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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OEMI0927
Jaya Senapati
Mid-13th-cent.Telugu author,better known as Japaya,who wrote Nritta Ratnaavali.
467
OEMI0931
Jayaraman,S.
Music director
1920
Vazhuvoor,Tamil Nadu
470
OEMI0929
Jayapa
Author of Nritta Ratnaavali,a 13th-cent
470
OEMI0930
Jayarama lyer,T.K.
violinist
Violinist and a former conductor
1894
Kuttalam,near Kumbakonam,Tamli Nadu,
470
OEMI0932
Jivan Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi Player
1838
?
1935
?
472
OEMI0933
Jivan Khan(Seni)
vocalist,
vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar
1748
most probably Jaipur
1790
princely state of Banda,Madhya Pradesh
his father
472
OEMI0934
Jivan Shah(Seni)
rudra veena player
Eminent player of the rudra veena
1732
1810
Lucknow
473
P00161
OEMI0935
Jhamman Khan
Nagaaraa player
Nagaaraa player
1938
0208
475
OEMI0936
Jhandilal Dwivedi
Mridang player
1909
Palta,Chhatrapur district,Madhya Pradesh
1992
0915
475
OEMI0937
Jhire Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
478
OEMI0939
Jigar Moradabadi
poet
Urdu poet,known for his ghazals
ghazals
1890
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
1960
0909
Gonda,Uttar Pradesh
479
OEMI0938
Jibeswar Goswami
exponent of traditional Assamese Sattriiya devotional music and dance
Assamese Sattriiya
1904
10??
Bholaguri Sattra,Nagaon district,Assam
1982
0408
Guwahati,Assam
479
OEMI0941
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
Author
Kolkata
480
P05975
OEMI0940
Jitendra Abhisheki
vocalist, music director
Vocalist and music director of the Marathi stage
1932
0915
Mangeshi,Goa
1998
1107
Pune
480
OEMI0942
Jitendranath Bhattacharya
sitar player
Veteran of sitar in Bengal
Bengal
1877
Ranaghat,Bengal
1956
Kolkata
his father
480
P00686
OEMI0946
Jnan Prakash Ghosh
tabla, harmonium player, composer
tabla and harmonium exponent,composer,and teacher
1911
Kolkata
1997
0218
Kolkata
481
OEMI0944
Jiyajirao Scindia(Shinde)
patron,
Royal patron of Gwalior state in Madhya Pradesh(r.1843-86)
481
OEMI0945
Jnan Khan Seni
vocalist, rabaab player
vocalist and rabaab player
1745
Jaipur
1812
Lucknow
Gulab Khan Seni
481
OEMI0948
Jnanam(Tiruvarur)
danseuse of Tiruvarur,Thanjavur district,Tamli Nadu
482
OEMI0947
Jnan Prasanna Mukherji
patron,
Music patron,scion of a fedual family of Gobardanga,Bengal
1860
?
1915
Kolkata
482
OEMI0949
Jnanendra Prasad Goswami
vocalist
vocalist
1902
1225
?
1945
1029
?
Loknath Goswami, radhika Prasad Goswami
482
OEMI0951
Jodhe Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
0.177
?
?
Khurjaa
483
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
OEMI0954
John Foulds
An early European pioneer in exploring Indian music
1880
Manchester, England
1939
Kolkata
487
OEMI0955
John Menezes
Noted exponent of Western music
1906
Sao Mathias, Divar Island, Goa
?
487
OEMI0953
John de Silva
Late 19th-cent. pioneer of Sri Lankan Noorti plays
?
?
487
OEMI0958
Jorawar Singh
Noted mridang player of the Gwalior durbar of Maharaja Jankojirao Scindia
Gwalior
?
?
Sukhdev Singh, Narayan Prasad Agnihotri
488
OEMI0957
Joravar Khan
vocalist
Vocalist (17th-cent.)
?
?
488
OEMI0960
Joseph Hayim Awaskar
Author of Marathi hymns and plays on Jewish devotional themes
18751900
Awas, near Mumbai
?
488
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
OEMI0959
Joseph David Penkar
writer
Writer of musical plays on Jewish religious themes, in Marathi, in the early 20th cent,
Mumbai
1949
0906
Mumbai
488
OEMI0963
Joshi, D.T.
sitar player
Sitar player and teacher of the Imdaadkhaani tradition
1914
10??
?
1993
10??
Kolkata
Inayat Khan, father of sitar maestro Vilayat Khan
489
OEMI0964
Joshi, G.N.
Eminent pioneer associated with the production of disc-records
1909
0406
Kalyan, near Mumbai
1994
0922
Mumbai
489
OEMI0966
Jyotindranath Tagore
Scion and contributor to the musico-literary traditions of the Tagore family
1849
Kolkata
1925
Ranchi, Bihar
490
OEMI0967
Jyotiprasad Agarwala
musician
Well-known Assamese musician and pioneer of the cinema and modern deama in Assam
he cinema and modern deama in Assam
Assam
1903
0617
Tamolbari Tea Estate, Dibrugarh district, Assam
1953
Tezpur
his father Paramananda Agarwala and uncle Gopal Chandra
490
OEMI0968
Jyotiriswara
Author of Varna Ratnaakara and two more works titled Maithili Dhurta Sumagama and Nritya Vidyaa Kathaa
0.128
?
1340
?
490
OEMI0965
Juma Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
?
?
Nirmal Shah Seni
490
P00041
OEMI0969
Jyotsna Bhole
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and singer-actress of the Marathi stage of the 1930s and 1940s
Mumbai
1914
0511
Bandod, Goa
2001
0804
Mumbai
491
OEMI0971
Kabiram Sarma
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
1864
Saruthekerabari, Darrang district, Assam
1954
Saruthekerabari
Bhabiram Sarma,
493
OEMI0972
Kachchi Sastri
vocalist, violinist
Vocalist and violinist (19th cent.)
?
?
493
OEMI0973
Kader Bakhsh
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
0.188
?
1934
?
his father Axim Bakhsh
494
OEMI0977
Kadigai Namasivaya Pulavar
Author of the Tamil dance-drama
?
?
494
OEMI0976
Kadigai Mokku Pulavar
composer
Composer (19rh cent.) and Tamil scholar who sesrved the Ettayapuram ruler of his time
?
?
494
OEMI0975
Kader Bakhsh (Tabla)
tabla player
Tabla player
1902
Lahore
?
his father Fakir Bakhsh
494
OEMI0974
Kader Bakhsh (Pakhawaj)
Scion of an early (18th cent.) pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Laalaa Bhavaanidaas
494
OEMI0978
Kagalkar, V.A.
vocalist
Vocalist
1902
0604
Karnataka
Balkrishna-bua Ichalkaranjikar, Ramkrishna-bua Vaze, Vilayat Hussain Khan, Sawai Gandharva
497
P00162
OEMI0979
Kaibuaia, H.
composer
Singer and composer of tribal folk music of Mizoram
tribal folk music
Mizoram
1919
Luangpawn, Mizoram
497
OEMI0980
Kaka Hathrasi
publisher
Veteran publisher, founder of the Sangeet Karyalaya in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
1906
0918
?
1995
0918
Hathras
498
OEMI0982
Kalamani Handique
Well-known singer of Assamese dihaa-naam
1923
11??
Balihat, near Jhanji, Jorhat district, Assam
1991
1020
Balihat
his father Tolan Handique
500
P02635
OEMI0983
Kalanidhi Narayanan
Bharata Naatyam teacher and danseuse
1927
Tamil Nadu
Mylapore Gowri Amma, Kanchipuram Kannappa Pillai, Chinnayya Naidu
500
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI0984
Kalbe Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of Rampur state
0.1836
?
0.1887
?
502
P00896
OEMI0985
Kale Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
?
1942
Jaipur, Rajasthan
the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his elder brother Azim Bakhsh
502
OEMI0989
Kali Prasanna Banerji
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
1842
Kolkata
1900
?
Kshetra Mohan, Jyotirindranath Tagore, his brother Sourindra Mohan Tagore
503
OEMI0988
Kale Khan (Saras-piya)
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the durbar of Lunvada, in North Gujarat
0.186
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
family
503
OEMI0987
Kale Khan (Lahore)
Singer of light classical varieties such as daadraa and qavvaali
?
?
503
OEMI0991
Kalipada Pathak
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
0.189
Howrah, Kolkata
?
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
505
OEMI0992
Kalka Prasad Maharaj
Legendary Kathak dancer
1850
Lucknow
190010
Lucknow
his uncle Thakur Prasad
505
P00163
OEMI0998
Kalyana Sundaram,K.
Bharata Naatyam teacher and choreographer
1932
?
Tiruvidaimarudur,Tamil Nadu
his father Kuppayya Pillai,brother Mahalingam Pillai and some others within the family
506
P00043
OEMI0994
Kalpakam Swaminathan
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
Chennai
1922
0815
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
506
OEMI0995
Kalu-miya
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
?
?
?
506
OEMI0996
Kalyana Bharati
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
506
OEMI0997
Kalyana Krishna Bhagavatar
Eminent veena player
1846
?
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
1888
?
Thiruvananthapuram
his father Venkatadri Bhagavatar
506
OEMI1000
Kamakoti Sastri
composer
Composer of kritis
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
?
507
P00164
OEMI1001
Kamala
Well-known Bharata Naatyam danseuse
Bharata Naatyam
1934
0616
Mayuram,Tamil Nadu
507
OEMI0999
Kalyanikutty Amma
Grand veteran of Moohini Aattam
1915
?
Karingavanam,South Malabar,Kerala
1999
0512
Tripunithura,near Kochi.Kerala
507
OEMI1005
Kamalakant Bhattacharya
composer
Singer and composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
1770
?
Burdwan district,Bengal
1820
?
Burdwan district,Bengal
508
OEMI1004
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
Well-known promoter of the arts
1903
?
?
1988
1029
?
508
P00097
OEMI1003
Kamala Murthy,T.R.
Harikathaa performer
1932
?
Lakshmikudi,Tamil Nadu
Annasami Bhagavatar,Embar Vijaya Raghavachariar,and Venkatasubramania Sastrigal
508
OEMI1007
Kamalbai
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
?
?
?
?
509
OEMI1008
Kambal
musician
A sage-musician of ancient times
?
?
?
?
509
OEMI1009
Kamleshwari Devi
vocalist,
Vocalist,mainly sang thumriis
thumrii
?
?
?
?
510
OEMI1010
Kanailal Dhendi
Reputed esraaj exponent
0.1861
?
Gaya
1901
?
Gaya
esraaj
Hanumandas Singh
513
P00165
OEMI1011
Kanak Rele
scholar
Noted scholar,and exponent of Moohini Aattam
1937
?
Mumbai
513
OEMI1013
Kanan,A.
vocalist
Noted vocalist
1920
06??
Chennai
2004
0912
Kolkata
Girija Shankar Chakravarti and Amir Khan
514
OEMI1014
Kanchi Namati
singer
folk singer
folk
190010
Hatichong-Jagari,present district of Nagaib,Assam
1970
Nagaon district
514
OEMI1016
Kandappa Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
1899
?
1941
02??
Chennai
Kannuswami Pillai, Nellaiyappa
515
OEMI1018
Kanika Bandopadhyaya
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist,teacher
1924
?
2000
0405
Kolkata
515
OEMI1017
Kandaswami Pillai,M.N.
Mridangam player
1927
?
1995
0430
Chennai
his father
515
OEMI1019
Kanji Bhota Barot
Exponent of Gujarati folklore and music
1919
Tinbla,Amrelidistrict,Saurashtra,Gujarat
1990
0928
Chalala,Saurashtra
515
OEMI1015
Kanchipuram Naina Pillai
vocalist
Vocalist
1887
0725
?
1934
0502
?
515
OEMI1021
Kannayya Bhagavatar
vocalist
Vocalist
Tamli Nadu
1846
Travancore,Kerala
516
OEMI1020
Kannappa Thambiran
Performer of Theru Koothu
1915
Purisai,Tamli Nadu
516
OEMI1022
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam guru of the 19th cent
?
?
516
OEMI1025
Kantimati
Along with her danseuse-colleague Gowri and guru Kannuswami.
?
?
517
OEMI1023
Kannuswami Rao
Performer of svarabat, a small harp
1855
?
1936
?
517
P06289
OEMI1024
Kanthe Maharaj
tabla player
tabla player
1888
Benares
1968
?
Baldev Sahari
517
OEMI1027
Karamatullah Khan(Sarod)
sarod player
1848
Bulandshahr,Uttar Pradesh
1933
Lucknow
Niyamatullah Khan
518
OEMI1026
Karam Imam(Mohammad)
Author of the Urdu work
?
1865
?
518
P00045
OEMI1028
Karamatullah Khan(Tabla)
Distinguished exponent of the Farukhaabaad gharaanaa,founded by his predecessor Haji Vilayat Ali.
1917
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
1977
1202
Kolkata
Masidullah Khan
519
OEMI1029
Karim Khan
sitar player
sitar Player
1857
Jaipur
1919
?
519
P02145
OEMI1030
Kartik Ram
Kathak dancer
1910
Rajasthan
1980
?
Shivnarayan,Jaylalji Maharaj,Achan Maharaj,Shival,Mohanlal
523
OEMI1031
Kartika Tirunal Maharaja
patron,
patron and poet who ruled Travancore,a princely state in Kerala.
1724
?
1798
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
523
OEMI1035
Kashinath Panda
Singer of the Oriya folk form daas kaathia
1929
Lathi,Berhampur,Prissa
524
OEMI1034
Kashinath Pajapanda
vocalist,
vocalist of Odissi music
1921
0315
Puri,Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
524
OEMI1032
Kasambhai Master
singer-actor of Gujarati player
1906
0310
Umbari village,north Gujarat
1969
1028
?
524
OEMI1036
Kasim Ali
rabaab player
rabaab player
1827
Benares
1905
Bhawal,Bangladesh
524
OEMI1033
Kashinath Chatterji
vocalist, teacher
vocalist and teacher
1904
0901
Kolkata
1970
1119
Kolkata
Amulyadhan Dutta
524
OEMI1038
Kasyapa
Quoted as an authority on music
?
?
525
OEMI1037
Kasinatha Kavi
composer
Composer
?
?
525