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
OEMI ID
Name
Field
Notes about Field
Speciality
Place of Residence
Year of Birth
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Year of Death
Date of Death
Place of Death
Gharana
Guru
Page
OEMI1934
Shambhu Qavval
Qavvaali singer who usually sang with his brother Shankar （d. 1984）
?
?
964
OEMI1935
Shamim
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Lucknow
?
?
964965
OEMI1940
Shankar Bodas
vocalist,
Vocalist and veteran educationist
1900
0423
Sangli, Maharashtra
1986
0710
?
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
966
OEMI1941
Shankar Hombal
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
1927
12??
Dharwar, Karnataka
Rukmini Devi Arundale's Kalakshetra, Chennai
966
OEMI1942
Shankar Vaze
Author of Marathi musical plays
?
?
966
OEMI1964
Shiv Kumar Bai
vocalist
Vocalist, lived in early 20th-cent. Benares
Benares
?
?
972
OEMI1988
Simha Bhopala
musicologist
King and musicologist of medieval times
?
?
977
OEMI1990
Singhanadeva
patron,
Royal patron of Devgiri, near Aurangabad in Maharashtra
?
?
982
OEMI2003
Sivaramayya
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer of the Mysore durbar
1886
Mysore
1946
?
his father Veena Padmanabhayya, Veena Seshanna
988
OEMI2009
Sohrab Hossain
vocalist
Vocalist
1925
Nadia district, West Bengal
Abbasuddin Ahmed （Bengali folk songs）
991
OEMI2014
Somaraja Deva
Author of Sangeeta Ratnaavalii, a 13th-dent.
?
?
992
OEMI2015
Someswara
patron,
Author and royal patron, quoted by Saarangadeva 13th cent., Saarada Tanaya, and Paarsvade
?
?
992
OEMI2018
Somnath Pandit
Author of Raaga Viboodha, written in 1609
?
?
993
OEMI2027
Srijanbai
singer
Competent singer
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
Ghasit Khan
1008
OEMI2036
Subba Rao,B.
Exponent of both Hindustani and Karnatik music.
1894
?
Basavapatna,Karnataka
1970
?
?
10101011
OEMI2052
Sukadev Patri
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1927
?
Kendrapada,Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar,Kundaladi Narayan Rao,and Khitish Chandra Maitra.
1026
OEMI2055
Sukhsen
Reputed dhrupad exponent of the Seni tradition
0.175
?
Gwalior
0.18
?
Gwalior
Seni
1027
OEMI2090
Sushila Mishra
Author and connoisseur of both Karnatik and Hindustani music
0.192
Thrissur district, Kerala
1998
0808
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
1039
OEMI2102
Talim Hussain
Shehnai player of 1900s
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
1055
OEMI2110
Tarlekar,G.H.
musicologist
Author,Sanskrit scholar, and musicologist
1914
0507
Tarle,Kolhapur district,Maharashtra
2001
1211
Pune
10671068
OEMI2115
Tijanbai
Performer of Paandavani
Bhilai
1954
0424
Atari Patan,Chhattisgarh
1070
OEMI2132
Tiwadi Tejkaran
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh （r.1803-43）, from 1830 till 1851.
?
?
1085
OEMI2135
Trimohanlal
Pioneer artiste, writer, and producer of swaang and nautanki of the Kanpur style
?
?
1089
OEMI2136
Tukaram （Sant）
Saint-poet whose name is Synonymous with Marathi abhangs
1598
Dehu, near Pune, Maharashtra
1650
Dehu
10941095
OEMI2140
Tyagaraja
vocalist,composer
Celebrated composer and vocalist, of saintly status, often referred to as Tyaagaraaja Swaami
1767
0504
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1847
0106
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district
10971098
OEMI2163
Vangamani
author
?
?
1113
OEMI2164
Vansiali
poet
?
?
1114
OEMI2176
Vasuki
Ancient authority
?
?
1118
OEMI2180
Vema Bhopala
Author and Komati king of Kondaveedu, Andhra
?
?
11201121
OEMI2182
Venabai
Performer of Marathi keertans
1627
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1678
?
saint-poet Raamdaas
1121
OEMI2209
Vishnu Mahajani
Poet and playwright
1851
11??
Pune, Maharashtra
1923
02??
?
1134
OEMI2211
Vishnudas Nama
composer
Composer and performer of Marathi aakhyaan for some years after 1550
?
?
1135
OEMI2220
Viswanathan, T.
flute player
1926
0815
Tamil Nadu
2002
0910
?
Swaminatha Pillai
11381139
OEMI2225
Qutub-ud-Daula
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
?
?
?
?
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
838839
OEMI2226
Sailabai
Singer and dancer of early 20th-cent. Kolkata
?
?
?
915
OEMI2243
William Jones
Eminent scholar of Sanskrit, author, and jurist
1746
0920
England
1794
?
Kolkata
1147
OEMI2246
Yashtka
musicologist
Ancient musicologist
?
?
?
?
1153
OEMI2262
Zauk Dehalvi
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
1789
?
1854
Delhi
1160
OEMI2268
Zohrabai
Singer
?
?
Abdul Karim Khan （Kiraanaa） and Abdul Wahid Khan
1161
OEMI2276
Mehbobjan
vocalist
Vocalist
Pune, Maharashtra
0.1898
?
1970
Solapur, Maharashtra
Tupelkhan Sitariya
666
OEMI1904
Sayajirao （III）, Gaekwad （Maharaja）
patron,
Great patron of the arts; enlightened ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda
1863
Kavllana, Khandesh district, Maharashtra
1939
Baroda
958959
OEMI1107
Krishnananda Vyas 'Ragasagar'
Author
1795
Udapiur,Rajasthan
1888
probably Kolkata
571
OEMI1141
Kuppayya Pillai(Tiruvidaimarudur)
Bharata Naatyam dancer and guru
1886
Thanjavur region,Tamil Nadu
1981
Mumbai
Panchapakesa Nattuvanar
580
OEMI0290
Balwantrao Sahasrabuddhe
Pioneer activist in music education
1851
?
Alibag,near Mumbai
1914
0922
Mumbai
116
OEMI0488
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
?
?
240241
OEMI0742
Govindarajan （Sirkazhi）
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist, teacher, and singer-actor in Tamil films
Tamil films
1933
Seerkazhi, Tamil Nadu
1988
0323
Chennai
Swaminatha Pillai
381
OEMI1098
Krishna Iyengar （Madurai）
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for pallavi rendition
Mumbai
?
?
569
OEMI1120
Krishnayyar 'Dasavadyam'
Instrumentalist
?
?
573
OEMI1766
Ramji-bhaiyya Agnihotri
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1905
0611
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
1982
0630
?
his father Madhava Rao
879
OEMI2178
Virabhadrayya （Melattur）
composer
Composer （18th cent.）
Melattur, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
1120
OEMI0265
Balakrishna Das
vocalist, music director
Vocalist and exponent of Oriyaa champu,chhand,janaanaa,Jayadeeva`s padas, and also music director for plays and films
1928
0202
Puri,Orissa
109110
OEMI0289
Balwantrao Pohre
vocalist
Reputed Khayaal singer of the last quarter of the 19th cent
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Inayat Hussain Khan
116
OEMI0352
Bhatkhande, V.N.
musicologist
Distinguished musicologist with a high record of research
1860
0810
Mumbai
1936
0919
Mumbai
167168
OEMI0458
Chhajju Khan Seni
vocalist,rabaab player
Vocalist, rabaab player, and innovator
1740
probably Jaipur
1806
?
230231
OEMI0542
Debkantha Bagchi
Noted 19th-cent. music director of the Bengal theatre
Bengal theatre
1860
?
Nabadwip district,Bengal
1930
?
probably Kolkata
Gopal Chandra Chakravarty
262
OEMI0562
Dewan Raghunath
composer
Composer of Syaamaa songs of Bengal
?
?
?
?
280
OEMI0651
Ganesh Chaturvedi
tabla player
Mridang and tabla player of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
1864
?
1939
Mathura
331
OEMI0697
Girin Chakraborty
singer
Folk singer
folk
?
?
366
OEMI0699
Giriraja Brahmam
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional song
?
?
367
OEMI0738
Govinda Dikshitar
musicologist
Musicologist and statesman; author of Sangeeta Sudhaa
?
?
380
OEMI0828
Heisnam Mangoljao
Well-known Manipuri folk singer, popularly known as Thanga Mangoljao
1914
11??
Thange Island, Loktak Lake, Manipur
1997
1016
Imphal, Manipur
420
OEMI0862
Imamuddin Dagar
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher of the 1920s and 1930s
dhrupad
?
?
his father and other elders in the family, elder brother Nasiruddin
439
OEMI0996
Kalyana Bharati
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
506
OEMI1112
Krishnarao Date
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
?
?
Gwaalior
572
OEMI1114
Krishnarao Mulay
rudra veena player
performer of rudra veena
1864
1223
Pune
1944
0721
Bilimora,South Gujarat
Annasaheb Gharpure,Ganesh Krishna Apte
572
OEMI1198
Lauji,Viswanath
musician
Musician from Kaathiawar,Gujarat
?
?
?
?
604
OEMI1305
Maulaviram Misir
tabla player
Noted tabla player
0.188
?
Benares
1940
?
?
his father Biharilal
660
OEMI1359
Mohan Chand Basu
composer
composer
?
?
?
?
682
OEMI1389
Munneshwar Dayal
Noted harmonium exponent
1908
1107
Gaya district, Bihar
1983
0510
Gaya
Gopibabu and Sohni Singh
695
OEMI1407
Muthachar, T.N.
vocalist, composer,
Vocalist, composer, and teacher
?
1993
?
R.K. Ramanathan
703704
OEMI1419
Mutthu Thandavar
composer
composer
16
Sirkazhi,south of Chidambaram,Tamil Nadu
?
706
OEMI1462
Narayan Behera
vocalist
Vocalist
1917
1214
Ganjam, Orissa
Surya Narayan Shastri, Venkataswami Naidu
726
OEMI1468
Narayan Prasad
Kathak dancer
1908
Jaipur, Rajasthan
1958
0912
Jaipur
726
OEMI1485
Narayanaswamy, K. （Umayalpuram）
Ghatam player
1929
0504
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
his father Kothandarama Iyer
729
OEMI1509
Natarajan,A.K.C.
clarinet player
Noted clarinet player
?
?
?
?
A.K.Chinnakrishnan
739
OEMI1531
Nilamma Kadambai
veena player
Veena player
1908
?
1998
1214
Mysore
her father Venkatesachar and later from Mysore Venkatagiriappa
757
OEMI1554
Nor Khan(Ratlam)
vocalist
vocalist
Delhi
1870
Ratlam,Madhya Pradesh
766767
OEMI1697
Raja Nawab Ali
patron,
scholar, patron, first president of the Marris(now Bhatkhande)
?
1935
?
Kale Khan,Mohammad Ali Khan,Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
861
OEMI1708
Rajaram Shukla
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1925
0509
Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh
Bhagvatkishor Vyakul, Mohan Misra, Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale, Amir Khan
864
OEMI1743
Ramananda Dvija
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
his father Raamadeva Aataa
873
OEMI1760
Ramchatur Mallik
Reputed dhrupad singer
1906
1005
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
1990
0111
Basti, near Patna
his father Ranjitram Mallik, uncle Kshitipal Mallik
877878
OEMI1781
Ramtaran Sanyal
musician
Musician associated with old Bengali plays.
Faridpur district [now in Bangladesh]
?
Kana Jogen, Gopal Chandra Chakravarty
884
OEMI1809
Ratilal Bhavsar
vocalist, singer-actor
vocalist, singer-actor
1928
0617
Chopade town, Jalgaom district, Maharashtra
2001
1024
near Pune
894
OEMI1903
Sawai Ram Singh
patron,musician
Patron, musician, and Maharaja of Jaipur （r.1835-80）
Jaipur
?
?
958
OEMI1913
Seshanna （Vina）
Eminent performer of the Mysore durbar, often called Mysore Veena Seshanna
Mysore
1852
Mysore
1926
0725
?
962
OEMI1946
Shankarrao Vyas
vocalist, teacher, music director
Vocalist, teacher, and music director of films, mainly in the 1940s
films
1898
0123
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1956
1218
Mumbai
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Shankarrao
966
OEMI1965
Shiv Sevak Mishra
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
1884
?
1933
Kolkata
972
OEMI1970
Shridhar Nazrekar
Performer of Marathi keertan and author of aakhyaans
1658
Khadki, near Pune, Maharashtra
1729
?
974
OEMI1979
Shyamamani Devi
vocalist
Vocalist
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
975
OEMI1980
Shyamdas Mishra
vocalist
Vocalist
1948
0713
Mungher district, Bihar
Omkarnath Thakur and Balwantrai Bhatt
975
OEMI1992
Sinnayya （Ghanam）
composer
Telugu composer of padam and keertana
padam and keertana
?
?
982
OEMI1996
Sitaram Mundale
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1891
?
1947
1205
Mumbai
986
OEMI2072
Sundarlal Vaidya
Poet, singer, and performer of Raas-leelaa
1840
Modoi village, Makhira district, Uttar Pradesh
?
1031
OEMI2157
Vaidiswarankoil
composer
composer
?
?
1108
OEMI2215
Vishwanath Ringe
vocalist, teacher, author
vocalist, teacher, author
1921
?
Gwaalior
Krishnarao Pandit
1137
OEMI2219
Viswanath Lauji
musician
musician
?
?
1138
OEMI2222
Vithaldas Joshi
pakhaawaj player, singer
keertan singer and pakhaawaj player.
keertan
?
?
pakhaawaj
1139
OEMI0805
Hari Prasad Bandopadhya
Singer-actor of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
411
OEMI1099
Krishna Iyer （Kundrakkudi）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1816
Kundrakkudi, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu
1889
?
It is not known
569
OEMI1102
Krishnadas （Poet-devoti）
composer
Composer of Raas-leelaa songs
1500
Chilotra, Ahmedabad region, Gujarat
15781585
Chilotra
570