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
Rani Karna
OEMI1796
887
1939
20
Hyderabad, Sind province of Pakistan
Kathak dancer
Lalitha Sastri, Navendra Kumar Singh
Sivakkolundu Desikar （Kottaiyur）
OEMI2000
987
Kottaiyur village, Thanjavur
?
composer
Composer of the Tamil opera
Tulaja the First
OEMI2137
1095
about 18
?
?
Maharaja of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Attor Krishna Prisharati
?
OEMI0202
87
1876
1964
?
19-20
Attur village,Kerala
?
Author of Sangeeta Chandrikaa
Amvadas-pant Agali
?
OEMI0103
47
1920
1972
?
20
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
?
Well-known pakhaawaj player
his father Sakharam-pant Agale in the Panse tradition
Kadigai Mokku Pulavar
OEMI0976
494
19
?
?
composer
Composer （19rh cent.） and Tamil scholar who sesrved the Ettayapuram ruler of his time
P02854
Samanduram Tondon Devi
OEMI1857
921
20
Imphal, Manipur
exponent of Manipuri dance
Amubi Singh, Haobam Atomba Singh, Amudon Sharma
Baliram Pandey
?
OEMI0275
112
?
20
Mohappa,near Nagpur,Maharashtra
?
Pakhaawaj player of the early 20th cent.
Madhukar Pednekar
0227
OEMI1219
614615
1916
1967
0720
20
Mumbai
?
Reputed harmonium player
Shankarrao Rajapurkar and Annasaheb Mainkar
P00058
Subbulakshmi,M.S.
0916
OEMI2040
10111012
1916
2004
1211
20-21
Madurai,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
P06271
Dhirendra Chandra Mitra
?
OEMI0573
287
1914
20
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist, particularly known for Nazrul geeti
Hanumandas Singh
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
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
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
Lakshmi Narayana
OEMI1162
589
?
?
musician
Musician and author of Sangeeta Suryodaya
Pratibha Prahlad
OEMI1643
826827
1963
20
Mysore
Bharata Naatyam dancer and choreographer
U.S. Krishna Rao, Chandrabhaga Devi, V.S. Muthuswamy Pillai, Kalanidhi Narayanan
Shyamlal Kshetri
OEMI1981
975
Kolkata
1858
1927
19-20
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata
patron
Noted patron of musicians
Nilakantan Nambisan （Kalamandalam）
1101
OEMI1528
756
1919
1980
20
Kothachira, Palakkad district, Kerala
Cherpalasseri, Kerala
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of Kathakali music
Pulappatta Kyttan Bhagavatar, Kakkad Karanavappad, Kavassery Sanikkutty Bhagavatar, Venkatakrishna Bhagavatar
Kathakali
Murad Khan(Rudra Vina)
?
OEMI1396
696697
1864
1927
?
19-20
Jawra,Madhya Pradesh
?
Eminent propagator of Bande Ali Kahn's veena tradition.
Mughlu Khan
P00015
Buddhadev Dasgupta
0201
OEMI0410
203
Kolkata
1933
20
Bhagalpur,Bihar
Eminent sarod player
Seni Shahjahanour
Radhika Mohan Moitra
Hassan Khan Dhadhi
OEMI0823
418
?
?
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and eminent rudra veena player
Manoharlal Sharma
?
OEMI1282
644
1970
?
20
?
?
Performer of swaang a type of folk musical play
Shadi Khan （Delhi）
OEMI1918
963
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar （r.1837-57）, the last Mughal emperor
Pachu Pillai(Champakulam)
10??
OEMI1562
779
1907
20
Champakulam,Kerala
Kathakali dancer
Paramu Pillai,Vechoor Raman Pillai
Kathakali
Bhupat Khan(Jodhpur)
?
OEMI0367
183
Gwalior
?
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Mohammad Khan(vocal)
OEMI1352
680
1870
1922
19-20
Agra
Agra
vocalist?
vocalist?
Natthan Khan
Sohrabji R. Dhondi
OEMI2010
991992
20
?
?
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the New Alfred Theatre of the early 20th cent.
Sundaram Iyer （Umayalpuram）
OEMI2070
1030
20
?
?
Noted performer of ghatam （pot-drum）
Dattatraya Narayan Panchakshari
0512
OEMI0532
259
1912
1981
0821
20
?
Baroda,Gujarat
Harmonium player
his father,Narayan Panchakshari
Minakshi Shirodkar
?
OEMI1307
661662
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actress of Marathi films and the stage
Raoji-bua Belbaugkar
OEMI1800
888
1906
19-20
?
Pune
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
V.N. Bhatkhande
P00245
Zia Fariduddin Dagar
OEMI2264
1160
1933
Rajasthan
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
Kesi, Narayanaswamy
OEMI1059
541
1919
20
Chennai
Noted flute player
T. Brinda
Tarapada Chakravarti
04??
OEMI2108
10661067
1909
1975
0901
20
Kotalipara[now in Bangladesh]
Kolkata
vocalist
Well-known vocalist,an early exponent of khayaal in Bengali language.
Satkadi Malakar and Girija Shankar Chakravarti
khayaal
Mahalingam Pillai,T.K.
?
OEMI1228
619
Mumbai
1917
2002
1206
20-21
?
?
Bharata Naatyam exponent
Kuppayya Pillai and A.T.Govindaraja Pillai
Achrekar,G.B.
?
OEMI0035
17
1885
1939
0603
19-20
Achre,Ratnagiri district,Maharashtra
Mumbai
musician
Musician and teacher
Augustus Willard
?
OEMI0204
88
?
?
?
British author of A Treatise on the Music of Hindoostan(1834)
Basaveswara
OEMI0311
128129
0.1139
0.1196
12
Bagewadi, Bijasur district, Karnataka
Kudala Sangama, Bagalkot district, Karnaraka
Spiritual leader of the Veena Saiva movement of Karnataka
Chandan Chaube
OEMI0431
215
1870
1955
19-20
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Vaishnava devotional music
Amba Shankar, Bauli-baba
Vaishnava devotional music
P00019
Chitta Babu
1013
OEMI0497
243
1936
20
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
veena player
Well-known veena player
Dhannabai
?
OEMI0566
283
?
?
?
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist,a pupil of the khayaal pioneer Sadaarang
Pannaabaai
khayaal
Gauri
OEMI0660
346
19
?
?
dancer
Well-known danseuse of the late 19th-cent
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Gwaria Baba
OEMI0765
395
1843
1938
19-20
Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh
near Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist and ascetic
his father and Dandi Swaami
Janabai
OEMI0914
461
1350
14
Poetess of Marathi abhangs
Kaka Hathrasi
0918
OEMI0980
498
1906
1995
0918
20
?
Hathras
publisher
Veteran publisher, founder of the Sangeet Karyalaya in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
Khwaja Bakhsh
OEMI1080
556
0.1836
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
Lalu Rababi
?
OEMI1193
601
?
?
?
rabaab player
An early rabaab player
Minapa
?
OEMI1311
662
Kamarup,Assam
?
?
?
singer,composer
Buddhist singer and composer
P00096
Mukta,T.
?
OEMI1379
692
1914
20
Chennai
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Nayana Pillai
Nilufar Yasmin
0213
OEMI1535
761
1948
20
Khulna, Bangkadesh
Singer, noted for Nazrul-geeti and some other forms of songs, presented on the Bangladesh radio, television, in films, and contests
P.C. Gomes and some other
Pitambardas
OEMI1626
812
?
?
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
Rajeshwari Devi
OEMI1712
865
Benares
0.188
1940
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Benares
Ranade, J.L.
0327
OEMI1787
885886
1905
1999
20
Ichalkaranji
?
Marathi bhaav-geet singer
Moroba Gondhali
Sahir Sable
OEMI1845
914
1923
20
Pasarani, Maharashtra
exponent of folk music and folk drama
Sayyed Mir Ali
OEMI1905
959
Lucknow
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent. vocalist of Lucknow
Somaraja Deva
OEMI2014
992
13
?
?
Author of Sangeeta Ratnaavalii, a 13th-dent.
Tiwadi Tejkaran
OEMI2132
1085
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh （r.1803-43）, from 1830 till 1851.
William Jones
0920
OEMI2243
1147
1746
1794
?
18
England
Kolkata
Eminent scholar of Sanskrit, author, and jurist
Balakrishna Das
0202
OEMI0265
109110
1928
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, music director
Vocalist and exponent of Oriyaa champu,chhand,janaanaa,Jayadeeva`s padas, and also music director for plays and films
Kalyana Bharati
?
OEMI0996
506
Tamil Nadu
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Raja Nawab Ali
OEMI1697
861
1935
20
?
?
patron,
scholar, patron, first president of the Marris(now Bhatkhande)
Kale Khan,Mohammad Ali Khan,Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
Sundarlal Vaidya
OEMI2072
1031
1840
19
Modoi village, Makhira district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Poet, singer, and performer of Raas-leelaa
Baburao Deshmukh
0712
OEMI0226
94
1899
1970
0710
19-20
Jalgaon region, Maharashtra
?
Benefactor and sponsor
Jhandilal Dwivedi
OEMI0936
475
1909
1992
0915
20
Palta,Chhatrapur district,Madhya Pradesh
Mridang player
Narayana Tirtha
OEMI1476
728
?
?
Playwright
Bhatta Devacharya
OEMI0354
168
?
?
Devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
P00188
Mylapore Gowri Amma
?
OEMI1422
707
0.1892
1971
06??
19-20
Chennai
Chennai
dancer
Noted dancer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam
Nallur Munuswamy Nattavanar, Chinnayya Naidu and her mother.
Basavaraj Rajjguru
0824
OEMI0310
128
1920
1991
0721
20
Elival, Kundgol region, Dharwad district, Karnataka
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ramzan Khan Rangile
OEMI1785
885
1800
18751900
19
Sikandarabad, Agra region, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sitaramayya （Todi）
OEMI1997
986
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of early 119th cent.
P05922
Bhimsen Joshi
0204
OEMI0361
177178
1922
20
Ron,Karnataka
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Dulichand （Seth）
OEMI0598
303
0.185
1920
19-20
Kolkata
Kolkata
patron,
Patron
Hassan Khan Seni
OEMI0824
418419
0.166
0.173
17
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
his father Sughar （or Sudhar） Khan
dhrupad
Keshavrao Apte
OEMI1056
540
1862
1945
19-20
Ujjain
Indore
Dhrupad siger of the tradition of Chintaman Mishra of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Manhar Barve
1220
OEMI1263
639
1910
1972
0526
20
Mumbai
?
vocalist, instrumentalist
Vocalist and instrumentalist
Ganapatrao Barve
Nathmal Joshi
?
OEMI1512
740
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Roshan Jamil
0508
OEMI1819
902
1931
2002
0314
20-21
Dhaka Bangladesh
Dhaka
dancer-actress,teacher
Siyaram Tiwari
0121
OEMI2005
989
1921
20
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer
his maternal grandfather Vishnudeva Pathak
dhrupad
Venkatagiriyappa
0426
OEMI2188
1122
Mysore
1887
1951
19-20
Heggadedevana Kote village, near Mysore
?
veena player
Veena maestro of the Mysore durbar
his maternal grandmother Dodda Subbarao, maternal uncle Chikka Subbarao
Dwijendralal Roy
OEMI0608
307
1863
1913
0517
19-20
Krishna Nagar, Bengal
Kolkata
composer
Well-knownpoet-composer
Nongthon Singh,N.
0215
OEMI1552
766
1935
20
Imphal,Manipur
tabla player
performer of tabla and other drums
Kavasji Jamshedji
OEMI1039
532
?
?
Singer-actor
Jacome Gonsalvez
OEMI0888
447
1676
1742
17-18
Pioneer of Sinhala Christian music in Sri Lanka.
Abdul Ghani Khan
?
OEMI0008
2
1938
?
19-20
Khajurgaon[present-day Rae Bareilly],Uttar Pradesh
Khajurgaon
sitar player
sitar player
Azami Khan Kalpiwale
Akil Ahmed Khan
?
OEMI0068
33
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
Agra
Phuljhuri Khan
OEMI1622
809
1920
1982
20
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
Dhaka
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
Bade Sabri Khan
OEMI0240
98
1962
20
?
Lahore
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Karim Khan
OEMI1029
519
1857
1919
19-20
Jaipur
?
sitar player
sitar Player
Sadiq Ali Khan
OEMI1835
909
1910
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
vocalist, innovator of behalaavaa or lachaav-ki-thumrii
Raje Khan
Afaq Hussain Khan
0712
OEMI0041
22
1930
1990
0219
20
Lucknow
?
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
Lucknow
Abid Hussaion Khan and Wajad Hussain Khan
Shahadat Hussain Khan
07??
OEMI1924
963
1958
20
Comilla, Bangladesh
Sarod player
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
Chhote Khan
OEMI0468
237
1827
1912
19-20
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Well-known pakhaawaj player
Kudau Singh
Kale Khan
OEMI0985
502
1942
20
?
Jaipur, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his elder brother Azim Bakhsh
Natthe Khan
?
OEMI1515
741
0.1745
?
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Khurjaa
Ujir Khan
OEMI2143
1101
Jaipur
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
Chhote Munne Khan
OEMI0470
237
Lucknow
1927
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of Lucknow
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
Khwaja Ahmad Khan
OEMI1079
556
0.187
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
family
Gulab Bai
OEMI0753
386
0.191
?
Mysore
Well-known singer of Jaipur
Haidar Bakhsh
Saraswati Rane
OEMI1886
948
1916
2006
1010
20-21
Miraj, Maharashtra
Pune
vocalist
vocalist
Suresh-babu Mane, Hirabai Barodekar

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