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
Abdul Majid Khan
?
OEMI0015
5
0.1888
1977
0319
19-20
?
Mumbai
saarangi player
Reputed saarangi player
Abdulla Khan(d.1917)and Kale Khan
Abdul Rahim Khan
?
OEMI0016
6
0.186
0.193
?
19
Delhi
probably Hyderabad
vocalist
Vocalist
his family(Ghulam Gaus Khan and Tanras Khan
Abdul Wahid Khan
?
OEMI0019
6
0.1878
0.1949
?
19-20
Kirana, Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Haidar Bakhsh
Abdul Aziz Khan
?
OEMI0005
2
Dharampur
1940
?
20
?
Mumbai
musician
Durbar musician of Dharampur
Abdul Ghani Khan
?
OEMI0008
2
1938
?
19-20
Khajurgaon[present-day Rae Bareilly],Uttar Pradesh
Khajurgaon
sitar player
sitar player
Azami Khan Kalpiwale
Abdul Kadar Khan
?
OEMI0011
3
1910
1970
0309
20
Rajasthan
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Abudul Azis Khan
?
OEMI0004
2
0.1875
1946
?
19-20
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
?
saarangi player
saarangi
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
Abdul Latif
?
OEMI0013
5
1930
20
Barisal,Bangladesh
composer
Singer and composer
Surendranath Das
Latif Khan
?
OEMI1197
604
1875
19-20
Agra Uttar Pradesh
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra tradition
Agra
Pyar Khan
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
OEMI1920
963
1690
1757
17-18
Sind [now in Pakistan]
?
Sindhi devotional poet
Abdul Sattar
?
OEMI0018
6
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Asadullah Khan
?
OEMI0182
7879
1858
1915
?
19-20
Kolkata
Kolkata
Reputed sarod player
Daulat Khan
?
OEMI0537
260
Kolkata
1920
?
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
Natthu Khan Khandare
Abdul Gani Bayati
?
OEMI0007
2
1909
1978
0819
20
Nurullahpur,Barisal district,Bangladesh
Dhaka
composer
Singer and composer,especially of zari
Abban Khan
?
OEMI0002
1
1922
19-20
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
Behnam Khan Dagar(c.1800-1887)
Dhrupad
Abdul Gafur
?
OEMI0006
2
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Abdul Salam
?
OEMI0017
6
?
20
?
?
composer
Composer,a contemporary of the famous Kazi Nazrul Islam(b.1899)
Afruddin Khan
?
OEMI0042
23
?
?
?
Qavvaali singer
Ahmed Ali Khan
?
OEMI0057
2728
0.1875
1920
?
19-20
Rampur
Rampur
Distinguished sarod player
Akil Ahmed Khan
?
OEMI0068
33
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
Agra
Alimulla Khan
?
OEMI0081
39
Lucknow
?
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Allabande Khan
?
OEMI0084
39
?
0.1875
1925
?
19-20
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
Alwar, Rajasthan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Dagar lineage
Amanat Khan
?
OEMI0097
46
?
0.1928
1968
0103
20
probably Narsingarh, Madhya Pradesh
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Asgar Ali Khan
?
OEMI0183
81
0.1841
0.1912
?
19
Gwalior
Darbhanga
Well-known sarod player of the durvar of Darbhanga,Bihar
Ashiq Ali Khan
?
OEMI0190
82
1948
?
20
?
Patiala
vocalist
Vocalist
Ayet Ali Khan
0426
OEMI0206
89
1884
1967
09??
19-20
Shibpur, Bangladesh
?
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player, and teacher
Family
Bade Agha Khan
OEMI0233
96
1892
0.1944
19-20
Baghdad
Lucknow
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Badru Zaman Khan
OEMI0244
98
1938
20
?
Hyderabad
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
his family
Dulha Khan
OEMI0597
303
Jaipur
0.1745
0.182
18
?
?
vocalist
Noted 18th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer of Jaipur
dhrupad
Faqirullah Saif Khan
?
OEMI0622
317
17
1684
0826
17
?
Allahabad
Author of Raaga Darpan
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）
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
?
OEMI0010
3
?
17
?
?
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
Ghulam Sabir Khan
OEMI0690
363
Moradabad
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his father Hussain Bakhsh
Ghagge Nazir Khan
OEMI0667
353354
0.1845
1910
19-20
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Well-known khayaal singer
Mewaati gharaanaa
his father Wazir Khan, Haddu Khan
khayaal
Ahmad Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0053
27
Lucknow
1887
1963
1123
19-20
Thakurganj, Lucknou
Lucknow
vocalist
Dhrupad singer and teacher at Bhatkhande College of Music
dhrupad
Fazal Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0626
319
Lahore
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore of the early 1900s
Haidar Bakhsh Khan
OEMI0776
399
0.1875
?
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
his father Changay Khan
Aftabuddin Khan
?
OEMI0043
23
0.1862
1933
?
19-20
Shibpur,Bangladesh
?
Instrumentalist
Ramdhan and Ramkanai Sheel(violin),and other instruments from Kasim Ali
Ahmad Khan
?
OEMI0054
27
?
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of llate 18th cent.,
Azmatullah Khan
OEMI0216
91
19
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
Agra region
vocalist
Vocalist of the mid-19th cent.
his father Rahmatullah Khan
Bade Sabri Khan
OEMI0240
98
1962
20
?
Lahore
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Basit Khan
OEMI0314
129
0.1787
0.1887
18-19
?
?
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
Bhurji Khan
0505
OEMI0371
184
1890
1949
0506
19-20
Jaipur area
Mumbai
vocalist
Khayaal singer and teacher
Jaipur-Atraauli
Alladiya Khan and Haidar Khan
khayaal
Bilas Khan
?
OEMI0376
189
0.154
0.1621
?
16
Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
?
vocalist,composer
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
Bughara Khan
?
OEMI0412
204
?
?
?
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent
Delhi
Dilawar Khan
?
OEMI0584
295
Bengal
1909
?
19-20
?
Delhi
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
Delhi
Murad Khan
khayaal
Gami Khan
OEMI0648
327
1882
1956
06??
19-20
Delhi
Lahore, Pakistan
tabla player
Reputed tabla exponent of the Delhi gharaanaa
Delhi gharaanaa
his father, Chhote Kale Khan
Gul Bardhan
OEMI0752
386
1928
20
Mumbai
Dancer of Manipuri, Chhaau, and some regional folk dances of Rajasthan and Gujarat
Shanti Bardhan, Maisnam Amubi Singh
Hafiz Khan
OEMI0771
398
0.185
0.1909
19
Jaipur
?
sitar player
Noted sitar player
his father Mammu Khan
Hamid Khan
OEMI0789
401
1840
1909
19-20
Agra
Mysore
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
his maternal grandfather Nanhe Khan
Hasir Khan
OEMI0820
418
18
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
the Qavvaal gharaanaa of Dalhi
Iliyas Khan
OEMI0857
439
1920
1989
0302
20
Lucknow
Lucknow
sitar player
Sitar player
Juma Khan
OEMI0965
490
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
Nirmal Shah Seni
Kalbe Ali Khan
OEMI0984
502
0.1836
0.1887
19
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of Rampur state
Karim Khan
OEMI1029
519
1857
1919
19-20
Jaipur
?
sitar player
sitar Player
Khushal Khan
OEMI1077
555
0.16
168090
17
Agra
Delhi
vocalist
Vocalist, the foremost luminary of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
his father Laai Khan Seni
Masidullah Khan
?
OEMI1291
655
0.189
1974
1216
19-20
?
?
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent and teacher
Farukhaabaad
Nanne Khan
Maujuddin Khan
?
OEMI1301
658659
?
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Modu Khan
OEMI1337
676
?
?
tabla player
Tabla player
Muravvat Khan
?
OEMI1399
698
0.186
0.1945
?
19
?
?
sitar player,vocalist
Durbar musician. vocalist and sitar player
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
Musharraf Khan
?
OEMI1401
699
Jaipur Rajasthan
?
19
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player(19th cent.)
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
Nabat Khan
?
OEMI1427
711
0.153
0.161
?
16
Singhalgad, Rajasthan
Agra[then called Akbarabad]
rudra veena player
Rudra veena maestro of the Seni gharaanaa
Seni
Niyamat Khan
OEMI1546
765
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Qavvaal-bbachche style
Qavvaal-bbachche style
khayaal
Rahim Khan
OEMI1688
857
?
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
Amritsen
Rahimat Khan
OEMI1690
858
1863
1954
19-20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Dharwad,Karnataka
sitar player
sitar player
Ghulam Hussain Khan
Rais Khan
1125
OEMI1695
860
1939
20
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
sitar player
sitar player
Mohammad Khan
Ras Rag Khan
OEMI1802
888
?
?
tabla player
tabla player
Sadiq Ali Khan
OEMI1835
909
1910
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
vocalist, innovator of behalaavaa or lachaav-ki-thumrii
Raje Khan
Sadruddin Khan
OEMI1838
910
1880
19
Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
Jaipur
vocalist
vocalist
Haapur gharaanaa
Shah Mir Khan
OEMI1922
963
Indore
?
?
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore
Sujan Khan
?
OEMI2051
10251026
?
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Agra
Suraj Khan
OEMI2076
1034
16
?
?
vocalist
Sixteenth-century vocalist
Vilayat Khan
0820
OEMI2205
11291130
1927
2004
0312
20-21
Gouripur, Mymensingh district [now in Bangladesh]
Mumbai
sitar player
Highly acclaimed sitar maestro of the 20th cent.
his father Inayat Khan, his mother Bashiran Bibi, maternal uncle Zinda Hassan Khan, and maternal grandfather Bande Hossan Khan, his paternal uncle Wahid Khan, Dhruba Tara Joshi and Bimla Kanta Roy Choudhuri
Yusuf Khan
?
OEMI2251
1156
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Haapur
Mugna Khan
OEMI2278
691
1915
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
saarangi ghaaraana
Kale Khan
Bahadur Hussain Khan
OEMI0246
101
0.1808
0.187
19
?
?
sursingaar player
Sursingaar maestro of the Rampur royal durbar
Rampur royal durbar
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
0303
OEMI0686
362
1931
20
Badayun, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
Fida Hussain Khan, Nissar Hussain Khan, K.C. Brahaspati
Tabakkal Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2100
1050
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist from Talwandi in Punjab
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
?
OEMI0021
7
Delhi
?
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ghulam Haidar Khan
OEMI0680
361
1920
19-20
Khurja, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Khurjaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
Ghulam Raza Khan
OEMI0689
363
?
?
sitar player
Innovator of the Raazaakhaani-gat, a composition for string instruments like the sitar and sarod
Imdad Hussain Khan
OEMI0863
439440
0.1848
1920
19-20
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
Indore
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
his father Sahabdad Hussain Khan
Afaq Hussain Khan
0712
OEMI0041
22
1930
1990
0219
20
Lucknow
?
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
Lucknow
Abid Hussaion Khan and Wajad Hussain Khan
Amir Hussain Khan
10??
OEMI0110
4849
1899
1969
0105
19-20
Bankhanda,Uttar Pradesh
?
tabla player
Tabla maestro
Farukhaabaad
Bade Changeh Khan
OEMI0234
96
0.177
0.1857
18-19
Panipat
?
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of the durbar of Mughal king Bahadur Shah Zafar
khayaal
Bilas Baras Khan
?
OEMI0375
189
Pune
?
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Pune durbar
Pune durbar
dhrupad
Ghulam Hussain Khan
OEMI0681
361
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Imam Khan
Mohammad Bashir Khan
OEMI1346
679
1936
20
Aligarh
Jabra,Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
vocalist
Abdulla Khan(Agra)
OEMI0020
7
0.1873
19221919
?
19-20
Agra
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa tradition
Agra
Bade Mohammad Khan
OEMI0236
97
1755
1840
18-19
probably Lucknow
?
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and innovator
his father Shakkar Khan, his uncle Makkhan Khan
Bande Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0294
117
Baroda
1906
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Faiyaz Khan
khayaal
Ghulam Ghaus Khan
OEMI0679
361
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of Atraululi, Uttar Pradesh, of the early 19th cent.
dhrupad
Hamid Hussain Khan
OEMI0788
401
1950
?
Lucknow
sitar player
Noted sitar player and teacher
his father Tullan Khan, uncle Turab （or Turav） Khan
Mehdi Hussain Khan
OEMI2277
666667
1884
1960
19-20
Rampur
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
his illustrious father, Buniyad Hussain Khan. Mitthu Khan,
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
OEMI0684
362
20
Lahore
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Umrao Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1013
OEMI1559
769
1948
1997
0816
20
Lyallpur,Punjab region of Pakistan
London
composer
singer-composer
Shahadat Hussain Khan
07??
OEMI1924
963
1958
20
Comilla, Bangladesh
Sarod player
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
Abhilasha
?
OEMI0025
10
south India
?
?
Author of Sangeet Chandra
Abid Hussain Khan(Dhaka)
0401
OEMI0027
14
1928
20
Shibpur,Comilla district
sitar player, sarod player
Sitar and sarod player
Ayet Ali Khan(brother of Allauddin Khan of Maihar)
Bahram Khan
OEMI0253
104
1800
0.188
19
Ambaitha, Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh
Jaipur
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Jaipur durbar, and a stalwart of the Dagar tradition
His father Imam Khan, Baba Kalidas
dhrupad

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