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
OEMI0701
Girisa Ayyar （Vishalur）
vocalist
Vocalist, a contemporary of Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
?
?
367
OEMI0705
Gokalram （Bhagat）
vocalist,patron,
Vocalist attached to the temples of Jodhpur, directly patronized by the royal palace
Jodhpur
?
?
370
P02049
OEMI0747
Govindrao Burhanpurkar
Distinguished pakhaawaj exponent
1880
Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh
1957
?
382
OEMI0762
Gurusami Disikar
Well-known singer of Tamil Tevaaram hymns
?
?
392
OEMI1000
Kamakoti Sastri
composer
Composer of kritis
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
?
507
OEMI1058
Keshavrao Bhosale
singer-actor
Eminent singer-actor of the Marathi satge
Marathi satge
1890
0809
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1921
1004
?
541
OEMI1101
Krishna Rao, U.S.
Noted Bharata Naatyam exponent
?
?
570
OEMI1162
Lakshmi Narayana
musician
Musician and author of Sangeeta Suryodaya
?
?
589
OEMI1166
Lakshmikanta Maharaja
composer
Composer and Sanskrit scholar of Andhra
?
?
591
OEMI1171
Lal Khan （Bade or Seni）
vocalist
Eminent 17th-cent. vocalist
0.1562
?
0.165
?
591
OEMI1287
Mansukhram Nayak
vocalist,musician
Vocalist, chief musician
?
?
?
?
645
OEMI1367
Morgaumkar Bhave
composer
composer
Morgon village,near Pune,Maharashtra
?
686
OEMI1386
Munnan Khan(Murshidabad)
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player(second half, 19th cent.)
Murshidabad (now in Bangladesh)
?
?
?
?
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
694
OEMI1529
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
?
?
756
OEMI1601
Parshuram Shahir
composer
composer
1754
Vavi,Nasik district,Maharashtra
1844
?
798799
OEMI1669
Radhakrishna Iyer (Kanjira)
Stalwart of kanjiraa,a south Indian rhythmic instrument of the tambourine family.
?
?
842843
OEMI1732
Ramachandra Ata
composer
Composer of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
1687
Narowa Sattra, Vasudeva Than, Assam
1752
?
his father Ramaakaanta Aataa
871
OEMI1749
Ramapati Bandopadhyaya
composer
Composer of kavigaan and some other forms of Bengali music
Chandrakona, Midnapore, Bengal
1872
?
his father Gangabishnu
874
OEMI1765
Rameshwar Pathak
sitar player
Sitar player of early 20th cent. Darbhanga, Bihar
?
?
879
OEMI1971
Shridhar Parsekar
violinist
Noted violinist
1920
Parse, Goa
1964
0911
?
Gajananrao Joshi
974
OEMI1978
Shyam Sundar Dhir
vocalist
Vocalist
1897
Gadamadhupur, Cuttack, Orissa
1988
0116
?
his father Jagabandhu Dhir, Hanuman Prasad Jaipurwale and Ram Prasad
975
OEMI2011
Sokar Bapuji Trilokekar
Late 19th-cent. author of Marathi musical plays
1836
Mumbai
1908
?
992
OEMI2035
Subba Ayyar(Chattapuram)
Mridangam player and teacher
1894
1227
Palghat district,Kerala
1961
0617
?
1010
OEMI2039
Subbayyar Jhanjhamritam
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
1011
OEMI2045
Sudarshan Shastri
sitar player
Sitar player and author
?
?
?
?
1013
OEMI2206
Vinayak-bua Thakurdas
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Marathi keertan
Mumbai
?
?
1130
OEMI2233
Wahid Khan（Sitar）
sitar player
Well-known sitar and surbahaar player
1895
?
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
his father Imdad Khan
1144
OEMI2247
Yashwant-bua Thakurdas
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher,late 19th cent.
?
?
?
?
1153
OEMI2190
Venkataramaiah, K.S. （'Papa'）
violinist
Violinist
1901
0912
?
1972
0317
?
his father Karur Srikantayya and Govindaswami Pillai
1123
OEMI0623
Farid-saheb Satarmaker
Maker of musical instruments
1827
?
?
1898
?
?
317318
OEMI0670
Ghanshyamdas Pakhawaji
Pakhaawaj player
1880
Rajasthan
0.1915
?
his father Shankarlal
354355
OEMI0797
Haraprasad Bandopadhyay
composer,rudra veena player
Composer of Bengali bhajans and an early rudra veena player of Kolkata
Kolkata
1830
Bengal
1899
?
Ganganarayan Chattopadhyaya
410
OEMI1049
Kesavapalli Seturamayya
composer
Composer （19th cent.） of Telugu keertana
Telugu keertana
?
?
540
OEMI1239
Mahipati-bua Tahrabadkar
performer and poet of Marathi keertans
1715
?
1790
?
622
OEMI1392
Munnibai(mid-19th cent.)
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
695
OEMI1396
Murad Khan(Rudra Vina)
Eminent propagator of Bande Ali Kahn's veena tradition.
1864
?
Jawra,Madhya Pradesh
1927
?
?
Mughlu Khan
696697
OEMI1663
Pyar Khan (Rudra Vina)
son of Bhupat Khan,grandson of khaayal luminary Sadaarang
1737
Delhi
?
834
OEMI2172
Vasudev Narayan Dongre
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1850
?
1905
?
1118
OEMI0138
Anantadas Goswami
composer
Singer and composer of baul songs and a highly esteemed baul guru
baul songs
1790
Birbhum, West Bengal
?
58
OEMI0175
Arunachala Sastri
composer
Composer of the post-1850 period remembered for his Sanskrit songs
?
?
?
?
76
OEMI0344
Bharata Chodamani
Author of an old Tamil work Taala Samuttiram on taala
?
?
158
OEMI0484
Chinnaswami Dasar
composer
Composer of keertans in Sanskrit and Tamil
0.1828
Kuttanur, near Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
0.1881
?
240
OEMI0536
Dattu-bua Inamdar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of Hindustani music
1908
?
Targao,Dharwad district, Karnataka
1986
0927
?
his father Srinivas-bua Thakurdas
260
OEMI0610
Ekambara Mudaliyar
Author of a noted Tamil operatic play
?
?
309
OEMI0803
Hari Dikshit Pandit
Performer of Marathi keertans; peak period sometime during 1700-50
?
?
411
OEMI0806
Hari Prasad Mishra
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
1802
?
1868
?
Benares
411
OEMI0823
Hassan Khan Dhadhi
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and eminent rudra veena player
?
?
418
OEMI0850
Hussainuddin Dagar
vocalist
Well-known dhrupad vocalist
dhrupad
?
?
his eldest brother Nasiruddin
437
OEMI0943
Jiwanlal Maharaj
sitar player,rudra veena player
Sitar and rudra veena player
1828
Morvi,Gujarat
1888
?
480481
OEMI0987
Kale Khan （Lahore）
Singer of light classical varieties such as daadraa and qavvaali
?
?
503
OEMI1090
Kolar Nagaratnam
vocalist
Popular concert vocalist of 1900-25
?
?
Bidaram Krishnappa
563
OEMI1108
Krishnankutty Poduval (Kalamandalam)
player of the drum,chenda,used in Kathakali music
1924
0530
Vellinezhi,Palakkad district,Kerala
1992
1012
?
571
OEMI1115
Krishnarao Sangle
writer
writer
?
?
573
OEMI1121
Kshirabdi Sastri
composer
composer
Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
?
Sivarama Yogi
574
OEMI1172
Lal Khan （Jodhpur）
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh
?
?
591
OEMI1175
Lala Bhagwandas
Founder of the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
592
OEMI1176
Lala Bhavanidas
An early propagator of the 16th-cent. Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
592
OEMI1254
Mallikarjun Mansur
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
1910
1231
Mansur village,near Dharwar,Karnataka
1992
0912
?
631632
OEMI1282
Manoharlal Sharma
Performer of swaang a type of folk musical play
?
?
1970
?
?
644
OEMI1285
Mansa Singh(Bhai)
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Sikh sacred music(sabad)
?
?
?
?
645
OEMI1324
Miraj Ahmed Nizami
qavvaali singer
?
?
671
OEMI1368
Moroba Waghulikar
Pioneer singer-actor of the Marathi stage
?
1908
0120
?
686
OEMI1447
Nanhe Khan （Mumbai）
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
Gujarat and Mumbai
0.1872
?
0.194
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh, his elder brother Ghasit Khan
722
P00069
OEMI1494
Narayanrao Vyas
vocalist
vocalist
1902
0404
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
1984
0401
?
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
731
OEMI1524
Nazir Khan(Jodhpur)
vocalist
Vocalist(late 19th cent.) of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
755
OEMI1582
Panchakshari Gawai
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher,pioneer of Hindustani music in karnataka
1892
0202
Kadashettihalli,Hanagal taluk,Karnataka
1944
0611
?
Harapanahali Bheemarayappa(vocal 1900-2)
789
OEMI1753
Rambhau Saverkar
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Indore
khayaal
Indore
?
19
?
Haddu Khan
876
OEMI1888
Sarat Chandra Sarma
singer
1913
Vyasapara village, Darrang district, Assam
?
his grandfather and father, Bhabiram Sarma
948949
OEMI1918
Shadi Khan （Delhi）
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar （r.1837-57）, the last Mughal emperor
?
?
963
OEMI1957
Sheik Chinna Moula
Well-known naagaswaram player
1924
0512
Karavadi, Andhra Pradesh
1999
0413
?
his uncle Madar-sahib, Sheik Adam-sahib, and Duraikkannu Pillai
971
OEMI2109
Tarini Charan Patra
vocalist
Noted vocalist.
1901
?
Pittal village,Ganjam district,Orissa
1979
0304
?
his elder brother Kamal Adika Parta
1067
OEMI1482
Narayanaswami Iyer （Bharatam）
Stage artiste of early 20th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI1612
Pattabhiramayya （Tirupanandal）
composer
Composer of Jaavali songs
0.1863
Tirupanandal, near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
?
805
OEMI0260
Duraiswami Iler （Pallavi）
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
1782
Tiruvaiyar, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1816
?
303304
OEMI0336
Bhaiyya-saheb Malvankar
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of the 1930s
?
?
Shankarrao Pandit
153
OEMI1630
Pochi Srinivasa Iyengar
vocalist, composer
Veteran vocalist and composer
1860
?
1919
?
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
813
OEMI1701
Raja-bhaiyya Pochwale
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
1882
0812
Gwalior
1956
0401
?
Waman-bua, Lala-bua
863
OEMI1991
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar
vocalist,teacher
Veteran Odissi vocalist and teacher
1908
0304
Puri, Orissa
1975
0316
?
Gadi Jagannath Pratihari, Kalpatara Nayak, Mana Govinda Mohanty, Chintamani Mishra, and Harihhara Rayguri
982
OEMI2091
Swaminatha Iyer (Tiruchi)
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
1920
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
1998
0519
?
Subramania Iyer
1042
OEMI1702
Rajagopala Pillai (Mannargudi)
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
863
OEMI0211
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Lucknow
Kalpi
?
90
OEMI0286
Balwantrao Bhaiyya
vocalist,
Vocalist of Gwalior
Gwalior
?
?
1925
?
?
Gwalior
his mother,the famous dancer Chandrabhaga
115
OEMI0356
Bhaurao Kolhatkar
actor, singer
Celebrated singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1863
0304
?
1901
0213
?
168169
OEMI0367
Bhupat Khan(Jodhpur)
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
183
OEMI0429
Chand Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla pioneer （mid-18th cent.）
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
214
OEMI0491
Chinni Krishna Dasa
composer
Composer （19th cent） of kritis and svarajaatis in Telugu
?
?
241
OEMI0629
Feroze Khan(Patiala)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Patiaalaa gharaanaa
0.1881
?
?
1971
0826
?
Patiaalaa
Natthe Khan
319
OEMI0727
Gopalayya （Pallavi）
vocalist
Prominent vocalist and veena player of the durbar of King Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
Pachhimiriyam Adiappayya
375
OEMI0728
Gopalkrishna Bhobhe
Music critic
1921
0806
Nerul, Goa
1968
0213
?
375
OEMI1051
Keshab Chandra Mitra
Reputed pakhaawaj player
0.1822
Bhavanipur, Kolkata
1901
?
Ram Chakravarty
540
P00017
OEMI1400
Murugabhopathy,C.S.
mridangam player
Veteran mridangam player
1914
0215
Ramanathapuram,Tamil Nadu
1998
0321
?
Chitsabai Servai and Sankarasiva Bhagavatar
698699
OEMI1411
Muthukkumara Pulavar
composer
Tamil composer （19th cent.）
?
?
704
OEMI1488
Narayan-bua Gogate
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of tappaa and keertana of Maharashtra during the second half of the 19th cent.
?
?
729
OEMI1497
Narottamdas Thakur
composer
Vaishnava devotee and composer
Vaishnava saint-musician
0.1533
?
Kheturi,Bengal
?
?
731
OEMI1510
Natesa Ayyar(Nimam)
vocalist
Vocalist and ascetic known also as Nataraja Bhagavatar
?
?
?
?
740
OEMI1639
Pransukhlal Nayak
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the Gujarati stage
1910
04??
Jagudan village, Mehsana district, Gujarat
?
825
OEMI1648
Pulin Behari Mitter
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
828
OEMI1693
Rahmat Khan (Sitar)
sitar player
sitar player
?
1985
03??
?
858
OEMI1784
Ramzan Khan (Vocal)
vocalist
tappaa singer
tappaa
?
?
Imam Badi
885
OEMI1900
Savyasachi Iyengar
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar III （r. 1799-1868）
Mysore
?
?
957