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
OEMI1926
Shailaja Ranjan Majumdar
Eminent exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
1900
Netrakona, Mymensing district, Bangladesh
1992
06??
?
963964
OEMI2105
Tarabai Shirodkar
Noted khyaal singer
1889
?
Shiroda,Goa
1949
0706
?
Agra
Ramkrishnabua Vaze,Bhasker-bua Bakhle,and Natthan Khan of Agra
1065
P00109
OEMI2118
Thakur Jaidev Singh
musicologist
Noted musicologist
1893
0919
Shoratgarh,Uttar Pradesh
1986
0527
?
1071
OEMI2230
Wadilal Shivram Nayak
vocalist
Scholar,vocalist,and music director of the Gujarati stage
1882
?
Gujarat
1947
?
?
Nazir Khan and V.N.Bhatkhande
1143
OEMI2254
Zahur Khan(Dhurupad)
He probably belonged to the early dhrupad veterans of Atrauli some of whom migrated to Rajasthan
0.174
?
Atrauli
?
?
1157
OEMI0085
Alladiya Khan (Jaipur-Atrauli)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Mumbai
1855
0810
Uniyara, a former principality in Rajasthan
1946
0316
Mumbai
3941
OEMI0038
Adiappayya(Pachhimiriyam)
composer
Composer of Karnatik music,and guru of Syaamaa Saastri
?
?
?
?
21
OEMI0292
Bamacharan Bhattacharya
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
0.1839
?
Ranaghat,Bengal
1896
?
?
116
OEMI0349
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
?
?
Ganpatrao Pandit
163
P00172
OEMI1128
Kumaran Nair(Kizhpatam)
Kathakali artiste and teacher
1915
0530
Kerala
Ravunni Menon
578
P03166
OEMI1231
Maharajapuram Santhanam
vocalist
vocalist
1928
0520
Sirunangur,Tamil Nadu
Maharajapuram Viswanatha
620
OEMI1340
Mohammad Ali Khan(Benares)
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
?
1860
?
his father
677
OEMI1342
Mohammad Ali Khan (Jaipur)
originator
1825
Jaipur
1905
?
Mohammad Ali
677
OEMI1391
Munnibai(late 19th cent.)
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
Babu Khuda Bakhsh
695
OEMI1394
Murad Ali Khan(Hyderabad)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
0.1915
?
?
696
OEMI1675
Radhika Prasad Goswami
vocalist
vocalist
1863
Vishnupur,Bengal
1924
Kolkata
844
OEMI1779
Ramshankar Bhattacharya
composer
composer
1761
Vishnupur
1853
Vishnupur
Vishnupur gharaanaa of Bengal
Gadadhar Bhattacharya
884
OEMI1841
Sagolshem Kalidaman Singh
vocalist
vocalist
20
Imphal, Manipur
?
Y.Kartik Singh, Rajkumar Suryaboro Sana
911
OEMI1975
Shripad Krishna Kolhatkar
Well-known Marathi playwright who also composed music for his plays
1871
?
1934
?
974
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
OEMI2165
Varadarao Kamalakar Rao
Mridangam player
1937
Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh
V.V.Narayan Sastry, Yella Somanna, Palghat Mani Iyer
1114
OEMI2257
Zahur Khan （Sikandarabad）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
his father Imam Khan, Mehboob Khan and Natthan Khan
1158
OEMI0547
Dejendranath Bagchi
vocalist
Vocalist and disc-record singer
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
264
OEMI0587
Dinanath Mangeshkar
actor, vocalist
Celebrated vocalist and actor-singer of the Marathi stage
1900
1212
Mangeshi,Goa
1942
0424
Pune
297298
OEMI0609
Edwin Samaradivakara
composer
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and composer
1916
0622
Katna, Sri Lanka
1959
1008
?
309
P00027
OEMI0615
Emani Sankara Sastri
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer in Karnatik style
1922
0923
Draksharamam,Andhra Pradesh
1987
1223
?
311
OEMI0628
Feroze Khan(Adarang)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Delhi durbar
Delhi
1692
?
?
1776
?
?
Delhi durbar
319
P00029
OEMI0640
Gahan Chandra Goswami
Noted exponent of traditional Assamese drama
1900
0404
Nikamul Sattra,Tezpur
1979
0118
Nikamul Sattra
324
OEMI0909
Jahangir Khan(Vocal)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
Uniyara,Rajasthan
Uniyara,Rajasthan
Atraauli
452
OEMI0920
Jankibai(Allahabad)
vocalist
Vocalist
1875
Benares
1934
0518
Allahabad
462
P02280
OEMI0961
Joseph Kaimaparamban
Performer of Kathaa Prasangam, a veteran of the modern form of this art in Kerala
1924
Cherthala, Alapuzha district, Kerala
488
OEMI1019
Kanji Bhota Barot
Exponent of Gujarati folklore and music
1919
Tinbla,Amrelidistrict,Saurashtra,Gujarat
1990
0928
Chalala,Saurashtra
515
OEMI1026
Karam Imam(Mohammad)
Author of the Urdu work
?
1865
?
518
OEMI1033
Kashinath Chatterji
vocalist, teacher
vocalist and teacher
1904
0901
Kolkata
1970
1119
Kolkata
Amulyadhan Dutta
524
OEMI1044
Kelucharan Mahapatra
dancer and guru
1926
0801
Raghurajpur village,Puri district,Orissa
2004
0407
Bhubaneshwar,Orissa
537538
P00166
OEMI1053
Keshav Lakshman Badge
Well-known performer of gondhal a folk play of Maharashtra
1941
Pune, Maharashtra
540
P02579
OEMI1096
Krishna Chandra Naik
Chhau dancer
1915
?
1987
0820
Varipada, Orissa
569
OEMI1104
Krishnadasa Badajana
Orissa poet of the 16th cent., author of Geeta Prakaasa, an Oriya treatise on music and dance
?
?
571
OEMI1149
Lachmi Prasad Mishra
vocalist
Noted vocalist and instrumentalist
1860
Sonpuna, Benares
1929
1207
Kolkata
his father Ramkumar Mishra
585
OEMI1152
Laila Arjumand Banu
vocalist
Vocalist
1926
0105
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ramani Mohan Bhattacharya, Manju Khan, Gul Mohammad Khan, Yusuf Khan Koraishi, Gopal Dasgupta
586
P02523
OEMI1180
Lalchand Yamla Jat
vocalist,
Vocalist of Punjabi folk music
1919
Lyallpur district, Punjab region
593
OEMI1303
Maula Bakhsh(Tabla)
Rahim Bakhsh`s child
1878
?
?
?
?
Lucknow
Mohammad Hussain Khan
659
OEMI1523
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Professor Emeritus of music and ethnomusicology,University of California,author and audio-visual documentator.
1927
1031
Clifton, England
754755
OEMI1565
Padmanabha Rao,B.K.
vocalist, teacher, co,poser
vocalist,teacher,composer
1903
Mysore
1966
Mysore
780
P00194
OEMI1596
Paramananda Borbayan
performer and teacher of Sattriiya dance of Assam
1936
Lahalial,Assam
797
OEMI1652
Purushottam Damodar
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
831
OEMI1776
Ramprasanna Banerji
vocalist, surbahaar player
vocalist, surbahaar player
1871
07??
Vishnupur, Bengal
1930
?
Anantlal Bandopadhyaya
882
P00226
OEMI2020
Sonam Tsersing Lepcha
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 in the category of folk music.
1928
0103
Sikkim
993
OEMI2161
Vamanrao Deshpande
vocalist
author, vocalist
1908
?
1990
0207
Pune, Maharashtra
Yadavrao Joshi, Suresh-babu Mane, Natthan Khan, Mogubai Kurdikar
1112
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
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
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
OEMI0065
Ajoy Sinha Roy
sitar player
Sitar player
Kolkata
1920
1201
?
30
OEMI0089
Allah Jilaibai
Singer of Rajasthani folk music
?
?
Bikaner, Rajasthan
1998
0903
?
41
OEMI0102
Amarnath Mishra
Mridang player
Benares
1914
?
?
1980
1130
?
Mannuji of Benares
47
OEMI0105
Ambaram
Pioneer singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays.
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0116
Amir Khusrau
poet-musician, Sufi mystic
Thirteenth-century poet-musician and Sufi mystic of the Delhi Sultanate
0.1253
?
Patiala
1325
?
?
Qavvaal
5051
OEMI0124
Amritsen
sitar player
Sitar and surabin （string） maestro
0.1813
Jhajjar, near Delhi
0.1893
Jaipur
his father Rahimsen
5253
P00115
OEMI0126
Amudon Sharma
Eminent guru of Manipuri dance
1886
1125
Imphal
1976
0316
Imphal
his uncle Takhenchongbam Kanhai Sharma, his father Khomdon Sharma, Aribam Gopal Sharma
5354
OEMI0130
Ananda Shankar
composer
Composer
1942
1202
Almora, Uttar Pradesh
1999
0326
Kolkata
56
OEMI0132
Anandiram Das
Assamese song writer
1909
?
1960
?
57
OEMI0133
Anant Barve
Playwright of Marathi musicals
1856
Manmad, Maharashtra
1923
Pune
57
OEMI0134
Anant Fandi
Poet and performer of Marathi ballads
1744
Maharashtra
1819
?
57
OEMI0147
Aniruddha
composer
Acclaimed composer of Vaishnava-Sattriya music of Assam
1553
?
1626
?
Gopala Ata, Yadumoni
62
OEMI0168
Arabatta Navalar
Author of a Tamil work on dance titled Bharata Saastiram （c.18th cemt.）
?
?
72
OEMI0174
Arunachala Kavi
poet, composer
Well-known Tamil poet and composer
1711
?
Tillayandi,Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
1788
?
?
Ambalavana Kavirayar
76
OEMI0186
Asghar Ali
Singer-actor of the pioneer Alfred Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
81
OEMI0192
Ashiq Hussain
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Panipat
?
?
1946
?
?
82
P06143
OEMI0208
Ayodhya Prasad
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1891
?
Datia, a small princely state in Madhya Pradesh
1977
1228
?
Family
8990
OEMI0209
Ayyaval
composer
Composer of devotional songs
?
?
90
OEMI0217
Bada Dikshit
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa
?
1883
Benares
Gwalior
Hassu Khan, Haddu Khan
93
OEMI0230
Bachu Bawa
tabla player
Tabla player
?
1914
?
94
OEMI0245
Bageswari Devi
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
1940
Kolkata
2000
0920
Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh
Benares
Sitaram Misra and Ganesh Prasad Misra
101
OEMI0256
Baiju Bawra
There are a few legends on the identity and life of Baiju
?
?
105
OEMI0258
Bal Chaturvedi
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
1919
07??
Mehboob Khan
his famous father Chandan Chaube
107
P00133
OEMI0299
Banni Bai
Veteran Harikat
1912
Chittukkadu, Andhra Pradesh
1999
0227
?
120
OEMI0300
Bannijan
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist, based in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
120
OEMI0301
Banujan
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolhapur during roughly 1900-20
?
?
121
OEMI0303
Durga Prasad
Noted Kathak dancer, also known as Pande Maharaj
0.192
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
his father, Sukhdev Maharaj,and later from Achchan Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj
304
P00012
OEMI0318
Begum Akhtar
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
1914
0207
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh
1974
1030
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Abdul Wahid Khan, Ramzam Khan, Barkhat Ali, Imdad Khan, Ghulam Mohammad Khan, Ata Mohammad
132133
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
OEMI0363
Bhoja Raja
patron,
Ruler,patron,and writer
?
?
?
?
179
OEMI0372
Bi Rahimanbai
Mid 19th cent. singer of Charkhari,Uttar Pradesh
Charkhari
?
?
?
?
184
OEMI0374
Bikku Maharaj
tabla player
Eminent tabla player of Benares
Benares
1863
?
?
1949
?
?
188
P00135
OEMI0388
Bipin Singh
Noted guru of Manipuri dance
1918
0823
Silchar Singari village, Cachar district, Assam
2000
0109
Kolkata
193
P00136
OEMI0391
Birju Maharaj
Eminent Kathak dancer and guru of the Lucknow Kathak tradition
Delhi
1937
0204
Lucknow
Lachhu Maharaj
194
OEMI0408
Brhat Kasyapa
Quoted as an author
?
?
?
?
201
OEMI0433
Chandra Prabha
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Bhavnagar durbar, Gujarat
Bhavnagar durbar, Gujarat
1860
?
1925
?
Bhavnagar durbar,
217
OEMI0439
Chandrarekha
The most privileged danseuse of the durbar of Thanjavur Maharaja Vijaya Raghava Nayak
Thanjavur
?
?
220
OEMI0450
Chaturlal
tabla player
Eminent tabla exponent
0.1925
Udaipur
1965
1014
Ahmedjan Thirakwa
226
OEMI0456
Chhaila Bhai
Singer of light classical music
?
?
230
OEMI0465
Chhota Rani
Singer-actress of Bengali plays
?
?
236
OEMI0477
Chikka Rama Rao
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the royal durbar of Mysore
Mysore
1890
Kurudi Kotah district, Karnataka
1945
?
238239
OEMI0483
Chinna Vaithi
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
Mysore
?
?
240
OEMI0505
Chunnabai
vocalist
Vocalist
19
?
1901
Pune, Maharashtra
Bande Ali Khan
245
OEMI0510
Curt Sachs
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and author of works on instruments
1881
0129
Berlin
1959
0205
New York
248
OEMI0527
Ali Bakhsh II
vocalist
Vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
?
?
37
OEMI0528
Dasharathi Roy
composer
Reputed composer of paanchaali,kavi-gaan,and other similar Bengali songs.
1806
?
Badhmuda,Burdwan district,Bengal
1857
?
?
258259