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
OEMI0622
Faqirullah Saif Khan
Author of Raaga Darpan
17
?
?
1684
0826
Allahabad
317
OEMI0920
Jankibai(Allahabad)
vocalist
Vocalist
1875
Benares
1934
0518
Allahabad
462
OEMI0067
Akbar Allahabadi
Noted Urdu poet of grazals and such other forms
1864
1116
?
1921
0909
Allahabad
31
OEMI0413
Bulakilal Yadav
tabla player
Tabla player
0.1923
?
?
2000
0408
Allahabad
Lalji Shrivastav
204
P00085
OEMI1806
Rasolanbai
singer
1902
Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
1974
1215
Allahabad
892
OEMI0331
Bhagwat Rasikdev
composer
Composer of Vaishnava devotional songs
1742
Gadhakosh town, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh
Allahabad
Swami Lalit Mohinidev
148149
OEMI0766
Habib Paintar
Qavvaali singer
1915
?
1987
0222
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
396
OEMI1295
Master Krishnarao
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer-actor of the Marathi stage
1898
0120
Alandi,near Pune,Maharashtra
1974
1020
Alandi
656
OEMI0522
Damodarlal Kabra
Sarod player
1926
0317
Kuchaman[Marwad],Rajasthan
1979
0804
Ahmedabad,Gujarat
Ali Akbar Khan(of Maihar)
253
P00012
OEMI0318
Begum Akhtar
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
1914
0207
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh
1974
1030
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Abdul Wahid Khan, Ramzam Khan, Barkhat Ali, Imdad Khan, Ghulam Mohammad Khan, Ata Mohammad
132133
P02937
OEMI0031
Acharyalu,C.R.
Kuchipudi dance guru
?
?
1998
0322
Ahmedabad
16
OEMI1743
Ramananda Dvija
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
his father Raamadeva Aataa
873
OEMI1427
Nabat Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena maestro of the Seni gharaanaa
0.153
?
Singhalgad, Rajasthan
0.161
?
Agra[then called Akbarabad]
Seni
711
OEMI0468
Chhote Khan
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1827
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
1912
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Kudau Singh
237
OEMI1190
Lallu Singh
tabla player
Tabla player and teacher
0.1928
?
2000
0824
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Madho Singh
600
OEMI0216
Azmatullah Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the mid-19th cent.
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
Agra region
his father Rahmatullah Khan
91
OEMI0667
Ghagge Nazir Khan
vocalist
Well-known khayaal singer
khayaal
0.1845
Agra
1910
Agra
Mewaati gharaanaa
his father Wazir Khan, Haddu Khan
353354
P06664
OEMI0232
Badal Khan
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Paanipat gharaanaa
0.1834
?
0.1937
Agra
Paanipat
95
OEMI1963
Sher Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
khayaal
0.1792
Agra
0.1862
Agra
Agra
his paternal uncle Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
971
OEMI0676
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
1932
Agra
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
360
OEMI1404
Mushtaribai
vocalist
Vocalist
0.19
?
most probably Fatehbad or Fatehpur,Agra region,Uttar Pradesh
1933
?
Agra
699700
OEMI2077
Suratsen
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1539
Rewa, Madhta Pradesh
0.1615
Agra
his father Taansen
1034
OEMI0864
Imdad Khan （Agra）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.18
Agra
0.186
Agra
agra gharaanaa
his family
440
OEMI1450
Nanhe Khan （Vocal, Agra）
vocalist?
Vocalist?
1899
Mysore
0.1945
Agra
Agra gharaanaa?
Kallan Khan
723
OEMI0666
Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
vocalist
Founder of the Agra khayaal tradition
khayaal
0.179
Agra
0.188
Agra
the Agra khayaal
353
OEMI1352
Mohammad Khan(vocal)
vocalist?
vocalist?
1870
Agra
1922
Agra
Natthan Khan
680
OEMI0066
Akbar (Emperor)
patron,
Mughal Emperor, great patron of the arts
1542
1123
Amarkot, Rajasthan
1605
?
Agra
3031
OEMI0145
Anil Krishna Deb Burman
musician
Noted musician of Tripura
Tripura
1899
Agartala, Tripura
1942
Agartala
61
OEMI0831
Himanta Kishore Deb Burman
sitar player
Sitar player of Tripura
1918
Agartala
1991
Agartala
423
OEMI1150
Lahari Deb Burman
Sarod player of Tripuna
1922
Agartala
1988
Agartala
586
OEMI1739
Ramalinga Swamigal
composer
Composer of Tamil hymns, especially on Subrahmania
1823
1005
Mrudur, Tamil Nadu
1874
0130
?[as per some documents]
872
P06123
OEMI0014
Abdul Latif Khan
saarangi player
saarangi player
1934
0322
Gohad,Bhand district,Madhya Pradesh
2003
0423
?
Chhotu Khan and Udaya Khan and Sikandar Khan
5
OEMI0011
Abdul Kadar Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1910
?
Rajasthan
1970
0309
?
3
OEMI0004
Abudul Azis Khan
saarangi player
saarangi
0.1875
?
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
1946
?
?
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
2
OEMI1920
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
Sindhi devotional poet
1690
Sind [now in Pakistan]
1757
?
963
OEMI0018
Abdul Sattar
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
6
OEMI0006
Abdul Gafur
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
?
?
?
?
2
OEMI0017
Abdul Salam
composer
Composer,a contemporary of the famous Kazi Nazrul Islam(b.1899)
?
?
?
?
6
OEMI0042
Afruddin Khan
Qavvaali singer
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0068
Akil Ahmed Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
?
?
?
?
Agra
33
OEMI0081
Alimulla Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
39
P00126
OEMI0194
Ashraf Khan
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
83
OEMI0206
Ayet Ali Khan
sitar player
Sitar and surbahaar player, and teacher
1884
0426
Shibpur, Bangladesh
1967
09??
?
Family
89
OEMI0597
Dulha Khan
vocalist
Noted 18th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer of Jaipur
dhrupad
Jaipur
0.1745
?
0.182
?
303
P00176
OEMI1143
Kutub Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
P00244
OEMI2250
Yusuf Ali Khan
sitar player
Reputed sitar exponent
0.1887
?
Lucknow
1962
1014
?
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
11551156
OEMI0010
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
?
?
?
?
3
P00699
OEMI0690
Ghulam Sabir Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Moradabad
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh
363
P06191
OEMI0161
Anwar Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
?
?
Agra
70
OEMI0626
Fazal Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore of the early 1900s
Lahore
?
?
?
?
319
OEMI0776
Haidar Bakhsh Khan
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
?
0.1875
?
the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
his father Changay Khan
399
OEMI0043
Aftabuddin Khan
Instrumentalist
0.1862
?
Shibpur,Bangladesh
1933
?
?
Ramdhan and Ramkanai Sheel(violin),and other instruments from Kasim Ali
23
OEMI0054
Ahmad Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of llate 18th cent.,
?
?
?
?
?
27
P00114
OEMI0076
Ali Bakhsh Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the reputed duo Alia-Fattu
0.185
?
?
1925
?
?
38
OEMI0314
Basit Khan
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
0.1787
?
0.1887
?
129
OEMI0376
Bilas Khan
vocalist,composer
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
0.154
?
Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
0.1621
?
?
189
OEMI0412
Bughara Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent
?
?
?
?
Delhi
204
OEMI0771
Hafiz Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.185
Jaipur
0.1909
?
his father Mammu Khan
398
OEMI0820
Hasir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
18
?
?
the Qavvaal gharaanaa of Dalhi
418
OEMI0965
Juma Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
?
?
Nirmal Shah Seni
490
OEMI0984
Kalbe Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of Rampur state
0.1836
?
0.1887
?
502
OEMI1029
Karim Khan
sitar player
sitar Player
1857
Jaipur
1919
?
519
OEMI1291
Masidullah Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent and teacher
0.189
?
?
1974
1216
?
Farukhaabaad
Nanne Khan
655
P02009
OEMI1293
Masit Khan
Innovator of the Mastikhaani gat
0.173
?
?
0.18
?
?
655
OEMI1301
Maujuddin Khan
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
?
?
?
?
658659
OEMI1337
Modu Khan
tabla player
Tabla player
?
?
676
OEMI1399
Muravvat Khan
sitar player,vocalist
Durbar musician. vocalist and sitar player
0.186
?
?
0.1945
?
?
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
698
OEMI1401
Musharraf Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player(19th cent.)
Jaipur Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
699
OEMI1546
Niyamat Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Qavvaal-bbachche style
khayaal
?
?
Qavvaal-bbachche style
765
OEMI1688
Rahim Khan
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
?
?
Amritsen
857
P06015
OEMI1699
Rajab Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist
1874
0903
Narsinghar,Madhya Pradesh
1959
0108
?
Mughlu Khan
861862
OEMI1802
Ras Rag Khan
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
888
OEMI1922
Shah Mir Khan
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore
Indore
?
?
963
OEMI2051
Sujan Khan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
?
?
?
Agra
10251026
OEMI2076
Suraj Khan
vocalist
Sixteenth-century vocalist
?
?
1034
OEMI2251
Yusuf Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
Haapur
1156
OEMI2278
Mugna Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1915
?
?
saarangi ghaaraana
Kale Khan
691
OEMI0246
Bahadur Hussain Khan
sursingaar player
Sursingaar maestro of the Rampur royal durbar
0.1808
?
0.187
?
Rampur royal durbar
101
OEMI2100
Tabakkal Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist from Talwandi in Punjab
?
?
?
?
1050
OEMI0021
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Delhi
?
?
?
?
7
OEMI0680
Ghulam Haidar Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Khurja, Uttar Pradesh
1920
?
Khurjaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
361
OEMI0689
Ghulam Raza Khan
sitar player
Innovator of the Raazaakhaani-gat, a composition for string instruments like the sitar and sarod
?
?
363
OEMI0041
Afaq Hussain Khan
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
1930
0712
Lucknow
1990
0219
?
Lucknow
Abid Hussaion Khan and Wajad Hussain Khan
22
OEMI0110
Amir Hussain Khan
tabla player
Tabla maestro
1899
10??
Bankhanda,Uttar Pradesh
1969
0105
?
Farukhaabaad
4849
OEMI0234
Bade Changeh Khan
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of the durbar of Mughal king Bahadur Shah Zafar
khayaal
0.177
Panipat
0.1857
?
96
OEMI0375
Bilas Baras Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Pune durbar
dhrupad
Pune
?
?
?
?
Pune durbar
189
P00692
OEMI0681
Ghulam Hussain Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
?
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Imam Khan
361
OEMI0020
Abdulla Khan(Agra)
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa tradition
0.1873
Agra
19221919
?
?
Agra
7
OEMI0236
Bade Mohammad Khan
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and innovator
1755
probably Lucknow
1840
?
his father Shakkar Khan, his uncle Makkhan Khan
97
OEMI0294
Bande Hussain Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
khayaal
Baroda
1906
?
?
?
?
Agra
Faiyaz Khan
117
OEMI0679
Ghulam Ghaus Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of Atraululi, Uttar Pradesh, of the early 19th cent.
dhrupad
?
?
361
P06666
OEMI0313
Bashir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur-Atraauli gharaanaa and harmonium player
Jaipur
Jodhpur
1938
?
Jaipur-Atraauli
Bhaiyya Ganpatrao
129
OEMI0339
Bhajan Khan
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar during 1845-61
Jodhpur
?
?
Jodhpur durbar
155
OEMI0414
Bullah Shah
poet
Mystic poet
1680
?
Lulani,near Lahore,Pakistan
1752
?
?
204
OEMI0459
Chhange Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
0.1857
?
231
OEMI0467
Chhote Kale Khan
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
?
?
Delhi gharaanaa
237
OEMI0481
Chimman Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
?
?
Atraauli
239
OEMI0540
Dayar Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1760s.
?
?
?
?
Maharaja Takhat Singh
262
OEMI0678
Ghulam Ali Khan
sarod player
A sarod pioneer of the 19th-cent.
?
?
360361
P06425
OEMI0767
Habibuddin Khan
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
1899
Meerut
1972
0720
?
the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
his father Shammu Khan, Munir Khan
396