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
Wajid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2234
1144
1918
20-
Lucknow
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
Lucknow
His uncle Munne Khan and Abid Hussain Khan
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
OEMI1848
915
19
?
?
surbahaar exponent
Sadarang (Niyamat Khan)
OEMI1833
908
1670
1747
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
pioneer of khayaal?
khayaal
Badi Maina
OEMI0241
98
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
Benares
Madhusudan Kan
?
OEMI1220
616
Bengal
?
19
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Gokulchandra Srichandan
OEMI0709
371
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
P00008
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
?
OEMI0181
78
1937
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
Sadiq Ali Khan (Seni)
OEMI1837
909
1805
1970
19-20
?
?
rudra veena player,rabaab player
exponent of the rudra veena and rabaab
Zaffar Khan, Pyar Khan, Basat Khan
Purushottam Thakur
OEMI1656
832
1561
1619
16-17
Patbausi, near Barpeta
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
Hazrat Inayat Khan Pathan
0405
OEMI0827
420
1882
1929
0205
19-20
Baroda
Delhi
musician
Noted Sufi musician and missionary
Allah Bandi
?
OEMI0087
41
Rajasthan
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
P06155
Arjun Sejwal
0425
OEMI0171
74
1934
1992
1029
No
20
?
Mumbai
Pakhaawaj player
Paanse
Bindu Bala
OEMI0386
193
?
?
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
P02179
Gulab-bai
OEMI0756
386387
1920
1996
0713
No
20
Balpurva, Farukhabad district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Well-known nautanki performer in the Kanpur tradition
Trimohanlal, Mohammad Khan-saheb
Kudau Singh
OEMI1125
576
1815
1907
19-20
Banda
Datia
renowned pakhaawaj exponent
Laalaa Bhavaani Prasaad
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
OEMI1457
724
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
OEMI1729
870
?
?
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Wazir Chand
?
OEMI2239
1145
?
20
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player.
Master Ratan of Punjab
P02135
Amubi Singh （Maisnam）
1121
OEMI0125
53
Manipur
1881
1972
0629
No
19-20
Imphal, Manipur
Imphal
Well-known Manipuri dance guru
Oja Jhulonmacha Singh
Sundarabai of Benares
OEMI2067
1030
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist of sawaal-jawaab, birhaa, and kajri songs in the 20th-century
Durlabh Chandra Bhattacharya
OEMI0604
306
1872
1938
19-20
?
Kolkata
Well-known pakhaawaj player
Murari Mohan Gupta
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
OEMI0137
58
Mysore
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
P00229
Sudharani Raghupathy
0321
OEMI2048
1021
Chennai
1944
20
Pollachi,Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
V.S.Kaushik,U.S.Krishna Rao,Chandrabhaga Devi,and Kittappa Pillai
Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
OEMI0685
362
1940
20
Srinagar, Kashmir
Singer of Sufiaanaa Kalaam of Kashmir
his father Ramzan Joo, his uncle Mohammad Siddiq
Sadashiv Narayan Thosar
OEMI1834
908
1882
1952
0317
19-20
?
?
writer
writer
Boral. R.C. （Raichand）
OEMI0402
198
1905
1981
1125
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
tabla player
Eminent music director of film, tabla exponent, and pianist
Nissar Ali Khan （Seni）
OEMI1540
763
0.1814
0.188
19
Lucknow
Benares
sursingaar player,rabaab player
Sursingaar and rabaab exponent
his father, Zaffar Khan, his elder brother, Sadiq Ali
P05952
Anant Manohar Joshi
0418
OEMI0135
5758
1881
1967
0912
19-20
Kinhai, near Pune, Maharashtra
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Gwalior gharana
Gwalior
Balkrishna-bua Ichalkaranjikar, Rahmat Khan
Purushottam Dongre
OEMI1654
831
1853
1908
19-20
?
?
Author of Marathi plays
Kunju Nair (Vazhenkada)
0608
OEMI1138
580
1925
20
Vazhenkada village,Palakkad,Kerala
Kathakali performer and guru
Koppan Nair(Kariyattil),Govinda Pisharodi(Kalluvazhi),Ravunni Menon(Pattikamthodi)
Bishnu Priya Samantasinghar
0205
OEMI0395
195
Cuttack
1927
20
Puri, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist, first woman artiste of All India Radio, Cuttack
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar
Chinnayya Mudaliyar （Manali）
OEMI0489
241
Manali near Chennai
?
?
patron,
A patron and feudal landlord of Manali near Chennai
Krishna Chandra Ray
OEMI1097
569
0.171
0.1783
18
?
?
patron,
Music lover and patron
Ramkeshav Bhattacharya
OEMI1767
880
Bengal
1808
1850
19
Vishnupur
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Vishnupur gharaanaa, Bengal
Vishnupur
within the family
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
OEMI0349
163
20
?
?
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
Ganpatrao Pandit
Dejendranath Bagchi
?
OEMI0547
264
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and disc-record singer
Krishnadasa Badajana
OEMI1104
571
16
?
?
Orissa poet of the 16th cent., author of Geeta Prakaasa, an Oriya treatise on music and dance
Achhan Maharaj
?
OEMI0033
17
0.1888
1946
?
19-20
Lucknow
?
Legendary Kathak dancer of Lucknow
Kalkadin Prasad and Bindadin Prasad
Antu-bua Apte
OEMI0160
68
Maharashtra
0.182
0.191
19
Ramdurg, Karnataka
?
vocalist
A khayaal pioneer of Maharashtra, particularly of the Lucknow style
Lucknow
Mahadev Gokhale
khayaal
Bannijan
OEMI0300
120
20
?
?
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist, based in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Chhota Rani
OEMI0465
236
?
?
Singer-actress of Bengali plays
Fazal Hussain
?
OEMI0625
318319
0.1878
0.1949
?
19-20
?
?
sitar player
Eminent sitar player of the Seni lineage
Agra,Seni
Amir Khan
P05290
Gopinath
?
OEMI0732
377
1908
1987
1009
No
20
?
?
Kathakali artiste
Veteran Kathakali artiste
Kathakali
P00158
Ishitiaq Ahmad
OEMI0882
445
1919
1967
20
?
?
Sarod player
Kalidas Pal
Lalchand Boral
OEMI1179
592593
1870
1907
19-20
Kolkata
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Mehndi Hassan
OEMI1319
667
Jaipur
vocalist,composer
ghazal singer ,composer
ghazal
Naushad Ali
1225
OEMI1517
745746
1919
2006
0506
20-21
Lucknow
Mumbai
composer
Renowned composer of Hindi film music
Hindi film music
Ram Sahai
OEMI1726
870
0.1815
0.1868
19
Benares
Benares
tabla player
Outstanding tabla player, originator of the Benares tradition in tabla
Benares
Sharan Rani
0409
OEMI1952
968
1929
20
Delhi
Reputed sarod player
Allauddin Khan and his son Ali Akber Khan
Surdas
OEMI2079
1035
0.1478
15
Sihi village, near Delhi
?
singer
Blind singer
It is not known
Walter Kaufmann
0401
OEMI2237
11441145
1907
1984
0908
20
Karlsbad,Germany
Bloomington,USA
composer
Composer,conductor,pianist,scholar,and author from Europe
in music from his uncle Moritz Kaufmann,and in composing from Fidelio F.Finke.
Sheikh Bahauddin Burnawa
OEMI1958
970971
0.158
0.168
16-17
musician
Ascetic musician
Haibati Pusesavalikar
OEMI0772
398
1794
1854
18-19
?
?
vocalist, composer
Laavani composer and Marathi keertan singer
Laavani,Marathi keertan
Papa Venkataramayya
0912
OEMI1592
795
1901
1972
0317
20
?
?
violinist
Veteran violinist
Karur Srikantayya and Govindaswamy Pillai
Swati Tirunal (Maharaja)
0416
OEMI2097
1045
1813
1846
1225
19
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram
composer,patron,
composer, patron of the arts
Tanjore Subba Rao, Karamana Subrahmanya Bhagavatar, Nemom Natesa Bhagavatar
Kallinath Pandit
OEMI0993
505506
?
?
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
P00219
Shambhu Maharaj
OEMI1932
964
0.1907
1970
1104
20
?
Delhi
dancer
Veteran Kathak dancer, Padma Shri awardee
his paternal uncle Bindadin Maharaj and brother Achhan Maharaj
Kathak
Chandrakantadeva Sarma
OEMI0438
218
1829
1907
19-20
Vyasapara village, Darrang district, Assam
Vyasapara
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Nagabhushanachar,V.
?
OEMI1430
714715
1932
20
Krishnapur,Mysore district,Karnataka
K.Veerappachar
Kartika Tirunal Maharaja
OEMI1031
523
1724
1798
18
?
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
patron,
patron and poet who ruled Travancore,a princely state in Kerala.
P00138
Chakradhar Mahanta
0818
OEMI0422
210
1902
1982
0409
20
Saudkuchi Sattra,Jorhat,Assam
Saudkuchi Sattra
Well-known exponent of Vaishnava-Sattriiya devotional music of Assam
Keshavrao Bhosale
0809
OEMI1058
541
1890
1921
1004
19-20
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
?
singer-actor
Eminent singer-actor of the Marathi satge
Marathi satge
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
OEMI1529
756
?
?
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
Satyabhamabai Pandharpurkar
OEMI1895
953
Sangli district, Maharashtra
Well-known performer of Marathi laavani
Godavaribai Punekar
Wahid Khan（Sitar）
?
OEMI2233
1144
1895
?
19-20
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
sitar player
Well-known sitar and surbahaar player
his father Imdad Khan
P00052
Laxman Krishnarao Pandit
?
OEMI1199
606
Delhi
1934
20
Gwalior,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
Gwaliior
Krishnarao and Shankarrao Pandit
Babu Khan （Tabla）
OEMI0224
93
1899
29
Delhi
Kolkata
tabla player
Tablaa player?
his mother
Ghasit Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0674
356
0.18
0.188
19
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
Fatehpur Sikri
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer of the Fatehpur Sikri tradition
his father, Dulhe Khan. Haidar Khan
dhrupad
Lal Khan （Jodhpur）
OEMI1172
591
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Ram Ganesh Gadkari
0526
OEMI1718
868
1885
1919
0123
19-20
Navsari, Gujarat
Mumbai
author
Well-known author of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
P06130
Govind Prasad Jaipurwale
1110
OEMI0736
380
Rajasthan
1944
1988
0212
No
20
?
Jaipur, Rajasthan
vocalist
Vocalist of the tradition of what is stated as the Kuvar Syaam gharaanaa of Rajasthan
Kuvar Syaam
his better-known father Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
OEMI0211
90
Lucknow
19
Kalpi
?
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Kannappa Thambiran
OEMI1020
516
1915
20
Purisai,Tamli Nadu
Performer of Theru Koothu
Sarada Subramaniam
OEMI1881
944
1915
20
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
Rukmini Devi Arundale, Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur), Bhairavan Pillai
Rajkumar Priyogopal Sana
OEMI1713
866
1910
20
Imphal, Manipur
Well-known exponent of Manipuri dance, also an expert in Manipuri martial arts
his father Rajkumar Suryaboro Singh
Bishweshwar Bandyopadhyaya
OEMI0397
195
1833
1911
19-20
Balagard, Hooghly district, Bengal
Kolkata
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Krishnashankar Shukla
0817
OEMI1117
573
1911
1992
0807
20
Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
?
old-timer in media music
Radhamohan Sendas
OEMI1670
843
1770
1840
18-19
Kolkata
Kolkata
musicologist,
a pioneer musicologist,scholar
P00241
Vempati Chinna Satyam
1025
OEMI2181
1121
1929
20-
Kuchipudi village, Andhra Pradesh
Well-known Kuuchipuudi dancer
Tadepalli Perayya Sastri, Vedantam Lakshminarayana Sastry, Chandrakala and Yedavalli Rama
Haricharan Das Swami
OEMI0811
412
Dhaka
18
?
?
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Shrimatibai Narvekar
1121
OEMI1974
974
Mumbai
1903
1988
1223
20
Ankola, Karwar district, Karnataka
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Balkrishna-bua Banavali, Mohammad Hussain Khan and his famous brother Vilayat Hussain Khan
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
OEMI0941
480
Kolkata
Author
Dev Kishor Sharma(Phurailatpam)
0118
OEMI0552
273
1921
20
Imphai,Manipur
Senior teacher,music director,and ardent promoter
Maisnam Amubi,Konjeng Toyaima,Haobam Tomba,Huirem Lala,Sorokhaibam Paka,R.K. Akesana,and Chungkham Thambalangou
Appa Tulsi
OEMI0163
71
1920
19
?
?
Late 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and scholar
Baneswar Sarma
OEMI0295
118
0.1824
1914
19-20
Assam
Assam
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Brijinarain
0810
OEMI0409
202
1917
1995
0113
20
?
Mumbai
Well-known propagator of musical activities
Chinnayya
OEMI0487
240
1806
1856
19
Tamil Nadu
?
One of the four brothers of the Tanjore Quartet
P00022
Debu Chaudhuri
?
OEMI0544
262
Delhi
1935
20
Mymansingh,now in Bangladesh
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Mustaq Ali Khan(sitar) and Sukhendu Goswami(vocal)
Gajanan Varma
?
OEMI0642
325
1926
20
Ratangarh,Rajasthan
writer, performer
writer and performer
Govindprasad Gopaldas
OEMI0745
382
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th-cent,
Incha Baras
OEMI0874
442
?
?
musician
Musician in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
Kabir
OEMI0970
492493
0.1398
0.1518
14-15
?
?
Saint-poet
Khajurbai
OEMI1067
543
?
?
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
Lalan Fakir
OEMI1177
592
0.1774
1891
18-19
Bhandra, Kustia district, Bengal
?
singer-composer
Baaul singer-composer
Baaul
Mankar
?
OEMI1273
643
Assam
?
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent
Mohammad Reza
OEMI1355
681
?
?
author
Nayak Bakhshu
?
OEMI1521
751752
0.146
0.1535
?
15
?
?
vocalist
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
Raja Maansingh Toomar
dhrupad
Pattammal, D.K.
0319
OEMI1613
806
Chennai
1919
2005
0716
20-21
Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ambi Dikshitar, P.L. Venkatarama Iyer
Rahimanbai
OEMI1689
857858
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Babu Ram Sahai
Ramkumar Basak
OEMI1771
881
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player

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