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
P00172
Kumaran Nair(Kizhpatam)
0530
OEMI1128
578
1915
20
Kerala
Kathakali artiste and teacher
Ravunni Menon
Maharajapuram Santhanam
0520
OEMI1231
620
1928
20
Sirunangur,Tamil Nadu
vocalist
vocalist
Maharajapuram Viswanatha
Mohammad Ali Khan(Benares)
OEMI1340
677
1860
19
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
his father
Mohammad Ali Khan (Jaipur)
OEMI1342
677
1825
1905
19-20
Jaipur
?
originator
Mohammad Ali
Murad Ali Khan(Hyderabad)
?
OEMI1394
696
0.1915
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Radhika Prasad Goswami
OEMI1675
844
1863
1924
19-20
Vishnupur,Bengal
Kolkata
vocalist
vocalist
Ramshankar Bhattacharya
OEMI1779
884
1761
1853
18-19
Vishnupur
Vishnupur
composer
composer
Vishnupur gharaanaa of Bengal
Gadadhar Bhattacharya
Sagolshem Kalidaman Singh
OEMI1841
911
20
20
Imphal, Manipur
?
vocalist
vocalist
Y.Kartik Singh, Rajkumar Suryaboro Sana
Shripad Krishna Kolhatkar
OEMI1975
974
1871
1934
19-20
?
?
Well-known Marathi playwright who also composed music for his plays
Timir Baran Bhattacharya
0110
OEMI2127
1083
1904
1987
0329
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
Reputed exponent of orchestration and noted music director of films in the late 1930s and 1940s.
clarinet lessons from Rajendranath Chattopadhya,vocal music from Radhika Mohan Goswami,and Mohammad Amir Khan,and later Allauddin Khan
Varadarao Kamalakar Rao
OEMI2165
1114
1937
20
Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh
Mridangam player
V.V.Narayan Sastry, Yella Somanna, Palghat Mani Iyer
Zahur Khan （Sikandarabad）
OEMI2257
1158
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Imam Khan, Mehboob Khan and Natthan Khan
P00202
Kshemavathy(Kalamandalam)
?
OEMI2270
574
1948
20
Viyyoor village,Kerala
Moohini Aattam choreographer and dancer
Chinnammu Amma and Satyabhama
Moohini Aattam
Dinanath Mangeshkar
1212
OEMI0587
297298
1900
1942
0424
20
Mangeshi,Goa
Pune
actor, vocalist
Celebrated vocalist and actor-singer of the Marathi stage
Edwin Samaradivakara
0622
OEMI0609
309
1916
1959
1008
20
Katna, Sri Lanka
?
composer
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and composer
P00027
Emani Sankara Sastri
0923
OEMI0615
311
1922
1987
1223
20
Draksharamam,Andhra Pradesh
?
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer in Karnatik style
P00029
Gahan Chandra Goswami
0404
OEMI0640
324
1900
1979
0118
20
Nikamul Sattra,Tezpur
Nikamul Sattra
Noted exponent of traditional Assamese drama
Jahangir Khan(Vocal)
OEMI0909
452
Uniyara,Rajasthan
Uniyara,Rajasthan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
Atraauli
Jankibai(Allahabad)
OEMI0920
462
1875
1934
0518
19-20
Benares
Allahabad
vocalist
Vocalist
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
Kanji Bhota Barot
OEMI1019
515
1919
1990
0928
20
Tinbla,Amrelidistrict,Saurashtra,Gujarat
Chalala,Saurashtra
Exponent of Gujarati folklore and music
Karam Imam(Mohammad)
OEMI1026
518
1865
19
?
?
Author of the Urdu work
Kashinath Chatterji
0901
OEMI1033
524
1904
1970
1119
20
Kolkata
Kolkata
vocalist, teacher
vocalist and teacher
Amulyadhan Dutta
Kelucharan Mahapatra
0801
OEMI1044
537538
1926
2004
0407
20-21
Raghurajpur village,Puri district,Orissa
Bhubaneshwar,Orissa
dancer and guru
P00166
Keshav Lakshman Badge
OEMI1053
540
1941
20
Pune, Maharashtra
Well-known performer of gondhal a folk play of Maharashtra
Krishna Chandra Naik
OEMI1096
569
1915
1987
0820
20
?
Varipada, Orissa
Chhau dancer
Krishnadasa Badajana
OEMI1104
571
16
?
?
Orissa poet of the 16th cent., author of Geeta Prakaasa, an Oriya treatise on music and dance
Lachmi Prasad Mishra
OEMI1149
585
1860
1929
1207
19-20
Sonpuna, Benares
Kolkata
vocalist
Noted vocalist and instrumentalist
his father Ramkumar Mishra
Laila Arjumand Banu
0105
OEMI1152
586
1926
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramani Mohan Bhattacharya, Manju Khan, Gul Mohammad Khan, Yusuf Khan Koraishi, Gopal Dasgupta
Lalchand Yamla Jat
OEMI1180
593
1919
20
Lyallpur district, Punjab region
vocalist,
Vocalist of Punjabi folk music
Maula Bakhsh(Tabla)
?
OEMI1303
659
1878
?
19-20
?
?
Rahim Bakhsh`s child
Lucknow
Mohammad Hussain Khan
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
1031
OEMI1523
754755
1927
20
Clifton, England
Professor Emeritus of music and ethnomusicology,University of California,author and audio-visual documentator.
Padmanabha Rao,B.K.
OEMI1565
780
1903
1966
20
Mysore
Mysore
vocalist, teacher, co,poser
vocalist,teacher,composer
P00192
Palladam Sanjiva Rao
1018
OEMI1577
784
1882
1962
19-20
Palladam,Coimbatore district,Tamil Nadu
?
flute player
flute player
Karnatik
P00194
Paramananda Borbayan
OEMI1596
797
1936
20
Lahalial,Assam
performer and teacher of Sattriiya dance of Assam
Purushottam Damodar
OEMI1652
831
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramprasanna Banerji
07??
OEMI1776
882
1871
1930
19-20
Vishnupur, Bengal
?
vocalist, surbahaar player
vocalist, surbahaar player
Anantlal Bandopadhyaya
P00226
Sonam Tsersing Lepcha
0103
OEMI2020
993
1928
20
Sikkim
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 in the category of folk music.
Vamanrao Deshpande
OEMI2161
1112
1908
1990
0207
20
?
Pune, Maharashtra
vocalist
author, vocalist
Yadavrao Joshi, Suresh-babu Mane, Natthan Khan, Mogubai Kurdikar
Vasantrao Deshpande
0502
OEMI2169
11171118
1920
1983
0730
20
Murtijapur, Maharashtra
Pune, Maharashtra
vocalist, actor-singer
vocalist, actor-singer
Suresh-babu Mane, Amanat Ali Khan, Gandharva Mahavidyalaya
Abraham Panditar
0802
OEMI0030
15
1859
1919
0831
19-20
Sambavar Vadakarai,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
Scholar,music activist,and a pioneer of music conferences
Sadayandi Pattar and a local naagaswaram player(name not available)
Achhan Maharaj
?
OEMI0033
17
0.1888
1946
?
19-20
Lucknow
?
Legendary Kathak dancer of Lucknow
Kalkadin Prasad and Bindadin Prasad
Achpal-miya
?
OEMI0034
17
0.178
0.1854
?
18-19
Delhi
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbabr of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
Delhi Qavvaal
Amir Khusrau
?
OEMI0116
5051
0.1253
1325
?
13-14
Patiala
?
poet-musician, Sufi mystic
Thirteenth-century poet-musician and Sufi mystic of the Delhi Sultanate
Qavvaal
Amritsen
OEMI0124
5253
0.1813
0.1893
19
Jhajjar, near Delhi
Jaipur
sitar player
Sitar and surabin （string） maestro
his father Rahimsen
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
Ananda Shankar
1202
OEMI0130
56
1942
1999
0326
20
Almora, Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata
composer
Composer
Anandadasa
OEMI0131
56
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist of Kannanda javalis and performer of Harikatha
Kannanda javalis
Anandiram Das
OEMI0132
57
1909
1960
20
?
?
Assamese song writer
Anant Barve
OEMI0133
57
1856
1923
19-20
Manmad, Maharashtra
Pune
Playwright of Marathi musicals
Anant Fandi
OEMI0134
57
1744
1819
18-19
Maharashtra
?
Poet and performer of Marathi ballads
Aniruddha
OEMI0147
62
1553
1626
16-17
?
?
composer
Acclaimed composer of Vaishnava-Sattriya music of Assam
Gopala Ata, Yadumoni
Arabatta Navalar
OEMI0168
72
?
?
Author of a Tamil work on dance titled Bharata Saastiram （c.18th cemt.）
Arunachala Kavi
?
OEMI0174
76
1711
1788
?
18
Tillayandi,Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
?
poet, composer
Well-known Tamil poet and composer
Ambalavana Kavirayar
Ashiq Hussain
?
OEMI0192
82
1946
?
20
?
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Panipat
Awadabai
?
OEMI0205
89
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
P00009
Ayodhya Prasad
?
OEMI0208
8990
1891
1977
1228
19-20
Datia, a small princely state in Madhya Pradesh
?
Well-known pakhaawaj player
Family
Ayyaval
OEMI0209
90
?
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs
Bada Dikshit
OEMI0217
93
1883
19
?
Benares
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa
Gwalior
Hassu Khan, Haddu Khan
Bachu Bawa
OEMI0230
94
1914
19-20
?
?
tabla player
Tabla player
Bageswari Devi
OEMI0245
101
1940
2000
0920
20
Kolkata
Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
Benares
Sitaram Misra and Ganesh Prasad Misra
Baiju Bawra
OEMI0256
105
?
?
There are a few legends on the identity and life of Baiju
Bal Chaturvedi
07??
OEMI0258
107
1919
20
Mehboob Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
his famous father Chandan Chaube
P00133
Banni Bai
OEMI0299
120
1912
1999
0227
20
Chittukkadu, Andhra Pradesh
?
Veteran Harikat
Bannijan
OEMI0300
120
20
?
?
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist, based in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Banujan
OEMI0301
121
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolhapur during roughly 1900-20
Durga Prasad
OEMI0303
304
0.192
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
Noted Kathak dancer, also known as Pande Maharaj
his father, Sukhdev Maharaj,and later from Achchan Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj
P00012
Begum Akhtar
0207
OEMI0318
132133
1914
1974
1030
20
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
Abdul Wahid Khan, Ramzam Khan, Barkhat Ali, Imdad Khan, Ghulam Mohammad Khan, Ata Mohammad
Bhanumathi, P.
0907
OEMI0343
157
1924
2005
1224
20-21
Doddavaram, Guntur district, Andhra
Chennai
Well-known singer-actress of Tamil, Telugu, and also a few Hindi films
her father Bommaraju Benkatasubbiah
Bhoja Raja
?
OEMI0363
179
?
?
?
patron,
Ruler,patron,and writer
Bindijan
OEMI0385
193
1828
19
vocalist
Vocalist, particularly noted for toppaa
Mir Roshan Ali, Khadem Shafi
toppaa
P00135
Bipin Singh
0823
OEMI0388
193
1918
2000
0109
20
Silchar Singari village, Cachar district, Assam
Kolkata
Noted guru of Manipuri dance
Brhat Kasyapa
?
OEMI0408
201
?
?
?
Quoted as an author
Chaturlal
OEMI0450
226
0.1925
1965
1014
20
Udaipur
tabla player
Eminent tabla exponent
Ahmedjan Thirakwa
Chhaila Bhai
OEMI0456
230
?
?
Singer of light classical music
Chhota Rani
OEMI0465
236
?
?
Singer-actress of Bengali plays
Chunnabai
OEMI0505
245
19
1901
19
?
Pune, Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Bande Ali Khan
Curt Sachs
0129
OEMI0510
248
1881
1959
0205
19-20
Berlin
New York
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and author of works on instruments
Dasharathi Roy
?
OEMI0528
258259
1806
1857
?
19
Badhmuda,Burdwan district,Bengal
?
composer
Reputed composer of paanchaali,kavi-gaan,and other similar Bengali songs.
Dattibai
?
OEMI0533
259
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist.
Mughlu Khan
Deo Kavi
?
OEMI0548
266
1749
?
18
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
Author
Devilal Samar
?
OEMI0559
278279
1911
1981
1203
20
Udaipur,Rajasthan
Mumbai
Promoter of Rajasthani folk arts
Uday Shankar
Dhir Ali-miya
0101
OEMI0572
286
1920
1984
1214
20
Mushiganj,Bangladesh
?
Flute player and music director
his uncle Sadiq Ali
P00144
Dhruba Ghosh
1025
OEMI0579
290
1957
20
Mumbai
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
Delhi
Don Bastian, C.
OEMI0593
300
?
?
Late 19th-cent. pioneer of Noorti plays of Sri Lanka
Eknath
?
OEMI0611
310
1548
1599
?
16
Paithan,Maharashtra
Paithan
Eminent saint-poet of Maharashtra
Fateh Ali
?
OEMI0624
318
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
Patiaalaa
Fazal Hussain
?
OEMI0625
318319
0.1878
0.1949
?
19-20
?
?
sitar player
Eminent sitar player of the Seni lineage
Agra,Seni
Amir Khan
P00146
Fida Hussain
?
OEMI0631
319
1899
?
19-20
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre
Gajen Barua
OEMI0646
326
1915
1977
0120
20
Jamugurihat, Darrang district, Assam
Jamugurihat
dancer
Noted dance exponent
Gangadhar
OEMI0654
332
?
?
Poet and author of a work of 27 raagamaalaa verses on Bhairav, Maalkauns, Hindool, Deepak, Sri, and Megh raagas and raaginis as per the Hanumaan Mat scheme
P00147
Gavari Devi
OEMI0665
350
1921
1990
20
Jodhpur
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Rajasthani folk music
her father Bansilal, Jamunabai
P00149
Ghana Kant Bora
OEMI0668
354
1950
20
Majuli, Assam
?
Sattriiya dancer and teacher
Maniram Dutta Muktiyar, Maniram Gayan Muktiyar, Kamal Chandra Bargayan, and Raseswar Saikiya Barbayan
Gina Blau
0428
OEMI0692
364
1906
1998
1023
20
?
New York
American exponent of Indian dances
Bhupesh Gupta
Giriraja Kavi
OEMI0700
367
18
?
?
composer
Eminent 18th-cent. composer of Telugu origin
Godavari
OEMI0704
370
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and prolific disc-record artiste of 1900-10, in Telugu and Tamil
P00034
Gopal Mishra
OEMI0716
372373
0.192
1977
1222
20
Benares
Delhi
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his grandfather Ganeshji Mishra, Bade Ramdas Mishra
Gopal Nayak
OEMI0717
373374
?
?
musician
there are at least five medieval musicians of the same name, mentioned in different sources
Gopal Oriya
OEMI0718
374
19
?
?
Nineteenth-century author of jaatraa folk plays
jaatraa folk plays
Gopala Ata
OEMI0719
374
1541
1611
16-17
Khokhoragaon, near Gadgaon
?
A disciple of Maadhavadeva and innovator in the Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
Maadhavadeva

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