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
Giribala Dasi
OEMI0694
365
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Hali
OEMI0786
401
1837
1914
0930
19-20
?
Panipat, Haryana
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals
Mirza Ghalib
ghazals
Jayadiva
OEMI0928
467
12
Kindubilvam(or Kenduli)village,Puri,Orissa
poet,author of the Masterpiece Geet Govinda in Sanskrit
Kambal
?
OEMI1008
509
?
?
?
musician
A sage-musician of ancient times
Kittappa, S.G.
OEMI1085
560
1906
1933
20
Tamil Nadu
?
Well-known singer and actor of the Tamil stage
Sankara Doss Swamikal
Madhavadeva
?
OEMI1217
613
Assam
1490
1597
?
15-16
Letekuphukuri in Narayanpur region,along the north bank of River Brahmaputra
Bhela Kakatkuta in the present Cooch-Behar region
Vaishnava saint-musician
Vaishnava saint-musician of Assam
Menaka
1015
OEMI1320
669
1899
1947
0427
19-20
Barisal,now in Bangladesh
?
Kathak dancer
Naina Devi
?
OEMI1435
717
1920
1993
1101
20
Bengal
New Delhi
vocalist
Vocalist
Girija Shankar Chakravarti,Mushtaq Hussain Khan, and Rasoolanbai
Nomita Ghose
1211
OEMI1551
766
1959
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
vocalist
vocalist
Jashoda Ghose,P.C.Gomes,Barin Mazumdar
Pratibha Devi
OEMI1642
826
1856
1922
19-20
Jorasanko, Kolkata
Kolkata
Music enthusiast from the Tagore family
Ram Joshi
OEMI1720
868
0.1758
1813
06??
18-19
Solapur district, Maharashtra
?
Poet, writer of tamaashaa plays, and performer of Marathi keertan
P00242
Rani
OEMI1795
887
?
?
singer-actress
Sambayya
OEMI1859
922
18-19
?
?
veena player
veena performer
Shahu Maharaj
OEMI1925
963
20
?
?
patron,
Well-known patron of the arts
Srijanbai
?
OEMI2027
1008
Lucknow
?
?
?
singer
Competent singer
Ghasit Khan
Tyagaraja
0504
OEMI2140
10971098
1767
1847
0106
18-19
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
Tiruvarur, Thanjavur district
vocalist,composer
Celebrated composer and vocalist, of saintly status, often referred to as Tyaagaraaja Swaami
Zauk Dehalvi
OEMI2262
1160
1789
1854
18-19
?
Delhi
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Chhajju Khan Seni
OEMI0458
230231
1740
1806
18-19
probably Jaipur
?
vocalist,rabaab player
Vocalist, rabaab player, and innovator
Lauji,Viswanath
?
OEMI1198
604
?
?
?
musician
Musician from Kaathiawar,Gujarat
Ramchatur Mallik
1005
OEMI1760
877878
1906
1990
0111
20
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
Basti, near Patna
Reputed dhrupad singer
his father Ranjitram Mallik, uncle Kshitipal Mallik
Viswanath Lauji
OEMI2219
1138
20
?
?
musician
musician
Balwant-bua Bapat
?
OEMI0284
115
19039
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Vasudev-bua Joshi(Gwalior gharaanaa),Kolhapur and Pune Gayan Samaj
Kalyanikutty Amma
?
OEMI0999
507
1915
1999
0512
20
Karingavanam,South Malabar,Kerala
Tripunithura,near Kochi.Kerala
Grand veteran of Moohini Aattam
Ramkishan Solanki
1225
OEMI1768
880
1938
20
Pushkar, Rajasthan
Performer of the drum, nagaaraa
Ghanshyam Mukherji
OEMI0669
354
1872
1930
0101
19-20
Shantipur, Naidia district, Bengal
Shantipur
violinist
Violinist
Dakshina Charan Sen
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
Dattaram Parvatkar
?
OEMI0531
259
0.1898
1973
0715
19-20
Parvati town,Goa
Mumbai
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Khaprumama Parvatkar and Balkrishna-bua and Laxmanrao
P00091
Sesha Iyer （Pallavi）
OEMI1911
961962
1908
19-20
Neykkarapatti, Salem district, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer of the poet-Tyaagaraaja period
Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury
OEMI0346
162
1930
2003
0804
20-21
Chennai
New York, USA
Dancer and choreographer
Chaturbhujdas
OEMI0449
225226
1540
1625
16-17
?
?
One of the eight poet-devotees of the group called Ashtachhaap Kavi, of the Vaishnava Pushti Maargi sect.
Gangoly, O.C.
0801
OEMI0656
332
1881
1974
0209
19-20
Kolkata
?
scholar
Noted scholar of art and music
Hiradevi Mishra
OEMI0840
432
Benares
0.1926
1983
0107
20
?
Benares
vocalist,
Vocalist of light classical forms, specially of the Benares tradition
Alla Khan, her husband Kamal Mishra
Kovana Samayya
OEMI1093
568
18
?
?
composer
Noted 18th-cent. composer of the pre-Trinity period of south India
Manomohan Basu
?
OEMI1283
644
Bengal
?
19
?
?
Author of jatraa folk plays of 19th-cent.
Paramanandadas
OEMI1597
797
1497
1587
15-16
Kanauj,Uttar Pradesh
Surabhi Kund,Govardhan,Rajasthan
One of the eight poet-devotes(Ashtachhaap) of the Vaishnava Pushti Margi sect.
Roy, R.N.
OEMI1822
903
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Srinivas Pandit
?
OEMI2030
1009
?
?
?
Author
Victor Paranjoti
OEMI2197
1126
1906
1967
0201
20
Bangalore
Mumbai
composer
Eminent conductor and composer of Western music and a pioneer in synthesizing Western and Eastern musical forms
Harmasji Ardeshir
OEMI0819
416
Mumbai
?
?
Singer-actor of Hindi plays
Ramsingh Thakur
OEMI1780
884
1909
2002
0418
20-21
Khhanjara town, Himachal Pradesh
Lucknow
singer
Fox-Strangways,A.H.
?
OEMI0636
321
1859
1948
?
19-20
Norwich,England
Salisbury,England
Author of The Music of Hindostan
Keshav-bua Ingle
OEMI1055
540
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa and teacher
Gwalior
his father Gundo-bua Ingle
Abudul Azis Khan
?
OEMI0004
2
0.1875
1946
?
19-20
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
?
saarangi player
saarangi
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
Allabande Khan
?
OEMI0084
39
?
0.1875
1925
?
19-20
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
Alwar, Rajasthan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Dagar lineage
P06087
Yusuf Ali Khan
?
OEMI2250
11551156
0.1887
1962
1014
19-20
Lucknow
?
sitar player
Reputed sitar exponent
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
Basit Khan
OEMI0314
129
0.1787
0.1887
18-19
?
?
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
Masidullah Khan
?
OEMI1291
655
0.189
1974
1216
19-20
?
?
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent and teacher
Farukhaabaad
Nanne Khan
Shah Mir Khan
OEMI1922
963
Indore
?
?
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore
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
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)
Dabir Khan
OEMI0511
249
1912
1972
20
Rampur
Kolkata
vocalist,rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena player and vocalist
Majru Khan
OEMI1243
623
1810
1884
19
?
?
Sarod player
Pyar Khan
Pan Khan
OEMI1581
788
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
18
?
?
vocalist,sitar player
vovalist,sitar player
Yashin Khan
?
OEMI2245
1153
1935
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
vocalist
vocalist
his father Gul Mohammad Khan
Nasir Ahmad Khan
0105
OEMI1501
733
1930
20
Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid 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
Adil Shah Sur
?
OEMI0040
22
1524
1557
?
16
?
?
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
Ilahijan
OEMI0855
439
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
P06724
Shakor Khan
OEMI1927
964
1916
1975
1006
20
?
New Delhi
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his father Abdul Gafoor Khan and uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
Nilakantha Sivan
OEMI1530
756757
1839
1900
0728
19
Nagorcoil area, now in Tamil Nadu, then part of the Travancore princely state of Kerala
?
composer
Well-known composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
Bholanath Bhatt
?
OEMI0364
179180
1894
1970
?
19-20
Darbhanga,Bihar
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
His family
Ajoy Bhattacharya
?
OEMI0063
2930
?
20
?
?
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0782
400
Rampur
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
some elders
Afzal Hussain
0801
OEMI0044
23
1916
20
Nagina,near Lucknow
vocalist
Vocalist
Muhammad Hussain
Amir Minai
?
OEMI0117
51
1828
1900
?
19
Lucknow
Hyderabad
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Badri Prasad Mishra
OEMI0243
98
0.1903
1980
0423
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Devendranath Changkatti
?
OEMI0556
275
1890
?
19-20
Guwahati,Assam
?
vocalist
Vocalist
probably Lakshmiram Barooah
Jaisukhlal Shah
0413
OEMI0912
457
1907
1989
0118
20
Bharuch,Gujarat
Mumbai
scholar and teacher
Master Ratan
1110
OEMI1297
657
1914
20
Hadiyabad town,
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Shaam Chauraasi
Poorna Chandra
Padma Nath
OEMI1563
780
Kolkata
20
?
?
instrumentalist
Sultan Bakhsh
OEMI2061
1029
19
?
?
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
Ratan Chand Das
Indira Devi Chowdhurani
1229
OEMI0876
443
1873
1960
0812
19-20
?
?
Music educator and writer from poet Rabindranath Tagore's family
Muthurama Kavirayar
OEMI1413
704705
?
?
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
Kisarbai Kerkar
0713
OEMI1046
538539
1892
1977
0916
19-20
Keri,Goa
Mumbai
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
OEMI1549
766
?
?
Qavvaali singer
Kader Bakhsh （Tabla）
OEMI0975
494
1902
20
Lahore
?
tabla player
Tabla player
his father Fakir Bakhsh
Ananda Samarakon
0113
OEMI0129
56
1911
1962
0405
20
Vatarakka Liyanvala, Padukka, Colombo district, Sri Lanka
?
composer
Noted composer of light music, and creator of Sri Lanka's national anthem
light music
Muddu Venkatamakhi
?
OEMI1373
690
?
18
?
?
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
P00072
Nissar Hussain Khan （Sahaswan）
0403
OEMI1542
764
1907
1993
0716
20
?
?
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of yesteryears
his grandfather Haidar Khan
Mahadev Prasad Mishra
?
OEMI1224
619
1907
20
Allahabad
vocalist
Vocalist
Ghulam Mohammad （Surbahar）
OEMI0683
362
0.1856
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
Balarampur, Uttar Pradesh
Reputed exponent of surbahaar
Umrao Khan Seni, Ghulam Mohammad
Kazi Nazrul Islam
0524
OEMI1041
532
1899
1976
0829
19-20
Churulia,Burdwan district,Bengal
Dhaka,Bangladesha
musician
poet-musician
Barkat Ali Khan （Sitar）
OEMI0307
123
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Raja Ramchan Waghela
OEMI1698
861
16
?
?
patron,
ruler,royal patron
Bahadur Khan （Seni）
OEMI0248
102
0.1762
0.1805
18
?
Delhi
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
his father Masit Khan
Govind Ballal Deval
1113
OEMI0734
380
1855
1916
06??
19-20
Haripur, near Sangli, Maharashtra
?
producer, author
Veteran producer of Marathi musical plays and author of legendary plays like Saarada and Samsaykallol
Anna-saheb Kirloskar
Munir Khaton Begum
0202
OEMI1385
694
1934
20
Allahabad,Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Kiraanaa
Habib Khan
P00102
Vishnudass Shirali
0516
OEMI2212
1135
Almora, Uttar Pradesh
1907
1984
0226
20
Hubli, Karnataka
Mumbai
musician
Veteran musician, remembered for his innovative orchestral scores for ballets and documentaries
maestro Vishnu Digambar Paluskar （vocal）
orchestral scores for ballets and documentaries
Ramshankar Bhattacharya
OEMI1779
884
1761
1853
18-19
Vishnupur
Vishnupur
composer
composer
Vishnupur gharaanaa of Bengal
Gadadhar Bhattacharya
Joseph Kaimaparamban
OEMI0961
488
1924
20
Cherthala, Alapuzha district, Kerala
Performer of Kathaa Prasangam, a veteran of the modern form of this art in Kerala
Purushottam Damodar
OEMI1652
831
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
P00115
Amudon Sharma
1125
OEMI0126
5354
1886
1976
0316
19-20
Imphal
Imphal
Eminent guru of Manipuri dance
his uncle Takhenchongbam Kanhai Sharma, his father Khomdon Sharma, Aribam Gopal Sharma
Bada Dikshit
OEMI0217
93
1883
19
?
Benares
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa
Gwalior
Hassu Khan, Haddu Khan
P00135
Bipin Singh
0823
OEMI0388
193
1918
2000
0109
20
Silchar Singari village, Cachar district, Assam
Kolkata
Noted guru of Manipuri dance
Devilal Samar
?
OEMI0559
278279
1911
1981
1203
20
Udaipur,Rajasthan
Mumbai
Promoter of Rajasthani folk arts
Uday Shankar
Giriraja Kavi
OEMI0700
367
18
?
?
composer
Eminent 18th-cent. composer of Telugu origin
Hitaharivans
OEMI0842
433
1506
1556
16
Baad, near Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
Devotional poet and propagator of the Sri Raadhaa Vallabh Vaishnava sect
Kantimati
OEMI1025
517
19
?
?
Along with her danseuse-colleague Gowri and guru Kannuswami.
Lochan Kavi
?
OEMI1206
607
?
17
?
?
Author of Raaga Taranginii(17th cent.)
Nabi Bakhsh
?
OEMI1428
712
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar.

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