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
OEMI0860
Imam Khan
dholak player
Noted dholak player of the mid-19th cent.
?
?
439
OEMI0906
Jaggan Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
?
?
451
OEMI0932
Jivan Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi Player
1838
?
1935
?
472
OEMI0951
Jodhe Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
0.177
?
?
Khurjaa
483
OEMI0957
Joravar Khan
vocalist
Vocalist （17th-cent.）
?
?
488
OEMI1040
Kayam Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
532
OEMI1243
Majru Khan
Sarod player
1810
?
1884
?
Pyar Khan
623
OEMI1259
Mangal Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
?
?
638
OEMI1329
Mirza Khan
author
?
?
672
OEMI1335
Mitthu Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
673
P06696
OEMI1388
Munne Khan
vocalist
Vocalist and a disc-record singer of the early 1900s.
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
695
OEMI1421
Muzaffar Khan
vocalist
vocalist
1858
Delhi
?
Maste Khan
706707
OEMI1499
Nasar Khan
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1829
?
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
1903
0801
?
Taj Khan Deredar
732
OEMI1515
Natthe Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1745
?
?
?
?
Khurjaa
741
OEMI1516
Natthu Khan
vocalist
Eminent exponent of the Gwaalior Khayaal gharaanaa
khayaal
18
?
?
0.1884
?
?
Gwaalior khayaal
his father Kader Bakhsh
741
OEMI1581
Pan Khan
vocalist,sitar player
vovalist,sitar player
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
788
OEMI1842
Sahabdad Khan
vocalist, sitar player
vocalist and sitar player
1830
?
1880
?
911
OEMI1854
Salem Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
Agra gharaanaa
917
OEMI1865
Samwal Khan
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
?
?
925
OEMI1898
Savaliya Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
Pyar Khan
954
OEMI1916
Shad Khan
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra
?
?
962963
OEMI1923
Shahab Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Atraauli
his father （name not known）
963
OEMI1954
Shaukat Ali Khan
rabaab player
Rabaab player of the Seni gharaanaa
1911
Gidhaur, Bihar
?
Seni
Mohammad Ali Khan, Raja Nawab Ali
969
OEMI1994
Sitab Khan
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
982
OEMI2059
Sulaiman
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and tappaa singer of Lucknow
khayaal
Lucknow
?
?
Rajab Ali Khan
1029
OEMI2143
Ujir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
?
?
Jaipur
1101
OEMI0464
Chhota Naubat Khan
rudra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
0.1756
?
?
his illustrious father Jeevan Khan
236
OEMI0469
Chhote Mohammad Khan
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent.）
?
?
Haddu Khan
237
OEMI0853
Ibrahim Adil Shah
musician
Musician-king of Bijapur, Karnataka
1580
Bijapur
1627
?
438
OEMI1848
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
surbahaar exponent
?
?
915
P00105
OEMI0691
Ghulam Sabir Khan （Bade）
Saarangi maestro
?
1962
?
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
363
OEMI1074
Khudratullah Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Hyderabad, Andhra, during the reign of Nizam Mir Mehboob Ali Khan
Hyderabad, Andhra,
1830
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
1920
?
his father Rahmatullah Khan
554
OEMI2201
Vidyapati Thakur
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
0.136
?
0.1448
?
1127
OEMI0884
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
?
?
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
445
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