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
OEMI0001
Shrindhar Pandurang Prabhune
patron,
Music archivist and patron.
1886
0201
?
1973
0912
Pune, Maharashtra
1
OEMI0002
Abban Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
Dhrupad
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
1922
Saharanpur
Behnam Khan Dagar(c.1800-1887)
1
OEMI0003
Abbasuddin Ahmed
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Bengal
?
?
?
?
12
OEMI0004
Abudul Azis Khan
saarangi player
saarangi
0.1875
?
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
1946
?
?
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
2
OEMI0005
Abdul Aziz Khan
musician
Durbar musician of Dharampur
Dharampur
?
?
1940
?
Mumbai
2
OEMI0006
Abdul Gafur
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
?
?
?
?
2
OEMI0007
Abdul Gani Bayati
composer
Singer and composer,especially of zari
1909
?
Nurullahpur,Barisal district,Bangladesh
1978
0819
Dhaka
2
OEMI0008
Abdul Ghani Khan
sitar player
sitar player
?
Khajurgaon[present-day Rae Bareilly],Uttar Pradesh
1938
?
Khajurgaon
Azami Khan Kalpiwale
2
P00001
OEMI0009
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
sitar player
sitar player
1929
0218
Jawara,Madhya Pradesh
3
OEMI0010
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
?
?
?
?
3
OEMI0011
Abdul Kadar Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1910
?
Rajasthan
1970
0309
?
3
P06554
OEMI0012
Abdul Karim Khan
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist,doyen of the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
1872
1111
Kirana village,Saharanpur district,Uttar Pradesh
1937
1027
Singaperumalcoil railway station,Tamil Nadu
Kiraanaa
Abdulla Khan and Nanhe Khan and Abdul Rahman Khan
3
OEMI0013
Abdul Latif
composer
Singer and composer
1930
?
Barisal,Bangladesh
Surendranath Das
5
P06123
OEMI0014
Abdul Latif Khan
saarangi player
saarangi player
1934
0322
Gohad,Bhand district,Madhya Pradesh
2003
0423
?
Chhotu Khan and Udaya Khan and Sikandar Khan
5
OEMI0015
Abdul Majid Khan
saarangi player
Reputed saarangi player
0.1888
?
?
1977
0319
Mumbai
Abdulla Khan(d.1917)and Kale Khan
5
OEMI0016
Abdul Rahim Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.186
?
Delhi
0.193
?
probably Hyderabad
his family(Ghulam Gaus Khan and Tanras Khan
6
OEMI0017
Abdul Salam
composer
Composer,a contemporary of the famous Kazi Nazrul Islam(b.1899)
?
?
?
?
6
OEMI0018
Abdul Sattar
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
6
OEMI0019
Abdul Wahid Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1878
?
Kirana, Uttar Pradesh
0.1949
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
Haidar Bakhsh
6
OEMI0020
Abdulla Khan(Agra)
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa tradition
0.1873
Agra
19221919
?
?
Agra
7
OEMI0021
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Delhi
?
?
?
?
7
OEMI0022
Abdulla Khan(Sarod)
musician
Durber musician of Darbhanga state,Bihar
arbhanga state,Bihar
0.1843
?
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
0.1926
?
Darbhanga,Bihar
7
OEMI0023
Abha Alam
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1947
1226
Madaripur,Faridpur district,Bangladesh
1976
1121
Dhaka
Mithun Dey
8
P06689
OEMI0024
Abhay Narayan Mallick
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist and teacher
1937
?
Amta,Bihar
9
OEMI0025
Abhilasha
Author of Sangeet Chandra
south India
?
?
?
10
P00003
OEMI0026
Abhinava Gupta
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
?
?
?
?
11
OEMI0027
Abid Hussain Khan(Dhaka)
sitar player, sarod player
Sitar and sarod player
1928
0401
Shibpur,Comilla district
Ayet Ali Khan(brother of Allauddin Khan of Maihar)
14
P06081
OEMI0028
Abid Hussain Khan(Rudra Vina)
Noted scion of the Jaipur gharaanaa
1908
?
Jaipur
1979
1210
Indore
Jaipur
his father
14
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
OEMI0030
Abraham Panditar
Scholar,music activist,and a pioneer of music conferences
1859
0802
Sambavar Vadakarai,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
1919
0831
?
Sadayandi Pattar and a local naagaswaram player(name not available)
15
P02937
OEMI0031
Acharyalu,C.R.
Kuchipudi dance guru
?
?
1998
0322
Ahmedabad
16
OEMI0032
Acheria
Singer and actress of the early 20th cent
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
16
OEMI0033
Achhan Maharaj
Legendary Kathak dancer of Lucknow
0.1888
?
Lucknow
1946
?
?
Kalkadin Prasad and Bindadin Prasad
17
OEMI0034
Achpal-miya
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbabr of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
0.178
?
Delhi
0.1854
?
?
Delhi Qavvaal
17
OEMI0035
Achrekar,G.B.
musician
Musician and teacher
1885
?
Achre,Ratnagiri district,Maharashtra
1939
0603
Mumbai
17
OEMI0036
Achyutappa Nayak
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
17
OEMI0037
Adarang(Feroze Khan)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of the durbar
0.1692
?
?
0.1776
?
Delhi
Sadaarang
19
OEMI0038
Adiappayya(Pachhimiriyam)
composer
Composer of Karnatik music,and guru of Syaamaa Saastri
?
?
?
?
21
OEMI0039
Adibhatla Narayana Dasa
Well-known Harikathaa performer and teacher
1864
?
?
1945
?
?
21
OEMI0040
Adil Shah Sur
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
1524
?
?
1557
?
?
22
OEMI0041
Afaq Hussain Khan
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
1930
0712
Lucknow
1990
0219
?
Lucknow
Abid Hussaion Khan and Wajad Hussain Khan
22
OEMI0042
Afruddin Khan
Qavvaali singer
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0043
Aftabuddin Khan
Instrumentalist
0.1862
?
Shibpur,Bangladesh
1933
?
?
Ramdhan and Ramkanai Sheel(violin),and other instruments from Kasim Ali
23
OEMI0044
Afzal Hussain
vocalist
Vocalist
1916
0801
Nagina,near Lucknow
Muhammad Hussain
23
OEMI0045
Aga Amir
vocalist,
Vocalist of Peshawar
Pakistan
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0046
Aga Hashra Kashmiri
Urdu and Hindi playwright
1879
04??
Benares,Uttar Pradesh
1945
0428
Lahore[now in Pakistan]
23
OEMI0047
Aga Shergul
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Pakistan
?
?
?
?
23
P02378
OEMI0048
Agat A. Sangma
vocalist, instrumentalist
Vocalist and instrumentalist
1945
?
Selbalgre,West Garo Hills,Meghalaya
23
OEMI0049
Aghawan
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Unav,near Lucknow
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0050
Aghornath Chakraborti
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
?
Rajpur village of 24 Parganas,Bengal
1920
Benares
Murad Ali Khan, Daulat Khan, and Srijanbai
2324
OEMI0051
Ahmad Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0052
Ahmad Faraz
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Peshawar,Pakistan, and London
1931
1212
Noushera,Pakistan
27
OEMI0053
Ahmad Hussain Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer and teacher at Bhatkhande College of Music
dhrupad
Lucknow
1887
?
Thakurganj, Lucknou
1963
1123
Lucknow
27
OEMI0054
Ahmad Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of llate 18th cent.,
?
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0055
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
singer
An early singer for disc-records
?
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0056
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
?
27
OEMI0057
Ahmed Ali Khan
Distinguished sarod player
0.1875
?
Rampur
1920
?
Rampur
2728
OEMI0058
Ahmedijan Thirakawa Khan
tabla player
tabla maestro
?
0.1874
?
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
1976
0112
Lucknow
28
OEMI0059
Ahobal Pandit
author
Well-known author of Sangeet Paarijaat(16th cent.)
probably born near Benares
?
?
?
?
29
OEMI0060
Ahoran Simson Ashtamkar
Poet and autor of Keertan-aakhyaans on Jewish devotional themas, in Marathi
1856
?
Mumbai
1894
?
Mumbai
29
OEMI0061
Ajan Fakir (Shah Milan)
composer
Seventeeth-century Assamese composer of Jilirs
?
?
?
Saraguri
29
OEMI0062
Ajay Bardan
Flute player
Kolkata
1917
?
Comilla, now in Bangladesh
1991
0328
Mumbai
29
OEMI0063
Ajoy Bhattacharya
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
?
?
?
?
2930
P00112
OEMI0064
Ajoy Chakrabarty
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Kolkata
1953
?
Kolkata
30
OEMI0065
Ajoy Sinha Roy
sitar player
Sitar player
Kolkata
1920
1201
?
30
OEMI0066
Akbar (Emperor)
patron,
Mughal Emperor, great patron of the arts
1542
1123
Amarkot, Rajasthan
1605
?
Agra
3031
OEMI0067
Akbar Allahabadi
Noted Urdu poet of grazals and such other forms
1864
1116
?
1921
0909
Allahabad
31
OEMI0068
Akil Ahmed Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
?
?
?
?
Agra
33
OEMI0069
Akshay Chowdhury
composer
Poet and composer of patriotic songs in Bengali
?
?
?
?
34
OEMI0070
Alain Danielou
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Indian heritage
France
1907
1004
Paris
1994
0127
?
34
OEMI0071
Alamsen
Eminent dhrupad exponent
0.183
?
Gwalior
0.19
?
Gwalior
34
P00114
OEMI0072
Alarmel Valli
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
1956
?
Chennai, Ttamil Nadu
36
P00113
OEMI0073
Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
shehnai player
Noted shehnai player
Kolkata
1939
0321
?
37
OEMI0074
Ali Bakhsh I
vocalist
Vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
?
?
37
OEMI0075
Ali Bakhsh (Khyal)
writer
Writer of khyaals, a form of folk opera of Rajasthan
khyaals, a form of folk opera of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
1864
?
Mandawar, in the former state of Alwar, Rajasthan
1902
?
Mandawar
3738
P00114
OEMI0076
Ali Bakhsh Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the reputed duo Alia-Fattu
0.185
?
?
1925
?
?
38
OEMI0077
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
?
Seni
38
OEMI0078
Ali Hussain Khan (Rudra Vina)
Veteran of the Sahaswan gharaanaa
Mumbai
185055
?
Lucknow
0.193
?
?
Sahaswan
38
OEMI0079
Ali Mohammad Khan (Badku-miya)
sursingaar player
Well-known sursingaar player, descendant of Taansen
?
0.1824
?
Lucknow
0.1885
?
Benares
38
OEMI0080
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
?
?
?
?
?
38
OEMI0081
Alimulla Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
39
OEMI0082
Aliya Lingaraja Urs
patron,
Royal patron of Mysore
Mysore
1823
?
?
1874
?
?
39
OEMI0083
Alla Rakhi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
39
OEMI0084
Allabande Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Dagar lineage
?
0.1875
?
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
1925
?
Alwar, Rajasthan
39
OEMI0085
Alladiya Khan (Jaipur-Atrauli)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Mumbai
1855
0810
Uniyara, a former principality in Rajasthan
1946
0316
Mumbai
3941
OEMI0086
Alladiya Khan (Sarangi, Biturwale)
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Jind, Punjab
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0087
Allah Bandi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0088
Allah Dad Dhadhi
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0089
Allah Jilaibai
Singer of Rajasthani folk music
?
?
Bikaner, Rajasthan
1998
0903
?
41
P00004
OEMI0090
Allah Rakha Khan
tabla player
Celebrated tabla maestro
?
1919
0429
Gurdaspur, Punjab
2000
0203
Mumbai
4142
OEMI0091
Allahdi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Delhi
?
?
?
?
42
P00005
OEMI0092
Allauddin Khan (Maihar)
musician
Celebrated guru and all-round musician
?
0.1881
?
Shibpur, Tripura
1972
0906
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
4243
P06115
OEMI0093
Altaf Hussain Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
?
0.1878
?
Khurja, near Delhi
1964
?
Delhi
Khurjaa
44
OEMI0094
Altaf Mahmud
Singer and music director
?
1930
1220
Barisal, Bangladesh
1971
0830
Dhaka
4445
OEMI0095
Aman Ali Khan (Lucknow)
vocalist
Vocalist
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
Qavvaal-bachhe
45
OEMI0096
Aman Ali Khan (Mumbai)
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and teacher of the Bhendi Bazaar gharaanaa
?
1888
?
Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh
1953
0211
Mumbai
Bhendi Bazaar
4546
OEMI0097
Amanat Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
0.1928
?
probably Narsingarh, Madhya Pradesh
1968
0103
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
46
OEMI0098
Amara Ranatunga
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
1939
0822
Sri Lanka
46
OEMI0099
Amara Simha
patron,
Patron and playwright
?
?
?
?
?
46
OEMI0100
Amaradeva,W.D.
violinist
Noted singer,music director,and violinist
Sri Lanka
1927
1205
Koralavalla,Moratuva,Sri Lanka
46

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