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
OEMI ID
Name
Field
Notes about Field
Speciality
Place of Residence
Year of Birth
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Year of Death
Date of Death
Place of Death
Gharana
Guru
Page
OEMI0107
Ambika Charan Guha
patron,
Nineteenth-century teacher and patron
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0166
Appukkutti Nattuvan
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri （1762-1827）of the Karnnatik trinity
?
?
7172
OEMI0040
Adil Shah Sur
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
1524
?
?
1557
?
?
22
OEMI0099
Amara Simha
patron,
Patron and playwright
?
?
?
?
?
46
OEMI0185
Asgarijan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
?
?
?
?
Agra
81
OEMI0203
Atulprasad Sen
composer
Composer
1871
?
Lucknow
1934
?
?
87
OEMI0241
Badi Maina
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
?
?
Benares
98
OEMI0710
Gokuldas Dhanji
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
371
OEMI0845
Hussain Ali Khan
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
1850
Madhya Pradesh
?
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
436
OEMI0855
Ilahijan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
439
OEMI1061
Kiwal Kishan
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
?
?
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
542
OEMI1075
Khurshaidjan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Kanpur
?
?
555
OEMI1220
Madhusudan Kan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Bengal
?
?
?
?
616
P01205
OEMI1382
Munawar Ali Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
1933
?
?
1989
1013
?
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Barkat Ali Khan
693
OEMI1921
Shah Latif
poet
Mystic poet
1689
Sind, Pakistan
1752
?
963
OEMI2116
Tej Khan
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
?
?
?
?
1070
OEMI0633
Fida Hussain Khan(Sitar)
sitar player
Son of Gwalior sitar veteran,Amir Khan.
0.1875
?
?
0.1927
?
?
Amir Khan
320
OEMI0709
Gokulchandra Srichandan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
?
?
371
OEMI1323
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
?
?
671
OEMI0583
Dilawar Ali Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
khayaal
Rewa
?
?
?
?
Agra
295
OEMI0627
Fazue Lal Pandit
Shehnai player of the early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
319
OEMI0902
Jagannath Kumhar
singer
Folk singer,born in a family of folk artisites
folk
Mathia Gosain village,Raisen district,Madhya Pradesh
?
his father
450
OEMI1530
Nilakantha Sivan
composer
Well-known composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
1839
Nagorcoil area, now in Tamil Nadu, then part of the Travancore princely state of Kerala
1900
0728
?
756757
OEMI1536
Nimai Harichandan
vocalist
Vocalist
1901
0709
Kendrapada, Cuttack district, Orissa
1983
0720
?
761762
OEMI1068
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
?
?
546547
OEMI2066
Sundarabai of Surat
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
?
?
1030
OEMI0088
Allah Dad Dhadhi
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
41
P00129
OEMI0254
Baidyanath Sharma
Noted performer of daas kaathiaa, a form of Oriya folk music
1921
0823
Nagardini, Ganjam district, Orissa
1990
?
Krishna Chandra Sahu
104105
OEMI0364
Bholanath Bhatt
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1894
?
Darbhanga,Bihar
1970
?
?
His family
179180
OEMI1655
Purushottam Telang
vocalist
Vocalist
1852
Karwar taluka, Karnataka
1920
?
Tanras Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan
831832
OEMI0080
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
?
?
?
?
?
38
OEMI1837
Sadiq Ali Khan (Seni)
rudra veena player,rabaab player
exponent of the rudra veena and rabaab
1805
?
1970
?
Zaffar Khan, Pyar Khan, Basat Khan
909
OEMI0039
Adibhatla Narayana Dasa
Well-known Harikathaa performer and teacher
1864
?
?
1945
?
?
21
OEMI1393
Murad Ali Khan(Darbhanga)
sarod player
Nineteenth-century sarod player
?
?
?
?
696
OEMI1063
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
saarangi player
Saarangi player
?
1959
?
542543
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0063
Ajoy Bhattacharya
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
?
?
?
?
2930
OEMI1629
Poluri Govinda Kavi
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
?
?
813
OEMI0200
Atmanatha Bhagavatar
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent)
?
?
?
?
86
OEMI0424
Challagali Krishnayyar
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
213
OEMI0773
Haidar Ali Khan （Nawab）
rudra veena player,sursingaar player
Sursingaar and rudra veena player
1846
?
1901
?
Amir Khan, Bahadur Hussain Khan
398399
OEMI0782
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
Rampur
?
?
some elders
400
OEMI0865
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
?
?
Sahaswaan
440
OEMI2068
Sundarabai of Charkhari
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
?
?
1030
OEMI2261
Zakiruddin Khan Dagar
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Daagar tradition
?
1927
?
within family
1159
OEMI0846
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
?
?
436
P00003
OEMI0026
Abhinava Gupta
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
?
?
?
?
11
OEMI0049
Aghawan
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Unav,near Lucknow
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0051
Ahmad Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0070
Alain Danielou
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Indian heritage
France
1907
1004
Paris
1994
0127
?
34
OEMI0074
Ali Bakhsh I
vocalist
Vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
?
?
37
OEMI0083
Alla Rakhi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
39
OEMI0087
Allah Bandi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0091
Allahdi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Delhi
?
?
?
?
42
OEMI0095
Aman Ali Khan (Lucknow)
vocalist
Vocalist
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
Qavvaal-bachhe
45
OEMI0101
Amarendra Nath Dutt
An early participant in the Indian sound recording industry and a theatre personality of Bengal.
1876
?
Kolkata
1916
0106
?
47
OEMI0106
Ambayiram
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0118
Amirjan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
?
?
51
P02054
OEMI0122
Ammannur Madhava Chakyar
Celebrated performer if Koodiyaattam,a theatrical art firm staged in Kerala temples.
1917
Irinjalakuda,Thrissur district,Kerala
1998
0114
?
52
OEMI0156
Annu Akhtar
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
?
?
Agra
66
P01321
OEMI0177
Arvind Parikh
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
Mumbai
1927
?
?
?
?
77
OEMI0199
Athar Nafis
Pakistani poet
1932
?
?
1980
1121
?
85
OEMI0214
Azim Bakhsh
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
1857
probably Indore
1908
?
his uncle Ramzan Khan
90
OEMI0220
Babaji Rane
Playwright and singer-actor of Marathi drama
1874
Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra
1913
1122
?
92
OEMI0249
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
Eminent exponent
0.1765
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
102
OEMI0259
Bal Gandharva
Legendary singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1888
0626
Pune, Maharashtra
1967
0715
?
Mehboob Khan
107109
OEMI0315
Bauli Bakhsh
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
?
?
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
130
OEMI0353
Bhatt, K.H.
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mumbai
?
?
168
OEMI0386
Bindu Bala
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
?
?
193
OEMI0392
Biru Mishra
tabla player
Reputed tabla and pakhaawaj player
Nepal durbar
188696
Benares
0.1935
?
Vishwanath Prasad, Madan Mohan Mishra
194
OEMI0407
Brhaspati,K.C.
musicologist
Noted musicologist
1918
?
Rampur
1979
?
?
Mirza Nawab Hussain and Ayodhya Prasad
201
OEMI0411
Buddi Sani
vocalist
Mid-19th-cent. vocalist
?
?
?
?
Balwantrao Vaidya
203
OEMI0476
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
?
?
238
OEMI0556
Devendranath Changkatti
vocalist
Vocalist
1890
?
Guwahati,Assam
?
?
probably Lakshmiram Barooah
275
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0638
Gaforan
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
323
OEMI0722
Gopala Pillai, K.N.
composer
Noted composer and writer
1902
?
Kerala
1990
0828
?
Lakshmi Narayana Iyer
374
P02179
OEMI0756
Gulab-bai
Well-known nautanki performer in the Kanpur tradition
1920
Balpurva, Farukhabad district, Uttar Pradesh
1996
0713
?
Trimohanlal, Mohammad Khan-saheb
386387
OEMI0777
Haidarijan
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
?
?
399400
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI1023
Kannuswami Rao
Performer of svarabat, a small harp
1855
?
1936
?
517
P02145
OEMI1030
Kartik Ram
Kathak dancer
1910
Rajasthan
1980
?
Shivnarayan,Jaylalji Maharaj,Achan Maharaj,Shival,Mohanlal
523
OEMI1037
Kasinatha Kavi
composer
Composer
?
?
525
OEMI1043
Kitijan
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
?
?
537
OEMI1144
Kutub Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
OEMI1170
Lal Kavi
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
?
?
591
OEMI1173
Lal Khan Sani
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzab
?
?
591
OEMI1174
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
?
?
591
OEMI1241
Mahmuda Jan
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
?
?
622
OEMI1350
Mohammad Jan
saarangi player
saarangi player
?
?
Fida Hussain
680
OEMI1381
Mukunda Das
composer
Poplar composer
1878
?
Barisal [now in Bangladesh]
1934
?
?
692693
OEMI1426
Nabani Das
Singer of baaul
?
?
1964
?
?
711
OEMI1457
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
724
OEMI1500
Nasibjan
vocalist,
Vocalist disc-record singer of the early 20th cent
?
?
?
?
732
OEMI1518
Naval Sakhi
Performer of devotional dances
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
749750
OEMI1558
Nunnijan
vocalist
vocalist, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
768769
OEMI1563
Padma Nath
instrumentalist
Kolkata
?
?
780
OEMI1729
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
870
OEMI1887
Saraswatibai
vocalist
vocalist
1850
?
?
Sakharam
948