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
OEMI2179
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Thanjavur
?
?
1120
OEMI2178
Virabhadrayya （Melattur）
composer
Composer （18th cent.）
Melattur, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
1120
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
OEMI2176
Vasuki
Ancient authority
?
?
1118
OEMI2175
Vasudev-bua Joshi
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
?
0.189
Gwalior
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Hassu Khan
1118
P00206
OEMI2174
Vasudevan Nambodiri （Nelliyodu）
Kathakali artiste
1940
Ernakulam district, Kerala
Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair, etc...
1118
OEMI2173
Vasudevan （Neyyantinkara）
vocalist
Vocalist
1940
Neyyaantinkara, central Kerala
Ramnad Krishnan and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
1118
OEMI2172
Vasudev Narayan Dongre
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1850
?
1905
?
1118
P00093
OEMI2171
Vasantrao Rajopadhye
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1913
1228
Satara district, Maharashtra
2008
1122
Mumbai
his brothers Narayanrao and Shankarrao Vyas
1118
OEMI2170
Vasantrao Kulkarni
teacher
teacher
1917
Maharashtra
1997
0303
Mumbai
Gwaalior and Agra
Anant Manohar Joshi, Jagannath-bua Purohit, Khadim Hussain Khan
1118
OEMI2169
Vasantrao Deshpande
vocalist, actor-singer
vocalist, actor-singer
1920
0502
Murtijapur, Maharashtra
1983
0730
Pune, Maharashtra
Suresh-babu Mane, Amanat Ali Khan, Gandharva Mahavidyalaya
11171118
P01704
OEMI2168
Vasanthakumari, M.L.
vocalist
vocalist
1928
0603
Chennai
1990
1031
Chennai
Ayyaswami Ayyar, Madras Lalithangi, G.N.Balasubramaniam, Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer, Vasanthakumari
11161117
OEMI2167
Vasant Amrit
vocalist
vocalist
1902
0119
Surat, Gujarat
1991
0119
Surat
Abdul Karim Khan
1116
OEMI2166
Varahappa Dikshit Pandit
patron, veena player, pianist
patron, veena player, pianist
1795
Thanjavur
1869
Thanjavur
Dharmayya Ramaswamayya
1114
OEMI2165
Varadarao Kamalakar Rao
Mridangam player
1937
Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh
V.V.Narayan Sastry, Yella Somanna, Palghat Mani Iyer
1114
OEMI2164
Vansiali
poet
?
?
1114
OEMI2163
Vangamani
author
?
?
1113
OEMI2162
Vanasri Rao
kuuchipuudi danseuse
?
?
1112
OEMI2161
Vamanrao Deshpande
vocalist
author, vocalist
1908
?
1990
0207
Pune, Maharashtra
Yadavrao Joshi, Suresh-babu Mane, Natthan Khan, Mogubai Kurdikar
1112
OEMI2160
Vaman-bua Chaphekar
vocalist
vocalist
1879
Miraj, Maharashtra
1964
?
Balkrishna-bua
1112
OEMI2159
Vaikunta Sastri
composer
composer
?
?
1108
OEMI2158
Vaidyanatha Iyer (Thanjavur)
mridangam player
1895
Vaiyacheri, near Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
1947
0413
?
Doss Swamigal, Kannuswami Nattuvanar, K.Ponnayya Pillai, Subbayya Bhagavatar
1108
OEMI2157
Vaidiswarankoil
composer
composer
?
?
1108
OEMI2156
Vadyanadha Iyer
singer
disc-record singer of south India
?
?
1107
OEMI2155
Vadiraja
author of dance-dramas and songs
Hoovinakere, Kundapurtaluk, Karnataka
?
1107
OEMI2154
Vadammal
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
11061107
OEMI2153
Uttam Singh (Bhai)
Sabad keertan performer and teacher of Amritsar, Punjab.
?
?
Bhai Gurmukh Singh, Bhai Harsa Singh
1104
OEMI2152
Utpala Deva
Abhinava Gupta's parama-guru in Saiva theology.
?
?
1104
OEMI2151
Urmila Singh
singer
Contemporary folk singer
folk
?
Radhesharan Singh
1104
OEMI2150
Upanishad Brahma Yogi
musician
Musician-philosopher
Sri Lanka
?
?
Vaasudevendra
1103
OEMI2149
Umrao Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1845
0.192
Hyderabad
his illustrious father Tanras Khan
1102
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
OEMI2147
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Assam
?
?
1102
OEMI2146
Umar Khan
Sarod player
Kolkata
?
1982
0222
Dhaka, Bangladesh
his father Sakhawat Hussain Khan
1102
P00240
OEMI2145
Uma Sharma
Kathak danseuse, recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1987
?
（Kathak） Sunder Prasad, Shambhu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj, （Raas dance of Vrindavan） Ladli Sharanji Sharma and Devaki Nandanji
1102
OEMI2144
Ulsor Krishna Iyer
vocalist
Durbar vocalist of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar r.1799-1860 of Mysore state
?
?
Syaamaa Saastri
1102
OEMI2143
Ujir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
?
?
Jaipur
1101
P00239
OEMI2142
Uday Shankar
A legend in dance, a pioneer of modern Indian ballet
1900
1208
Udaipur
1977
0926
Kolkata
Anna Pavlova, Sankaran Namboodiri
11001101
OEMI2141
Tyagaraja Bhagavatar, M.K.
singer-actor
Famous singer-actor of Tamil films of the pre-1950s
Tamil films
1910
0301
Mayavaram, Tamil Nadu
1959
1101
Chennai
the Alathur Brothers, Papanasam Sivan, and Vaithikulam Swamigal
1099
OEMI2140
Tyagaraja
vocalist,composer
Celebrated composer and vocalist, of saintly status, often referred to as Tyaagaraaja Swaami
1767
0504
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1847
0106
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district
10971098
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
OEMI2138
Tulaja the Second
Maratha king of Thanjavur （r.1763-87）
?
?
1095
OEMI2137
Tulaja the First
Maharaja of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
1095
OEMI2136
Tukaram （Sant）
Saint-poet whose name is Synonymous with Marathi abhangs
1598
Dehu, near Pune, Maharashtra
1650
Dehu
10941095
OEMI2135
Trimohanlal
Pioneer artiste, writer, and producer of swaang and nautanki of the Kanpur style
?
?
1089
OEMI2134
Tourangbam Nadia Singh
Performer of Manipuri dance
1923
1015
Imphal, Manipur
Maisnam Amubi Singh, Haobam Atomba Singh, Takhelchangbam Amudon Sharma
1088
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
OEMI2132
Tiwadi Tejkaran
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh （r.1803-43）, from 1830 till 1851.
?
?
1085
OEMI2131
Titte Krishna lyengar
vocalist, teacher
Veteran vocalist and teacher.
1902
?
Mysore city
1997
0316
Mysore city
1085
OEMI2130
Tiruvottiyur(Kuppayyar)
veena player,vocalist,composer
Veena player,vocalist,and composer
1798
?
?
1904
?
Chennai
Tyaagaraaja
1085
OEMI2129
Tiruvarur Rajayi
vocalist
Danseuse and vocalist
1896
0106
Tiruvarur,Tamil Nadu
1926
11??
Chennai
her granduncle,Gopalakrishna Nattuvanar
1084
OEMI2128
Tirumalayya Naidu,C.
Author
?
?
?
?
1083
P02265
OEMI2127
Timir Baran Bhattacharya
Reputed exponent of orchestration and noted music director of films in the late 1930s and 1940s.
1904
0110
Kolkata
1987
0329
Kolkata
clarinet lessons from Rajendranath Chattopadhya,vocal music from Radhika Mohan Goswami,and Mohammad Amir Khan,and later Allauddin Khan
1083
OEMI2126
'Tiger'Varadachariar
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
1876
0801
Kolathur,Tamil Nadu
1950
0131
Chennai
Appadurai Iyer and his son Ramachandran
1079
OEMI2125
Thouranishabi Devi,L.
Manipuri danseuse
1946
1103
Imphal,Manipur
G.Iboton Sharma,Chongtham Achou,Okram Leikai,and Thangjam Munal.
1078
P00238
OEMI2124
Thingbaijam Babu Singh
Well-known Manipuri dance exponent and teacher of Imphal
1936
0208
Lairensajik village,Manipur
Laisram Apabi Singh,and in Raas dance under Maisnam Amubi Singh
1078
P00208
OEMI2123
Thilagam,P.R.
Performer in Kuravanji dance dramas
1926
?
Tiruvarur,Tamil Nadu
?
?
grandmother Tiruvarur Kamalambal and Madurai Srirangam Iyengar in dance,and Ganesa Pillai in dance.
1078
OEMI2122
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
?
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
1974
?
Pithakowapara
1076
OEMI2121
Thambalangoubi Devi,L.
Manipuri dance exponent
1930
0717
Imphal,Manipur
her father,L.Narahari Sharma
1072
OEMI2120
Thakur Prasad
Eminent Kathak exponent of the 19th-cent.
?
?
1856
?
Lucknow
his father Prakash Prasaad and Wajid Ali Shah
1072
OEMI2119
Thakur Lakshman Singh
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player
?
?
1936
?
?
Mahant Gopal Das
1072
P00109
OEMI2118
Thakur Jaidev Singh
musicologist
Noted musicologist
1893
0919
Shoratgarh,Uttar Pradesh
1986
0527
?
1071
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
OEMI2116
Tej Khan
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
?
?
?
?
1070
OEMI2115
Tijanbai
Performer of Paandavani
Bhilai
1954
0424
Atari Patan,Chhattisgarh
1070
OEMI2114
Ted Shawn
American dancer, a pioneer among Westerners to learn Indian dance idioms
1891
1021
Kansas City,USA
1972
0109
USA
Martha Graham,Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidmen.
1070
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
OEMI2112
Tasadduk Hussain
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
1879
?
Agra,Uttar Pradesh
1946
?
?
Kallan Khan
1068
P02466
OEMI2111
Tarun Kumar Singh
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award for Mnipuri dance in 1987
1912
?
Imphal,Manipur
Amubi Singh and some other veterans
1068
OEMI2110
Tarlekar,G.H.
musicologist
Author,Sanskrit scholar, and musicologist
1914
0507
Tarle,Kolhapur district,Maharashtra
2001
1211
Pune
10671068
OEMI2109
Tarini Charan Patra
vocalist
Noted vocalist.
1901
?
Pittal village,Ganjam district,Orissa
1979
0304
?
his elder brother Kamal Adika Parta
1067
OEMI2108
Tarapada Chakravarti
vocalist
Well-known vocalist,an early exponent of khayaal in Bengali language.
khayaal
1909
04??
Kotalipara[now in Bangladesh]
1975
0901
Kolkata
Satkadi Malakar and Girija Shankar Chakravarti
10661067
OEMI2107
Taranath Rao
tabla player
Noted tabla player and teacher
1915
0306
Mangalore,Karnataka
1991
0110
Pune,Maharashtra
Subbarao Ankolekar and Shamshuddin Khan
1066
OEMI2106
Tarabai Welingkar
vocalist
Khayaal and thumrii singer of the 1930s
Khayaal,thumrii
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
Muraba Govekar and Ali Hussain
1065
OEMI2105
Tarabai Shirodkar
Noted khyaal singer
1889
?
Shiroda,Goa
1949
0706
?
Agra
Ramkrishnabua Vaze,Bhasker-bua Bakhle,and Natthan Khan of Agra
1065
OEMI2104
Tanras Khan
Khyaal stalwart
0.1814
?
Dasna,near Delhi
0.1885
?
Hyderabad
10591060
OEMI2103
Tanibai Ghorpade
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Kolhapur,Maharashtra
khayaal
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
1875
?
?
1931
?
Mumbai
her mother Krishna Kolhapurkarin and Alladiya Khan
1058
OEMI2102
Talim Hussain
Shehnai player of 1900s
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
1055
OEMI2101
Taj Khan
vocalist
Eminent singer of dhrupad and khayaal
dhrupad,khayaal
0.182
?
?
0.1904
?
Nepal
Haidar Khan,Sadiq Ali Khan,
10521053
OEMI2100
Tabakkal Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist from Talwandi in Punjab
?
?
?
?
1050
OEMI2099
Syed Abdul Hadi
Singer of light forms of music
1940
0701
Comilla,Bangladesh
1049
OEMI2098
Syama Sastri
composer
composer
1762
0426
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1827
Thanjavur
his maternal uncle
1048
OEMI2097
Swati Tirunal (Maharaja)
composer,patron,
composer, patron of the arts
1813
0416
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
1846
1225
Thiruvananthapuram
Tanjore Subba Rao, Karamana Subrahmanya Bhagavatar, Nemom Natesa Bhagavatar
1045
P00247
OEMI2096
Swarna Venkatesa Dikshitar, V.V.
composer
composer
1921
0721
Tamil Nadu
2002
0316
?
Pataka Sundaram Pillai
1045
OEMI2095
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Chennai
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
10441045
P00235
OEMI2094
Swapan Chaudhuri
tabla player
tabla exponent
1947
Kolkata
1044
OEMI2093
Swamy Naidu, A.
actor, singer
actor, singer
?
?
1042
OEMI2092
Swaminatha Pillai, T.N.
performer of the flute
1900
Tirupamburam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1961
Chennai
Nataraja Sundaram Pillai
1042
OEMI2091
Swaminatha Iyer (Tiruchi)
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
1920
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
1998
0519
?
Subramania Iyer
1042
OEMI2090
Sushila Mishra
Author and connoisseur of both Karnatik and Hindustani music
0.192
Thrissur district, Kerala
1998
0808
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
1039
OEMI2089
Suryanarayana, R.K.
composer
Noted veena player and composer
1937
0614
Mysore
2003
1225
?
his well-known father R.S. Kesavamurthy
1039
OEMI2088
Suryaji Mahatme
sitar player
Author and sitar exponent
1837
Goa
1899
1213
?
1039
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
OEMI2086
Surujbai Khande
singer
Contemporary singer of folk songs of Madhya Pradesh. Particulary bharthari, dholaa maaru, chandaini, alha, and Raam kissaa songs
folk songs of Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
?
Family, Jawaharlal Baghel and Pritam Pahadi
10381039
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
P06255
OEMI2084
Suresh Talwalkar
tabla player
Noted performer of tabla
Mumbai
1948
0720
?
Pandharinath Nageshkar
1036
P00233
OEMI2083
Suresh Awasthi
Author, administrator, and teacher
1918
Rawatpur, Uttar Pradesh
1036
OEMI2082
Surendranath Mazumdar
vocalist
Vocalist （dhrupads and tap-khayaals） of Kolkata, a contemporary of Dwijendralal Roy （1863-1913）
khayaal,dhrupad
?
?
1036
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
OEMI2080
Surdas Madanmohan
composer
Composer of devotional songs
0.1537
?
1600
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
1035