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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Dargahi Mishra
?
OEMI0524
257
Benares
1849
1926
?
19-20
Benares
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher of Benares
Dhannabai
?
OEMI0566
283
?
?
?
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist,a pupil of the khayaal pioneer Sadaarang
Pannaabaai
khayaal
Eknath Pandit
?
OEMI0612
310311
1866
1950
0430
19-20
Gwalior
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
P00028
Firoz Dastur
0930
OEMI0635
320
1919
2008
0509
20-21
Mumbai
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Gajanan-bua Pendharkar
1029
OEMI0643
325
Satara
1905
1996
0115
20
Satara
Pune
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Satara, an erstwhile principality in Maharashtra
V.D. Paluskar
P00031
Gangubai Hangal
?
OEMI0657
332
1913
2009
0719
20-21
Dharwar, Karnataka
Dharwar
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of yesteryears
her mother, Ambabai
P00042
Ginde, K.G.
1226
OEMI0693
365
1925
1994
0713
20
Belhongale, Belgaum district, Karnataka
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher
S.N. Ratanjankar
Giribala Dasi
OEMI0694
365
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
P00032
Girija Devi
0508
OEMI0695
365366
Kolkata
1929
20
Benares
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Gokhibai
OEMI0706
370371
0.182
187580
19
Punjab
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and dancer, sometimes mentioned as Gorkhibai
Bairam Khan
Gopalasambayya
OEMI0726
375
?
?
vocalist
Noted veena player and vocalist
Govindprasad Gopaldas
OEMI0745
382
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th-cent,
Gwaria Baba
OEMI0765
395
1843
1938
19-20
Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh
near Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist and ascetic
his father and Dandi Swaami
Haidar Khan Seni
OEMI0783
400
0.177
0.184
18
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
?
vocalist
A master of dhrupad and dhamaar
his father Jeevan Khan,
dhrupad,dhamaar
Hakani Bakhsh
OEMI0784
400
Jodhpu
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of the late 19th cent.
Hamirji
OEMI0791
404
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
Hariram Vyas
OEMI0817
415416
1492
0.1598
15-16
Orchha, Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the river Betwa
?
vocalist
Noted story-teller and vocalist
Imam Badi
OEMI0858
439
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the 1850s from Benares
Shadi Khan
Jaisukhbai
OEMI0911
456
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
Jatto
OEMI0925
465
vocalist
Vocalist
Jon Higgins
0919
OEMI0956
487488
American
1939
1984
1207
20
Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Muddletown, USA
vocalist
Well-known American voaclist of south Indian music and researcher
P00041
Jyotsna Bhole
0511
OEMI0969
491
Mumbai
1914
2001
0804
20-21
Bandod, Goa
Mumbai
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and singer-actress of the Marathi stage of the 1930s and 1940s
Kagalkar, V.A.
0604
OEMI0978
497
1902
20
Karnataka
vocalist
Vocalist
Balkrishna-bua Ichalkaranjikar, Ramkrishna-bua Vaze, Vilayat Hussain Khan, Sawai Gandharva
Kale Khan (Saras-piya)
OEMI0988
503
0.186
19
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the durbar of Lunvada, in North Gujarat
family
Kempegauda
OEMI1045
538
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
Khajurbai
OEMI1067
543
?
?
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
Khwaja Bakhsh
OEMI1080
556
0.1836
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
Kolar Rajamma
OEMI1091
563
1910
1990
0404
20
?
Chennai
vocalist
Karnatik vocalist
Chittor Subramania Pillai
Lahiri, S.N.
OEMI1151
586
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Mangubai
?
OEMI1262
639
0.185
0.194
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer of the Gwalior durbar
Haddu and Hassu Khan
dhrupad
P00062
Manik Varma
05??
OEMI1267
640
1926
1996
1110
20
Pune,Maharashtra
Mumbai
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Benares and Punjabi style
Jagannath-bua Purohit,Bholanath Bhatt,and Azmat Hussain Khan
Mannabai
?
OEMI1277
643
Lucknow or Rampur
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Mathor Shankara Murthy
?
OEMI1298
657
1922
1993
0705
20
Muthalapura,Karnataka
Bangalore
vocalist
Vocalist of the Karnatik style
Rama Jois,Simizhi Sundaram Iyer,R.R.Keshavamurthy,Belakavadi Varadaraja Iyengar,and Sattur Krishna Iyengar
Mohammad Hussain
OEMI1348
679
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
P00096
Mukta,T.
?
OEMI1379
692
1914
20
Chennai
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Nayana Pillai
Naina Devi
?
OEMI1435
717
1920
1993
1101
20
Bengal
New Delhi
vocalist
Vocalist
Girija Shankar Chakravarti,Mushtaq Hussain Khan, and Rasoolanbai
Nanhibai
OEMI1452
723
Jodhpur
?
?
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent. singer in the Jodhpur durbar
Nayak Bakhshu
?
OEMI1521
751752
0.146
0.1535
?
15
?
?
vocalist
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
Raja Maansingh Toomar
dhrupad
Nirmala Devi
OEMI1539
762
Mumbai
1996
0615
20
Benares
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
Benares
Nomita Ghose
1211
OEMI1551
766
1959
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
vocalist
vocalist
Jashoda Ghose,P.C.Gomes,Barin Mazumdar
Paluskar,D.V.
0518
OEMI1579
785786
1921
1955
1025
20
Kurundwad,Maharashtra
Mumbai
vocalist
vocalist
Vishnu Digambar and Chintamanrao Paluskar.
Pattammal, D.K.
0319
OEMI1613
806
Chennai
1919
2005
0716
20-21
Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ambi Dikshitar, P.L. Venkatarama Iyer
P00076
Prabha Atre
0913
OEMI1631
821
Mumbai
1932
20
Pune, Maharashtra
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of the Kiraanaa tradition
Kiraanaa
Putli
OEMI1659
834
20
?
?
vocalist
vovalist
Putturaj Gawai
OEMI1662
834
1914
20
Dharwar district,Karnataka
vocalist
vocalist
Panchakshari Gawai
Pyara-saheb
OEMI1665
835
1850
1923
19-20
Lucknow
?
vocalist
vocalist
Raghuram Joshi
OEMI1684
857
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Rahimanbai
OEMI1689
857858
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Babu Ram Sahai
Rajeshwari Devi
OEMI1712
865
Benares
0.188
1940
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Benares
Sai Ilyas
OEMI1846
914
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sayyed Mir Ali
OEMI1905
959
Lucknow
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent. vocalist of Lucknow
Serfubai
OEMI1909
961
Lucknow
19
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of 19th-cent. Lucknow
khayaal
Shamim
OEMI1935
964965
Lucknow
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Shiv Kumar Bai
OEMI1964
972
Benares
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, lived in early 20th-cent. Benares
Sohrab Hossain
OEMI2009
991
1925
20
Nadia district, West Bengal
vocalist
Vocalist
Abbasuddin Ahmed (Bengali folk songs)
P00095
Suchitra Mitra
?
OEMI2044
1013
1924
20
Kolkata
vocalist
vocalist
Devi Choudhurani,Pankaj Mullick,Shantidev Ghosh
Tiwadi Tejkaran
OEMI2132
1085
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh (r.1803-43), from 1830 till 1851.
Mehbobjan
OEMI2276
666
Pune, Maharashtra
0.1898
1970
?
Solapur, Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Tupelkhan Sitariya
Krishna Iyengar (Madurai)
OEMI1098
569
Mumbai
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for pallavi rendition
Balwantrao Pohre
?
OEMI0289
116
?
?
?
vocalist
Reputed Khayaal singer of the last quarter of the 19th cent
Inayat Hussain Khan
khayaal
Imamuddin Dagar
OEMI0862
439
?
?
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher of the 1920s and 1930s
his father and other elders in the family, elder brother Nasiruddin
dhrupad
Kalyana Bharati
?
OEMI0996
506
Tamil Nadu
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Narayan Behera
1214
OEMI1462
726
1917
20
Ganjam, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist
Surya Narayan Shastri, Venkataswami Naidu
Nor Khan(Ratlam)
OEMI1554
766767
1870
19
Delhi
Ratlam,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
vocalist
Shiv Sevak Mishra
OEMI1965
972
1884
1933
19-20
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Shyamamani Devi
OEMI1979
975
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
Shyamdas Mishra
0713
OEMI1980
975
1948
20
Mungher district, Bihar
vocalist
Vocalist
Omkarnath Thakur and Balwantrai Bhatt
Sitaram Mundale
OEMI1996
986
0.1891
1947
1205
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
Sunanda Patnaik
1107
OEMI2064
10291030
1934
20
Cuttack, Orissa
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Vinayakrao Patwardhan, Omkarnath Thakur
Krishna Iyer (Kundrakkudi)
OEMI1099
569
1816
1889
19
Kundrakkudi, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
It is not known
Krishnaswamy lyengar,N.S.
0131
OEMI1118
573
1914
1998
0603
20
Kanchipuram,Tamil Nadu
Bangalore
vocalist
Karnatik vocalist
Narsimhachariar,Tiger Varadachariar,Naina Pillai
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
OEMI1676
855
1826
19
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
vocalist
vocalist
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
Shori-miya (Ghulam Nabi)
OEMI1968
973
0.174
1803
18-19
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer
his father Ghulaam Rasool, Nawab Suja-ud-daulaa
Bhausaheb Guruji
?
OEMI0357
169
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior tradition
Gwalior
Nanubhaiya Telang
Gajananrao Watve
?
OEMI0645
325326
1919
2009
0402
20-21
Miraj, Maharashtra
?
vocalist
Vocalist, known for Marathi bhaavgeet
Govindrao Desai
P00152
Hanumandas Singh
OEMI0795
408409
0.184
1939
19-20
Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh
Gaya
vocalist
Khayaal singer and founder of the Gaya tradition of esraaj, a string instrument
khayaal
Mira Khirwadkar
0706
OEMI1313
662
1936
20
Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Narasayya (Padala)
OEMI1459
725
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist (19th cent.), noted for singing devotional songs with great fervour
Nor Khan(Jodhpur)
OEMI1553
766
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ramprasad Mishra
OEMI1775
882
1980
0822
20
Benares region
Gaya, Bihar
vocalist
vocalist
Bade Ramdasji
Wazir Khan(Hapur)
?
OEMI2240
1145
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist
his father Nizam Khan
P01225
Chidanand Nagarkar
1120
OEMI0475
238
1919
1971
0526
No
20
Malleswaram, Bangalore
Mumbai
vocalist
Well-known vocalist
Gauharjan (Jaipur)
OEMI0659
344
1894
1964
05??
19-20
Jaipur, Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Vocalist
family
Lakshmandas Sandhu
OEMI1160
589
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
Rama Poduval N.P.
OEMI1731
870871
Alanalloor, Kerala
vocalist
Veteran singer of sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
his father Sankunni Poduval, famous Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
Ramchandra Gosavi
OEMI1756
877
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbau of Bajirao Peshwa II
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
OEMI1770
881
1871
1945
0505
19-20
Ozare, Sawantwadi [former princely state] Maharashtra
?
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Vithoba-anna Hadap
Ulsor Krishna Iyer
OEMI2144
1102
19
?
?
vocalist
Durbar vocalist of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar r.1799-1860 of Mysore state
Syaamaa Saastri
Vasudev-bua Joshi
OEMI2175
1118
0.189
19
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Hassu Khan
Bala-saheb Guruji
?
OEMI0268
110
0.1846
0.192
?
19
Gwalior
Gwalior
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa
Gwalior
Basavaraj Rajjguru
0824
OEMI0310
128
1920
1991
0721
20
Elival, Kundgol region, Dharwad district, Karnataka
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ramzan Khan Rangile
OEMI1785
885
1800
18751900
19
Sikandarabad, Agra region, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sankaran Embrantiri
08??
OEMI1872
940
1942
20
Vellayyoor, Malappuram district, Kerala
vocalist
vocalist
G.P.Govinda Pisharoti
P00091
Sesha Iyer (Pallavi)
OEMI1911
961962
1908
19-20
Neykkarapatti, Salem district, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer of the poet-Tyaagaraaja period
Balkrishna-bua(Bade)
?
OEMI0278
112113
?
?
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist 19th-cent
Bhaiyya-saheb Joshi
OEMI0338
154
1920
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Exponent of the Gwalior vocal style
Gwalior
his well-known father Vasudev-bua Joshi
Doraswamy Iyer, N.S.
OEMI0594
300
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, and a disc-record singer of the 1900s.
Malkajan Agrewali
OEMI1249
629630
?
?
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
Rama Iyer (Lalgudi)
OEMI1730
870
1807
1867
19
Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Sitaramayya (Todi)
OEMI1997
986
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of early 119th cent.

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