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
OEMI2114
Ted Shawn
American dancer, a pioneer among Westerners to learn Indian dance idioms
1891
1021
Kansas City,USA
1972
0109
USA
Martha Graham,Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidmen.
1070
OEMI2139
Tulsidas
Saint-poet, celebrated author of Raama Charita Maanas, the story of Sri Raama, in Avadhi, a dialect of the Hindi-speaking region of India
0.1532
?
1623
?
Naraharidaas
10951096
OEMI2255
Zahur Khan （Khayal）
He belonged to Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
17805
?
?
1157
OEMI0876
Indira Devi Chowdhurani
Music educator and writer from poet Rabindranath Tagore's family
1873
1229
?
1960
0812
?
443
OEMI0974
Kader Bakhsh （Pakhawaj）
Scion of an early （18th cent.） pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Laalaa Bhavaanidaas
494
OEMI1042
Kedamangalam Sadanandan
performer of Kathaa prasangam
1924
Paravur,Ernakulam district,Kerala
2008
0413
Paravur
533
OEMI0180
Asad Ali Khan(Rampur)
Sursinger maestro
0.1858
?
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1918
?
Rampur
78
OEMI0250
Bahadur Shah 'Zafar'
Mughal Emperor, an ardent lover of the arts, and a poet known for is ghazals
1775
1024
Delhi
1862
Rangoon, Burma
102
OEMI0571
Dhaturam Sarma Oja
Noted singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Assam
0.1883
?
Athiyabari,Darrang district,Assam
1970
?
Athiyabari,Assam
Chandrakantadeva Sarma, Bhabiram Sarma, and Manoranjan Sastri.
285
OEMI1016
Kandappa Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
1899
?
1941
02??
Chennai
Kannuswami Pillai, Nellaiyappa
515
OEMI1226
Mahadeva Nattuvanar
Dance teacher(19th cent.)of Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
619
P00186
OEMI1360
Mohan Chandra Barman
artiste of Bhaaonaa
1900
Kaihatti village,Assam
682
OEMI1413
Muthurama Kavirayar
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
?
?
704705
OEMI1633
Prebhashankar Ramani
Noted actor-singer of Gujaratii, Hindi, and Urdu plays
1890
1122
Gujarat
1971
0121
?
821
P00012
OEMI0176
Arunagiri Nathar
Author of the celebrated 15th-cent
Vijayanagar kingdom
?
?
?
?
76
OEMI0360
Bhim Kant Deka
Singer and dancer
1913
?
Devananda village,Darrang district,Assam
1971
?
?
174
OEMI1778
Ramsahai Pande
Contemporary performer of folk dances
Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh
?
884
OEMI2138
Tulaja the Second
Maratha king of Thanjavur （r.1763-87）
?
?
1095
OEMI0604
Durlabh Chandra Bhattacharya
Well-known pakhaawaj player
1872
?
1938
Kolkata
Murari Mohan Gupta
306
OEMI1106
Krishnan Nair （Kalamandalam）
Well-known Kathakali performer and guru
Tripunithura
1914
Cheruthazham, Kannur distict, Kerala
1990
0816
Tripunithura, near Kochi, Kerala
Chandu Panikker
571
OEMI1410
Muthayya Pillai （Pazhani）
Mridangam player
?
1950
?
704
OEMI1549
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
Qavvaali singer
?
?
766
OEMI1873
Sankaran Kutty Panikkar (Kavungal)
Kathakali artiste
1909
0306
Thrissur district, Kerala
Konthumi Panikkar (Kalluvazhi), Appuni Poduval (Killikurissimangalam), Ravunni Menon (Pattikkamthodi)
940
OEMI0153
Anna-saheb Kirloskar
Celebrity known for Marathi musical plays
1843
0303
?
1885
1102
Gurlhosur （his hometown）, Karnataka
65
OEMI0586
Dimbh Muni Krishnadas
Poet
?
?
?
?
296
OEMI0787
Hamid Ali Khan （Nawab）
Ruler of Rampur state in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
401
OEMI0960
Joseph Hayim Awaskar
Author of Marathi hymns and plays on Jewish devotional themes
18751900
Awas, near Mumbai
?
488
P02635
OEMI0983
Kalanidhi Narayanan
Bharata Naatyam teacher and danseuse
1927
Tamil Nadu
Mylapore Gowri Amma, Kanchipuram Kannappa Pillai, Chinnayya Naidu
500
OEMI1370
Mrinalini Sarabhai
dancer,choreographer
1928
0507
Chennai
689
P00229
OEMI2048
Sudharani Raghupathy
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Chennai
1944
0321
Pollachi,Tamil Nadu
V.S.Kaushik,U.S.Krishna Rao,Chandrabhaga Devi,and Kittappa Pillai
1021
OEMI2063
Sumar Suleman Jumani
Performer of folk shehnai and sundri
1919
Mundra, Kutch, Gujarat
1999
04??
Mundra
Suleman Juma Jumani
1029
OEMI0078
Ali Hussain Khan (Rudra Vina)
Veteran of the Sahaswan gharaanaa
Mumbai
185055
?
Lucknow
0.193
?
?
Sahaswan
38
OEMI0675
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Pakhawaj）
For some time from 1828 he was attached to Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Sabha as a pakhaawaj player
?
?
360
OEMI2158
Vaidyanatha Iyer (Thanjavur)
mridangam player
1895
Vaiyacheri, near Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
1947
0413
?
Doss Swamigal, Kannuswami Nattuvanar, K.Ponnayya Pillai, Subbayya Bhagavatar
1108
OEMI0036
Achyutappa Nayak
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
17
OEMI0213
Azhaganambi Pillai
Mridangam performer of Kumbhakonam, Tamil Nabu
1863
Srirangam
0.1926
His uncles, Swaminatha Pillai and Venka Pillai
90
OEMI0501
Chokkanatha Naik
Ruler （r.1701-31） of Madurai, Tamil Nadu
?
?
244
P02258
OEMI0685
Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
Singer of Sufiaanaa Kalaam of Kashmir
1940
Srinagar, Kashmir
his father Ramzan Joo, his uncle Mohammad Siddiq
362
OEMI0708
Gokulchand Pujari
Mridang player and singer
1872
Sasani, Uttar Pradesh
0.1947
Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
Kudau Singh
371
OEMI0977
Kadigai Namasivaya Pulavar
Author of the Tamil dance-drama
?
?
494
OEMI1205
Lionel Edirisingha
Eminent music educator of Sri Lanka
1917
0113
Galle,Sri Lanka
1988
0523
?
607
OEMI1418
Muthuswami Tiwar
Mridangam player
Tirupadi Puliyar,near Cuddalore,Tamil Nadu
1931
Mysore
Subbaraya Tewar
706
OEMI1683
Raghunatha Nayak
Maharaja of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1600-34
?
?
857
OEMI1727
Ram Sarop Sharma
Singer-actor of Raas-leelaa and Swang, both these being folk theatres of Uttar Pradesh
?
?
870
OEMI1983
Siddharam Jadhav
Reputed player of sundri, a wind instrument of the blowin type
1927
0815
Mangalwedha, Solapur district, Maharashtra
his elder brother Baburao
976
OEMI2153
Uttam Singh (Bhai)
Sabad keertan performer and teacher of Amritsar, Punjab.
?
?
Bhai Gurmukh Singh, Bhai Harsa Singh
1104
P00171
OEMI1105
Krishnan Kutty Nair （Kottakkal）
Kathakali performer
1928
Palakkad, Kerala
P.S. Varrier Natyasangham
571
P00237
OEMI1747
Ramankutty Nair （Kalamandalam）
Kathakali performer and guru
1925
Palakkad district, Kerala
Ravunni Menon
874
OEMI0188
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
Singer-actress of Marathi plays
1938
0531
Mumbai
82
OEMI0445
Charles Dias Amaratunga
Sri Lankan protagonist of the arts
1876
?
1944
?
223
OEMI0506
Chunnilal Hathraswale
Noted nautanki artiste of Dariyapur, near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
dance by Kalkadin and Bindadin, music by Natharam of Hathras
245
OEMI0992
Kalka Prasad Maharaj
Legendary Kathak dancer
1850
Lucknow
190010
Lucknow
his uncle Thakur Prasad
505
OEMI1022
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam guru of the 19th cent
?
?
516
OEMI1302
Maula Bakhsh(Sarangi)
father of Allam Khan and Mohammad Khan
Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
659
OEMI1406
Mussammat Lajjat Bakhsh
Thumrii and ghazal singer of Farukhabad
thumrii
?
?
703
OEMI1416
Muthuswami Nattuvanar
Dance guru of Chennai
?
?
706
OEMI1507
Nataraja Rama Krishna
Noted performer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam and Kuuchipuudi
1933
?
Bali Island, Indonesia
Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur),Rajamma(Nayudupeta), Lakshmi Narayana Sastri(Vedantam).and Satyabhama(Pendyala)
739
OEMI1933
Shambhu Prasad Tiwari
Noted pakhaawaj player
1885
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his eminent father Ayodhya Prasad
964
OEMI0683
Ghulam Mohammad （Surbahar）
Reputed exponent of surbahaar
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
0.1856
Balarampur, Uttar Pradesh
Umrao Khan Seni, Ghulam Mohammad
362
OEMI1004
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
Well-known promoter of the arts
1903
?
?
1988
1029
?
508
OEMI2244
Yadavendra Nandan Mahaparta
Surbahaar player
Bengal
1864
?
?
1930
?
?
Bamasharan Bhattacharya, Jadu Bhatta, and some others.
1148
OEMI1566
Padmanabhan Nair(Kalamandalam)
Kathakali artiste,teacher
Kathakali
1925
Kuruvattur,Palakkad district,Kerala
Ravunni Menon(Pattikkamthodi)
780
OEMI0046
Aga Hashra Kashmiri
Urdu and Hindi playwright
1879
04??
Benares,Uttar Pradesh
1945
0428
Lahore[now in Pakistan]
23
OEMI0332
Bhagwatibhai Bhatt
Singer and teacher of haveli songs of the Pushti Maargi Vaishnava sect
?
1977
1217
?
149
OEMI0546
Dehiram Sarma Oja
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
0.1839
?
Vyasapara,Darrang district,Assam
0.1919
?
Vyasapara
264
OEMI0576
Dhirendranath Das
Noted singer-actor and music director of the Bengal stage
1904
0804
Kolkata
1961
1125
?
287
P02170
OEMI0655
Gangadhar Pradhan
Odissi teacher and dancer
1948
Panikula village, Orissa
Mahadev Rout, Minati Mishra, D.N. Patnaik, Kelucharan Mohapatra
332
P02870
OEMI1012
Kanaka Srinivasan
Dancer and choreographer of Bharata Naatyam
1947
?
Chennnai
Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai
513514
OEMI1135
Kundanlal Gangani
Kathak dancer
1926
Sujangarh,Rajasthan
1984
0716
Jaipur,Rajasthan
579
OEMI1234
Mahendra Deb Burman
poet,singer,left oriented journalist
1917
?
1995
?
621
OEMI1654
Purushottam Dongre
Author of Marathi plays
1853
?
1908
?
831
OEMI1657
Purushottama Mishra
Scholar in the durbar of Gajapati Jagannaatha Naaraayanadeva, king of Paralkhemundi, southern Orissa
Orissa
?
?
832
OEMI2073
Sunderlal Gangani
Kathak dancer and teacher
?
Shivnarayan and Gauri Shankar
1031
OEMI2202
Vijay Raghava Rao
Well-known flute exponent and music director
Mumbai
1925
1103
Chennai
Chokkalingam Pillai （music and dance）
1127
OEMI0060
Ahoran Simson Ashtamkar
Poet and autor of Keertan-aakhyaans on Jewish devotional themas, in Marathi
1856
?
Mumbai
1894
?
Mumbai
29
OEMI0165
Appu Marar （Pallavor）
Performer of chendaa, edakka, and taayambakaa
1928
Thiruvanjikkulam, Kochi region, Kerala
his father Patturaikkal Sankara Marar, Adantha Kontha Swamy
71
P00139
OEMI0454
Chengannur Raman Pillai
Well-known Kathakali actor
1884
?
Chengannur, Kerala
1980
1128
?
Kesava Panikkar, Kunju Krishna Panikkar
229
OEMI0903
Jagannatha Bhutgoswami
Mayuuri veena player of Thanjavur,Tamli Nadu
450
OEMI1027
Karamatullah Khan(Sarod)
sarod player
1848
Bulandshahr,Uttar Pradesh
1933
Lucknow
Niyamatullah Khan
518
OEMI1138
Kunju Nair (Vazhenkada)
Kathakali performer and guru
1925
0608
Vazhenkada village,Palakkad,Kerala
Koppan Nair(Kariyattil),Govinda Pisharodi(Kalluvazhi),Ravunni Menon(Pattikamthodi)
580
OEMI1182
Lalit Chandranath Ojha
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali and Deodhani dancer of Assam
1923
0211
Sipajhar, Darrang district, Assam
his father and Thanuram Kalita Ojha
594
OEMI1874
Sankaran Nambotirippad
Kathakali artiste and guru
Ambalapuzha town, Alapuzha district, Kerala
1955
?
940
OEMI1956
Shital Chandra Mukherji
Esraaj player
1880
0507
Kirtibasa [now in Bangladesh]
1945
0914
Kolkata
Abdullah Khan
969
OEMI1929
Sham Singh Adanshahi Mahant
Singer of sabad keertan in the Golden Temple of Amritsar for many decades
0.1803
?
?
964
OEMI0201
Atmaram Pathare
Poet and author of Maharathi musical plays.
1868
1010
Thane district,Maharashtra
1931
0905
?
86
OEMI0512
Dadasaheb Asarkar
Flute player and flute manufacturer
1895
1215
Amravati, North Maharashtra
1965
0515
?
249
P00025
OEMI0592
Domada Chittiabbayi
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award for naagaswaram in 1995
1933
0801
Andhra
Pasupuleti Venkata Rao, Daliparti Pitchahari
300
OEMI0603
Durgeswar Nath Oja
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
1927
0307
Pakadali, Darrang district, Assam
1994
0305
Pakadali, Assam
his family, and Cheniram Nath, Ghotaram, and Haliram Sarma
305306
OEMI0702
Girish Chandra Ghosh
Celebrated Bengali playwright and early contributor to drama music in Bengal
1842
02??
Kolkata
1912
?
367
P00045
OEMI1028
Karamatullah Khan(Tabla)
Distinguished exponent of the Farukhaabaad gharaanaa,founded by his predecessor Haji Vilayat Ali.
1917
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
1977
1202
Kolkata
Masidullah Khan
519
P00177
OEMI1163
Lakshmi Viswanathan
Bharata Naatyam dancer
1944
Chennai
Kanchipuram Ellappa Pillai
590
OEMI1213
Madavor Vasudevan Nair
Kathakali artiste and teacher
1929
?
Kerala
Madavoor Parameswaran Pillai,Kurichi Panicker,and Chengannur Raman Pillai
611
P02813
OEMI1253
Mallika Sarabhai
Noted danseuse
1953
?
Ahmedabad,Gujarat
631
OEMI1304
Maula Bakhsh(Vocal)
Reputed dhrupad singer
1823
?
?
1896
?
Baroda
659660
OEMI1440
Nana-saheb Panse
Eminent pakhaawaj player
1800
near Wai, Satara district, Maharashtra
1885
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Manyaba Kuditkar, Chande-bua, Martand-bua
719720
OEMI1467
Narayan Paithankar
Author of Marathi musical plays
1871
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
1938
?
726
P00195
OEMI1627
Pithukuli Murugadas
Singer of south Indian bhajans
1920
Coimbatore, Taml Nadu
Brahmananda Paradesi
812
P00199
OEMI1680
Raghunath Prasanna
shehnai player
1913
Benares
Gauri Shankar,Dauji Mishra
856
P00217
OEMI1870
Sanjukta Panigrahi
Odissi danseuse
1944
0824
Behampur, Orissa
1997
0624
Orissa
Deba Prasad Das, Kelucharan Mahapatra
937
OEMI1890
Sarjan Singh (Bhai)
singer
?
1965
06??
?
950

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