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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Chhange Khan
OEMI0459
231
0.1857
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Chhote Kale Khan
OEMI0467
237
?
?
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
Delhi gharaanaa
Chhote Khan
OEMI0468
237
1827
1912
19-20
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Well-known pakhaawaj player
Kudau Singh
Chimman Khan
OEMI0481
239
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
Dabir Khan
OEMI0511
249
1912
1972
20
Rampur
Kolkata
vocalist,rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena player and vocalist
Dayar Khan
?
OEMI0540
262
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1760s.
Maharaja Takhat Singh
Ghulam Ali Khan
OEMI0678
360361
19
?
?
sarod player
A sarod pioneer of the 19th-cent.
Imam Khan
OEMI0860
439
19
?
?
dholak player
Noted dholak player of the mid-19th cent.
Jaggan Khan
OEMI0906
451
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Jivan Khan
OEMI0932
472
1838
1935
19-20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi Player
P00161
Jhamman Khan
OEMI0935
475
1938
0208
19-20
Nagaaraa player
Nagaaraa player
Jodhe Khan
OEMI0951
483
0.177
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Khurjaa
Joravar Khan
OEMI0957
488
17
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist (17th-cent.)
Kale Khan
OEMI0985
502
1942
20
?
Jaipur, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his elder brother Azim Bakhsh
Kayam Khan
OEMI1040
532
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Majru Khan
OEMI1243
623
1810
1884
19
?
?
Sarod player
Pyar Khan
P00204
Mamman Khan
?
OEMI1255
633
0.1859
1940
0602
19-20
Delhi
Delhi
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
Sangi Khan and Ghulam Hussain Khan
Mangal Khan
?
OEMI1259
638
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Manji Khan
?
OEMI1272
642
1888
1937
?
19-20
Atrauli,Rajasthan
Mumbai
vocalist
Talented vocalist
Haidar Khan
Mirza Khan
OEMI1329
672
?
?
author
Mitthu Khan
OEMI1335
673
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Miyajan Khan
OEMI1336
675
1880
1919
19-20
Patiala,Punjab
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
vocalist
Kalu Khan
Mohammad Khan
OEMI1351
680
1845
1910
19-20
Kolkata
sitar player
Surbahaar and sitar exponent
Momin Khan
OEMI1366
685
1797
1852
0512
18-19
?
Delhi
poet
Munduru Khan
?
OEMI1383
693694
0.181
0.1884
?
19
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
Rampur
Sarod player
Muzaffar Khan
OEMI1421
706707
1858
19
Delhi
?
vocalist
vocalist
Maste Khan
Nasar Khan
?
OEMI1499
732
1829
1903
0801
19-20
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
Well-known pakhaawaj player
Taj Khan Deredar
Natthan Khan
?
OEMI1513
741
0.184
0.1907
?
19
Agra
Mysore
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Agra
his uncle Ghulam Abbas Khan
Natthe Khan
?
OEMI1515
741
0.1745
?
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Khurjaa
Natthu Khan
?
OEMI1516
741
18
0.1884
?
18
?
?
vocalist
Eminent exponent of the Gwaalior Khayaal gharaanaa
Gwaalior khayaal
his father Kader Bakhsh
khayaal
P00088
Sabri Khan
0410
OEMI1831
908
1927
20
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
contemporary player of the saarangi
Haji Mohammad Khan, Chhajju Khan
Sahabdad Khan
OEMI1842
911
1830
1880
19
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
vocalist and sitar player
Salem Khan
OEMI1854
917
19
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Agra gharaanaa
Samwal Khan
OEMI1865
925
?
?
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Savaliya Khan
OEMI1898
954
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Pyar Khan
Shad Khan
OEMI1916
962963
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra
Shahab Khan
OEMI1923
963
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
his father (name not known)
Shaukat Ali Khan
OEMI1954
969
1911
20
Gidhaur, Bihar
?
rabaab player
Rabaab player of the Seni gharaanaa
Seni
Mohammad Ali Khan, Raja Nawab Ali
Sitab Khan
OEMI1994
982
18
?
?
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Taj Khan
?
OEMI2101
10521053
0.182
0.1904
?
19-20
?
Nepal
vocalist
Eminent singer of dhrupad and khayaal
Haidar Khan,Sadiq Ali Khan,
dhrupad,khayaal
Tanras Khan
?
OEMI2104
10591060
0.1814
0.1885
?
19
Dasna,near Delhi
Hyderabad
Khyaal stalwart
Yashin Khan
?
OEMI2245
1153
1935
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
vocalist
vocalist
his father Gul Mohammad Khan
Zaffar Khan
?
OEMI2252
1157
0.1776
0.184
?
18-19
?
Benares
rabaab player
Eminent rabaab player
Seni
his father Chhajju Khan
P00204
Maman Khan
OEMI2272
633
1945
20
Hissar, Haryana
Recipient of the Central Sangeeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for folk music of Haryana
his grandfather Peer Mauj Khan and father Munshi Khan
folk music of Haryana
Chhota Naubat Khan
OEMI0464
236
0.1756
18
?
?
rudra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
his illustrious father Jeevan Khan
P00159
Jaffar Hussain Khan
OEMI0896
449
Sahaswan,Uttar Pradesh
Noted qavvaali singer
Raja Hussain Khan
OEMI1696
861
1938
1989
0306
20
Bramhabaria
Dhaka,Bangladesh
violinist
violinist
Nayeb Ali Khan,Bahadur Khan,Khadim Hussain Khan,Akbar Khan
Wahid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2231
1143
1985
1103
20
?
Karachi,Pakistan
vocalist
vocalist
his father Altaf Hussain Khan
Wajid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2234
1144
1918
20-
Lucknow
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
Lucknow
His uncle Munne Khan and Abid Hussain Khan
Sakhawat Hussain Khan
OEMI1853
916
1877
1955
07??
19-20
Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
sarod player
Safayet Hussain Khan, Asadullah Khan, Karamatullah Khan
P00221
Sharafat Hussain Khan
07??
OEMI1951
968
1930
1985
07??
20
Agra
Delhi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Gwaalior
his father Liyaqut Hussain Khan, Faiyaz Khan, his maternal uncle Ata Hussain and father-in-law Vilayat Hussain Khan
Abid Hussain Khan(Tabla)
?
OEMI0029
1415
1867
1936
0612
19-20
Lucknow
Lucknow
tabla player
Ace performer of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa
Lucknow
Mohammad Khan(d.1879) and Munne Khan
Bashir Ahmad Khan
OEMI0312
129
1903
20
Agra
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist
his maternal grandfather Kallan Khan
P00036
Hafiz Ahmad Khan
OEMI0768
397
1926
20
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Hindustani vocalist
Nasir Ahmad Khan
0105
OEMI1501
733
1930
20
Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan
P00108
Prem Lata Sharma
0510
OEMI1645
827
1927
1998
1204
20
Nakodar, Punjab
Benares
musicologist
Well-known Sanskrit scholar, university professor, researcher, and musicologist
P.L. Vaidya and Gopinath Kaviraj, and Omkarnath Thakur
P00220
Shamim Ahmad Khan
OEMI1936
965
1938
20
Baroda
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
the Agra sharaanaa
maestro Ravi Shankar
Chhote Mohammad Khan
OEMI0469
237
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist (19th-cent.)
Haddu Khan
Ibrahim Adil Shah
OEMI0853
438
1580
1627
16-17
Bijapur
?
musician
Musician-king of Bijapur, Karnataka
Inayat Hussain Khan
OEMI0869
441
1849
1919
19-20
?
Benares
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and founder of a prominent branch of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
his father , Bahadur Hussain
Mehandi Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1317
666
1915
?
20
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Vocalist
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
OEMI1848
915
19
?
?
surbahaar exponent
P00105
Ghulam Sabir Khan (Bade)
OEMI0691
363
1962
20
?
?
Saarangi maestro
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
?
OEMI0119
51
1670
0.1742
?
17-18
probably Delhi
Delhi
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
Ishtiaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0883
445
1907
1980
1108
20
?
Kolkata
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist of the Rampur tradition
his vocalist-father Mushtaq Hussain Khan
Latafat Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1196
604
1921
1986
1212
20
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Vilayat Hussain Khan and Faiyaz Khan
Mohammad Amir Khan
OEMI1344
678679
1873
1934
19-20
?
Kolkata
sarod player
Murad Ali
P00187
Mushtaq Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1403
699
1880
1964
?
19-20
Sahaswan,Uttar Pradesh
Delhi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Kallan Khan, Puttan Khan,Haidar Khan and Inayat Hussain Khan
Vidyapati Thakur
OEMI2201
1127
0.136
0.1448
14-15
?
?
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
Fida Hussain Khan(Sarod)
?
OEMI0632
319320
1855
1927
?
19-20
?
Rampur
His distinguished career
Sadarang (Niyamat Khan)
OEMI1833
908
1670
1747
17-18
?
Delhi
vocalist
pioneer of khayaal?
khayaal
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0884
445
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
?
OEMI2122
1076
1974
?
20
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
Pithakowapara
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
Ambika Charan Guha
?
OEMI0107
48
?
19
?
?
patron,
Nineteenth-century teacher and patron
Appukkutti Nattuvan
OEMI0166
7172
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri (1762-1827)of the Karnnatik trinity
Khwaja Ahmad Khan
OEMI1079
556
0.187
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
family
Surdas Madanmohan
OEMI2080
1035
0.1537
1600
16
?
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
composer
Composer of devotional songs
Adil Shah Sur
?
OEMI0040
22
1524
1557
?
16
?
?
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
P00119
Anil Bagchi
0117
OEMI0143
6061
1908
1977
0715
20
Midnapore district, Bengal
Kolkata
Music director of Bengali stage and films of yesteryears
Asgarijan
?
OEMI0185
81
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
Agra
Atulprasad Sen
?
OEMI0203
87
1871
1934
?
19-20
Lucknow
?
composer
Composer
Badi Maina
OEMI0241
98
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
Benares
Barkatullah Khan
OEMI0308
123
0.186
1928
19-20
probably Patiala
Mumbai
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Gokul Nag
OEMI0707
371
1908
1983
0325
20
Bankura district, Bengal
Kolkata
sitar player
Noted sitar and surbahaar player
his father Govinda Nag
Gulab Bai
OEMI0753
386
0.191
?
Mysore
Well-known singer of Jaipur
Haidar Bakhsh
Hussain Ali Khan
OEMI0845
436
1850
19
Madhya Pradesh
?
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
Ilahijan
OEMI0855
439
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Inayat Ali Khan
OEMI0867
440441
1790
0.1883
18-19
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Dhaka
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
his father Hussain Ali Khan
Indrani Rahman
0919
OEMI0879
444
1930
1999
0207
20
Chennai
New York
dancer
Well-known exponent of Bharata Naatyam and Odissi
her mother Ragini Devi, Mohini Aattam
Bharata Naatyam
Jhire Khan
OEMI0937
478
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
Kiwal Kishan
OEMI1061
542
18
?
?
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
Mahmod Khan
OEMI1240
622
1920
19-20
?
probably Bhadvar,Rajasthan
vocalist
vocalist
Malati Pande
0419
OEMI1246
625
1930
20
Wardha,North Maharashtra
vocalist
vocalist
Mirich Khan
OEMI1327
672
1832
19
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
saarangi player
saarangi player
Haidar Bakhsh
P01205
Munawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI1382
693
1933
1989
1013
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Barkat Ali Khan
Patwardhan
OEMI1615
806
1868
0.1916
19
Miraj, Maharashtra
Miraj
Pakhaawaj player and teacher
Saraswati Rane
OEMI1886
948
1916
2006
1010
20-21
Miraj, Maharashtra
Pune
vocalist
vocalist
Suresh-babu Mane, Hirabai Barodekar
Shah Latif
OEMI1921
963
1689
1752
17-18
Sind, Pakistan
?
poet
Mystic poet
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
Sher Khan
OEMI1963
971
0.1792
0.1862
18-19
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
his paternal uncle Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
khayaal

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