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
Rajanikant Sen
OEMI1705
864
1865
1910
19-20
Bhangabari, Pabna district （now Bangladesh）
?
composer
Reputed poet-composer of a type of Bengali songs, identified by his name as Kaanta-geeti
Rajaram, S.
OEMI1707
864
1925
20
Mysore, Karnataka
teacher, composer
Teacher and composer
Raja-bhaiyya Pochwale
0812
OEMI1701
863
1882
1956
0401
19-20
Gwalior
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
Waman-bua, Lala-bua
P00011
Rajam Iyer, B.
07??
OEMI1703
863
1922
20
Patharakkudi village, near Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist
vocalist
Ganapathy Iyer
Rajagopala Pillai (Mannargudi)
OEMI1702
863
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Rajam, N.
OEMI1704
863
1938
20
Chennai
violinist
violinist
Narayana Iyer, Musiri Subramanya Iyer
Raja Nawab Ali
OEMI1697
861
1935
20
?
?
patron,
scholar, patron, first president of the Marris(now Bhatkhande)
Kale Khan,Mohammad Ali Khan,Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
Raja Ramchan Waghela
OEMI1698
861
16
?
?
patron,
ruler,royal patron
Raja Hussain Khan
OEMI1696
861
1938
1989
0306
20
Bramhabaria
Dhaka,Bangladesh
violinist
violinist
Nayeb Ali Khan,Bahadur Khan,Khadim Hussain Khan,Akbar Khan
Rais Khan
1125
OEMI1695
860
1939
20
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
sitar player
sitar player
Mohammad Khan
Rahmat Khan (Sitar)
OEMI1693
858
1985
03??
20
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Rahimsen
OEMI1691
858
1785
1850
18-19
Gwalior
Jhajjar
sitar player
sitar player
Sukhsen
P00079
Rahimuddin Khan Dagar
OEMI1692
858
1901
1975
1120
20
Udaipur,Rajasthan
Delhi
vocalist
vocalist
Rahimat Khan
OEMI1690
858
1863
1954
19-20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Dharwad,Karnataka
sitar player
sitar player
Ghulam Hussain Khan
Raghunatha Nayak
OEMI1683
857
?
?
Maharaja of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1600-34
Raghuram Joshi
OEMI1684
857
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Raghuvir-mama Ramnathkar
0212
OEMI1685
857
1877
19-20
Ramnath,Goa
?
pioneer harmonium player
Ragini Devi
OEMI1686
857
1896
19-20
Michigan,USA
?
American danseuse
Rahim Khan
OEMI1688
857
?
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
Amritsen
P00078
Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
0202
OEMI1687
857
1927
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
vocalist, teacher
teacher, singer
Raghunath Dutta
0201
OEMI1678
856
1933
20
Masundapur village,Cuttack district,Orissa
Odissi dancer,choreographer,teacher
Pankaj Charan Das,Gurudayal Sharan,Kelucharan Mahapatra
Raghunath Rath
OEMI1681
856
?
?
author
Raghunath Nanda
0812
OEMI1679
856
1920
20
Puri,Orissa
singer
Govind Charan Nanda
Raghunath Seth
1215
OEMI1682
856
1931
20
Gwalior
flute player
P00199
Raghunath Prasanna
OEMI1680
856
1913
20
Benares
shehnai player
Gauri Shankar,Dauji Mishra
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
OEMI1676
855
1826
19
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
vocalist
vocalist
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
Radhika Prasad Goswami
OEMI1675
844
1863
1924
19-20
Vishnupur,Bengal
Kolkata
vocalist
vocalist
Radheshyam Kathavachak
1225
OEMI1672
843
1890
19
Bareilly,Uttar Pradesh
?
writer
writer of Hindi musical plays
Hindi musical plays
Radharani Mohapatra
0406
OEMI1671
843
1934
20
Cuttack,Orissa
vocalist
Odissi vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar,Balakrishna Dash,Dhiren Das,Khitish Maitra
Odissi
Radhamohan Sendas
OEMI1670
843
1770
1840
18-19
Kolkata
Kolkata
musicologist,
a pioneer musicologist,scholar
Radheshyam Sandilya
OEMI1673
843
Harda village,Hoshangabad district,Madhya Pradesh
?
musician
contemporary folk musician
contemporary folk
Radha Krishna
OEMI1666
842
?
?
poet,author
Radhabai
OEMI1668
842
?
?
singer-actress
Radha Krishna Bhanj
1105
OEMI1667
842
1928
20
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
singer
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
Pyara-saheb
OEMI1665
835
1850
1923
19-20
Lucknow
?
vocalist
vocalist
Pyar Khan (Rudra Vina)
OEMI1663
834
1737
18
Delhi
?
son of Bhupat Khan,grandson of khaayal luminary Sadaarang
Putli
OEMI1659
834
20
?
?
vocalist
vovalist
Putturaj Gawai
OEMI1662
834
1914
20
Dharwar district,Karnataka
vocalist
vocalist
Panchakshari Gawai
Puttaswamayya,T.M.
OEMI1660
834
1906
1982
20
Tagadur,Mysore district,Karnataka
Tagadur
mridangam player
Maregowda,Yelandur Rangacharya
Puttur Devdas Joshi
09??
OEMI1661
834
1926
1986
1030
20
?
?
violinist
violinist
Ganesh,T.Chowdiah,P.Sambamoorthy
Purushottamadas Pakhawaji
OEMI1658
832
Nathadwara
0.1907
20
Nathadwara
?
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player of the Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Goswami Govindlalji
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
Purushottama Mishra
OEMI1657
832
Orissa
?
?
Scholar in the durbar of Gajapati Jagannaatha Naaraayanadeva, king of Paralkhemundi, southern Orissa
Purushottam Damodar
OEMI1652
831
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Purushottam Das
OEMI1653
831
1921
1994
0620
20
Barpeta Assam
Guwahati
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
his parents Krishnakanta Das and Boroda Bala Das, Bishuprasad Radha, and Bonkowar Anandiram Das
Purushottam Dongre
OEMI1654
831
1853
1908
19-20
?
?
Author of Marathi plays
Pundarika Vitthal
OEMI1650
829
16
Satanur village, near Sivaganga, Bangalor region, Karnataka
?
musicologist
Eminent 16th-cent. musicologist
Pulin Chandra Deb Burman
OEMI1649
828
Tripura
1914
1973
20
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Tripura
Pulin Behari Mitter
OEMI1648
828
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, an early disc-record artiste
P00108
Prem Lata Sharma
0510
OEMI1645
827
1927
1998
1204
20
Nakodar, Punjab
Benares
musicologist
Well-known Sanskrit scholar, university professor, researcher, and musicologist
P.L. Vaidya and Gopinath Kaviraj, and Omkarnath Thakur
Prem Singh
OEMI1646
827
20
?
?
Singer of Sikh devotional hhymns
P00197
Pratima Barua Pandey
OEMI1644
827
1934
20
Gauripur, Assam
singer
Assamese folk singer
Pratibha Devi
OEMI1642
826
1856
1922
19-20
Jorasanko, Kolkata
Kolkata
Music enthusiast from the Tagore family
Prasunkumar Banerji
0815
OEMI1640
826
Kolkata
1926
20
?
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Jamini Ganguly, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Jnan Prakash Ghosh
Pratap Chandra Mehtab
OEMI1641
826
1790
1858
18-19
?
?
patron,
Patron
Prajnanananda （Swami）
OEMI1637
825
Kolkata
1907
20
Prasadpur, Bengal
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Vedaanta
Pran Nath
1103
OEMI1638
825
1919
1996
0613
20
Lahore [now in Pakistan]
Berkeley, USA
vocalist
Vocalist
Abdul Wahid Khan
Pransukhlal Nayak
04??
OEMI1639
825
1910
20
Jagudan village, Mehsana district, Gujarat
?
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the Gujarati stage
Prafulla Kumar Deo
1023
OEMI1636
824
1925
20
Baripada, Mayurbhanj, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for his knowledge of jhumar songs and Chhaau dance
P00196
Pradip Chaliha
OEMI1635
824
Assam
1919
20
Golaghat, Assam
Teacher and propagator of tradition Assamese dance and music
P00076
Prabha Atre
0913
OEMI1631
821
Mumbai
1932
20
Pune, Maharashtra
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of the Kiraanaa tradition
Kiraanaa
Prebhashankar Ramani
1122
OEMI1633
821
1890
1971
0121
19-20
Gujarat
?
Noted actor-singer of Gujaratii, Hindi, and Urdu plays
Prabhakar Datar Sahir
OEMI1632
821
1755
1843
18-19
Gangapur, Nasik district, Maharashtra
?
composer
Composer of laavani and powaasaa in Marathi
Pochi Srinivasa Iyengar
OEMI1630
813
1860
1919
19-20
?
?
vocalist, composer
Veteran vocalist and composer
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
Poluri Govinda Kavi
OEMI1629
813
?
?
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
Pitambardas
OEMI1626
812
?
?
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
Pitambara Dvija
OEMI1625
812
16
?
?
Singer and poet of Assam
P00195
Pithukuli Murugadas
OEMI1627
812
1920
20
Coimbatore, Taml Nadu
Singer of south Indian bhajans
Brahmananda Paradesi
Pingalshi Gadhvi
0727
OEMI1623
811
1914
1998
0531
20
Chhatvawa village, Junagadh district, Gujarat
Jamnagar, Gujarat
singer, author
Folk-singer and author of Gujarati folk literature of many genres
Gujarati folk
Phuljhuri Khan
OEMI1622
809
1920
1982
20
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
Dhaka
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
Phatik Chandra Kalita Ojha
OEMI1620
809
Assam
1910
1973
20
Phithakhowa village, Darrang district, Assam
Phithakhowa
Noted singer of Maanasaa Ojaapaali of Assam
Thanuram Kalita Ojha
Phul Mohammad
12??
OEMI1621
809
1926
20
Baharampur, Murshidabad district, Bangladesh
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father and Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Kader Baksh, Ram Govind Pathak, Mehdi Hussain Khan （of Rampur）, Girija Shankar Chakravarti
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
OEMI1619
808
18
?
?
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
Kalahastayya（veena）
Pedda Dasari
OEMI1616
807
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
17
?
?
composer
Composer of keertans in Telugu and Sanskrit
Pir Bakhsh
OEMI1617
807
Jodhpur
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar
Patwardhan
OEMI1615
806
1868
0.1916
19
Miraj, Maharashtra
Miraj
Pakhaawaj player and teacher
Pattammal, D.K.
0319
OEMI1613
806
Chennai
1919
2005
0716
20-21
Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ambi Dikshitar, P.L. Venkatarama Iyer
Patthe Bapurao
OEMI1614
806
1868
1946
19-20
Sangli, Maharashtra
?
composer
Poet and composer of Marathi laavani songs performed in tamaashaa
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
OEMI1611
805
Thanjavur
1845
1902
19-20
?
Thanjavur
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Melattur Ganapati Sastrigal, Venkatasubbayyar （Manambuchavadi）
Pattabhiramayya （Tirupanandal）
OEMI1612
805
0.1863
19
Tirupanandal, near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
?
composer
Composer of Jaavali songs
Patnaik, D.N.
0201
OEMI1610
805
Cuttack, Orissa
1933
20
?
Scholar of Odissi dance and other performing arts of Orissa
Parvin Mushtari
1213
OEMI1608
801
1954
20
Bangladesh
Singer of classical forms and Nazrul-geeti
Pashupati Sevak Mishra
OEMI1609
801
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Mishra Lineage of Benares
Parvat Singh(Chhote)
OEMI1605
800
1876
1951
0718
19-20
Gwalior
?
pakhaawaj player
P00075
Parvin Sultana
0525
OEMI1607
800
1950
20
Nauga prava,Assam
vocalist
vocalist
Chinmay Lahiri
Parvatiprasad Baruah
OEMI1606
800
1904
1964
20
Sibsagar district,Assam
?
composer
singer,composer
Parsvadeva
OEMI1602
799
?
?
author
Parthasarathy,T.S.
0908
OEMI1603
799
1913
2006
1013
20-21
Chennai
?
scholar,writer,promoter in the field of performing arts
Parameswara Bhagavatar (Palakkad)
OEMI1598
798
1815
1892
19
Palakkad region,Kerala
?
vocalist
vocalist
Parasu Sekh Ojha
OEMI1600
798
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
singer.dancer
Parashuram-bua Barve
OEMI1599
798
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
Vishnupant Chhatre
Paramanandadas
OEMI1597
797
1497
1587
15-16
Kanauj,Uttar Pradesh
Surabhi Kund,Govardhan,Rajasthan
One of the eight poet-devotes(Ashtachhaap) of the Vaishnava Pushti Margi sect.
P00194
Paramananda Borbayan
OEMI1596
797
1936
20
Lahalial,Assam
performer and teacher of Sattriiya dance of Assam
Papajan
OEMI1593
795
Hyderabad
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Papanasam Sivan
OEMI1594
795
1890
1973
19-20
Polagam,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
composer
singer,composer of devotional songs
Mahadeva Bhagavathar(Noorani),Vaidyanatha Iyer(Konerirajapuram)
Papavinasa Mudaliar
OEMI1595
795
?
?
composer
composer
Papa Venkataramayya
0912
OEMI1592
795
1901
1972
0317
20
?
?
violinist
Veteran violinist
Karur Srikantayya and Govindaswamy Pillai
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
Pannalal Ghosh
0724
OEMI1590
794
1911
1960
0420
20
Barisal[now in Bangladesh]
Delhi
flute maestro
Pankaj Mullick
0510
OEMI1587
793
1905
1978
0219
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
vocalist,
vocalist,creative musician,trendsetter of the 1930s
first by Durgadas Banerji,and later by Dhirendranath Tagore.

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