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
Vrindavan Devacharya
?
OEMI2227
11401141
?
18
?
?
composer
Poet-composer of devotional songs.
Ananta Bharati
OEMI0136
58
1845
1905
19-20
Umayalapuram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
?
composer
Composer of keertans
keertan
Baijnath Misra
0801
OEMI0255
105
1915
1992
0222
20
Benares region
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Thakur Prasad
Bimal Mukherji
?
OEMI0377
190
1930
1997
01??
20
?
Kolkata
sitar player
Noted sitar player
his father Amulya Chandra Mukherjee and Abid Hussain Khan who was earlier the guru of Amulya Chandra.
Chhotibibi
OEMI0473
237
Lucknow
19
?
?
tabla player
Mid-19th cent. female tabla player of the Lucknow durbar
Lucknow durbar
Dasganu
?
OEMI0526
258
1868
1962
?
19-20
?
?
Poet and singer of Marathi keertans
Fakruddin
?
OEMI0620
316317
Rahasthan
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Ajmer,Rahasthan
Gora Kumbhar
?
OEMI0733
377
Teradhoki
0.1267
0.1296
?
13
?
?
Poet of Marathi abhangs
Hassan Imam
0701
OEMI0822
418
1958
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dancer and teacher
G.A. Mannan
Joshi, D.T.
10??
OEMI0963
489
1914
1993
10??
20
?
Kolkata
sitar player
Sitar player and teacher of the Imdaadkhaani tradition
Inayat Khan, father of sitar maestro Vilayat Khan
Kempegauda
OEMI1045
538
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
Lachhu Maharaj
0901
OEMI1148
585
1901
1978
0719
20
Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
Kathak dancer
Mangi Singh,L.
?
OEMI1261
639
1929
20
Imphal,Manipur
sitar player
Sitar player
Chandam Tarakanta Singh
Mohammad Ghous
OEMI1347
679
1910
1953
0321
20
Bangalore
Sri Lanka
music director
Abdul Satar,Zande Khan
Narayanrao Indorekar
0108
OEMI1490
730
1907
1989
0602
20
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
?
tabla player
Tabla exponent
his father Gopalrao, Jahangir Khan, Gammi Khan
Pannalal Ghosh
0724
OEMI1590
794
1911
1960
0420
20
Barisal[now in Bangladesh]
Delhi
flute maestro
Radhabai
OEMI1668
842
?
?
singer-actress
Ramaratnam, V.
OEMI1750
874875
1917
20
Chittor, Andhra Pradesh
vocalist, teacher, author
Vocalist, teacher, and author
D. Subbaramayya, Palghat Someswara Bhagavator, Mysore Vasudevacher, T. Chowdiah
Rekibuddin Ahmed
OEMI1815
899
1940
20
Balihat, Golaghat district, Assam
singer of jikir (also zikr), a variety of Islamic devotional songs found in Assam.
Ramizuddin Ahmed
Sarangadeva
OEMI1882
944945
13
?
?
musicologist
musicologist, author
Shankar Vaze
OEMI1942
966
?
?
Author of Marathi musical plays
Sundar Prasad
OEMI2065
1030
1898
1970
0530
19-20
Karvadi town, Rajasthan
?
Noted Kathak dancer
Bindadin Maharaj
Vema Bhopala
OEMI2180
11201121
?
?
Author and Komati king of Kondaveedu, Andhra
Balwantrao Sahasrabuddhe
?
OEMI0290
116
1851
1914
0922
19-20
Alibag,near Mumbai
Mumbai
Pioneer activist in music education
Ganesh Chaturvedi
OEMI0651
331
1864
1939
19-20
?
Mathura
tabla player
Mridang and tabla player of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Narayan Behera
1214
OEMI1462
726
1917
20
Ganjam, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist
Surya Narayan Shastri, Venkataswami Naidu
Shiv Sevak Mishra
OEMI1965
972
1884
1933
19-20
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Lakpati Singh Leimapokapam
0812
OEMI1154
587
1953
20
Imphal, Manipur
Singer of Manipuri nata sankeertana songs
his father Herachandra Singh, and mother Ibemhal Devi, Birahari Singh, Tolpishak Singh, Chaoba Singh, Gulapi Singh
Durgavara Kayastha
OEMI0602
305
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent. Assam
Master Krishnarao
0120
OEMI1295
656
1898
1974
1020
19-20
Alandi,near Pune,Maharashtra
Alandi
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer-actor of the Marathi stage
Venkatesa Iyengar
OEMI2193
1123
1888
1973
19-20
?
Mysore
veena player
Veena player
Chikka Subba Rao and Venkatagiriyappa
Jankibai(Udaipur)
OEMI0921
463
vocalist,
Vocalist of Marwari songs
Sahaji Maharaja
OEMI1844
911
Thanjavur
17-18
?
?
musician
musician-king of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1680-1712.
Kunjari Raja(Guru)
OEMI1136
579
?
?
performer of svarabat
Kesavayyar （Polagam）
OEMI1050
540
20
?
?
violinist
Noted violinist of the early 20th cent.
Narayana Iyengar （Titte）
OEMI1470
727
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja, Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
Chikka Subba Rao, Veena Seshanna
Damodar Pandit
?
OEMI0519
253
?
13
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and poet(13th cent.)
Naagdevaachaarya
Govindrao Tembe
0705
OEMI0749
383
1881
1955
0529
19-20
Sangavade Maharashtra
Delhi
Noted music director of the Marathi stage and harmonium wizard
Jog, V.G.
OEMI0952
484485
Kolkata
1922
2004
0131
20-21
Wai, Satara region, Maharashtra
Kolkata
Eminent exponent of the violin
S.N. Ratanjankar
Lebdev,G.S.
?
OEMI1201
606
?
?
?
writer
wrote the first modern Bengali play
modern Bengali play
Mohan Upreti
OEMI1363
682
1925
1997
0606
20
?
New Delhi
singer
Rajkumari
OEMI1715
866
0.1925
2000
0317
20
Benares
Mumbai
Noted singer-actress of yesteryears
Sheikh Dawod
1216
OEMI1959
971
1916
1992
0321
20
Solapur, Maharashtra
Hyderabad
tabla player
Noted tabla player
Mohammad Kasim and Tajamull Hussain, Alladiya Khan, and Mehboob Khan
Suryaboro Singh
OEMI2087
1039
0.189
1939
19-20
Imphal, Manipur
Imphal
Noted exponent of nata sankeertana music and dance of Manipur
his maternal uncle Chingsubam Ibeton Singh
P00205
Mayadhar Raut
OEMI2274
660
1933
20
Kantapahara, near Banki, Orissa
Noted teacher of Odissi dance
Mohan Mahapatra, Yudhishtira Mahapatra, Mohan Sunderdev Goswami, and Pankaj Charan Das
Odissi dance
Krishnarao Gore
OEMI1113
572
1880
1940
0608
19-20
?
Wai Maharashtra
singer-actor
Victor Perera, B.
0223
OEMI2198
1126
1931
1998
0326
20
Dematagoda, Sri Lanka
?
violinist
Violinist, vocalist, and teacher
H. Don Vincent, J. Sadiris Silva, and Edmund Silva （of Peliyagoda）, C.R. Vyas, S.C.R. Bhat. and Chindanand Nagarkar, Shridhar Parsekar
Ramchandra Trivedi
OEMI1758
877
1911
1988
0322
20
?
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Kalyaan Bharati, Omkarnath Thakur
Sambamorthy, P.
0214
OEMI1858
922
1901
1973
1023
20
Bitragunta, now in Andhra Pradesh
Chennai
musicologist
musicologist, teacher
Daulat Khan
?
OEMI0537
260
Kolkata
1920
?
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
Natthu Khan Khandare
P00126
Ashraf Khan
?
OEMI0194
83
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Fazal Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0626
319
Lahore
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore of the early 1900s
Hafiz Khan
OEMI0771
398
0.185
0.1909
19
Jaipur
?
sitar player
Noted sitar player
his father Mammu Khan
Nabat Khan
?
OEMI1427
711
0.153
0.161
?
16
Singhalgad, Rajasthan
Agra[then called Akbarabad]
rudra veena player
Rudra veena maestro of the Seni gharaanaa
Seni
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
0303
OEMI0686
362
1931
20
Badayun, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
Fida Hussain Khan, Nissar Hussain Khan, K.C. Brahaspati
Ghulam Ghaus Khan
OEMI0679
361
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of Atraululi, Uttar Pradesh, of the early 19th cent.
dhrupad
Bhajan Khan
OEMI0339
155
Jodhpur
19
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar during 1845-61
Jodhpur durbar
Imam Khan
OEMI0860
439
19
?
?
dholak player
Noted dholak player of the mid-19th cent.
Mohammad Khan
OEMI1351
680
1845
1910
19-20
Kolkata
sitar player
Surbahaar and sitar exponent
Shad Khan
OEMI1916
962963
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra
Wahid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2231
1143
1985
1103
20
?
Karachi,Pakistan
vocalist
vocalist
his father Altaf Hussain Khan
Mehandi Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1317
666
1915
?
20
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Vocalist
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
Azad Rahman
OEMI0210
90
Bangladesh
1944
20
Burdwan, West Bengal
composer
Singer and music composer
Khurshaidjan
OEMI1075
555
Kanpur
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Ata Hussain Khan(Vocal)
?
OEMI0198
8485
1898
1980
0810
19-20
Arauli
Kolkata
vocalist
vocalist
Agra
P06081
Abid Hussain Khan(Rudra Vina)
?
OEMI0028
14
1908
1979
1210
No
20
Jaipur
Indore
Noted scion of the Jaipur gharaanaa
Jaipur
his father
P00043
Kalpakam Swaminathan
0815
OEMI0994
506
Chennai
1922
20
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
Priyambada Mohanty
OEMI1647
827828
1939
20
Cuttack, Orissa
Noted odissi danseuse
Banbihari Maity, Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar, Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Debaprasad Das
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0676
360
1932
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
Alla Rakhi
?
OEMI0083
39
?
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
P00123
Arghya Sen
?
OEMI0169
73
1935
20
Faridpur,Bangladesh
Exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
Debabrata Biswas,Kamal Kumar Dasgupta,and Dilip Kamal Roy
Rabindra Sangeet
Bhatt, K.H.
OEMI0353
168
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Gopala Pillai, K.N.
?
OEMI0722
374
1902
1990
0828
20
Kerala
?
composer
Noted composer and writer
Lakshmi Narayana Iyer
Kitijan
OEMI1043
537
?
?
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
Nala Najan
0628
OEMI1437
718
1932
2002
0107
20-21
Pennsylvania,USA
New York,USA
Performer
P00081
Ram Narayan
1225
OEMI1724
869
Mumbai
1927
20
Udaipur
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
his father Nathuji Biawat, Uday Lal
Vidur Mallick
OEMI2199
11261127
1936
2002
0721
20-21
Amta village, near Darbhanga, Bihar
?
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist and teacher
Darbhanga Dhrupad gharaanaa
his father Sukhdev Mallick
Prabhakar Datar Sahir
OEMI1632
821
1755
1843
18-19
Gangapur, Nasik district, Maharashtra
?
composer
Composer of laavani and powaasaa in Marathi
Seshadri Gawai, R.V.
OEMI1912
962
1924
20
Davangere, Chitradurga district, Karnataka
vocalist, harmonium player
Vocalist and harmonium player
Kalkote Channabasavayya, Panchakshari Gawai, Puttaraji Gawai
Tulaja the Second
OEMI2138
1095
about 18
?
?
Maratha king of Thanjavur （r.1763-87）
Aghornath Chakraborti
?
OEMI0050
2324
1920
Rajpur village of 24 Parganas,Bengal
Benares
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
Murad Ali Khan, Daulat Khan, and Srijanbai
dhrupad
P00079
Rahimuddin Khan Dagar
OEMI1692
858
1901
1975
1120
20
Udaipur,Rajasthan
Delhi
vocalist
vocalist
Ghulam Mohammad （Sarangi）
OEMI0682
361
?
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the period of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
Ram Sarop Sharma
OEMI1727
870
?
?
Singer-actor of Raas-leelaa and Swang, both these being folk theatres of Uttar Pradesh
Bhai Uttam Singh Hakim
OEMI0333
149
Amritsar, Punjab
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Nataraja Rama Krishna
?
OEMI1507
739
1933
20
Bali Island, Indonesia
Noted performer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam and Kuuchipuudi
Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur),Rajamma(Nayudupeta), Lakshmi Narayana Sastri(Vedantam).and Satyabhama(Pendyala)
Aga Hashra Kashmiri
04??
OEMI0046
23
1879
1945
0428
19-20
Benares,Uttar Pradesh
Lahore[now in Pakistan]
Urdu and Hindi playwright
Omkarnath Thakur
0624
OEMI1560
771772
1897
1967
1229
19-20
Jahaj,Gujarat
?
vocalist
vocalist
Karamatullah Khan(Sarod)
OEMI1027
518
1848
1933
19-20
Bulandshahr,Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
sarod player
Niyamatullah Khan
Shital Chandra Mukherji
0507
OEMI1956
969
1880
1945
0914
19-20
Kirtibasa [now in Bangladesh]
Kolkata
Esraaj player
Abdullah Khan
'Chaukam' Sinu Ayyar
OEMI0451
227
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
17
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, during the reigns of Sarabhoji II and Sivaji.
P00045
Karamatullah Khan(Tabla)
OEMI1028
519
1917
1977
1202
20
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata
Distinguished exponent of the Farukhaabaad gharaanaa,founded by his predecessor Haji Vilayat Ali.
Masidullah Khan
P00199
Raghunath Prasanna
OEMI1680
856
1913
20
Benares
shehnai player
Gauri Shankar,Dauji Mishra
Bamacharan Bhattacharya
?
OEMI0292
116
0.1839
1896
?
19
Ranaghat,Bengal
?
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player
P00202
Kshemavathy(Kalamandalam)
?
OEMI2270
574
1948
20
Viyyoor village,Kerala
Moohini Aattam choreographer and dancer
Chinnammu Amma and Satyabhama
Moohini Aattam
Krishna Chandra Naik
OEMI1096
569
1915
1987
0820
20
?
Varipada, Orissa
Chhau dancer
Acheria
?
OEMI0032
16
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer and actress of the early 20th cent
Aniruddha
OEMI0147
62
1553
1626
16-17
?
?
composer
Acclaimed composer of Vaishnava-Sattriya music of Assam
Gopala Ata, Yadumoni
P00133
Banni Bai
OEMI0299
120
1912
1999
0227
20
Chittukkadu, Andhra Pradesh
?
Veteran Harikat

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