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
OEMI0229
Bacha Mishra
tabla player
Well-known tabla exponent of the Benares gharaanaa
1876
Benares
1926
?
Benares
his father Jagannath Mishra
94
OEMI0251
Bahadur Singh
tabla player
Tabla player
1903
1019
Kishangarh town, Layalpur district, Punjab
1967
?
Mehtab Singh, Mirambaksh Bilvaliya, Baba Malang
102
OEMI0257
Bakhshu-miya
tabla player
Founder of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa which emerged between 1775 and 1800
0.175
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
his grand-father Siddhar Khan Dhaadi, Bade Kale Khan
106
OEMI0335
Bhairav sahai
tabla player
Noted tabla player of Benares
Benares
0.1839
?
0.191
?
Ram Sahai, Modu Khan
151
OEMI0473
Chhotibibi
tabla player
Mid-19th cent. female tabla player of the Lucknow durbar
Lucknow
?
?
Lucknow durbar
237
OEMI0647
Gama Maharaj
tabla player
Tabla player
1911
?
Benares
1974
0116
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
his father, Gama Maharaj （real name was Ramayan Prasad Mishra）
326
P06289
OEMI1024
Kanthe Maharaj
tabla player
tabla player
1888
Benares
1968
?
Baldev Sahari
517
OEMI1072
Khetramohan Kar
tabla player
Noted tabla player
1902
0830
Puri, Orissa
1986
Puri
554
P06009
OEMI1083
Kishan Maharaj
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
1923
0903
Benares
2008
0504
Benares
his father Hari Maharaj, paternal uncle Kanthe Maharaj
559
OEMI1490
Narayanrao Indorekar
tabla player
Tabla exponent
1907
0108
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
1989
0602
?
his father Gopalrao, Jahangir Khan, Gammi Khan
730
P06255
OEMI2084
Suresh Talwalkar
tabla player
Noted performer of tabla
Mumbai
1948
0720
?
Pandharinath Nageshkar
1036
P02274
OEMI2260
Zakir Hussain
tabla player
Well-known tabla exponent
1951
0309
Mumbai
his father, tabla maestro Allah Rakha Qureshi
11581159
OEMI0651
Ganesh Chaturvedi
tabla player
Mridang and tabla player of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
1864
?
1939
Mathura
331
OEMI1305
Maulaviram Misir
tabla player
Noted tabla player
0.188
?
Benares
1940
?
?
his father Biharilal
660
OEMI1188
Lalji Srivastava
tabla player
Tabla player
1924
1124
Prayag, near Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Yusuf Khan, Shyamlal, Jiyalal
600
OEMI1230
Mahapurush Mishra
tabla player
Tabla player
1934
Vaishali town,Bihar
1987
0215
Kolkata
Narayan Mishra
620
OEMI1446
Nanhaku Maharaj
tabla player
Tabla exponent of the Benares style
1920
?
1995
1014
Benares
Benares
722
OEMI1959
Sheikh Dawod
tabla player
Noted tabla player
1916
1216
Solapur, Maharashtra
1992
0321
Hyderabad
Mohammad Kasim and Tajamull Hussain, Alladiya Khan, and Mehboob Khan
971
OEMI2026
Srichand Misra
tabla player
Tabla player
0.19
?
Benares
0.197
?
?
his father Sarju Misra and uncle Bikku Maharaj
1008
OEMI1552
Nongthon Singh,N.
tabla player
performer of tabla and other drums
1935
0215
Imphal,Manipur
766
P00235
OEMI2094
Swapan Chaudhuri
tabla player
tabla exponent
1947
Kolkata
1044
OEMI2203
Vilayat Ali （Haji）
tabla player,composer
Tabla wizard, teacher, composer of gats, and founder of the 19th-cent.
18
?
?
Farukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Miyaa Bakhshu
1128
OEMI1069
Khande Dasappa
tabla player,mridangam player
Mridangam and tabla player of the durbar of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV
?
?
547
P00688
OEMI1534
Nikhil Ghosh
tabla player,musicologist
Renoened tabla maestro, acclaimed teacher, educationist, and musicologist
1918
1228
Barisal Bangladesh
1995
0303
Mumbai
legends Amir Hussain Khan, Ahmedjan Thirakwa
760761
OEMI1622
Phuljhuri Khan
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
1920
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
1982
Dhaka
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
809
P00686
OEMI0946
Jnan Prakash Ghosh
tabla, harmonium player, composer
tabla and harmonium exponent,composer,and teacher
1911
Kolkata
1997
0218
Kolkata
481
P06258
OEMI1522
Nayan Jyoti Ghosh
tabla, sitar player
Well-known tabla and sitar player, and teacher.
1956
0428
Mumbai
753754
OEMI1309
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅱ
tavil player
Tavil player
1894
0903
Needamangalam,Tamil Nadu
1949
0213
?
Singaram Pillai and Govinda Pillai
662
OEMI2170
Vasantrao Kulkarni
teacher
teacher
1917
Maharashtra
1997
0303
Mumbai
Gwaalior and Agra
Anant Manohar Joshi, Jagannath-bua Purohit, Khadim Hussain Khan
1118
OEMI0349
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
?
?
Ganpatrao Pandit
163
OEMI1529
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
?
?
756
OEMI1495
Nariswar Sarma Barua
teacher
Well-known teacher
1911
0112
Dipila,Darrang district,Assam
1986
1011
Dipila
his father Tapeswar Sarma and Chandrakantadeva Sarma
731
OEMI1707
Rajaram, S.
teacher, composer
Teacher and composer
1925
Mysore, Karnataka
864
OEMI2208
Vincent Somapala
teacher, composer, author
Teacher, composer, and author
1906
0517
Gorakana, Panadura, Sri Lanka
1989
0607
J. Sadiris Silva and H.W.Rupasinha
1131
OEMI0962
Joshi, D.K.
teacher, scholar
Teacher and scholar
1860
Jamkhandi, Karnataka
1942
0717
?
488489
OEMI1112
Krishnarao Date
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
?
?
Gwaalior
572
OEMI1268
Manik-bua Thakurdas
teacher,vocalist, author
Veteran teacher,vocalist,and author
1910
1110
Solapur,Maharashtra
2002
1001
Mumbai
Yashwant-bua and Master Krishnarao
640
P01173
OEMI0293
Bande Ali Khan
udra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
0.183
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1896
?
Pune,Maharashtra
Seni
116117
OEMI0340
Bhaktabatsala Patra
udra veena player
Performer of rudra veena and mardal
1930
0919
Ganjam, Orissa
Byachanna Narasingham
155
OEMI0211
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Lucknow
Kalpi
?
90
OEMI1217
Madhavadeva
Vaishnava saint-musician
Vaishnava saint-musician of Assam
Assam
1490
?
Letekuphukuri in Narayanpur region,along the north bank of River Brahmaputra
1597
?
Bhela Kakatkuta in the present Cooch-Behar region
613
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI0137
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
Mysore
58
P00026
OEMI0595
Doreswamt Iyengar, V.
veena player
Well-known veena player of Mysore
Mysore
1920
Mysore
his father, Venkatesa Iyengar
300
OEMI1486
Narayanaswamy, K.S.
veena player
Veteran veena player of the Thavancore style
1914
0927
Koduvayur, near Palakkad, Kerala
1999
1209
?
Thavancore style
729
P00019
OEMI0497
Chitta Babu
veena player
Well-known veena player
1936
1013
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
243
OEMI1859
Sambayya
veena player
veena performer
?
?
922
OEMI1531
Nilamma Kadambai
veena player
Veena player
1908
?
1998
1214
Mysore
her father Venkatesachar and later from Mysore Venkatagiriappa
757
OEMI0564
Dhanammal(Vina)
veena player
Veena celebrity
1867
?
Chennai
1938
1015
Chennai
281
OEMI1047
Kesava Murthy,R.S.
veena player
veena player
1904
0304
Rudrapatna village,Hassan district,Karnataka
1982
1217
Basavangudi,Karnataka
539
OEMI2193
Venkatesa Iyengar
veena player
Veena player
1888
?
1973
Mysore
Chikka Subba Rao and Venkatagiriyappa
1123
OEMI1868
Sangameswara Sastri
veena player
veena maestro
1879
Peethapuram, Andhra
1931
?
926
OEMI1119
Krishnayya(Tsallagali)
veena player
veena player
1822
?
1866
Thanjavur
573
OEMI2188
Venkatagiriyappa
veena player
Veena maestro of the Mysore durbar
Mysore
1887
0426
Heggadedevana Kote village, near Mysore
1951
?
his maternal grandmother Dodda Subbarao, maternal uncle Chikka Subbarao
1122
OEMI2191
Venkatasubbayya
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Krishnaraja Wodeyar （III r.1799-1868 ）of Mysore
Mysore
1792
?
1838
Mysore
1123
P00043
OEMI0994
Kalpakam Swaminathan
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
Chennai
1922
0815
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
506
OEMI1373
Muddu Venkatamakhi
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
?
?
?
?
690
OEMI1900
Savyasachi Iyengar
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar III （r. 1799-1868）
Mysore
?
?
957
OEMI0479
Chikkaramappa （Begada）
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of KrishnarajaWodeyar III
Mysore
?
?
Venkatasubbayya
239
OEMI1930
Shamanna
veena player,
Veena vidwaan - popular as Veena Shamanna - of the durbar of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar （r.1799-1868）
?
?
964
OEMI0425
Chaluvaraya Swamy, M.
veena player, author
Veena player, and author
1908
Mysore
1988
?
Chikka Subba Rao, M. Venkatesa Iyengar
213
P00023
OEMI1471
Narayana Iyengar, A.
veena player, teacher
Veena exponent and teacher
1905
Devakottai, Tamil Nadu
1987
?
Sakharama Rao
727
OEMI1626
Pitambardas
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
?
?
812
OEMI2179
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Thanjavur
?
?
1120
OEMI0476
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
?
?
238
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
P00027
OEMI0615
Emani Sankara Sastri
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer in Karnatik style
1922
0923
Draksharamam,Andhra Pradesh
1987
1223
?
311
OEMI1567
Padmanabhayya
veena player,composer
Veena performer and composer
1847
?
1900
Mysore city
Venkatesa Saastri and Shamanna
780
OEMI2003
Sivaramayya
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer of the Mysore durbar
1886
Mysore
1946
?
his father Veena Padmanabhayya, Veena Seshanna
988
OEMI2130
Tiruvottiyur(Kuppayyar)
veena player,vocalist,composer
Veena player,vocalist,and composer
1798
?
?
1904
?
Chennai
Tyaagaraaja
1085
OEMI0616
Irode Viswanatha lyer
violinis
Veteran violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik
1905
?
?
1988
0914
New Delhi
311
OEMI2113
Tatachar,T.S.
violinis
Veteran violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik
1917
05??
Pavgada,Tumkur district,Karnataka
2001
1208
Bangalore
his father T.Srinivasachar,uncle T.Seshachar,Krishnamachar(veena),and Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma
1068
OEMI1696
Raja Hussain Khan
violinist
violinist
1938
Bramhabaria
1989
0306
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Nayeb Ali Khan,Bahadur Khan,Khadim Hussain Khan,Akbar Khan
861
OEMI1140
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
violinist
violinist
1935
0302
Kunnakudi,Tamil Nadu
2008
0908
Chennai
Ramaswamy Sastri
580
OEMI0106
Ambayiram
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0639
Gagan Chandra Chatterji
violinist
Noted violinist
1890
?
Allahabad
1949
1226
?
323
OEMI0744
Govindaswami Pillai
violinist
Well-known violinist
1878
Achyutamangalam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1931
03??
?
Panchapakesa Iyer, Ettayapuram Ramachandra Bhagvatar
382
OEMI0804
Hari Nagabhoshanam
violinist
Well-known violinist
1884
1224
Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh
1959
0907
?
411
OEMI1604
Parur Sundaram Iyer
violinist
violinist with pioneering achievements
1891
Kerala
1974
Chennai
799800
OEMI1233
Mahendra Bhatt
violinist
violinist
1989
01??
Rajasthan
Manmohan Bhatt
621
P00098
OEMI1825
Rukmini, T.
violinist
violinist
1936
1127
Shimoga, Karnataka
R.R.Keshava Murthy
904905
P00051
OEMI1131
Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai
violinist
Karnatik violinist
Karnatik
1898
0805
Kumbakonam,Tamil Nadu
1970
Tamil Nadu
Tirukodikaval Ramaswamy Iyer,Namakkal Narasimha Iyengar
578
OEMI1292
Masilamani Mudaliyar
violinist
Reputed Chennnai-based violinist of the late 19th cent.
Chennnai
?
?
?
?
655
OEMI1592
Papa Venkataramayya
violinist
Veteran violinist
1901
0912
?
1972
0317
?
Karur Srikantayya and Govindaswamy Pillai
795
OEMI0721
Gopala Krishna Iyer （Marungapuri）
violinist
Well-known violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik style
1883
0424
Madurai
1968
1215
?
Karur Venkataramayya
374
OEMI1971
Shridhar Parsekar
violinist
Noted violinist
1920
Parse, Goa
1964
0911
?
Gajananrao Joshi
974
OEMI2190
Venkataramaiah, K.S. （'Papa'）
violinist
Violinist
1901
0912
?
1972
0317
?
his father Karur Srikantayya and Govindaswami Pillai
1123
P00057
OEMI0141
Anantharaman, M.S.
violinist
Violinist
1924
Chennai
Parur A. Sundaram Iyer
5859
P01441
OEMI0155
Annavarupa Ramaswamy
violinist
Violinist of the Karnatik style
1926
Somavarappadu, Andhra Pradesh
Maganti Jagannatha Chowdary, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
65
P00887
OEMI1661
Puttur Devdas Joshi
violinist
violinist
1926
09??
?
1986
1030
?
Ganesh,T.Chowdiah,P.Sambamoorthy
834
P04603
OEMI0605
Dwaram Bhava Narayana Rao
violinist
Well-known violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik style
1924
Visakhapatnam
1999
0724
?
his father, Dwaram Venkaraswamy Naidu
306
P00142
OEMI0530
Datar,D.K.
violinist
Noted violinist
1932
1014
based in Mumbai
259
OEMI1414
Muthusamy, R.
violinist
Violinist and music director of Sinhalese films
1928
0105
Nagarcoil, Tamil Nadu
1988
0627
Sri Lanka
his father, Ramayya Bhagavatar
705
OEMI1704
Rajam, N.
violinist
violinist
1938
Chennai
Narayana Iyer, Musiri Subramanya Iyer
863
P00203
OEMI2042
Subramaniam,L
violinist
Well-known violinist and composer
?
?
1012
P00224
OEMI1993
Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury
violinist
Noted violinist and teacher
1937
Shillong, Meghalaya
V.G. Jog
982
OEMI1484
Narayanaswami Pillai （Sirkazhi）
violinist
Well-known violinist 19th cent.
?
?
729
OEMI1896
Satyanarayana Murthy （Ariparala）
violinist
Violinist, teacher, and composer of Karnatik music
1904
?
1993
0512
?
Varanasi Brahmayya Sastri
953
OEMI2279
Narayanaswami Iyer （Pudukottai）
violinist
Violinist of early 20th cent.
?
?
728