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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Ramakanta Ata
OEMI1738
872
1649
1717
17-18
Bali Sattra
in the present Vasudeva Than, on the banks of the Sowansiri, Lakhimpur district, Assam
Compser of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
his father Daamodara Aataa
Ramalinga Swamigal
1005
OEMI1739
872
1823
1874
0130
19
Mrudur, Tamil Nadu
?[as per some documents]
composer
Composer of Tamil hymns, especially on Subrahmania
Ramadeva Ata
OEMI1737
872
?
Kaljhar, near Bhavanipur, now in Barpeta district, Assam
composer
Assamese composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs
Bhavanipuriya Gopal Aataa
Ramamatya
OEMI1740
872
16
?
?
Author of Svara Mela Kalaanidhi, dated around 1550
Ramananda Dvija
OEMI1743
873
17
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
his father Raamadeva Aataa
Raman, Lakshmanan, B.V.
OEMI1742
873
1921
20
Gooty, Andhra Pradesh
vocalist,
Vocalist duo, twins
Ramanathan, M.D.
0520
OEMI1744
873
1923
1984
0427
20
Manjapara, Palakkad, Kerala
Chennai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father Devesa Bhagavatar and Tiger Varadachariar
Ramapati Bandopadhyaya
OEMI1749
874
1872
19
Chandrakona, Midnapore, Bengal
?
composer
Composer of kavigaan and some other forms of Bengali music
his father Gangabishnu
Ramanna
OEMI1748
874
0.1855
1918
19-20
Hullahalli village, Andhra
Hullahalli
composer, performer
Veteran composer of jaavalis and performer of Harikathaa
jaavalis,Harikathaa
P05966
Ramani, N.
OEMI1746
874
1934
20
Tiruvanur, Tamil Nadu
Reputed flute player
his grandfather A. Narayanaswami Iyer, T.R. Mahalingam
P00237
Ramankutty Nair (Kalamandalam)
OEMI1747
874
1925
20
Palakkad district, Kerala
Kathakali performer and guru
Ravunni Menon
Ramaswami Dikshitar
OEMI1752
875
1735
0.1817
18-19
Virinjiouram near Kanchipuram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
composer,vocalist
Well-known composer and vocalist
his father Muthuswaami Diikshitar, Melattur Veerabhadrayya, Venkata Vaidyanatha Diikshitar
P00213
Ramasray Jha
0811
OEMI1751
875
Allahabad
1928
2009
0101
20-21
Khajura town, Darbhanga, Bihar
Kolkata
scholar,vocalist
Noted scholar, university teacher, author, and vocalist
his father Sukhdev Jha, uncle Madhusudan Jha
Rambhau Saverkar
OEMI1753
876
Indore
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Indore
Haddu Khan
khayaal
Ramchandra Agnihotri
OEMI1754
876
20
1982
0630
20
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Gwalior
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Rajaa-bhaiyaa Poochwale
Ramchandra Gosavi
OEMI1756
877
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbau of Bajirao Peshwa II
Ramchandra Trivedi
OEMI1758
877
1911
1988
0322
20
?
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Kalyaan Bharati, Omkarnath Thakur
Ramchandra Mohapatra
0715
OEMI1757
877
1929
20
Balasore, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist
Bhagavat Mohanty, Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
Ramchandra Vaidya
OEMI1759
877
1871
19
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain
Poet and performer of Marathi keertans
Ramdas Guru
OEMI1762
878
?
?
Fourth Guru of the Sikhs
Ramdas Kamat
0218
OEMI1763
878
1931
20
Goa
Well-known Marathi stage actor and singer
his father Dharma (Shantaram) Kamat
Ramdas (Swami)
OEMI1761
878
1608
1681
17
Jamba, Maharashtra
?
Saint-poet of Maharashtra
Rameshwar Pathak
OEMI1765
879
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of early 20th cent. Darbhanga, Bihar
Ramesh Nadkarni
0813
OEMI1764
879
1921
1995
0707
20
Bankikodala, Karnataka
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist and radio executive
Narayanrao Datar, Baburao Gokhale, Shivkumar Shukla, Aman Ali Khan
Ramji-bhaiyya Agnihotri
0611
OEMI1766
879
1905
1982
0630
20
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father Madhava Rao
Ramkeshav Bhattacharya
OEMI1767
880
Bengal
1808
1850
19
Vishnupur
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Vishnupur gharaanaa, Bengal
Vishnupur
within the family
Ramkrishna Parvatkar
OEMI1769
880
1959
0214
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and tabla player
his father Khapru-mama Parvatkar, Ahmedjan Thirakwa[tabla], Bashir Khan, Ratnakant Ramnathkar [vocal]
Ramkishan Solanki
1225
OEMI1768
880
1938
20
Pushkar, Rajasthan
Performer of the drum, nagaaraa
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
OEMI1770
881
1871
1945
0505
19-20
Ozare, Sawantwadi [former princely state] Maharashtra
?
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Vithoba-anna Hadap
Ramkumar Basak
OEMI1771
881
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Ramlal Bareth
OEMI1773
881
1936
0306
20
?
?
Kathak dancer, teacher
Jailal Maharaj
P00212
Ramkumar Chatterji
OEMI1772
881
1920
20
Kolkata
?
vocalist
vocalist
Rajendralal Chatterji, Zamiruddin Khan
Ramnidhi Gupta
OEMI1774
882
1741
1838
18-19
Bihar
Kolkata
vocalist,composer
vocalist,composer of tappaas
tappaa
Ramprasad Mishra
OEMI1775
882
1980
0822
20
Benares region
Gaya, Bihar
vocalist
vocalist
Bade Ramdasji
Ramprasanna Banerji
07??
OEMI1776
882
1871
1930
19-20
Vishnupur, Bengal
?
vocalist, surbahaar player
vocalist, surbahaar player
Anantlal Bandopadhyaya
Ramsahai Pande
OEMI1778
884
Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh
?
Contemporary performer of folk dances
Ramu-bhaiyya Date
OEMI1782
884
?
?
patron,
patron of Hindustani classical music
Ramsingh Thakur
OEMI1780
884
1909
2002
0418
20-21
Khhanjara town, Himachal Pradesh
Lucknow
singer
Ramshankar Bhattacharya
OEMI1779
884
1761
1853
18-19
Vishnupur
Vishnupur
composer
composer
Vishnupur gharaanaa of Bengal
Gadadhar Bhattacharya
Ramtaran Sanyal
OEMI1781
884
19
Faridpur district [now in Bangladesh]
?
musician
Musician associated with old Bengali plays.
Kana Jogen, Gopal Chandra Chakravarty
Ramzan Khan (Vocal)
OEMI1784
885
?
?
vocalist
tappaa singer
Imam Badi
tappaa
Ranade, G.H.
1001
OEMI1786
885
1897
1966
0310
19-20
Sangli, Maharashtra
?
musicologist
musicologist
Ramzan Khan Rangile
OEMI1785
885
1800
18751900
19
Sikandarabad, Agra region, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ramzan Khan (Sarangi)
OEMI1783
885
1897
19
Delhi region
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Lal Khan
Ranga Rao, V.A.K.
OEMI1789
886
1930
20
Chennai
discographer,collector,columnist,music and dance historian
Ranadhir Roy
OEMI1788
886
1944
1989
0324
20
?
Kolkata
esraaj player
Ranganath Mishra
0103
OEMI1790
887
1932
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
tabla player
Tabla player
Bikku Maharaj, Gama Maharaj
Ranganathaswami Nigadikar
OEMI1791
887
1612
1684
17
?
?
composer
performer and composer of Marathi aakhyaans for keertans
Rangnekar, M.G
0410
OEMI1794
887
1907
1995
0201
20
?
?
writer
writer, director, producer of Marathi musical plays
Rani Karna
OEMI1796
887
1939
20
Hyderabad, Sind province of Pakistan
Kathak dancer
Lalitha Sastri, Navendra Kumar Singh
Rangayya, C.
OEMI1793
887
1895
1984
19-20
Chilakunda village, Mysore district, Karnataka
Mysore city
vocalist, composer, teacher
vocalist, composer, teacher
Sivaramayya, Chikka Subba Rao
P00084
Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
OEMI1792
887
1932
20
Poongulam, Tamil Nadu
veena player and teacher
Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
P00242
Rani
OEMI1795
887
?
?
singer-actress
Ranjit Singh (Bhai)
OEMI1799
888
?
?
tabla player
tabla player
Bhai Gopal Singh
Ranjit Adhikarimayum
0301
OEMI1798
888
1957
20
Imphal, Manipur
performer of Manipuri dance, choreographer
Tarunkumar Singh, Anganhal Singh
Ras Rag Khan
OEMI1802
888
?
?
tabla player
tabla player
Raoji-bua Belbaugkar
OEMI1800
888
1906
19-20
?
Pune
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
V.N. Bhatkhande
Ras Baras
OEMI1801
888
17
?
?
author
Rasik Kavi
OEMI1803
891
1920
1988
0211
20
?
Chhabra, near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Rasol Beg
OEMI1805
892
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
P00085
Rasolanbai
OEMI1806
892
1902
1974
1215
20
Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
Allahabad
singer
Rathiram Sarma
OEMI1808
894
1875
1933
19-20
Salmara, Kamrup district, Assam
Salmara
singer
Baneswar Sarma
Ratnakant Ramnathkar
OEMI1810
894
1900
20
Mumbai
Mumbai
vocalist
harmonium player and vocalist
Raghuvir Ramnathkar, Nanhe Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
Ratilal Bhavsar
0617
OEMI1809
894
1928
2001
1024
20-21
Chopade town, Jalgaom district, Maharashtra
near Pune
vocalist, singer-actor
vocalist, singer-actor
Raza Hussain
OEMI1814
897
Baroda
1891
19-20
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist, jaltarang player
vocalist and jaltarang player of the Baroda durbar.
Pyar Khan
Raya Ramananda
OEMI1813
897
1467
1525
15-16
?
?
composer
Oriya composer of devotional songs, mainly of the kaavya-geeti variety.
Ravji-bua Gogate
OEMI1812
897
19
Maharashtra
?
vocalist
vocalist
Rekibuddin Ahmed
OEMI1815
899
1940
20
Balihat, Golaghat district, Assam
singer of jikir (also zikr), a variety of Islamic devotional songs found in Assam.
Ramizuddin Ahmed
Rohini Bhate
OEMI1816
901
1924
20
Pune, Maharashtra
kathak danseuse
Sohan Lal , Munna Lal, Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, Lachhu Maharaj
Ropram Katara
OEMI1817
901
?
?
Priest and Raas-leelaa performer
Roshan Jamil
0508
OEMI1819
902
1931
2002
0314
20-21
Dhaka Bangladesh
Dhaka
dancer-actress,teacher
Roprasik Devacharya
OEMI1818
902
16
?
?
composer
composer
Roshan Kumari
OEMI1820
902
20
?
kathak danseuse
Roy, R.N.
OEMI1822
903
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Rukmani Devi
0115
OEMI1823
904
1923
1978
1028
20
Ramboda, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Colombo
singer-actress
P00214
Rukmini Devi Arundale
0229
OEMI1824
904
1904
1986
0224
20
Chennai
Chennai
dance exponent
Ruparam
OEMI1827
905
20
?
?
actor, writer
Rupasinha, H.W.
1124
OEMI1828
905
1895
1971
0424
19-20
Matara, Sri Lanka
?
composer
singer, composer
M.G.Perera
Rukminibai Tampuratti
OEMI1826
905
1800
1838
19
?
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
composer
Princess-composer of the Travancore (Kerala) royal family.
Sabhisa Iyer, T.S.
OEMI1830
907
1872
1948
0522
19-20
Agra Mangudi, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist, violinist, teacher
vocalist, violinist, teacher
Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer,
Sadarang (Niyamat Khan)
OEMI1833
908
1670
1747
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
pioneer of khayaal?
khayaal
Sadashiv Narayan Thosar
OEMI1834
908
1882
1952
0317
19-20
?
?
writer
writer
P00215
Sachin Shankar
0924
OEMI1832
908
1924
2005
20-21
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
dancer, choreographer
P00088
Sabri Khan
0410
OEMI1831
908
1927
20
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
contemporary player of the saarangi
Haji Mohammad Khan, Chhajju Khan
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
Sadiq Ali Khan (Jaipur)
OEMI1836
909
1893
1964
0717
19-20
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Sadiq Ali Khan
OEMI1835
909
1910
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
vocalist, innovator of behalaavaa or lachaav-ki-thumrii
Raje Khan
Saganbhau
OEMI1839
910
1778
1849
18-19
Jejuri, Pune region, Maharashtra
?
composer
poet, composer
Sagara Daivajna
OEMI1840
910
19
Salmara village, near Pingalesvara, Kamrup district, Assam
?
singer
Sadruddin Khan
OEMI1838
910
1880
19
Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
Jaipur
vocalist
vocalist
Haapur gharaanaa
Sahaji Maharaja
OEMI1844
911
Thanjavur
17-18
?
?
musician
musician-king of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1680-1712.
Sahabdad Khan
OEMI1842
911
1830
1880
19
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
vocalist and sitar player
Sagolshem Kalidaman Singh
OEMI1841
911
20
20
Imphal, Manipur
?
vocalist
vocalist
Y.Kartik Singh, Rajkumar Suryaboro Sana
Sahachari Sukh
OEMI1843
911
17
?
?
composer
composer
Sahir Sable
OEMI1845
914
1923
20
Pasarani, Maharashtra
exponent of folk music and folk drama
Sai Ilyas
OEMI1846
914
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sakharam Sarnaik
OEMI1850
915
19
?
?
poet, playwright
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
OEMI1848
915
19
?
?
surbahaar exponent
Sakharam Mridangacharya
1025
OEMI1849
915
1879
1967
0119
19-20
Indore
?
pakhaawaj player, teacher
Balwantrao, Shankar-bhaiya, Panse
Sailabai
?
OEMI2226
915
?
20
?
Singer and dancer of early 20th-cent. Kolkata

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