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
OEMI1633
Prebhashankar Ramani
Noted actor-singer of Gujaratii, Hindi, and Urdu plays
1890
1122
Gujarat
1971
0121
?
821
OEMI1700
Rajab Ali Khan (Bade)
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
?
?
Sahaji-saheb
862863
OEMI1912
Seshadri Gawai, R.V.
vocalist, harmonium player
Vocalist and harmonium player
1924
Davangere, Chitradurga district, Karnataka
Kalkote Channabasavayya, Panchakshari Gawai, Puttaraji Gawai
962
OEMI2067
Sundarabai of Benares
vocalist
She was vocalist of sawaal-jawaab, birhaa, and kajri songs in the 20th-century
Kolkata
?
?
1030
OEMI0003
Abbasuddin Ahmed
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Bengal
?
?
?
?
12
OEMI0104
Ambalal Sitari
sitar player, rudra veena player,
Sitar and rudra veena player,who later took to instrument designing
1922
0222
Bilimora,Valsad district,Gujarat
1987
0310
Mumbai
Prabhatdevji Sisodiya of the royal family of Dharampur state,South Gujarat.
4748
OEMI0360
Bhim Kant Deka
Singer and dancer
1913
?
Devananda village,Darrang district,Assam
1971
?
?
174
OEMI0400
Biswanath Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player of the Benares style
Benares, second half of the 19th cent.
?
Benares
Bhairav Sahai
197
OEMI0905
Jagdishnath Ray
patron,
Maharaja of Natore,Bengal. Music patron and pakhaawaj enthusiast
1870
?
1922
?
451
OEMI1046
Kisarbai Kerkar
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist
1892
0713
Keri,Goa
1977
0916
Mumbai
538539
OEMI1306
Maya Lambo(Bhai)
vocalist, sabad keertan
Vocalist and leader of a group of sabad keertan singers
?
?
?
?
660
OEMI1594
Papanasam Sivan
composer
singer,composer of devotional songs
1890
Polagam,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
1973
Chennai
Mahadeva Bhagavathar(Noorani),Vaidyanatha Iyer(Konerirajapuram)
795
OEMI1650
Pundarika Vitthal
musicologist
Eminent 16th-cent. musicologist
Satanur village, near Sivaganga, Bangalor region, Karnataka
?
829
OEMI1778
Ramsahai Pande
Contemporary performer of folk dances
Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh
?
884
OEMI2138
Tulaja the Second
Maratha king of Thanjavur （r.1763-87）
?
?
1095
OEMI0604
Durlabh Chandra Bhattacharya
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1872
?
1938
Kolkata
Murari Mohan Gupta
306
OEMI1106
Krishnan Nair （Kalamandalam）
Well-known Kathakali performer and guru
Tripunithura
1914
Cheruthazham, Kannur distict, Kerala
1990
0816
Tripunithura, near Kochi, Kerala
Chandu Panikker
571
OEMI1541
Nissar Hussain Khan （Gwalior）
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
0.1844
Gwalior
0.1916
?
his foster-father Natthu Khan
763764
OEMI0139
Anantalal Bandopadhyaya
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1832
Vishnupur
0.1896
Vishnupur
Vishnupur
58
OEMI0207
Ayilyam Tirunal Maharaja
patron,
Patron and connoisseur of music and related arts
1831
?
Royal Palace, Thiruvananthapuram
1880
0531
Royal Palace, Thiruvananthapuram
89
OEMI0713
Gopal Chandra Chakravarti
vocalist
Dhrupad singer and an early khayaal singer of Bengal
dhrupad, khyaal
0.1832
?
1899
Kolkata
Gopal Prasad Mishra, Haddu and Hassu Khan
372
OEMI0774
Haidar Bakhsh （Chhaprauli）
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
?
1930
Kolhapur
the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
family and Bande Ali Khan
399
OEMI1410
Muthayya Pillai （Pazhani）
Mridangam player
?
1950
?
704
OEMI1438
Namakkal Narasimha Iyengar
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Srirangam
1836
Tamil Nadu
1924
?
Venkatasubba Iyer
718
OEMI1549
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
Qavvaali singer
?
?
766
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
OEMI1672
Radheshyam Kathavachak
writer
writer of Hindi musical plays
Hindi musical plays
1890
1225
Bareilly,Uttar Pradesh
?
843
OEMI1873
Sankaran Kutty Panikkar (Kavungal)
Kathakali artiste
1909
0306
Thrissur district, Kerala
Konthumi Panikkar (Kalluvazhi), Appuni Poduval (Killikurissimangalam), Ravunni Menon (Pattikkamthodi)
940
OEMI0001
Shrindhar Pandurang Prabhune
patron,
Music archivist and patron.
1886
0201
?
1973
0912
Pune, Maharashtra
1
OEMI0050
Aghornath Chakraborti
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
?
Rajpur village of 24 Parganas,Bengal
1920
Benares
Murad Ali Khan, Daulat Khan, and Srijanbai
2324
OEMI0137
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
Mysore
58
OEMI0152
Anna-saheb Gharpure
sitar player,udra veena player
Rudra veena and sitar player
0.185
probably Pune district, Maharashtra
1920
Pune
Vinayakrao Limaye
65
OEMI0153
Anna-saheb Kirloskar
Celebrity known for Marathi musical plays
1843
0303
?
1885
1102
Gurlhosur （his hometown）, Karnataka
65
OEMI0586
Dimbh Muni Krishnadas
Poet
?
?
?
?
296
OEMI0775
Haidar Bakhsh （Jaipur）
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of Jaipur
Jaipur
0.1777
?
0.1833
?
Dulhe Khan, Masit Khan
399
OEMI0787
Hamid Ali Khan （Nawab）
Ruler of Rampur state in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
401
OEMI0960
Joseph Hayim Awaskar
Author of Marathi hymns and plays on Jewish devotional themes
18751900
Awas, near Mumbai
?
488
OEMI0975
Kader Bakhsh （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla player
1902
Lahore
?
his father Fakir Bakhsh
494
OEMI1370
Mrinalini Sarabhai
dancer,choreographer
1928
0507
Chennai
689
OEMI1376
Mughlu Khan(Kolhapur)
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
?
probably Narsinghar,Rajasthan
?
?
Gwalior
691
OEMI1671
Radharani Mohapatra
vocalist
Odissi vocalist
Odissi
1934
0406
Cuttack,Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar,Balakrishna Dash,Dhiren Das,Khitish Maitra
843
OEMI2063
Sumar Suleman Jumani
Performer of folk shehnai and sundri
1919
Mundra, Kutch, Gujarat
1999
04??
Mundra
Suleman Juma Jumani
1029
OEMI2119
Thakur Lakshman Singh
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player
?
?
1936
?
?
Mahant Gopal Das
1072
OEMI0078
Ali Hussain Khan (Rudra Vina)
Veteran of the Sahaswan gharaanaa
Mumbai
185055
?
Lucknow
0.193
?
?
Sahaswan
38
OEMI0079
Ali Mohammad Khan (Badku-miya)
sursingaar player
Well-known sursingaar player, descendant of Taansen
?
0.1824
?
Lucknow
0.1885
?
Benares
38
OEMI0675
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Pakhawaj）
For some time from 1828 he was attached to Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Sabha as a pakhaawaj player
?
?
360
OEMI2158
Vaidyanatha Iyer (Thanjavur)
mridangam player
1895
Vaiyacheri, near Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
1947
0413
?
Doss Swamigal, Kannuswami Nattuvanar, K.Ponnayya Pillai, Subbayya Bhagavatar
1108
OEMI0036
Achyutappa Nayak
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
17
OEMI0129
Ananda Samarakon
composer
Noted composer of light music, and creator of Sri Lanka's national anthem
light music
1911
0113
Vatarakka Liyanvala, Padukka, Colombo district, Sri Lanka
1962
0405
?
56
OEMI0154
Annasami Sastri
violinist,vocalist
Reputed vocalist and violinist
1827
0407
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
1900
0217
?
65
OEMI0213
Azhaganambi Pillai
Mridangam performer of Kumbhakonam, Tamil Nabu
1863
Srirangam
0.1926
His uncles, Swaminatha Pillai and Venka Pillai
90
OEMI0387
Bipin Chandra Chattopadhyay
vocalist
Vocalist
1866
Barisal
1940
Barisal
Bishnu Bhattacharya, Upendra Nath Ray, Hari Narayan Mukhopadhyay
193
OEMI0501
Chokkanatha Naik
Ruler （r.1701-31） of Madurai, Tamil Nadu
?
?
244
OEMI0682
Ghulam Mohammad （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the period of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
?
?
361
OEMI0708
Gokulchand Pujari
Mridang player and singer
1872
Sasani, Uttar Pradesh
0.1947
Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
Kudau Singh
371
OEMI0813
Haridas Swami （Vrindavan）
composer
Legendary saint-composer
0.148
Kher, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh
0.1575
Vrindavan, near Agra
412413
OEMI0864
Imdad Khan （Agra）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.18
Agra
0.186
Agra
agra gharaanaa
his family
440
OEMI0885
Ismail Khan-Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar during the reign of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Jodhpu
?
?
445
OEMI0977
Kadigai Namasivaya Pulavar
Author of the Tamil dance-drama
?
?
494
OEMI1005
Kamalakant Bhattacharya
composer
Singer and composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
1770
?
Burdwan district,Bengal
1820
?
Burdwan district,Bengal
508
OEMI1087
Kodandarama Ayyar
musician
Musician （18th cent.） of Sirgazhi in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
560
OEMI1205
Lionel Edirisingha
Eminent music educator of Sri Lanka
1917
0113
Galle,Sri Lanka
1988
0523
?
607
OEMI1373
Muddu Venkatamakhi
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
?
?
?
?
690
OEMI1418
Muthuswami Tiwar
Mridangam player
Tirupadi Puliyar,near Cuddalore,Tamil Nadu
1931
Mysore
Subbaraya Tewar
706
OEMI1543
Nitai Charan Sinha
vocalist
Vocalist
1916
02??
Cuttack, Orissa
his maternal uncle Gopal Charan Gosh, few teachers
764
OEMI1573
Paidala Gurumorti Sastri
composer,vocalist
composer,vocalist
Chennai
Kayatar village,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
Sonti Venkata Subbaya
782
OEMI1683
Raghunatha Nayak
Maharaja of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1600-34
?
?
857
OEMI1727
Ram Sarop Sharma
Singer-actor of Raas-leelaa and Swang, both these being folk theatres of Uttar Pradesh
?
?
870
OEMI1834
Sadashiv Narayan Thosar
writer
writer
1882
?
1952
0317
?
908
OEMI1982
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
976
OEMI1983
Siddharam Jadhav
Reputed player of sundri, a wind instrument of the blowin type
1927
0815
Mangalwedha, Solapur district, Maharashtra
his elder brother Baburao
976
OEMI1986
Siddiqi Manganiar
singer
Folk singer
folk
1939
Jamphli, West Rajasthan
family elders
976
OEMI2085
Suresh-babu Mane
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1902
?
1953
0215
Miraj, Maharashtra
his father Abdul Karim Khan, mother Tarabai Barodekar, and an uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
10361037
OEMI2153
Uttam Singh (Bhai)
Sabad keertan performer and teacher of Amritsar, Punjab.
?
?
Bhai Gurmukh Singh, Bhai Harsa Singh
1104
OEMI2173
Vasudevan （Neyyantinkara）
vocalist
Vocalist
1940
Neyyaantinkara, central Kerala
Ramnad Krishnan and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
1118
OEMI1568
Padmavati Gokhale (Shaligram)
vocalist
vocalist
Mumbai
1929
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
Govindrao Shaligram,a pupil of Alladiya Khan
780
OEMI0140
Anantarama Bhagavatar
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1867
1027
Tondikulam, Palakkad, Kerala
1919
?
58
OEMI0188
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
Singer-actress of Marathi plays
1938
0531
Mumbai
82
OEMI0222
Bablibai Salgaonkar
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of her time
khayaal
0.186
Salgaon, Goa
0.1925
Mumbai
Agra
Natthan Khan
93
OEMI0333
Bhai Uttam Singh Hakim
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Amritsar, Punjab
?
?
149
OEMI0402
Boral. R.C. （Raichand）
tabla player
Eminent music director of film, tabla exponent, and pianist
1905
Kolkata
1981
1125
Kolkata
198
OEMI0445
Charles Dias Amaratunga
Sri Lankan protagonist of the arts
1876
?
1944
?
223
OEMI0506
Chunnilal Hathraswale
Noted nautanki artiste of Dariyapur, near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
dance by Kalkadin and Bindadin, music by Natharam of Hathras
245
OEMI0639
Gagan Chandra Chatterji
violinist
Noted violinist
1890
?
Allahabad
1949
1226
?
323
OEMI0849
Hussain Sharqi （Sultan）
patron,musician
Patron and musician
?
?
437
OEMI0992
Kalka Prasad Maharaj
Legendary Kathak dancer
1850
Lucknow
190010
Lucknow
his uncle Thakur Prasad
505
OEMI1022
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam guru of the 19th cent
?
?
516
OEMI1302
Maula Bakhsh(Sarangi)
father of Allam Khan and Mohammad Khan
Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
659
OEMI1339
Mohammad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
vocalist
Sikandarabad,near Agra
1890
?
Imam Bakhsh Hande
677
OEMI1343
Mohammad Ali Khan(Seni)
rabaab player
rabaab player
1834
Lucknow
1927
Gidhaur,Uttar Pradesh
his father
677678
OEMI1406
Mussammat Lajjat Bakhsh
Thumrii and ghazal singer of Farukhabad
thumrii
?
?
703
OEMI1416
Muthuswami Nattuvanar
Dance guru of Chennai
?
?
706
OEMI1507
Nataraja Rama Krishna
Noted performer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam and Kuuchipuudi
1933
?
Bali Island, Indonesia
Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur),Rajamma(Nayudupeta), Lakshmi Narayana Sastri(Vedantam).and Satyabhama(Pendyala)
739
OEMI1540
Nissar Ali Khan （Seni）
sursingaar player,rabaab player
Sursingaar and rabaab exponent
0.1814
Lucknow
0.188
Benares
his father, Zaffar Khan, his elder brother, Sadiq Ali
763
OEMI1641
Pratap Chandra Mehtab
patron,
Patron
1790
?
1858
?
826
OEMI1752
Ramaswami Dikshitar
composer,vocalist
Well-known composer and vocalist
1735
Virinjiouram near Kanchipuram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
0.1817
Thanjavur
his father Muthuswaami Diikshitar, Melattur Veerabhadrayya, Venkata Vaidyanatha Diikshitar
875
OEMI1933
Shambhu Prasad Tiwari
Noted pakhaawaj player
1885
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his eminent father Ayodhya Prasad
964
OEMI2184
Venkata Kavi Othukadu
composer
Composer
1700
Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu
1765
?
Pooranur Natesa Bhagavatar
1121
OEMI2216
Vishwanath-bua Jadhav
vocalist
vocalist
1888
Hupri
1964
?
Dattopant Jambhekar
1137
OEMI0280
Balkrishna-bua Kapileshwari
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kiraanaa gharaanaa
1896
1113
Belgaum
1982
0927
?
Kiraanaa
Karim Khan
113114