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
OEMI1920
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
Sindhi devotional poet
1690
Sind [now in Pakistan]
1757
?
963
OEMI0182
Asadullah Khan
Reputed sarod player
1858
?
Kolkata
1915
?
Kolkata
7879
OEMI0042
Afruddin Khan
Qavvaali singer
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0057
Ahmed Ali Khan
Distinguished sarod player
0.1875
?
Rampur
1920
?
Rampur
2728
P05908
OEMI0120
Amjad Ali Khan
Well-known sarod player of an admirable instrumental tradition,traced to Bangash,Afghanistan.
Delhi
1945
1009
Gwalior
his father Hafiz Ali Khan
51
OEMI0183
Asgar Ali Khan
Well-known sarod player of the durvar of Darbhanga,Bihar
0.1841
?
Gwalior
0.1912
?
Darbhanga
81
P00126
OEMI0194
Ashraf Khan
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
83
OEMI0622
Faqirullah Saif Khan
Author of Raaga Darpan
17
?
?
1684
0826
Allahabad
317
OEMI0010
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
?
?
?
?
3
OEMI0043
Aftabuddin Khan
Instrumentalist
0.1862
?
Shibpur,Bangladesh
1933
?
?
Ramdhan and Ramkanai Sheel(violin),and other instruments from Kasim Ali
23
OEMI0752
Gul Bardhan
Dancer of Manipuri, Chhaau, and some regional folk dances of Rajasthan and Gujarat
1928
Mumbai
Shanti Bardhan, Maisnam Amubi Singh
386
P02009
OEMI1293
Masit Khan
Innovator of the Mastikhaani gat
0.173
?
?
0.18
?
?
655
OEMI1924
Shahadat Hussain Khan
Sarod player
1958
07??
Comilla, Bangladesh
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
963
OEMI0025
Abhilasha
Author of Sangeet Chandra
south India
?
?
?
10
P00014
OEMI0398
Bismillah Khan
Shehnai wizard
Benares
1914
0521
dumraon, near Bhojpur, Bihar
2006
0821
Benares
Ali Bakhsh
195196
OEMI0468
Chhote Khan
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1827
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
1912
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Kudau Singh
237
OEMI0913
Jamaluddin Khan
rudura veena player of the Baroda durbar
Baroda
1858
most probably Jaipur
1928
Baroda
Amiruddin Khan
460
OEMI1243
Majru Khan
Sarod player
1810
?
1884
?
Pyar Khan
623
OEMI1329
Mirza Khan
author
?
?
672
OEMI1366
Momin Khan
poet
1797
?
1852
0512
Delhi
685
OEMI1383
Munduru Khan
Sarod player
0.181
?
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1884
?
Rampur
693694
OEMI1499
Nasar Khan
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1829
?
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
1903
0801
?
Taj Khan Deredar
732
OEMI2104
Tanras Khan
Khyaal stalwart
0.1814
?
Dasna,near Delhi
0.1885
?
Hyderabad
10591060
OEMI2146
Umar Khan
Sarod player
Kolkata
?
1982
0222
Dhaka, Bangladesh
his father Sakhawat Hussain Khan
1102
P00204
OEMI2272
Maman Khan
Recipient of the Central Sangeeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for folk music of Haryana
folk music of Haryana
1945
Hissar, Haryana
his grandfather Peer Mauj Khan and father Munshi Khan
633
P00159
OEMI0896
Jaffar Hussain Khan
Noted qavvaali singer
Sahaswan,Uttar Pradesh
449
OEMI1853
Sakhawat Hussain Khan
sarod player
1877
Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
1955
07??
Lucknow
Safayet Hussain Khan, Asadullah Khan, Karamatullah Khan
916
OEMI1848
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
surbahaar exponent
?
?
915
P00105
OEMI0691
Ghulam Sabir Khan （Bade）
Saarangi maestro
?
1962
?
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
363
OEMI1344
Mohammad Amir Khan
sarod player
1873
?
1934
Kolkata
Murad Ali
678679
OEMI0632
Fida Hussain Khan(Sarod)
His distinguished career
1855
?
?
1927
?
Rampur
319320
OEMI0634
Fida Hussain Khan(Vocal)
member of the Baroda durbar for nearly 20 years
Baroda
1883
?
Rampur
1948
?
Badayum,Uttar Pradesh
his father Haidar Khan
320
OEMI2122
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
?
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
1974
?
Pithakowapara
1076
OEMI0172
Arun Bhattacharya
University teacher,scholar,and author
Kolkata
1925
02??
Faridpur district,now in Bangladesh
1985
0509
Kolkata
76
OEMI0062
Ajay Bardan
Flute player
Kolkata
1917
?
Comilla, now in Bangladesh
1991
0328
Mumbai
29
P00119
OEMI0143
Anil Bagchi
Music director of Bengali stage and films of yesteryears
1908
0117
Midnapore district, Bengal
1977
0715
Kolkata
6061
P02179
OEMI0753
Gulab Bai
Well-known singer of Jaipur
?
0.191
Mysore
Haidar Bakhsh
386
OEMI0924
Jatan Kathak
Mid-19th cent.saarangi player of Benares.
Benares
464
OEMI1061
Kiwal Kishan
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
?
?
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
542
OEMI1615
Patwardhan
Pakhaawaj player and teacher
1868
Miraj, Maharashtra
0.1916
Miraj
806
OEMI0627
Fazue Lal Pandit
Shehnai player of the early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
319
OEMI1547
Niyamatullah Khan
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
0.1816
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
0.1902
Delhi
765766
P00008
OEMI0181
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
1937
?
Alwar,Rajasthan
78
OEMI1667
Radha Krishna Bhanj
singer
1928
1105
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
842
OEMI0237
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
Reputed exponent
?
0.1912
Lucknow
97
OEMI0567
Dharmapuram Swaminathan
Singer (Oduvar) of traditional Tamil hymns
1923
?
Veerakkam,Tamil Nadu
284
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
OEMI0880
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
Mumbai
Mumbai
444445
OEMI0039
Adibhatla Narayana Dasa
Well-known Harikathaa performer and teacher
1864
?
?
1945
?
?
21
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0063
Ajoy Bhattacharya
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
?
?
?
?
2930
P00137
OEMI0393
Bishan Dass Sharma
Maker of musical instruments
Delhi
1929
Lahore
his father Rikhi Ram Sharma
195
OEMI1629
Poluri Govinda Kavi
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
?
?
813
OEMI1647
Priyambada Mohanty
Noted odissi danseuse
1939
Cuttack, Orissa
Banbihari Maity, Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar, Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Debaprasad Das
827828
OEMI0915
Janaki Ballabh Mohanty
Oriya literatteur whose works include collections of lyrical poetry and songs
1925
0614
Puridistrict,Orissa
461
OEMI1506
Nasiruddin Khan Dagar
Reputed dhrupad exponent
1889
0612
Indore
1936
0612
Indore
his father Allabande Khan and an uncle Zakiruddin Khan
733734
P00003
OEMI0026
Abhinava Gupta
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
?
?
?
?
11
OEMI0071
Alamsen
Eminent dhrupad exponent
0.183
?
Gwalior
0.19
?
Gwalior
34
OEMI0094
Altaf Mahmud
Singer and music director
?
1930
1220
Barisal, Bangladesh
1971
0830
Dhaka
4445
OEMI0101
Amarendra Nath Dutt
An early participant in the Indian sound recording industry and a theatre personality of Bengal.
1876
?
Kolkata
1916
0106
?
47
OEMI0123
Amrital Datta
A pioneer of the theatre variety of band-music in Bengal.
band-music
Bengal
1858
Kolkata
1912
Kolkata
52
OEMI0146
Anil Mihiripenna
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and teacher
1933
0810
Sri Lanka
61
P00123
OEMI0169
Arghya Sen
Exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
Rabindra Sangeet
1935
?
Faridpur,Bangladesh
Debabrata Biswas,Kamal Kumar Dasgupta,and Dilip Kamal Roy
73
OEMI0199
Athar Nafis
Pakistani poet
1932
?
?
1980
1121
?
85
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
P00130
OEMI0261
Durga Lal
Noted Kathak dancer
1948
?
Mahendragadh, Rajasthan
1990
0131
Delhi
his father Omkar Lai, and Sunder Prasad, and Devi Lal
304
OEMI0315
Bauli Bakhsh
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
?
?
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
130
OEMI0342
Bhanumathi, K.
Bharata Naatyam danseuse
1922
12??
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Papanasam Vadivelu Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma
157
OEMI0386
Bindu Bala
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
?
?
193
OEMI0638
Gaforan
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
323
OEMI0658
Gauharjan
Singer-dancer, a legend in her lifetime
18705
probably Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
1929
Mysore
her mother, Adeline Victoria Hemmings, Becha Mishra, Ali Bakhsh, Nazir Khan
343344
OEMI0677
Ghulam Ali
Well-known ghazal singer
Pakistan
1940
Kaleke village, Sialkot district
his father, Ghulam Ali Khan, his brothers Barqat Ali Khan and Mubarak Ali Khan
360
OEMI0766
Habib Paintar
Qavvaali singer
1915
?
1987
0222
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
396
OEMI0777
Haidarijan
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
?
?
399400
OEMI0891
Jadhurama Devangan
Performer of Paandavani
1926
Madhya Pradesh
448
OEMI0893
Jadunandan Das
Well-known keertan singer and teacher of Bengal
448
OEMI0895
Jadunath Singh
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
449
OEMI0907
Jagu Ojha
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
451
OEMI0912
Jaisukhlal Shah
scholar and teacher
1907
0413
Bharuch,Gujarat
1989
0118
Mumbai
457
OEMI0923
Jatadhar
Early 18th-cent. pakhaawaj veteran of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.
464
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
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
OEMI1125
Kudau Singh
renowned pakhaawaj exponent
1815
Banda
1907
Datia
Laalaa Bhavaani Prasaad
576
OEMI1170
Lal Kavi
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
?
?
591
OEMI1200
Layanuram Bhattacharya
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
1840
?
Vyasapara,Darrang district,Assam
1933
?
Vyasapara
606
OEMI1312
Mir Taqi Mir
Reputed Urdu poet
1722
?
Akbarabad,near Agra,Uttar Pradesh
1810
?
Lucknow
662
OEMI1426
Nabani Das
Singer of baaul
?
?
1964
?
?
711
OEMI1437
Nala Najan
Performer
1932
0628
Pennsylvania,USA
2002
0107
New York,USA
718
OEMI1518
Naval Sakhi
Performer of devotional dances
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
749750
OEMI1537
Niranjan Kar
Singer of Paalaa keertan
1910
Deshpur, Kendrapada, Orissa
Duryodhan Panda
762
OEMI1556
Norjahan
singer-actress
1928
Kassur village,near Lahore,Pakistan
2000
1223
Lahore
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
767
OEMI1563
Padma Nath
instrumentalist
Kolkata
?
?
780
OEMI1620
Phatik Chandra Kalita Ojha
Noted singer of Maanasaa Ojaapaali of Assam
Assam
1910
Phithakhowa village, Darrang district, Assam
1973
Phithakhowa
Thanuram Kalita Ojha
809
P00196
OEMI1635
Pradip Chaliha
Teacher and propagator of tradition Assamese dance and music
Assam
1919
Golaghat, Assam
824
OEMI1729
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
870
OEMI1823
Rukmani Devi
singer-actress
1923
0115
Ramboda, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
1978
1028
Colombo
904
OEMI1869
Sanjida Khatun
singer
1933
0404
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sohrab Hussain, Mastan Gama, Munshi Raisuddin, Husna Bano Khanam
937

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