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
name
date of birth
OEMI ID
page
place
year of birth
year of death
date of death
photo
century
birth place
place of death
profession
explanation about profession
gharana
guru
music field
Adil Shah Sur
?
OEMI0040
22
1524
1557
?
16
?
?
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
Ajay Bardan
?
OEMI0062
29
Kolkata
1917
1991
0328
20
Comilla, now in Bangladesh
Mumbai
Flute player
Amara Simha
?
OEMI0099
46
?
?
?
?
patron,
Patron and playwright
P00119
Anil Bagchi
0117
OEMI0143
6061
1908
1977
0715
20
Midnapore district, Bengal
Kolkata
Music director of Bengali stage and films of yesteryears
Asgarijan
?
OEMI0185
81
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
Agra
Atulprasad Sen
?
OEMI0203
87
1871
1934
?
19-20
Lucknow
?
composer
Composer
Azad Rahman
OEMI0210
90
Bangladesh
1944
20
Burdwan, West Bengal
composer
Singer and music composer
Badi Maina
OEMI0241
98
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
Benares
Badi Motibai
OEMI0242
98
Benares
0.1885
1977
0214
19-20
Darbhanga, Bihar
Benares
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist of Benares
Siyaji Maharaj, Mithailalji, Maujuddin Khan
Barkatullah Khan
OEMI0308
123
0.186
1928
19-20
probably Patiala
Mumbai
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Gokul Nag
OEMI0707
371
1908
1983
0325
20
Bankura district, Bengal
Kolkata
sitar player
Noted sitar and surbahaar player
his father Govinda Nag
Gokuldas Dhanji
OEMI0710
371
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Gulab Bai
OEMI0753
386
0.191
?
Mysore
Well-known singer of Jaipur
Haidar Bakhsh
Hussain Ali Khan
OEMI0845
436
1850
19
Madhya Pradesh
?
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
Ilahijan
OEMI0855
439
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Inayat Ali Khan
OEMI0867
440441
1790
0.1883
18-19
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Dhaka
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
his father Hussain Ali Khan
Jadumani Dasi
OEMI0892
448
Kolkata
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolkata
Jatan Kathak
OEMI0924
464
Benares
19
Mid-19th cent.saarangi player of Benares.
Jhire Khan
OEMI0937
478
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
Kiwal Kishan
OEMI1061
542
18
?
?
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
Khurshaidjan
OEMI1075
555
Kanpur
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Madhusudan Kan
?
OEMI1220
616
Bengal
?
19
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Mahmod Khan
OEMI1240
622
1920
19-20
?
probably Bhadvar,Rajasthan
vocalist
vocalist
Malati Pande
0419
OEMI1246
625
1930
20
Wardha,North Maharashtra
vocalist
vocalist
Mirich Khan
OEMI1327
672
1832
19
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
saarangi player
saarangi player
Haidar Bakhsh
P01205
Munawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI1382
693
1933
1989
1013
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Barkat Ali Khan
Patwardhan
OEMI1615
806
1868
0.1916
19
Miraj, Maharashtra
Miraj
Pakhaawaj player and teacher
Saraswati Rane
OEMI1886
948
1916
2006
1010
20-21
Miraj, Maharashtra
Pune
vocalist
vocalist
Suresh-babu Mane, Hirabai Barodekar
Shah Latif
OEMI1921
963
1689
1752
17-18
Sind, Pakistan
?
poet
Mystic poet
P06724
Shakor Khan
OEMI1927
964
1916
1975
1006
20
?
New Delhi
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his father Abdul Gafoor Khan and uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
Sinde Khan
OEMI1989
978979
1885
1950
0617
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Amir Khan
Mehbob Khan
OEMI2275
666
0.1839
0.1915
19-20
Atrauli
Atrauli
vocalist
Vocalist and composer, well-known by his pen-name 'Daras-piyaa'
his father Zahur Khan, Tanras Khan
Fida Hussain Khan(Sitar)
?
OEMI0633
320
0.1875
0.1927
?
19-20
?
?
sitar player
Son of Gwalior sitar veteran,Amir Khan.
Amir Khan
Ajan Fakir (Shah Milan)
?
OEMI0061
29
?
17
?
Saraguri
composer
Seventeeth-century Assamese composer of Jilirs
Ata Hussain Khan(Vocal)
?
OEMI0198
8485
1898
1980
0810
19-20
Arauli
Kolkata
vocalist
vocalist
Agra
Gokulchandra Srichandan
OEMI0709
371
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
OEMI1323
671
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
Fazue Lal Pandit
?
OEMI0627
319
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Shehnai player of the early 20th cent.
Khurshed Ali Khan
OEMI1076
555
1852
1950
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Lucknow gharaanaa
the Lucknow gharaanaa
P00067
Mushtaq Ali Khan
0620
OEMI1402
699
Jaipur
1911
1989
0720
20
Benares
Kolkata
sitar player
Noted sitar player of the Jaipur Seni tradition
Jaipur Seni
Ashiq Ali Khan
Nimai Harichandan
0709
OEMI1536
761762
1901
1983
0720
20
Kendrapada, Cuttack district, Orissa
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Niyamatullah Khan
OEMI1547
765766
0.1816
0.1902
19-20
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
Delhi
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
Ata Hussain Khan(Tabla)
?
OEMI0197
84
0.183
0.1907
?
19
Lucknow
Bhawal,Bengal
tabla player
table player
Farukhaabaad
Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan
OEMI0466
236237
1910
1986
1229
20
Kasur, Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Qavvaal Bacche gharaanaas
Haji Amir Bakhsh, Chhajju Khan, Mohammad Khan
Jadunath Bhattacharya
OEMI0894
448
1840
1883
19
Vaidikpara,Vishnupur,Bengal
Vishnupur
musician
All-round musician,popularly known as Jadu Bhatta
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
OEMI1068
546547
?
?
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
P00008
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
?
OEMI0181
78
1937
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
Khadim Hussain Khan （Vocal）
OEMI1064
543
1905
1993
0111
20
Atrauli, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher of the Agra tradition
his father Altaf Hussain Khan, grandfather Inayat Khan, paternal grand-uncle Mehboob Khan, maternal great grand-uncle Kallan Khan
Radha Krishna Bhanj
1105
OEMI1667
842
1928
20
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
singer
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
Sundarabai of Surat
OEMI2066
1030
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
OEMI0237
97
0.1912
?
Lucknow
Reputed exponent
Dharmapuram Swaminathan
?
OEMI0567
284
1923
20
Veerakkam,Tamil Nadu
Singer (Oduvar) of traditional Tamil hymns
Allah Dad Dhadhi
?
OEMI0088
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
P00129
Baidyanath Sharma
0823
OEMI0254
104105
1921
1990
20
Nagardini, Ganjam district, Orissa
?
Noted performer of daas kaathiaa, a form of Oriya folk music
Krishna Chandra Sahu
Bholanath Bhatt
?
OEMI0364
179180
1894
1970
?
19-20
Darbhanga,Bihar
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
His family
Binaoani Mohanty
0628
OEMI0382
192
1928
20
Cuttack,Orissa
sitar player,vocalist
Vocalist,sitar player,and teacher.
Allauddin Khan and Inayat Hussain Khan
Purushottam Telang
OEMI1655
831832
1852
1920
19-20
Karwar taluka, Karnataka
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Tanras Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan
Adarang(Feroze Khan)
?
OEMI0037
19
0.1692
0.1776
?
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of the durbar
Sadaarang
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
?
OEMI0080
38
?
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
OEMI0880
444445
Mumbai
Mumbai
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
P00043
Kalpakam Swaminathan
0815
OEMI0994
506
Chennai
1922
20
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
Sadiq Ali Khan (Seni)
OEMI1837
909
1805
1970
19-20
?
?
rudra veena player,rabaab player
exponent of the rudra veena and rabaab
Zaffar Khan, Pyar Khan, Basat Khan
P00248
Vinayakrao Patwardhan
0722
OEMI2207
11301131
1898
1975
0823
19-20
Miraj, a princely state of Maharashtra
Pune
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
his uncle, vocalist Keshavrao Patwardhan, Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
Adibhatla Narayana Dasa
?
OEMI0039
21
1864
1945
?
19-20
?
?
Well-known Harikathaa performer and teacher
Murad Ali Khan(Darbhanga)
?
OEMI1393
696
?
19
?
?
sarod player
Nineteenth-century sarod player
Saraswati (Anis Khaton)
OEMI1885
947
1545
1620
16-17
Rewa
Delhi
vocalist
Talented daughter of Taansen
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
OEMI1063
542543
1959
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
OEMI0990
503504
20
?
?
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
Ajoy Bhattacharya
?
OEMI0063
2930
?
20
?
?
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
?
OEMI0179
78
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra
his family
P00137
Bishan Dass Sharma
OEMI0393
195
Delhi
1929
20
Lahore
Maker of musical instruments
his father Rikhi Ram Sharma
Joseph David Penkar
OEMI0959
488
1949
0906
20
Mumbai
Mumbai
writer
Writer of musical plays on Jewish religious themes, in Marathi, in the early 20th cent,
Lalgudi Jayaraman
0917
OEMI1181
593
Chennai
1930
20
Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist
Violin maestro
his paternal uncle Kandaswamy, father Gopalan
Poluri Govinda Kavi
OEMI1629
813
?
?
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
Priyambada Mohanty
OEMI1647
827828
1939
20
Cuttack, Orissa
Noted odissi danseuse
Banbihari Maity, Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar, Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Debaprasad Das
Purushottam Thakur
OEMI1656
832
1561
1619
16-17
Patbausi, near Barpeta
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
?
OEMI0077
38
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Seni
P00005
Allauddin Khan (Maihar)
?
OEMI0092
4243
?
0.1881
1972
0906
19-20
Shibpur, Tripura
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
musician
Celebrated guru and all-round musician
Aman Ali Khan (Mumbai)
?
OEMI0096
4546
?
1888
1953
0211
19-20
Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and teacher of the Bhendi Bazaar gharaanaa
Bhendi Bazaar
Anil Krishna Deb Burman
OEMI0145
61
Tripura
1899
1942
19-20
Agartala, Tripura
Agartala
musician
Noted musician of Tripura
Atmanatha Bhagavatar
?
OEMI0200
86
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent)
Challagali Krishnayyar
OEMI0424
213
Thanjavur
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Haidar Ali Khan （Nawab）
OEMI0773
398399
1846
1901
19-20
?
?
rudra veena player,sursingaar player
Sursingaar and rudra veena player
Amir Khan, Bahadur Hussain Khan
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0782
400
Rampur
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
some elders
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0865
440
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
Sahaswaan
Janaki Ballabh Mohanty
0614
OEMI0915
461
1925
20
Puridistrict,Orissa
Oriya literatteur whose works include collections of lyrical poetry and songs
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
0302
OEMI1140
580
1935
2008
0908
20-21
Kunnakudi,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
violinist
violinist
Ramaswamy Sastri
Nasiruddin Khan Dagar
0612
OEMI1506
733734
1889
1936
0612
19-20
Indore
Indore
Reputed dhrupad exponent
his father Allabande Khan and an uncle Zakiruddin Khan
Zakiruddin Khan Dagar
OEMI2261
1159
1927
?-20
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Daagar tradition
within family
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0676
360
1932
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan Pathan
0405
OEMI0827
420
1882
1929
0205
19-20
Baroda
Delhi
musician
Noted Sufi musician and missionary
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
OEMI0846
436
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
Markandeya Mohapatra Sharma
0718
OEMI1289
652
1915
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Narayan Mohapatra Sharma and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar.
Thakur Jagdish Singh 'Din'
0113
OEMI2117
1071
1905
1982
1215
20
Raigarh Madhya Pradesh
Raigarh
tabla player
Noted pakhaawaj and tabla player
his uncle Thakur Lakshman Singh and in pakhaawaj from Baba Thakurdas and in tabla from Munir Khan,Natthu Khan,and Abid Hussain
Abha Alam
1226
OEMI0023
8
1947
1976
1121
20
Madaripur,Faridpur district,Bangladesh
Dhaka
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Mithun Dey
P00003
Abhinava Gupta
?
OEMI0026
11
?
?
?
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
Afzal Hussain
0801
OEMI0044
23
1916
20
Nagina,near Lucknow
vocalist
Vocalist
Muhammad Hussain
Aghawan
?
OEMI0049
23
Unav,near Lucknow
?
19
?
?
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Ahmad Bakhsh
?
OEMI0051
27
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Alain Danielou
1004
OEMI0070
34
France
1907
1994
0127
20
Paris
?
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Indian heritage

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