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
name
date of birth
OEMI ID
page
place
year of birth
year of death
date of death
photo
century
birth place
place of death
profession
explanation about profession
gharana
guru
music field
Zohrabai （Agrewali）
OEMI2267
11601161
0.187
0.1911
19-20
Agra
Patna
vocalist
Vocalist, rated topmost among the female singers of her time in north India
Her first teacher was Ahmed Khan, later Mehboob Khan
Bhat, S.C.R.
0312
OEMI0350
164
1919
2008
0214
20-21
Shirali, south Karnataka
Mumbai
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and teacher
P05922
Bhimsen Joshi
0204
OEMI0361
177178
1922
20
Ron,Karnataka
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
P00010
Devendrappa,B.
?
OEMI0557
275276
1986
?
20
Ayanur,Shimoga district,Karnataka
Mysore
vocalist
Noted vocalist
P01784
Eknath Sarolkar
?
OEMI0613
311
?
No
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
Gwalior
Hanuman Kattuck
OEMI0793
408
Jaipur
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Jaipur
Hassan Khan Seni
OEMI0824
418419
0.166
0.173
17
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
his father Sughar （or Sudhar） Khan
dhrupad
Kanan,A.
06??
OEMI1013
514
1920
2004
0912
20-21
Chennai
Kolkata
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Girija Shankar Chakravarti and Amir Khan
P00048
Kishori Amonkar
0410
OEMI1084
559
Mumbai
1931
20
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Krishna Bhamini
OEMI1095
569
0.1922
?
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist
Mahadev Gokhale
?
OEMI1223
618619
0.1819
1901
?
19-20
Khol,Ratnagiri district,Maharashtra
?
vocalist
Believed to be the earliest proponent of khayaal in Maharashtra
Bapu-saheb Budhkar
khayaal
Mahadkar,S.A.
?
OEMI1227
619
1915
20
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ganpatrao Phadke,S.N. Ratanjankar and Mallikarjun Mansoor
Manada Sundari
?
OEMI1256
634
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Bishwanath Rao
Mithas Joshi
OEMI1333
673
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Nathmal Joshi
?
OEMI1512
740
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Pohre-bua
OEMI1628
812813
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
P00011
Rajam Iyer, B.
07??
OEMI1703
863
1922
20
Patharakkudi village, near Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu
vocalist
vocalist
Ganapathy Iyer
Ramesh Nadkarni
0813
OEMI1764
879
1921
1995
0707
20
Bankikodala, Karnataka
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist and radio executive
Narayanrao Datar, Baburao Gokhale, Shivkumar Shukla, Aman Ali Khan
Rasol Beg
OEMI1805
892
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Roshanara Begum
OEMI1821
902903
1920
1982
1205
20
Kolkata
Pakistan
vocalist
vocalist
Chanda Begum, Abdul Haq, Mumtaz Hussain, Laddan Khan
Roy, R.N.
OEMI1822
903
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Shrikant Bakre
0825
OEMI1972
974
Kolkata
1930
20
Nagpur, Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Baburao Pathak, Manhar Barve, and Amir Khan
Siyaram Tiwari
0121
OEMI2005
989
1921
20
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer
his maternal grandfather Vishnudeva Pathak
dhrupad
Subbanna(Mugur)
?
OEMI2038
1011
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Andalanuru Subbayya
Vasant Amrit
0119
OEMI2167
1116
1902
1991
0119
20
Surat, Gujarat
Surat
vocalist
vocalist
Abdul Karim Khan
Chinnayya Swami
OEMI0490
241
Kolhapur
?
?
vocalist
Violin player in the Kolhapur durbar sometime during 1900-20
P06356
Gopeshwar Banerji
OEMI0730
376
1880
1967
0729
No
19-20
Vishnupur, Bengal
Vishnupur
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of the Vishnupur gharaanaa
Vishnupur gharaanaa
his father Anantlal, his elder brother Ram Prasanna, Guru Prasad Mishra
P00075
Parvin Sultana
0525
OEMI1607
800
1950
20
Nauga prava,Assam
vocalist
vocalist
Chinmay Lahiri
Ravji-bua Gogate
OEMI1812
897
19
Maharashtra
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sukhendu Goswami
?
OEMI2054
1026
1911
1983
0716
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist
Girija Shankar Chakravarti
Manohar-bua Joshi
?
OEMI1281
644
1888
?
19
Wadatha village,Maharashtra
Aundh region,Maharashtra
vocalist
Noted 19-cent. vocalist.
P00074
Jasraj(Pandit)
0120
OEMI0922
463
1930
20
Hissar,Haryana
vocalist
Eminent present-day vocalist and foremost exponent of the Mewaati tradition.
Keshav-bua Ingle
OEMI1055
540
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa and teacher
Gwalior
his father Gundo-bua Ingle
Latif Khan
?
OEMI1197
604
1875
19-20
Agra Uttar Pradesh
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra tradition
Agra
Pyar Khan
Abdul Sattar
?
OEMI0018
6
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Abdul Gafur
?
OEMI0006
2
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
P05932
Amir Khan
04??
OEMI0111
4950
1912
1974
0213
No
20
Akola,Maharashtra
Kolkata
vocalist,
Vocalist of exceptional merit.
Bhendi Bazaar
his father Shah Mir Khan(d.1937)
P06191
Anwar Hussain Khan
OEMI0161
70
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
Fazal Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0626
319
Lahore
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore of the early 1900s
Ahmad Khan
?
OEMI0054
27
?
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of llate 18th cent.,
Hamid Khan
OEMI0789
401
1840
1909
19-20
Agra
Mysore
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra
his maternal grandfather Nanhe Khan
Tabakkal Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2100
1050
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist from Talwandi in Punjab
Abdulla Khan(Agra)
OEMI0020
7
0.1873
19221919
?
19-20
Agra
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa tradition
Agra
Dayar Khan
?
OEMI0540
262
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1760s.
Maharaja Takhat Singh
Asgarijan
?
OEMI0185
81
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
Agra
Gokuldas Dhanji
OEMI0710
371
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Jadumani Dasi
OEMI0892
448
Kolkata
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolkata
Khurshaidjan
OEMI1075
555
Kanpur
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Gokulchandra Srichandan
OEMI0709
371
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Challagali Krishnayyar
OEMI0424
213
Thanjavur
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Bhatt, K.H.
OEMI0353
168
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
OEMI1174
591
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
Nasibjan
?
OEMI1500
732
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist disc-record singer of the early 20th cent
Somnath Das
OEMI2017
993
1906
20
Puri, Orissa
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Odissi music
Wazirjan
?
OEMI2242
1146
Beneres
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
vocalist of Beneres of the 1900s.
Bhai Uttam Singh Hakim
OEMI0333
149
Amritsar, Punjab
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Balkrishna-bua Kapileshwari
1113
OEMI0280
113114
1896
1982
0927
19-20
Belgaum
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kiraanaa gharaanaa
Kiraanaa
Karim Khan
Murad Ali Khan(Lucknow)
?
OEMI1395
696
Lucknow
?
19
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th-cent.
Raman, Lakshmanan, B.V.
OEMI1742
873
1921
20
Gooty, Andhra Pradesh
vocalist,
Vocalist duo, twins
Haidar Khan （Dagar）
OEMI0778
400
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist, son of Imam Bakhsh
Lalchand Yamla Jat
OEMI1180
593
1919
20
Lyallpur district, Punjab region
vocalist,
Vocalist of Punjabi folk music
Banujan
OEMI0301
121
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolhapur during roughly 1900-20
P00147
Gavari Devi
OEMI0665
350
1921
1990
20
Jodhpur
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Rajasthani folk music
her father Bansilal, Jamunabai
Godavari
OEMI0704
370
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and prolific disc-record artiste of 1900-10, in Telugu and Tamil
P01595
Sohan Singh
0422
OEMI2006
990
1918
1987
0203
20
Ludhiana district, Punjab
Punjab
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra Rangile style
Agra
Dilip Chandra Vedi, Umrao Khan, Faiyaz Khan （Baroda）,
Zebanjan
OEMI2263
1160
Jhajjar, near Delhi
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent. She dang daadraa, ghazal, tappaa, and gavvaali
Kashinath Pajapanda
0315
OEMI1034
524
1921
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist,
vocalist of Odissi music
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
Ganesilal Chaube
OEMI0652
331
Ganesilal
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Kalipada Pathak
OEMI0991
505
0.189
19-20
Howrah, Kolkata
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
Rama Bhagavatar
1015
OEMI1728
870
1888
1957
19-20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Karnatik music
Nagaswami Bhagavatar
?
OEMI1433
715
1894
1952
?
19-20
Madurai,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Kathaa Kaalaksheepam
Narayanaswami Iyer （Thanjavur）
OEMI1483
729
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Vinayak-bua Thakurdas
OEMI2206
1130
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Marathi keertan
Shadi Khan （Delhi）
OEMI1918
963
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar （r.1837-57）, the last Mughal emperor
Balwantrao Bhaiyya
?
OEMI0286
115
Gwalior
1925
?
19-20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Gwalior
Gwalior
his mother,the famous dancer Chandrabhaga
Pulin Behari Mitter
OEMI1648
828
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, an early disc-record artiste
Sheikh Khan Mohammad
OEMI1961
971
Cuttack, Orissa
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Aga Amir
?
OEMI0045
23
Pakistan
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Peshawar
Aga Shergul
?
OEMI0047
23
Pakistan
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Barve P.N.
1230
OEMI0309
124
1918
20
Akola, Maharashtra
vocalist,
Vocalist and recording executive
Dinkarbhhau Patwardhan, Krishnarao Pandit, and some others
Fakruddin
?
OEMI0620
316317
Rahasthan
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Ajmer,Rahasthan
Hamidanbai
OEMI0790
401
19
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th cent.
Kamleshwari Devi
?
OEMI1009
510
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist,mainly sang thumriis
thumrii
Mukhtar Begum
?
OEMI1378
692
Lahore
?
Amritsar district,Punjab
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore
Fattu Khan
Shankar Bodas
0423
OEMI1940
966
1900
1986
0710
20
Sangli, Maharashtra
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veteran educationist
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
Jankibai(Udaipur)
OEMI0921
463
vocalist,
Vocalist of Marwari songs
Ganpatrao Dewaskar
?
OEMI0650
329
0.1896
1978
0717
19-20
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Mumbai
vocalist,
Vocalist and singer-actor of Marathi plays
Rajab Ali Khan, Haidar Khan
Ramkrishna Parvatkar
OEMI1769
880
1959
0214
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and tabla player
his father Khapru-mama Parvatkar, Ahmedjan Thirakwa[tabla], Bashir Khan, Ratnakant Ramnathkar [vocal]
Narayana Iyengar （Titte）
OEMI1470
727
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja, Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
Chikka Subba Rao, Veena Seshanna
Damodar Pandit
?
OEMI0519
253
?
13
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and poet(13th cent.)
Naagdevaachaarya
Gundo-bua Ingle
OEMI0759
389
Maharashtra
0.1876
0.1925
19-20
Aundh
Sangi, Maharashtra
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Aundh, a small princely state in Maharashtra
Gwalior gharaanaa,durbar of Aundh
Balkrishna-bua Ichalkaranjikar
Hiradevi Mishra
OEMI0840
432
Benares
0.1926
1983
0107
20
?
Benares
vocalist,
Vocalist of light classical forms, specially of the Benares tradition
Alla Khan, her husband Kamal Mishra
Mankuverbai
?
OEMI1275
643
Gujarat
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Raja Bhav Singh of Bhavnagar,Gujarat.
Kallan Khan
Manohar,S.S.
?
OEMI1280
644
Mumbai
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Shobha Gurtu
OEMI1967
973
Mumbai
1927
2004
0927
20-21
Belgaum, Karnataka
Mumbai
vocalist,
Vocalist, well known especially for thumrii, daadraa, hoori, ghazal, and such other forms
Menakabai Shirodkar, Gamman Khan, Nattan Khan
thumrii, daadraa, hoori, ghazal
Sivakalundo
OEMI1999
987
Chennai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Jivan Khan(Seni)
OEMI0933
472
1748
1790
18
most probably Jaipur
princely state of Banda,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist,
vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar
his father
Haridas Mukherji
OEMI0812
412
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s, based in Kolkata
Bose,R.N.
?
OEMI0403
198
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali songs
Debo
?
OEMI0543
262
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s

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