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
Banne Khan
1225
OEMI0298
120
1835
1910
?
19-20
Nausahana Nangali, Punjab
Hyderabad
vocalist
Vocalist
Bashir Khan
OEMI0313
129
Jaipur
1938
20
Jodhpur
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa and harmonium player
Jaipur-Atraauli
Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
Bhajan Khan
OEMI0339
155
Jodhpur
19
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar during 1845-61
Jodhpur durbar
Bullah Shah
?
OEMI0414
204
1680
1752
?
17-18
Lulani,near Lahore,Pakistan
?
poet
Mystic poet
Chhajju Khan
OEMI0457
230
19
Bijnor, Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of the mid-19th cent.
his father Dilawar Khan , Inayat Hussain Khan
Chhange Khan
OEMI0459
231
0.1857
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Chhote Kale Khan
OEMI0467
237
?
?
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
Delhi gharaanaa
Chhote Khan
OEMI0468
237
1827
1912
19-20
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Well-known pakhaawaj player
Kudau Singh
Chimman Khan
OEMI0481
239
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
Dabir Khan
OEMI0511
249
1912
1972
20
Rampur
Kolkata
vocalist,rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena player and vocalist
Dayar Khan
?
OEMI0540
262
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1760s.
Maharaja Takhat Singh
Ghulam Ali Khan
OEMI0678
360361
19
?
?
sarod player
A sarod pioneer of the 19th-cent.
Hassu Khan
OEMI0825
419
Gwalior
0.179
0.1855
18-19
Gwalior
Gwalior
vocalist
Vocalist of the brother-duo Haddu-Hassu Khan of Gwalior
Gwalior
Imam Khan
OEMI0860
439
19
?
?
dholak player
Noted dholak player of the mid-19th cent.
Jaggan Khan
OEMI0906
451
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Jamaluddin Khan
OEMI0913
460
Baroda
1858
1928
19-20
most probably Jaipur
Baroda
rudura veena player of the Baroda durbar
Amiruddin Khan
Jivan Khan
OEMI0932
472
1838
1935
19-20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi Player
Jodhe Khan
OEMI0951
483
0.177
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Khurjaa
Joravar Khan
OEMI0957
488
17
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （17th-cent.）
Kale Khan
OEMI0985
502
1942
20
?
Jaipur, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his elder brother Azim Bakhsh
Kayam Khan
OEMI1040
532
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Majru Khan
OEMI1243
623
1810
1884
19
?
?
Sarod player
Pyar Khan
Mangal Khan
?
OEMI1259
638
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Manji Khan
?
OEMI1272
642
1888
1937
?
19-20
Atrauli,Rajasthan
Mumbai
vocalist
Talented vocalist
Haidar Khan
Mirza Khan
OEMI1329
672
?
?
author
Mitthu Khan
OEMI1335
673
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Miyajan Khan
OEMI1336
675
1880
1919
19-20
Patiala,Punjab
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
vocalist
Kalu Khan
Mohammad Khan
OEMI1351
680
1845
1910
19-20
Kolkata
sitar player
Surbahaar and sitar exponent
Momin Khan
OEMI1366
685
1797
1852
0512
18-19
?
Delhi
poet
Munduru Khan
?
OEMI1383
693694
0.181
0.1884
?
19
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
Rampur
Sarod player
Muzaffar Khan
OEMI1421
706707
1858
19
Delhi
?
vocalist
vocalist
Maste Khan
Nasar Khan
?
OEMI1499
732
1829
1903
0801
19-20
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
Well-known pakhaawaj player
Taj Khan Deredar
Natthan Khan
?
OEMI1513
741
0.184
0.1907
?
19
Agra
Mysore
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Agra
his uncle Ghulam Abbas Khan
Natthe Khan
?
OEMI1515
741
0.1745
?
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Khurjaa
Natthu Khan
?
OEMI1516
741
18
0.1884
?
18
?
?
vocalist
Eminent exponent of the Gwaalior Khayaal gharaanaa
Gwaalior khayaal
his father Kader Bakhsh
khayaal
Pan Khan
OEMI1581
788
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
18
?
?
vocalist,sitar player
vovalist,sitar player
Sahabdad Khan
OEMI1842
911
1830
1880
19
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
vocalist and sitar player
Salem Khan
OEMI1854
917
19
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Agra gharaanaa
Samwal Khan
OEMI1865
925
?
?
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Savaliya Khan
OEMI1898
954
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Pyar Khan
Shabbu Khan
OEMI1915
962
Hyderabad
0.1936
20
?
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Delhi gharaanaa
Delhi
his family
Shad Khan
OEMI1916
962963
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra
Shahab Khan
OEMI1923
963
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
his father （name not known）
Shaukat Ali Khan
OEMI1954
969
1911
20
Gidhaur, Bihar
?
rabaab player
Rabaab player of the Seni gharaanaa
Seni
Mohammad Ali Khan, Raja Nawab Ali
Sitab Khan
OEMI1994
982
18
?
?
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Sulaiman
OEMI2059
1029
Lucknow
?
?
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and tappaa singer of Lucknow
Rajab Ali Khan
khayaal
Taj Khan
?
OEMI2101
10521053
0.182
0.1904
?
19-20
?
Nepal
vocalist
Eminent singer of dhrupad and khayaal
Haidar Khan,Sadiq Ali Khan,
dhrupad,khayaal
Tanras Khan
?
OEMI2104
10591060
0.1814
0.1885
?
19
Dasna,near Delhi
Hyderabad
Khyaal stalwart
Ujir Khan
OEMI2143
1101
Jaipur
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
Umar Khan
OEMI2146
1102
Kolkata
1982
0222
20
?
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sarod player
his father Sakhawat Hussain Khan
Yashin Khan
?
OEMI2245
1153
1935
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
vocalist
vocalist
his father Gul Mohammad Khan
Zaffar Khan
?
OEMI2252
1157
0.1776
0.184
?
18-19
?
Benares
rabaab player
Eminent rabaab player
Seni
his father Chhajju Khan
Abdulla Khan(Sarod)
?
OEMI0022
7
arbhanga state,Bihar
0.1843
0.1926
?
19
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
Darbhanga,Bihar
musician
Durber musician of Darbhanga state,Bihar
Chhota Naubat Khan
OEMI0464
236
0.1756
18
?
?
rudra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
his illustrious father Jeevan Khan
Raja Hussain Khan
OEMI1696
861
1938
1989
0306
20
Bramhabaria
Dhaka,Bangladesh
violinist
violinist
Nayeb Ali Khan,Bahadur Khan,Khadim Hussain Khan,Akbar Khan
Wahid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2231
1143
1985
1103
20
?
Karachi,Pakistan
vocalist
vocalist
his father Altaf Hussain Khan
Wajid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2234
1144
1918
20-
Lucknow
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
Lucknow
His uncle Munne Khan and Abid Hussain Khan
Sakhawat Hussain Khan
OEMI1853
916
1877
1955
07??
19-20
Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
sarod player
Safayet Hussain Khan, Asadullah Khan, Karamatullah Khan
Abid Hussain Khan(Tabla)
?
OEMI0029
1415
1867
1936
0612
19-20
Lucknow
Lucknow
tabla player
Ace performer of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa
Lucknow
Mohammad Khan(d.1879) and Munne Khan
Bashir Ahmad Khan
OEMI0312
129
1903
20
Agra
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist
his maternal grandfather Kallan Khan
Chhote Munne Khan
OEMI0470
237
Lucknow
1927
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of Lucknow
Nasir Ahmad Khan
0105
OEMI1501
733
1930
20
Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan
Surujbai Khande
OEMI2086
10381039
Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Contemporary singer of folk songs of Madhya Pradesh. Particulary bharthari, dholaa maaru, chandaini, alha, and Raam kissaa songs
Family, Jawaharlal Baghel and Pritam Pahadi
folk songs of Madhya Pradesh
Chhote Mohammad Khan
OEMI0469
237
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent.）
Haddu Khan
Ibrahim Adil Shah
OEMI0853
438
1580
1627
16-17
Bijapur
?
musician
Musician-king of Bijapur, Karnataka
Inayat Hussain Khan
OEMI0869
441
1849
1919
19-20
?
Benares
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and founder of a prominent branch of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
his father , Bahadur Hussain
Mehandi Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1317
666
1915
?
20
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Vocalist
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
OEMI1848
915
19
?
?
surbahaar exponent
Ahmedijan Thirakawa Khan
?
OEMI0058
28
?
0.1874
1976
0112
19-20
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
tabla player
tabla maestro
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
?
OEMI0119
51
1670
0.1742
?
17-18
probably Delhi
Delhi
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
Buniyad Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0416
205
Rampur
0.1835
1918
?
19-20
Bareilly
Rampur
saarangi player
Distinguished saarangi player of Rampur durbar
Rampur durbar
Faiz Mohammad Khan
?
OEMI0619
316
Baroda
0.1835
0.1904
?
19-20
probably Agra
Baroda,Gujarat
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Baroda durbar
Baroda durbar
Fateh Mohammad and Ghasit Khan
Ishtiaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0883
445
1907
1980
1108
20
?
Kolkata
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist of the Rampur tradition
his vocalist-father Mushtaq Hussain Khan
Khudratullah Khan
OEMI1074
554
Hyderabad, Andhra,
1830
1920
19-20
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Hyderabad, Andhra, during the reign of Nizam Mir Mehboob Ali Khan
his father Rahmatullah Khan
Latafat Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1196
604
1921
1986
1212
20
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Vilayat Hussain Khan and Faiyaz Khan
Mohammad Amir Khan
OEMI1344
678679
1873
1934
19-20
?
Kolkata
sarod player
Murad Ali
Vidyapati Thakur
OEMI2201
1127
0.136
0.1448
14-15
?
?
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
Vilayat Hussain Khan
OEMI2204
11281129
Mumbai
1895
1962
0524
19-20
Agra
Delhi
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Ghulam Abbas and Tasadduk Hussain
Fida Hussain Khan(Sarod)
?
OEMI0632
319320
1855
1927
?
19-20
?
Rampur
His distinguished career
Fida Hussain Khan(Vocal)
?
OEMI0634
320
Baroda
1883
1948
?
19-20
Rampur
Badayum,Uttar Pradesh
member of the Baroda durbar for nearly 20 years
his father Haidar Khan
Sadarang (Niyamat Khan)
OEMI1833
908
1670
1747
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
pioneer of khayaal?
khayaal
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0884
445
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
?
OEMI2122
1076
1974
?
20
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
Pithakowapara
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
Ambika Charan Guha
?
OEMI0107
48
?
19
?
?
patron,
Nineteenth-century teacher and patron
Appukkutti Nattuvan
OEMI0166
7172
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri （1762-1827）of the Karnnatik trinity
Arun Bhattacharya
02??
OEMI0172
76
Kolkata
1925
1985
0509
20
Faridpur district,now in Bangladesh
Kolkata
University teacher,scholar,and author
Khwaja Ahmad Khan
OEMI1079
556
0.187
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
family
Surdas Madanmohan
OEMI2080
1035
0.1537
1600
16
?
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
composer
Composer of devotional songs
Adil Shah Sur
?
OEMI0040
22
1524
1557
?
16
?
?
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
Ajay Bardan
?
OEMI0062
29
Kolkata
1917
1991
0328
20
Comilla, now in Bangladesh
Mumbai
Flute player
Amara Simha
?
OEMI0099
46
?
?
?
?
patron,
Patron and playwright
Asgarijan
?
OEMI0185
81
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
Agra
Atulprasad Sen
?
OEMI0203
87
1871
1934
?
19-20
Lucknow
?
composer
Composer
Azad Rahman
OEMI0210
90
Bangladesh
1944
20
Burdwan, West Bengal
composer
Singer and music composer
Badi Maina
OEMI0241
98
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
Benares
Badi Motibai
OEMI0242
98
Benares
0.1885
1977
0214
19-20
Darbhanga, Bihar
Benares
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist of Benares
Siyaji Maharaj, Mithailalji, Maujuddin Khan
Barkatullah Khan
OEMI0308
123
0.186
1928
19-20
probably Patiala
Mumbai
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Gokul Nag
OEMI0707
371
1908
1983
0325
20
Bankura district, Bengal
Kolkata
sitar player
Noted sitar and surbahaar player
his father Govinda Nag
Gokuldas Dhanji
OEMI0710
371
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Gulab Bai
OEMI0753
386
0.191
?
Mysore
Well-known singer of Jaipur
Haidar Bakhsh

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