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
Annu Akhtar
OEMI0156
66
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
P00123
Arghya Sen
?
OEMI0169
73
1935
20
Faridpur,Bangladesh
Exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
Debabrata Biswas,Kamal Kumar Dasgupta,and Dilip Kamal Roy
Rabindra Sangeet
Athar Nafis
?
OEMI0199
85
1932
1980
1121
20
?
?
Pakistani poet
P00092
Azambai Pisal
OEMI0212
90
1905
1986
0728
20
Maharashtra
Koolhapur, Maharashtra
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Bhurji Khan, Govindrao Saligram, Vishwanath-bua Jadhav
Azim Bakhsh
OEMI0214
90
1857
1908
19-20
probably Indore
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
his uncle Ramzan Khan
Babaji Rane
OEMI0220
92
1874
1913
1122
19-20
Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra
?
Playwright and singer-actor of Marathi drama
Badri Prasad Mishra
OEMI0243
98
0.1903
1980
0423
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
OEMI0249
102
0.1765
18
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
Eminent exponent
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
Bal Gandharva
0626
OEMI0259
107109
1888
1967
0715
19
Pune, Maharashtra
?
Legendary singer-actor of the Marathi stage
Mehboob Khan
P00130
Durga Lal
?
OEMI0261
304
1948
1990
0131
20
Mahendragadh, Rajasthan
Delhi
Noted Kathak dancer
his father Omkar Lai, and Sunder Prasad, and Devi Lal
Bapu-saheb Budhkar
OEMI0305
121
1790
1850
18-19
Maharastra
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
Abdulla Khan
dhrupad
Bauli Bakhsh
OEMI0315
130
?
?
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
Bhanumathi, K.
12??
OEMI0342
157
1922
20
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam danseuse
Papanasam Vadivelu Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma
Bindu Bala
OEMI0386
193
?
?
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
Biswanath Rao
OEMI0399
196197
1872
1925
1218
19-20
Benares
Kolkata
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and teacher
Benares
Kashinath Mishra
Brhaspati,K.C.
?
OEMI0407
201
1918
1979
?
20
Rampur
?
musicologist
Noted musicologist
Mirza Nawab Hussain and Ayodhya Prasad
Buddi Sani
?
OEMI0411
203
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Mid-19th-cent. vocalist
Balwantrao Vaidya
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
OEMI0476
238
?
?
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
Dipali Nag
0222
OEMI0545
264
1922
20
Agra
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra Rangile
Tassaduq Hussain Khan,Bashir Ahmad Khan,Faiyaz Khan,Vilayat Hussain Khan
Devendranath Changkatti
?
OEMI0556
275
1890
?
19-20
Guwahati,Assam
?
vocalist
Vocalist
probably Lakshmiram Barooah
Dhruba Charan Ratha
0415
OEMI0578
290
1917
20
Ghantiali,Cuttack,Orissa
tabla player
Tabla player
Raghunath Mallick and Balaichand Das
Duliya Rana
OEMI0599
303
0.1855
0.1935
19
?
Jaipur
writer, performer
Writer and performer of Shekhaawati khyaals of Rajasthan
Gauharjan
OEMI0658
343344
18705
1929
19-20
probably Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Mysore
Singer-dancer, a legend in her lifetime
her mother, Adeline Victoria Hemmings, Becha Mishra, Ali Bakhsh, Nazir Khan
Gopala Pillai, K.N.
?
OEMI0722
374
1902
1990
0828
20
Kerala
?
composer
Noted composer and writer
Lakshmi Narayana Iyer
Habib Paintar
OEMI0766
396
1915
1987
0222
20
?
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Qavvaali singer
Haidarijan
OEMI0777
399400
?
?
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
Hasrat Mohani
OEMI0821
418
1880
1951
0513
19-20
Mohan, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
poet
Urdu poet
Jadhurama Devangan
OEMI0891
448
1926
20
Madhya Pradesh
Performer of Paandavani
Jadunandan Das
OEMI0893
448
Well-known keertan singer and teacher of Bengal
Jadunath Singh
OEMI0895
449
17
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
Jagu Ojha
OEMI0907
451
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
Jaisukhlal Shah
0413
OEMI0912
457
1907
1989
0118
20
Bharuch,Gujarat
Mumbai
scholar and teacher
Jatadhar
OEMI0923
464
18
Early 18th-cent. pakhaawaj veteran of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.
Jodh Singh
OEMI0950
483
19
?
?
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
his father Tikaram
Kalahasti Ayya
OEMI0981
500
?
?
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Kannuswami Rao
OEMI1023
517
1855
1936
19-20
?
?
Performer of svarabat, a small harp
P00117
Kartik Ram
OEMI1030
523
1910
1980
20
Rajasthan
?
Kathak dancer
Shivnarayan,Jaylalji Maharaj,Achan Maharaj,Shival,Mohanlal
Kasinatha Kavi
OEMI1037
525
?
?
composer
Composer
Kitijan
OEMI1043
537
?
?
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
Kudau Singh
OEMI1125
576
1815
1907
19-20
Banda
Datia
renowned pakhaawaj exponent
Laalaa Bhavaani Prasaad
Kutub Bakhsh
OEMI1144
582
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Lal Kavi
OEMI1170
591
?
?
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
Lal Khan Sani
OEMI1173
591
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzab
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
OEMI1174
591
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
Layanuram Bhattacharya
?
OEMI1200
606
1840
1933
?
19-20
Vyasapara,Darrang district,Assam
Vyasapara
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
Loknath Pal
0320
OEMI1208
608
1923
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Sadashiv Pal,and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar and Khitish Maitra
Mahmuda Jan
OEMI1241
622
?
?
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
P00063
Manilal Nag
?
OEMI1269
640
1939
20
Bankura,West Bengal
sitar player
Sitar player
Gokul Nag
Master Ratan
1110
OEMI1297
657
1914
20
Hadiyabad town,
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Shaam Chauraasi
Poorna Chandra
Mir Taqi Mir
?
OEMI1312
662
1722
1810
?
18-19
Akbarabad,near Agra,Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
Reputed Urdu poet
Mohammad Jan
OEMI1350
680
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player
Fida Hussain
Mukunda Das
?
OEMI1381
692693
1878
1934
?
19-20
Barisal [now in Bangladesh]
?
composer
Poplar composer
Mushtaribai
?
OEMI1404
699700
0.19
1933
?
20
most probably Fatehbad or Fatehpur,Agra region,Uttar Pradesh
Agra
vocalist
Vocalist
Nabani Das
?
OEMI1426
711
1964
?
20
?
?
Singer of baaul
Nala Najan
0628
OEMI1437
718
1932
2002
0107
20-21
Pennsylvania,USA
New York,USA
Performer
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
OEMI1457
724
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
Narayanrao Patwardhan
1125
OEMI1493
731
1925
2000
0103
20
Panchgani, Maharashtra
Delhi
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist, teacher, and radio executive
his father
radio
Nasibjan
?
OEMI1500
732
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist disc-record singer of the early 20th cent
Niranjan Kar
OEMI1537
762
1910
20
Deshpur, Kendrapada, Orissa
Singer of Paalaa keertan
Duryodhan Panda
Nirmal Shah
OEMI1538
762
0.176
0.183
18
Lucknow
Benares
rudra veena player
Eminent performer of the rudra veena
his father Jeevan Shah
Norjahan
OEMI1556
767
1928
2000
1223
20
Kassur village,near Lahore,Pakistan
Lahore
singer-actress
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
Nrushingha Nath Khuntia
1009
OEMI1557
768
1913
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher of Odissi music
Bhimsen Pratihari,Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
Odissi music
Nunnijan
OEMI1558
768769
?
?
vocalist
vocalist, an early disc-record artiste
Phul Mohammad
12??
OEMI1621
809
1926
20
Baharampur, Murshidabad district, Bangladesh
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father and Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Kader Baksh, Ram Govind Pathak, Mehdi Hussain Khan （of Rampur）, Girija Shankar Chakravarti
Purushottam Das
OEMI1653
831
1921
1994
0620
20
Barpeta Assam
Guwahati
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
his parents Krishnakanta Das and Boroda Bala Das, Bishuprasad Radha, and Bonkowar Anandiram Das
Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma
OEMI1717
867868
1893
1979
19-20
Rallapaali Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh
Mysore
musician
Musician and literary scholar
Yatindra Swamy
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
OEMI1729
870
?
?
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Rasik Kavi
OEMI1803
891
1920
1988
0211
20
?
Chhabra, near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Rukmani Devi
0115
OEMI1823
904
1923
1978
1028
20
Ramboda, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Colombo
singer-actress
Sadiq Ali Khan (Jaipur)
OEMI1836
909
1893
1964
0717
19-20
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
Sanjida Khatun
0404
OEMI1869
937
1933
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
singer
Sohrab Hussain, Mastan Gama, Munshi Raisuddin, Husna Bano Khanam
Saraswatibai
OEMI1887
948
1850
19
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sakharam
Somnath Das
OEMI2017
993
1906
20
Puri, Orissa
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Odissi music
Sukumar Ray
OEMI2057
1028
1912
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
musicologist
Musicologist and author
Hakim Mohammad Hussain and Gul Mohammad Khan
Sultan Bakhsh
OEMI2061
1029
19
?
?
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
Ratan Chand Das
Sundarabai Jadhav
OEMI2069
1030
0.1886
1953
0603
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist, especially of light classical varieties
Thakurdas-bua, Ghulam Rasool Khan, and Gamman Khan
Sunil Santa
0414
OEMI2075
10311032
1915
1981
0411
20
Sri Lanka
?
musician
Musician, best remembered for his efforts to create a music tradition intrinsic to Sri Lanka
Suratsen
OEMI2077
1034
0.1539
0.1615
16-17
Rewa, Madhta Pradesh
Agra
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Taansen
Ted Shawn
1021
OEMI2114
1070
1891
1972
0109
19-20
Kansas City,USA
USA
American dancer, a pioneer among Westerners to learn Indian dance idioms
Martha Graham,Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidmen.
Tulsidas
OEMI2139
10951096
0.1532
1623
16-17
?
?
Saint-poet, celebrated author of Raama Charita Maanas, the story of Sri Raama, in Avadhi, a dialect of the Hindi-speaking region of India
Naraharidaas
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
Wazir Chand
?
OEMI2239
1145
?
20
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player.
Master Ratan of Punjab
Zahur Khan （Khayal）
OEMI2255
1157
17805
18-?
?
?
He belonged to Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Zahur Khan （Khurja）
OEMI2256
11571158
0.185
20
19-20
?
?
vocalist,composer
Noted vocalist （dhrupad, hoori, and khayaal） and composer
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
kdhrupad, hoori,,hayaal
Inayat Hussain Khan （Sitar）
OEMI0870
441442
1894
1938
19-20
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata
sitar player
Sitar player ?
his father Imdad Khan, Allabande Khan, Daulat Khan, Alladiya Khan
Baladev Rath(Kavisuryya)
?
OEMI0263
109
1789
1848
?
18-19
?
?
composer
Composer of champu songs of Odissi music
Haidar Khan （Saharanpur）
OEMI0781
400
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Imam Bakhash, brother Bairam Khan
Indira Devi Chowdhurani
1229
OEMI0876
443
1873
1960
0812
19-20
?
?
Music educator and writer from poet Rabindranath Tagore's family
Kader Bakhsh （Pakhawaj）
OEMI0974
494
18
?
?
Scion of an early （18th cent.） pakhaawaj gharaanaa
pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Laalaa Bhavaanidaas
Kedamangalam Sadanandan
OEMI1042
533
1924
2008
0413
20-21
Paravur,Ernakulam district,Kerala
Paravur
performer of Kathaa prasangam
Mubarak Ali Khan(Jaipur)
?
OEMI1371
689
0.1795
0.188
?
18-19
Lucknow
Jaipur
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Bade Mohammad Khan
Mubarak Ali Khan(Mumbai)
?
OEMI1372
689690
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Nizamuddin Khan （Tabla）
OEMI1548
766
1932
2000
0623
20
Jawra, Madhya Pradesh
Mumai
tabla player
Tabla performer of the Lucknow tradition
Lucknow
his father Azim Bakhsh Jewerwale and Ahmedjan Thirakwa
Prabhakar Datar Sahir
OEMI1632
821
1755
1843
18-19
Gangapur, Nasik district, Maharashtra
?
composer
Composer of laavani and powaasaa in Marathi
Asad Ali Khan(Rampur)
?
OEMI0180
78
0.1858
0.1918
?
19
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
Rampur
Sursinger maestro
Bahadur Shah 'Zafar'
1024
OEMI0250
102
1775
1862
18-19
Delhi
Rangoon, Burma
Mughal Emperor, an ardent lover of the arts, and a poet known for is ghazals
Baldev Prasad Nayak
?
OEMI0273
112
?
Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Kandappa Nattuvanar
OEMI1016
515
1899
1941
02??
19-20
?
Chennai
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Kannuswami Pillai, Nellaiyappa
Mahadeva Nattuvanar
?
OEMI1226
619
?
19
?
?
Dance teacher(19th cent.)of Tamil Nadu
P00186
Mohan Chandra Barman
OEMI1360
682
1900
20
Kaihatti village,Assam
artiste of Bhaaonaa

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