxmanrao, Bhaskar-bua Bakhle
121
OEMI1077
Khushal Khan
vocalist
Vocalist, the foremost luminary of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
0.16
Agra
168090
Delhi
his father Laai Khan Seni
555
P00163
OEMI0998
Kalyana Sundaram,K.
Bharata Naatyam teacher and choreographer
1932
?
Tiruvidaimarudur,Tamil Nadu
his father Kuppayya Pillai,brother Mahalingam Pillai and some others within the family
506
OEMI1485
Narayanaswamy, K. （Umayalpuram）
Ghatam player
1929
0504
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
his father Kothandarama Iyer
729
P00168
OEMI1066
Khaidem Lokeshwar Singh
Manipuri dance exponent
1920
Imphal
1990
?
his father Khoidong Singh, Ojha Chaoba Singh, Khoidum Sharma, Tharongoubi Devi
543
OEMI1769
Ramkrishna Parvatkar
vocalist,
Vocalist and tabla player
?
1959
0214
?
his father Khapru-mama Parvatkar, Ahmedjan Thirakwa[tabla], Bashir Khan, Ratnakant Ramnathkar [vocal]
880
OEMI2190
Venkataramaiah, K.S. （'Papa'）
violinist
Violinist
1901
0912
?
1972
0317
?
his father Karur Srikantayya and Govindaswami Pillai
1123
OEMI1380
Muktaram Barua
Singer and Deodhani dancer
1932
03??
Rainakuchi village, Darrang district,Assam
his father Kalaram
692
OEMI1516
Natthu Khan
vocalist
Eminent exponent of the Gwaalior Khayaal gharaanaa
khayaal
18
?
?
0.1884
?
?
Gwaalior khayaal
his father Kader Bakhsh
741
P00231
OEMI2060
Suleman Juma Jumani
Veteran of folk music of Kutch, Gujarat
folk music
Kutch, Gujarat
1905
Kutch
his father Juma Jumani and Langa Bachhu Ustad
1029
P00071
OEMI1533
Nikhil Banerji
sitar player
Reputed sitar player
1931
1014
Kolkata
1986
0127
?
his father Jitendra Banerji, Mustaq Ali Khan, Radhika Mohan Moitra, Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Annapurna Devi
760
OEMI1538
Nirmal Shah
rudra veena player
Eminent performer of the rudra veena
0.176
Lucknow
0.183
Benares
his father Jeevan Shah
762
OEMI0783
Haidar Khan Seni
vocalist
A master of dhrupad and dhamaar
dhrupad,dhamaar
0.177
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
0.184
?
his father Jeevan Khan,
400
OEMI0249
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
Eminent exponent
0.1765
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
102
OEMI0229
Bacha Mishra
tabla player
Well-known tabla exponent of the Benares gharaanaa
1876
Benares
1926
?
Benares
his father Jagannath Mishra
94
OEMI1978
Shyam Sundar Dhir
vocalist
Vocalist
1897
Gadamadhupur, Cuttack, Orissa
1988
0116
?
his father Jagabandhu Dhir, Hanuman Prasad Jaipurwale and Ram Prasad
975
P05656
OEMI2205
Vilayat Khan
sitar player
Highly acclaimed sitar maestro of the 20th cent.
1927
0820
Gouripur, Mymensingh district [now in Bangladesh]
2004
0312
Mumbai
his father Inayat Khan, his mother Bashiran Bibi, maternal uncle Zinda Hassan Khan, and maternal grandfather Bande Hossan Khan, his paternal uncle Wahid Khan, Dhruba Tara Joshi and Bimla Kanta Roy Choudhuri
11291130
OEMI0870
Inayat Hussain Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player ?
1894
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
1938
Kolkata
his father Imdad Khan, Allabande Khan, Daulat Khan, Alladiya Khan
441442
OEMI2233
Wahid Khan（Sitar）
sitar player
Well-known sitar and surbahaar player
1895
?
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
his father Imdad Khan
1144
OEMI2257
Zahur Khan （Sikandarabad）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
his father Imam Khan, Mehboob Khan and Natthan Khan
1158
OEMI0253
Bahram Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Jaipur durbar, and a stalwart of the Dagar tradition
dhrupad
1800
Ambaitha, Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh
0.188
Jaipur
His father Imam Khan, Baba Kalidas
104
P00692
OEMI0681
Ghulam Hussain Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
?
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Imam Khan
361
P02334
OEMI0852
Ibopishak Sharma
Manipuri dance guru
1918
0402
Imphal, Manipur
his father Iboton Sharma, Higoksana Singh, Aton Singh, Gourachandra Sharma, Amudon Sharma
438
OEMI1447
Nanhe Khan （Mumbai）
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
Gujarat and Mumbai
0.1872
?
0.194
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh, his elder brother Ghasit Khan
722
P00699
OEMI0690
Ghulam Sabir Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Moradabad
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh
363
OEMI1449
Nanhe Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla player?
1850
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
0.1915
probably Kolkata
his father Hussain Ali, Vilayat Ali
723
OEMI0867
Inayat Ali Khan
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
1790
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
0.1883
Dhaka
his father Hussain Ali Khan
440441
OEMI1154
Lakpati Singh Leimapokapam
Singer of Manipuri nata sankeertana songs
1953
0812
Imphal, Manipur
his father Herachandra Singh, and mother Ibemhal Devi, Birahari Singh, Tolpishak Singh, Chaoba Singh, Gulapi Singh
587
OEMI0754
Gulab Khan （Seni）
vocalist,rabaab player
Dhrupad singer and rabaab player
dhrupad
0.17
Delhi
0.1768
Jaipur, Rajasthan
his father Hassan Khan Seni
386
P06009
OEMI1083
Kishan Maharaj
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
1923
0903
Benares
2008
0504
Benares
his father Hari Maharaj, paternal uncle Kanthe Maharaj
559
OEMI0634
Fida Hussain Khan(Vocal)
member of the Baroda durbar for nearly 20 years
Baroda
1883
?
Rampur
1948
?
Badayum,Uttar Pradesh
his father Haidar Khan
320
P05908
OEMI0120
Amjad Ali Khan
Well-known sarod player of an admirable instrumental tradition,traced to Bangash,Afghanistan.
Delhi
1945
1009
Gwalior
his father Hafiz Ali Khan
51
OEMI1055
Keshav-bua Ingle
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa and teacher
?
?
Gwalior
his father Gundo-bua Ingle
540
OEMI2245
Yashin Khan
vocalist
vocalist
1935
?
Dhaka,Bangladesh
his father Gul Mohammad Khan
1153
P06519
OEMI0707
Gokul Nag
sitar player
Noted sitar and surbahaar player
1908
Bankura district, Bengal
1983
0325
Kolkata
his father Govinda Nag
371