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
Dhabakoti Ammal
?
OEMI0563
281
Tamil Nadu
1920
?
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ganesilal Chaube
OEMI0652
331
Ganesilal
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Gopala Krishna Iyer （Marungapuri）
0424
OEMI0721
374
1883
1968
1215
19-20
Madurai
?
violinist
Well-known violinist of the Karnatik style
Karur Venkataramayya
Karnatik style
Hafiz Kalandhari
OEMI0770
398
1901
1981
1221
20
Jalandhar, Punjab
Pakistan
poet
Urdu poet
Jagajjyotirmalla
OEMI0900
449
17
Maharaana(king)of Nepal;ruled between 1617-33
Kalipada Pathak
OEMI0991
505
0.189
19-20
Howrah, Kolkata
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
Kallinath Pandit
OEMI0993
505506
?
?
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
Kuloi Chandra Sen
OEMI1127
578
19
?
?
musician
musician
Lahari Deb Burman
OEMI1150
586
1922
1988
20
Agartala
Agartala
Sarod player of Tripuna
Madhav Patankar
?
OEMI1215
612
1862
1916
0203
19-20
?
Maharashtra
writer, producer
Writer and producer of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
Madhukar Pednekar
0227
OEMI1219
614615
1916
1967
0720
20
Mumbai
?
Reputed harmonium player
Shankarrao Rajapurkar and Annasaheb Mainkar
Mallika Pukhraj
OEMI1252
631
1910
2004
0204
20-21
Akhnur town,Kashmir
Lahore,Pakistan
vocalist
ghazal singer
Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale,Akhtar Hussain
ghazal
Manmathnath Ray
?
OEMI1276
643
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Mirabai Badkar
0713
OEMI1315
664
1916
20
Maharashtra
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Kalyanibai and Anwar Hussain Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan
Parasu Sekh Ojha
OEMI1600
798
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
singer.dancer
Raghunath Dutta
0201
OEMI1678
856
1933
20
Masundapur village,Cuttack district,Orissa
Odissi dancer,choreographer,teacher
Pankaj Charan Das,Gurudayal Sharan,Kelucharan Mahapatra
Raghunath Nanda
0812
OEMI1679
856
1920
20
Puri,Orissa
singer
Govind Charan Nanda
Rama Bhagavatar
1015
OEMI1728
870
1888
1957
19-20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Karnatik music
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
Ranganath Mishra
0103
OEMI1790
887
1932
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
tabla player
Tabla player
Bikku Maharaj, Gama Maharaj
Raya Ramananda
OEMI1813
897
1467
1525
15-16
?
?
composer
Oriya composer of devotional songs, mainly of the kaavya-geeti variety.
Shaukat Ara Islam
1227
OEMI1955
969
1939
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Singer of ghazals and Nazrul-geeti
Suryaji Mahatme
OEMI2088
1039
1837
1899
1213
19
Goa
?
sitar player
Author and sitar exponent
Swamy Naidu, A.
OEMI2093
1042
20
?
?
actor, singer
actor, singer
Vishnudas Bhave
OEMI2210
1135
18191823
1901
0809
19-20
Sangli, Maharashtra
Sangli
Father of the Marathi musical play
Marathi musical play
Amir Khan(Seni,Rampur)
?
OEMI0113
50
0.182
0.1873
?
19
Banda,Uttar Pradesh
Rampur
vocalist, rudra veena player,
Reputed rudra veena player,proficient as a vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar as well.
his father Umrao Khan
Amir Khan Gulab Sagar
?
OEMI0115
50
?
?
?
Jaltarang player in the Baroda state Indian orchestra.
Balkrishna Dhamanaskar
?
OEMI0277
112
?
19
?
?
Author of 19th-cent
Bhagabai Nadkaikarin
OEMI0327
145
Mumbai
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and early singer for discrecords during 1900-10
Bhate-bua （Ganpatrao）
OEMI0351
164
1882
1943
19-20
Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer
Balkrishhna-bua Ichalkaranjikar
khayaal
Bhupendra Krishna Ghosh
?
OEMI0370
184
1896
1941
?
19-20
Bengal
?
patron,musician
Patron of musicians.
Chacha Vrindavandas
?
OEMI0418
207208
16971712
1791
?
17-18
Vrindavan Uttar Pradesh
?
composer
Prolific poet composer of devotional songs
Chaluvaraya Swamy, M.
OEMI0425
213
1908
1988
20
Mysore
?
veena player, author
Veena player, and author
Chikka Subba Rao, M. Venkatesa Iyengar
Chandrakantadeva Sarma
OEMI0438
218
1829
1907
19-20
Vyasapara village, Darrang district, Assam
Vyasapara
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Chandrika Prasad Dube
OEMI0443
222
1875
19-20
Pawai, Gaya district, Bihar
?
Competent esraaj player of Bihar
Kanailal Dhendi
Chitti Babu Naidu, B.
OEMI0498
243
?
?
Author of Key to Hindu Music, an early work in English by an Indian, on this topic
Dakshinamorti Sastri
?
OEMI0515
252
?
19
?
?
composer
Composer(19th cent.) of Telugu devotional songs
Gopalakrishna Bharati
OEMI0723
375
1810
1896
19
Narimanan, near Mudikondon, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
vocalist,composer
Celebrated composer and vocalist
Hussain Khan Kalpiwale
OEMI0848
436437
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player who founded the Kalpi tradition
Jnan Prasanna Mukherji
OEMI0947
482
1860
1915
19-20
?
Kolkata
patron,
Music patron,scion of a fedual family of Gobardanga,Bengal
Kandaswami Pillai,M.N.
OEMI1017
515
1927
1995
0430
20
?
Chennai
Mridangam player
his father
Khapru-mama Parvatkar
OEMI1071
547
1880
1953
0903
19-20
Parvat village, Goa
Parvat village
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father Raghuvir-mama
Khitish Chandra Maitra
1008
OEMI1073
554
1906
1980
20
Balasore district, Orissa
Orissa
One of the early teachers of Hindustani classical music in Orissa
S.N.Ratanjankar
Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer
?
OEMI1222
618
Thanjavur
1844
1893
?
19
Vaiyacheri village,near Thanjavur town,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,composer
Legendary vocalist-composer of Thanjavur
Mani Madhava Chakyar
?
OEMI1265
639
1898
1990
0615
19-20
Palakkad district,Kerala
Kerala
Eminent Kootiyaattam performer
Vasu Nambeesan,Sankaran Nambootiri(Panisseri),and Parikshit Rama Varma Tampuran
Manohar Prasad Mishra
?
OEMI1279
643
1794
1874
?
18-19
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Muthuswami Pillai,V.S.
OEMI1417
706
1921
1992
20
Vaitheeswaran Koil,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
Bharata Naatyam exponent
VazhdvoorvManicka Nattuvanar,Muthukumara Pillai
Nagabhushanachar,V.
?
OEMI1430
714715
1932
20
Krishnapur,Mysore district,Karnataka
K.Veerappachar
Nagaswami Bhagavatar
?
OEMI1433
715
1894
1952
?
19-20
Madurai,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Kathaa Kaalaksheepam
Nasir Moinuddin Dagar
0512
OEMI1504
733
1921
1966
0524
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Well-known dhrupad vocalist
his father Nasiruddin Khan and other elders in the family network
dhrupad
Prabhatdevji Sisodiya
1106
OEMI1634
822823
1882
1943
0125
19-20
Valsad district, South Gujarat
Dharampur, South Gujarat
rudra veena player
Noted rudra veena performer, teacher, and propagator
Radhika Mohan Moitra
0213
OEMI1674
843844
1917
1981
1015
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
sarod player
Ramachandra Rao, S.K.
OEMI1734
871
1926
20
Karnataka
musicologist
Noted musicologist and scolar with achievements in several fields
Ramzan Khan (Sarangi)
OEMI1783
885
1897
19
Delhi region
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Lal Khan
Ratnakant Ramnathkar
OEMI1810
894
1900
20
Mumbai
Mumbai
vocalist
harmonium player and vocalist
Raghuvir Ramnathkar, Nanhe Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
Surendranath Mazumdar
OEMI2082
1036
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （dhrupads and tap-khayaals） of Kolkata, a contemporary of Dwijendralal Roy （1863-1913）
khayaal,dhrupad
Tourangbam Nadia Singh
1015
OEMI2134
1088
1923
Imphal, Manipur
Performer of Manipuri dance
Maisnam Amubi Singh, Haobam Atomba Singh, Takhelchangbam Amudon Sharma
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
OEMI2147
1102
Assam
20
?
?
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Venkatadri Bhagavatar
OEMI2187
1122
1814
1884
19
?
Thiruvananthapuram
Eminent veena player of the durbar of Swaati Tirunaal
his father, scholar-musician Raja of Kodungallur
Vitthalrao Korgaonkar
OEMI2224
1139
1880
1974
1231
19-20
Mumbai
Belgaum, Karnataka
harmonium player and connoisseur
Kiraanaa
Bhagawat-bua of the troupe,and Bacchubhai Bhandare
Bellari M. Seshagiriachar
OEMI0321
135
1935
1985
20
Bellari
Bangalore
vocalist, violinist
Well-known vocalist and violinist
his elder brother Narasimha Murthy
Haidar Khan （Jaipur-Atrauli）
OEMI0780
400
1936
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Competent vocalist and teacher of the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa
the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa
his paternal uncle Jahangir Khan, Rajasthan, and his famous brother Alladiya Khan
Kartika Tirunal Maharaja
OEMI1031
523
1724
1798
18
?
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
patron,
patron and poet who ruled Travancore,a princely state in Kerala.
Keshav Chandra Bandopadhyay
0106
OEMI1052
540
1892
19-20
near Dhaka, Bangladesh
?
tabla player
Tabla exponent
Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Maulaviram Mishra, Natthu Khan
Laisram Birendra Kumar Singh
0402
OEMI1153
586587
1921
20
Imphal, Manipur
musicologist
Author and musicologist with focus on folk music, Manipuri devotional music, and allied topics
a few teacher
Maniram Dutta Bayan(Muktiar)
?
OEMI1271
640
1879
1966
?
19-20
?
Kamalabari Sattra,Majuli,Assam
Noted exponent of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
Bholanath Bayan Atoi
Narayana Sastrulu （Loka）
OEMI1475
728
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th cent.） and compiler of the first published volume of Tyaagaraaja's operatic works
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
Shalomo Aharonji Bhastekar
OEMI1928
964
Mumbai, region
?
Author of the musical play
Narayanaswami Iyer （Thanjavur）
OEMI1483
729
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
?
OEMI0055
27
?
?
?
?
singer
An early singer for disc-records
Amir Khan(Seni,Gwalior)
?
OEMI0112
50
0.1847
0.1915
?
19
Gwalior
Gwalior
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
Ananda K. Comaraswamy
0822
OEMI0128
56
1877
1947
0909
19-20
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Needham, Massachusetts, USA
Well-known historian of Indian art and culture
Bade Munne （Tabla）
OEMI0238
97
0.1845
0.1905
19
?
Lucknow
his father Mohammad Khan, Mamman Khan
Balkrishnapati Bajpeyi
?
OEMI0281
114
Gwalior
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of Gwalior
Balwantrao Ketkar
?
OEMI0287
115116
Sangli,Maharashtra
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Sangli,Maharashtra
Antu-bua Apte
khayaal
Balwantrao Panse
?
OEMI0288
116
0.1886
?
?
?
Reputed mridang player
Bulakilal Yadav
?
OEMI0413
204
0.1923
2000
0408
20
?
Allahabad
tabla player
Tabla player
Lalji Shrivastav
Chantai Das Oja
OEMI0444
221
?
?
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Chintamani Mishra
OEMI0492
241
19
?
?
vocalist
Dhupad vocalist; lived during the first half of the 19th cent.
no raliable information
Dipali Barthakur
OEMI0589
298
Assam
1941
20
Nilmoni Tea Estate, Dibrugarh district, Assam
Noted singer of modern Assamese songs
By her uncle Bhaben Barthakur
modern Assamese songs
Duraiswami Iler （Manattattai）
OEMI0601
303
0.1865
0.1926
19
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
his paternal uncle Manattattai Ramaswami Iyer
Irode Viswanatha lyer
?
OEMI0616
311
1905
1988
0914
20
?
New Delhi
violinis
Veteran violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik
Girisa Ayyar （Vishalur）
OEMI0701
367
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, a contemporary of Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
Gokalram （Bhagat）
OEMI0705
370
Jodhpur
?
?
vocalist,patron,
Vocalist attached to the temples of Jodhpur, directly patronized by the royal palace
Gulab Khan （Seni）
OEMI0754
386
0.17
0.1768
18
Delhi
Jaipur, Rajasthan
vocalist,rabaab player
Dhrupad singer and rabaab player
his father Hassan Khan Seni
dhrupad
Gurusami Disikar
OEMI0762
392
?
?
Well-known singer of Tamil Tevaaram hymns
Helmholtz, Hermann
0831
OEMI0829
421
1821
1894
0908
19
Postdam, Germany
Berlin
Eminent German scientist
Imam Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0861
439
Khurjaa, Uttar Pradesh
Khurjaa
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent）
the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Shahab Khan
Kamakoti Sastri
?
OEMI1000
507
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
composer
Composer of kritis
Kashinath Panda
OEMI1035
524
1929
20
Lathi,Berhampur,Prissa
Singer of the Oriya folk form daas kaathia
Keshavrao Bhosale
0809
OEMI1058
541
1890
1921
1004
19-20
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
?
singer-actor
Eminent singer-actor of the Marathi satge
Marathi satge
Khangembam Gulapi Singh
0822
OEMI1070
547
Manipur
1919
1980
1022
20
Imphal, Manipur
Imphal
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of Manipuri nata sankeertana music
Kulachandra Sharma, Chungkham Thambalngou, Oja Natum Singh
Manipuri nata sankeertana
Krishna Rao, U.S.
OEMI1101
570
?
?
Noted Bharata Naatyam exponent
Lakshmi Narayana
OEMI1162
589
?
?
musician
Musician and author of Sangeeta Suryodaya
Lakshmikanta Maharaja
OEMI1166
591
?
?
composer
Composer and Sanskrit scholar of Andhra
Lal Khan （Bade or Seni）
OEMI1171
591
0.1562
0.165
16-17
?
?
vocalist
Eminent 17th-cent. vocalist
Mangeshrao Telang
08??
OEMI1260
639
1856
1949
08??
19-20
Baad,near Karwar,Karnataka
Karwar
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
Mansukhram Nayak
?
OEMI1287
645
?
?
?
vocalist,musician
Vocalist, chief musician
Morgaumkar Bhave
OEMI1367
686
Morgon village,near Pune,Maharashtra
?
composer
composer
Munnan Khan(Murshidabad)
?
OEMI1386
694
Murshidabad (now in Bangladesh)
?
19
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player(second half, 19th cent.)
Bade Rajab Ali Khan

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