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
OEMI1490
Narayanrao Indorekar
tabla player
Tabla exponent
1907
0108
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
1989
0602
?
his father Gopalrao, Jahangir Khan, Gammi Khan
730
OEMI1065
Khagendranath Das
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1916
0908
Bilortarihat, Barpeta, Assam
his father Golok Chandra Das, paternal uncle Motilal Das, Bhatkhande College
543
OEMI0680
Ghulam Haidar Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Khurja, Uttar Pradesh
1920
?
Khurjaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
361
OEMI2256
Zahur Khan （Khurja）
vocalist,composer
Noted vocalist （dhrupad, hoori, and khayaal） and composer
kdhrupad, hoori,,hayaal
0.185
?
20
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
11571158
OEMI0845
Hussain Ali Khan
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
1850
Madhya Pradesh
?
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
436
OEMI1968
Shori-miya （Ghulam Nabi）
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer
0.174
?
1803
Lucknow
his father Ghulaam Rasool, Nawab Suja-ud-daulaa
973
OEMI1749
Ramapati Bandopadhyaya
composer
Composer of kavigaan and some other forms of Bengali music
Chandrakona, Midnapore, Bengal
1872
?
his father Gangabishnu
874
OEMI0975
Kader Bakhsh （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla player
1902
Lahore
?
his father Fakir Bakhsh
494
OEMI0478
Chikka Subba Rao
Noted veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
Mysore
?
?
his father Dodda Subba Rao
239
OEMI0457
Chhajju Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of the mid-19th cent.
Bijnor, Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
his father Dilawar Khan , Inayat Hussain Khan
230
OEMI1763
Ramdas Kamat
Well-known Marathi stage actor and singer
1931
0218
Goa
his father Dharma （Shantaram） Kamat
878
P00148
OEMI0663
Gaurishankar Devilal
Noted Kathak dancer
1918
Kanvari town, Rajasthan
1992
0220
Mumbai
his father Devilal, Shivlal and Sundar Prasad
350
OEMI1744
Ramanathan, M.D.
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1923
0520
Manjapara, Palakkad, Kerala
1984
0427
Chennai
his father Devesa Bhagavatar and Tiger Varadachariar
873
OEMI1738
Ramakanta Ata
Compser of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
1649
Bali Sattra
1717
in the present Vasudeva Than, on the banks of the Sowansiri, Lakhimpur district, Assam
his father Daamodara Aataa
872
P02301
OEMI0570
Dharmiklal Pandya
Noted exponent of Gujarati aakhyaan
1932
0811
Baroda,Gujarat
his father Chunilal Govindram Pandya
285
OEMI1167
Lakshminarayan Rajak
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
?
his father Chhotelal Rajak
591
OEMI2148
Umrao Khan （Rudra Vina）
rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena exponent of the Seni tradition
0.1788
?
0.184
probably Rewa
Seni
his father Chhote Naubat Khan, his uncle Nirmal Shah
1102
OEMI2252
Zaffar Khan
rabaab player
Eminent rabaab player
0.1776
?
?
0.184
?
Benares
Seni
his father Chhajju Khan
1157
OEMI0776
Haidar Bakhsh Khan
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
?
0.1875
?
the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
his father Changay Khan
399
OEMI1305
Maulaviram Misir
tabla player
Noted tabla player
0.188
?
Benares
1940
?
?
his father Biharilal
660
P00156
OEMI0875
Inder Lal Dhandra
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1930
Udaipur, Rajasthan
his father Bihari Lal
443
OEMI0315
Bauli Bakhsh
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
?
?
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
130
OEMI1548
Nizamuddin Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla performer of the Lucknow tradition
1932
Jawra, Madhya Pradesh
2000
0623
Mumai
Lucknow
his father Azim Bakhsh Jewerwale and Ahmedjan Thirakwa
766
OEMI0973
Kader Bakhsh
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
0.188
?
1934
?
his father Axim Bakhsh
494
OEMI1736
Ramachandran, V.A.
Mridangam player
1915
06??
Palakkad, Kerala
1993
1231
Hyderabad
his father Arunachala Sastrigal, Peethambara Desai, Sakotai Rangu Iyengar
871872
OEMI1947
Shanmuga Sundaram Pillai （Valangaiman）
Performer of the drum, tavil
1914
0402
Valangaiman, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
his father Arumugam Pillai and his elder brother, and also by a guru, Raghava Pillai
967
OEMI1182
Lalit Chandranath Ojha
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali and Deodhani dancer of Assam
1923
0211
Sipajhar, Darrang district, Assam
his father and Thanuram Kalita Ojha
594
OEMI1621
Phul Mohammad
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1926
12??
Baharampur, Murshidabad district, Bangladesh
his father and Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Kader Baksh, Ram Govind Pathak, Mehdi Hussain Khan （of Rampur）, Girija Shankar Chakravarti
809
OEMI0862
Imamuddin Dagar
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher of the 1920s and 1930s
dhrupad
?
?
his father and other elders in the family, elder brother Nasiruddin
439
OEMI0765
Gwaria Baba
vocalist
Vocalist and ascetic
1843
Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh
1938
near Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
his father and Dandi Swaami
395
P06356
OEMI0730
Gopeshwar Banerji
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of the Vishnupur gharaanaa
1880
Vishnupur, Bengal
1967
0729
Vishnupur
Vishnupur gharaanaa
his father Anantlal, his elder brother Ram Prasanna, Guru Prasad Mishra
376
OEMI0377
Bimal Mukherji
sitar player
Noted sitar player
1930
?
?
1997
01??
Kolkata
his father Amulya Chandra Mukherjee and Abid Hussain Khan who was earlier the guru of Amulya Chandra.
190
OEMI2269
Feroze Khan （Sitar）
composer,sitar player
Well-known composer of Feroze-khaani sitar-gat
0.17
probably Delhi
0.1768
Delhi
his father Amirkhan-Khusraukhan, Sadaarang
319
OEMI2241
Wazir Khan(Rampur)
rudra veena player
Eminent rudra veena exponent of his time.
1860
?
Rampur
1926
?
Ramupur
his father Amir Khan and his grandfather Bahadur Hussain Khan
11451146
OEMI1989
Sinde Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
1885
?
1950
0617
Mumbai
his father Amir Khan
978979
OEMI1937
Shamsuddin Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jaipur gharaanaa
Mumbai
19
?
1920
?
his father Amir Khan
965
OEMI1064
Khadim Hussain Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher of the Agra tradition
1905
Atrauli, Uttar Pradesh
1993
0111
Mumbai
his father Altaf Hussain Khan, grandfather Inayat Khan, paternal grand-uncle Mehboob Khan, maternal great grand-uncle Kallan Khan
543
OEMI2231
Wahid Hussain Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
1985
1103
Karachi,Pakistan
his father Altaf Hussain Khan
1143
OEMI1506
Nasiruddin Khan Dagar
Reputed dhrupad exponent
1889
0612
Indore
1936
0612
Indore
his father Allabande Khan and an uncle Zakiruddin Khan
733734
P06562
OEMI0306
Barkat Ali Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
Patiala, Punjab
1950
Lahore, Pakistan
his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale, his uncle Kale Khan
123
OEMI1924
Shahadat Hussain Khan
Sarod player
1958
07??
Comilla, Bangladesh
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
963
OEMI2085
Suresh-babu Mane
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1902
?
1953
0215
Miraj, Maharashtra
his father Abdul Karim Khan, mother Tarabai Barodekar, and an uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
10361037
P06724
OEMI1927
Shakor Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
1916
?
1975
1006
New Delhi
his father Abdul Gafoor Khan and uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
964
OEMI1923
Shahab Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Atraauli
his father （name not known）
963
OEMI1165
Lakshmideva
musician
Noted musician and dramatist
1780
Bardowa, Assam
1858
Bali Sattra
his father , Bhadradeva
590591
OEMI0869
Inayat Hussain Khan
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and founder of a prominent branch of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
1849
?
1919
Benares
the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
his father , Bahadur Hussain
441
OEMI0884
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
?
?
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
445
OEMI0902
Jagannath Kumhar
singer
Folk singer,born in a family of folk artisites
folk
Mathia Gosain village,Raisen district,Madhya Pradesh
?
his father
450
P06081
OEMI0028
Abid Hussain Khan(Rudra Vina)
Noted scion of the Jaipur gharaanaa
1908
?
Jaipur
1979
1210
Indore
Jaipur
his father
14
OEMI1493
Narayanrao Patwardhan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist, teacher, and radio executive
radio
1925
1125
Panchgani, Maharashtra
2000
0103
Delhi
his father
731
OEMI1343
Mohammad Ali Khan(Seni)
rabaab player
rabaab player
1834
Lucknow
1927
Gidhaur,Uttar Pradesh
his father
677678
OEMI0942
Jitendranath Bhattacharya
sitar player
Veteran of sitar in Bengal
Bengal
1877
Ranaghat,Bengal
1956
Kolkata
his father
480
OEMI1340
Mohammad Ali Khan(Benares)
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
?
1860
?
his father
677
OEMI1017
Kandaswami Pillai,M.N.
Mridangam player
1927
?
1995
0430
Chennai
his father
515
OEMI0933
Jivan Khan(Seni)
vocalist,
vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar
1748
most probably Jaipur
1790
princely state of Banda,Madhya Pradesh
his father
472
OEMI0114
Amir Khan(Sikandarabad)
vocalist
Vocalist
Sikandarabad,near Agra,Uttar Pradesh.
?
?
1860
?
Bihar
Rangile
his famous uncle Ramzan Khan Rangile
50
P01760
OEMI2249
Yunus Hussain Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist
1938
?
?
1991
0926
Delhi
Agra
his famous father,Vilayat Hussain Khan
1155
OEMI0258
Bal Chaturvedi
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
1919
07??
Mehboob Khan
his famous father Chandan Chaube
107
OEMI0016
Abdul Rahim Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.186
?
Delhi
0.193
?
probably Hyderabad
his family(Ghulam Gaus Khan and Tanras Khan
6
OEMI0603
Durgeswar Nath Oja
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
1927
0307
Pakadali, Darrang district, Assam
1994
0305
Pakadali, Assam
his family, and Cheniram Nath, Ghotaram, and Haliram Sarma
305306
OEMI0244
Badru Zaman Khan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
1938
Hyderabad
his family
98
OEMI1915
Shabbu Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Delhi gharaanaa
Hyderabad
?
0.1936
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Delhi
his family
962
OEMI0364
Bholanath Bhatt
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1894
?
Darbhanga,Bihar
1970
?
?
His family
179180
OEMI0179
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Agra
his family
78
OEMI0864
Imdad Khan （Agra）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.18
Agra
0.186
Agra
agra gharaanaa
his family
440
OEMI1933
Shambhu Prasad Tiwari
Noted pakhaawaj player
1885
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his eminent father Ayodhya Prasad
964
OEMI0850
Hussainuddin Dagar
vocalist
Well-known dhrupad vocalist
dhrupad
?
?
his eldest brother Nasiruddin
437
OEMI1544
Nityanandadeva
composer
Noted compser of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriya songs
Assamese
16051608
Assam
1650
Assam
his elder brother Ramadeva
764
OEMI0321
Bellari M. Seshagiriachar
vocalist, violinist
Well-known vocalist and violinist
1935
Bellari
1985
Bangalore
his elder brother Narasimha Murthy
135
OEMI2109
Tarini Charan Patra
vocalist
Noted vocalist.
1901
?
Pittal village,Ganjam district,Orissa
1979
0304
?
his elder brother Kamal Adika Parta
1067
OEMI1983
Siddharam Jadhav
Reputed player of sundri, a wind instrument of the blowin type
1927
0815
Mangalwedha, Solapur district, Maharashtra
his elder brother Baburao
976
P00896
OEMI0985
Kale Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
?
1942
Jaipur, Rajasthan
the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his elder brother Azim Bakhsh
502
OEMI0847
Hussain Khan Babbar
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.1795
?
0.187
?
his cousin Rahimsen
436
P00093
OEMI2171
Vasantrao Rajopadhye
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1913
1228
Satara district, Maharashtra
2008
1122
Mumbai
his brothers Narayanrao and Shankarrao Vyas
1118
P00145
OEMI0606
Dwaram Venkaraswamy Naidu
violinist
Eminent violinist
1893
11??
Bangalore, Karnataka
1964
1125
Hyderabad, Andhra
his brother, Venkata Krishnayya Naidu
306307
OEMI1907
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist who preserved the south Indian classicism of the masters of the mid-20th cent
1908
0725
Tirukodikaval, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
2003
0131
Chennai
his brother Narayanaswami Iyer
960961
P06130
OEMI0736
Govind Prasad Jaipurwale
vocalist
Vocalist of the tradition of what is stated as the Kuvar Syaam gharaanaa of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
1944
1110
?
1988
0212
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Kuvar Syaam
his better-known father Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale
380
P00227
OEMI2023
Sorokhaibam Naran Singh
Performer and teacher of Manipuri dance
1913
?
Khurai Kongapal Sajor,Manipur
Hijam Borajao Singh, Oinam Ibungo Singh and a few others
995
OEMI0427
Chammubai
vocalist
Delhi-based vocalist
Delhi
?
?
Hidayat Hussain, Mohammad Jan
214
P01099
OEMI0149
Anjanibai Malpekar
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
1883
0422
Malpe, Goa
1974
0807
Mumbai
Bhendi Bazaar
her vocalist-mother Nabubai, Sakharam-bua, Kashinath-bua
63
P02594
OEMI1985
Siddheshwari Devi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist, noted especially for thumrii, tappaa, and daadraa
1908
Benares
1977
0318
Delhi
her reputed grandmother, Badi Maina, Siyaji Maharaj, Bade Ramdasji
976
P05991
OEMI0657
Gangubai Hangal
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of yesteryears
1913
?
Dharwar, Karnataka
2009
0719
Dharwar
her mother, Ambabai
332
OEMI0658
Gauharjan
Singer-dancer, a legend in her lifetime
18705
probably Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
1929
Mysore
her mother, Adeline Victoria Hemmings, Becha Mishra, Ali Bakhsh, Nazir Khan
343344
P02182
OEMI0879
Indrani Rahman
dancer
Well-known exponent of Bharata Naatyam and Odissi
Bharata Naatyam
1930
0919
Chennai
1999
0207
New York
her mother Ragini Devi, Mohini Aattam
444
OEMI2103
Tanibai Ghorpade
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Kolhapur,Maharashtra
khayaal
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
1875
?
?
1931
?
Mumbai
her mother Krishna Kolhapurkarin and Alladiya Khan
1058
OEMI2129
Tiruvarur Rajayi
vocalist
Danseuse and vocalist
1896
0106
Tiruvarur,Tamil Nadu
1926
11??
Chennai
her granduncle,Gopalakrishna Nattuvanar
1084
OEMI2267
Zohrabai （Agrewali）
vocalist
Vocalist, rated topmost among the female singers of her time in north India
0.187
Agra
0.1911
Patna
Her first teacher was Ahmed Khan, later Mehboob Khan
11601161
OEMI2121
Thambalangoubi Devi,L.
Manipuri dance exponent
1930
0717
Imphal,Manipur
her father,L.Narahari Sharma
1072
OEMI1531
Nilamma Kadambai
veena player
Veena player
1908
?
1998
1214
Mysore
her father Venkatesachar and later from Mysore Venkatagiriappa
757
P03003
OEMI1995
Sitara Devi
Well-known Kathak danseuse
Mumbai
1920
Kolkata
her father Sukhdev Mishra, Achhan, Lachhu, and Shambhu Maharaj
986
OEMI0343
Bhanumathi, P.
Well-known singer-actress of Tamil, Telugu, and also a few Hindi films
1924
0907
Doddavaram, Guntur district, Andhra
2005
1224
Chennai
her father Bommaraju Benkatasubbiah
157
P00147
OEMI0665
Gavari Devi
vocalist,
Vocalist of Rajasthani folk music
1921
Jodhpur
1990
?
her father Bansilal, Jamunabai
350
P05928
OEMI0838
Hirabai Barodekar
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist and singer-actress of the Marathi stage
1905
0529
Miraj, Maharashtra
1989
1120
Pune, Maharashtra
her elder brother Sureshbabu Mane, her father Abdul Karim
431432
P01070
OEMI0148
Anjanibai Lolekar
vocalist
Vocalist
Mumbai
1928
Goa
Agra
her brother Yashwantao Lolekar, husband R.L. Borkar, Anwar Hussain Khan
62
OEMI0217
Bada Dikshit
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa
?
1883
Benares
Gwalior
Hassu Khan, Haddu Khan
93
OEMI2175
Vasudev-bua Joshi
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
?
0.189
Gwalior
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Hassu Khan
1118
OEMI0394
Bishnu Chandra Chakravarti
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of Aadi Brahmo Samaaj
dhrupad
1804
Kaetpura, near Ranaghat, Bengal
1900
Kolkata
Hasmukh Khan, Dilavar Khan, Miya Miran, Rahim Khan
195
OEMI0739
Govinda Marar （Shat-kala）
vocalist
Early 19th-cent. Karnatik vocalist
1798
Ramamangalam, Muvattupuzha district, Kerala
0.1842
Pandharpur, Maharashtra
Haripad Ramaswami Bhagvatar
380381
OEMI1334
Mitradev Mahanta
composer
composer
1894
Letugram Sattra,Jorhat,Assam
1983
Letugram Sattra
Harichandra Goswami,Niranjan Goswami
673
OEMI1218
Madhavi Mudgal
Odissi danseuse
1951
?
Delhi
Harekrishna Behra and Kelucharan Mahapatra
613