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
Haricharan Das Swami
OEMI0811
412
Dhaka
18
?
?
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Bimal Mukherji
?
OEMI0377
190
1930
1997
01??
20
?
Kolkata
sitar player
Noted sitar player
his father Amulya Chandra Mukherjee and Abid Hussain Khan who was earlier the guru of Amulya Chandra.
P00022
Debu Chaudhuri
?
OEMI0544
262
Delhi
1935
20
Mymansingh,now in Bangladesh
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Mustaq Ali Khan(sitar) and Sukhendu Goswami(vocal)
Joshi, D.T.
10??
OEMI0963
489
1914
1993
10??
20
?
Kolkata
sitar player
Sitar player and teacher of the Imdaadkhaani tradition
Inayat Khan, father of sitar maestro Vilayat Khan
Mangi Singh,L.
?
OEMI1261
639
1929
20
Imphal,Manipur
sitar player
Sitar player
Chandam Tarakanta Singh
P00071
Nikhil Banerji
1014
OEMI1533
760
1931
1986
0127
20
Kolkata
?
sitar player
Reputed sitar player
his father Jitendra Banerji, Mustaq Ali Khan, Radhika Mohan Moitra, Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Annapurna Devi
Qutub-ud-Daula
?
OEMI2225
838839
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
Bimalindu Mukherji
?
OEMI0380
191
Bhilai,Chhattisgarh
1926
20
Mymensing district[now in Bangladesh]
sitar player
Scholar and exponent of sitar
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
OEMI1068
546547
?
?
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
Minapa
?
OEMI1311
662
Kamarup,Assam
?
?
?
singer,composer
Buddhist singer and composer
Harinath Majumdar
OEMI0814
415
19
?
?
singer, poet
Baaul singer and poet of the 19th cent
Baaul
Nanda Malini
0823
OEMI1443
721
1943
20
Levvan Duva, Alutgama, Sri Lanka
singer, music director
Contemporary Sri Lankan singer and music director
Contemporary Sri Lankan
Pingalshi Gadhvi
0727
OEMI1623
811
1914
1998
0531
20
Chhatvawa village, Junagadh district, Gujarat
Jamnagar, Gujarat
singer, author
Folk-singer and author of Gujarati folk literature of many genres
Gujarati folk
Haure Gosai
OEMI0826
420
1795
18-19
Medtala. Burdwan district, Bengal
?
singer-composer
Baaul singer-composer
Baaul
Lalan Fakir
OEMI1177
592
0.1774
1891
18-19
Bhandra, Kustia district, Bengal
?
singer-composer
Baaul singer-composer
Baaul
Sawai Gandharva
01??
OEMI1901
957958
1886
1952
0912
19-20
Kundgol, Dharwar, Karnataka
Pune, Maharashtra
singer-actor,vocalist
Eminent vocalist and actor-singer of the Marathi stage
Balwantrao Kolhatkar, Abdul Karim Khan
Marathi satge
Keshavrao Bhosale
0809
OEMI1058
541
1890
1921
1004
19-20
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
?
singer-actor
Eminent singer-actor of the Marathi satge
Marathi satge
Tyagaraja Bhagavatar, M.K.
0301
OEMI2141
1099
1910
1959
1101
20
Mayavaram, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
singer-actor
Famous singer-actor of Tamil films of the pre-1950s
the Alathur Brothers, Papanasam Sivan, and Vaithikulam Swamigal
Tamil films
Surujbai Khande
OEMI2086
10381039
Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Contemporary singer of folk songs of Madhya Pradesh. Particulary bharthari, dholaa maaru, chandaini, alha, and Raam kissaa songs
Family, Jawaharlal Baghel and Pritam Pahadi
folk songs of Madhya Pradesh
Tej Khan
?
OEMI2116
1070
?
19
?
?
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
Jagannath Kumhar
OEMI0902
450
Mathia Gosain village,Raisen district,Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Folk singer,born in a family of folk artisites
his father
folk
P00197
Pratima Barua Pandey
OEMI1644
827
1934
20
Gauripur, Assam
singer
Assamese folk singer
Siddiqi Manganiar
OEMI1986
976
1939
20
Jamphli, West Rajasthan
singer
Folk singer
family elders
folk
Ghasiram
OEMI0673
356
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
singer
Composer and singer of Raas-leelaa songs
Raas-leelaa songs
P00107
Lata Mangeshkar
0928
OEMI1195
603604
1929
20
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
singer
Celebrated film singer
Dinanath Mangeshkar
film
Surdas
OEMI2079
1035
0.1478
15
Sihi village, near Delhi
?
singer
Blind singer
It is not known
Urmila Singh
OEMI2151
1104
?
singer
Contemporary folk singer
Radhesharan Singh
folk
Vadyanadha Iyer
OEMI2156
1107
20
?
?
singer
disc-record singer of south India
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
?
OEMI0055
27
?
?
?
?
singer
An early singer for disc-records
Sohirobanath Ambiye
OEMI2007
990
Paliye town, near Pedne, in Goa
1714
1792
18
?
Goa
singer
Ascetic poet and singer of Marathi bhafans of the Naath sect
Asha Bhosle
0908
OEMI0187
8182
Mumbai
1933
20
Sangli,Maharashtra
singer
Celebrate singer of Hindi films
Hindi films
Gopal Gosai
OEMI0714
372
1869
1912
19-20
Shilaidaha, Kustia region, Bengal
?
singer
Baaul singer
Baaul
Srijanbai
?
OEMI2027
1008
Lucknow
?
?
?
singer
Competent singer
Ghasit Khan
Girin Chakraborty
OEMI0697
366
?
?
singer
Folk singer
folk
Kanchi Namati
OEMI1014
514
190010
1970
20
Hatichong-Jagari,present district of Nagaib,Assam
Nagaon district
singer
folk singer
folk
P00113
Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
0321
OEMI0073
37
Kolkata
1939
20
?
shehnai player
Noted shehnai player
P00213
Ramasray Jha
0811
OEMI1751
875
Allahabad
1928
2009
0101
20-21
Khajura town, Darbhanga, Bihar
Kolkata
scholar,vocalist
Noted scholar, university teacher, author, and vocalist
his father Sukhdev Jha, uncle Madhusudan Jha
P00165
Kanak Rele
?
OEMI1011
513
1937
20
Mumbai
scholar
Noted scholar,and exponent of Moohini Aattam
Gangoly, O.C.
0801
OEMI0656
332
1881
1974
0209
19-20
Kolkata
?
scholar
Noted scholar of art and music
P00352
Bahadur Khan
OEMI0247
101
1989
10??
No
20
?
Kolkata
sarod player
Noted sarod player
Ghulam Ali Khan
OEMI0678
360361
19
?
?
sarod player
A sarod pioneer of the 19th-cent.
Hussain Ali Khan
OEMI0845
436
1850
19
Madhya Pradesh
?
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
Inayat Ali Khan
OEMI0867
440441
1790
0.1883
18-19
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Dhaka
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
his father Hussain Ali Khan
Murad Ali Khan(Darbhanga)
?
OEMI1393
696
?
19
?
?
sarod player
Nineteenth-century sarod player
P00210
Rajiv Taranath
1017
OEMI1710
865
1932
20
Bangalore, Karnataka
sarod player
Noted sarod player
P06123
Abdul Latif Khan
0322
OEMI0014
5
1934
2003
0423
20-21
Gohad,Bhand district,Madhya Pradesh
?
saarangi player
saarangi player
Chhotu Khan and Udaya Khan and Sikandar Khan
Abdul Majid Khan
?
OEMI0015
5
0.1888
1977
0319
19-20
?
Mumbai
saarangi player
Reputed saarangi player
Abdulla Khan(d.1917)and Kale Khan
Abudul Azis Khan
?
OEMI0004
2
0.1875
1946
?
19-20
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
?
saarangi player
saarangi
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
P06002
Sultan Khan
OEMI2062
1029
Mumbai
1941
20
Sikar, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Veteran saarangi player
Gulab Khan, Amir Khan
Ghulam Sabir Khan
OEMI0690
363
Moradabad
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his father Hussain Bakhsh
Haidar Bakhsh Khan
OEMI0776
399
0.1875
?
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
his father Changay Khan
Bade Sabri Khan
OEMI0240
98
1962
20
?
Lahore
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Mugna Khan
OEMI2278
691
1915
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
saarangi ghaaraana
Kale Khan
P00156
Inder Lal Dhandra
OEMI0875
443
1930
20
Udaipur, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Saarangi player
his father Bihari Lal
P06664
Badal Khan
OEMI0232
95
0.1834
0.1937
No
19
?
Agra
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Paanipat gharaanaa
Paanipat
P06119
Bundu Khan
?
OEMI0415
204205
1880
1955
0113
19-20
Delhi
Karachi
saarangi player
Celebrated saarangi player
Sangi Khan and maternal uncle Mamman Khan
Jivan Khan
OEMI0932
472
1838
1935
19-20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi Player
Kale Khan
OEMI0985
502
1942
20
?
Jaipur, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his elder brother Azim Bakhsh
P00204
Mamman Khan
?
OEMI1255
633
0.1859
1940
0602
19-20
Delhi
Delhi
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
Sangi Khan and Ghulam Hussain Khan
P00088
Sabri Khan
0410
OEMI1831
908
1927
20
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
contemporary player of the saarangi
Haji Mohammad Khan, Chhajju Khan
Nasir Ahmad Khan
0105
OEMI1501
733
1930
20
Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan
Buniyad Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0416
205
Rampur
0.1835
1918
?
19-20
Bareilly
Rampur
saarangi player
Distinguished saarangi player of Rampur durbar
Rampur durbar
Jhire Khan
OEMI0937
478
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
Mirich Khan
OEMI1327
672
1832
19
?
Tonk, Rajasthan
saarangi player
saarangi player
Haidar Bakhsh
P06724
Shakor Khan
OEMI1927
964
1916
1975
1006
20
?
New Delhi
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his father Abdul Gafoor Khan and uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
Allah Dad Dhadhi
?
OEMI0088
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
Khadim Hussain Khan （Sarangi）
OEMI1063
542543
1959
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Amir Bakhsh
?
OEMI0109
48
1882
1962
?
19-20
?
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Jhajjar
Azim Bakhsh
OEMI0214
90
1857
1908
19-20
probably Indore
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
his uncle Ramzan Khan
Mohammad Jan
OEMI1350
680
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player
Fida Hussain
P00081
Ram Narayan
1225
OEMI1724
869
Mumbai
1927
20
Udaipur
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
his father Nathuji Biawat, Uday Lal
Zahur Khan Kalavant
OEMI2258
1158
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
19
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 19th cent.
Haidar Bakhsh （Chhaprauli）
OEMI0774
399
1930
19-20
?
Kolhapur
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player of the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
the Kiraanaa gharaanaa
family and Bande Ali Khan
Ghulam Mohammad （Sarangi）
OEMI0682
361
?
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the period of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
P00037
Hanuman Prasad Mishra
OEMI0794
408
1914
1999
1129
20
Benares
Benares
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player and teacher
his father Sursahai Mishra, Bade Ramdasji
Gauri Shankar Mishra
OEMI0661
349
0.1865
1945
19-20
Benares
Kolkata
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
Birai Misir
Masit Khan(Sarangi)
?
OEMI1294
655656
1925
1992
?
20
?
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Jhajjar
Shamman Khan
Ashiq Hussain
?
OEMI0192
82
1946
?
20
?
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Panipat
P00144
Dhruba Ghosh
1025
OEMI0579
290
1957
20
Mumbai
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
Delhi
P00034
Gopal Mishra
OEMI0716
372373
0.192
1977
1222
20
Benares
Delhi
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his grandfather Ganeshji Mishra, Bade Ramdas Mishra
Kader Bakhsh
OEMI0973
494
0.188
1934
19-20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
his father Axim Bakhsh
Kalu-miya
?
OEMI0995
506
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Alladiya Khan (Sarangi, Biturwale)
?
OEMI0086
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Jind, Punjab
Ramzan Khan (Sarangi)
OEMI1783
885
1897
19
Delhi region
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Lal Khan
Mohammad Hussain(Sarangi)
09??
OEMI1349
680
1907
1988
0927
20
Haryana
Maharashtra
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Kader Bakhsh
Baijnath Misra
0801
OEMI0255
105
1915
1992
0222
20
Benares region
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Thakur Prasad
Devidas
?
OEMI0558
278
Pune,Maharashtra
?
18
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player at the turn of the 18th cent.
Bijaram
Mohammad Bakhsh
OEMI1345
679
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player
Mirza Mahmod Ali
OEMI1330
672
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player,teacher
Munnan Khan(Rampur)
?
OEMI1387
695
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Dattaram Parvatkar
?
OEMI0531
259
0.1898
1973
0715
19-20
Parvati town,Goa
Mumbai
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Khaprumama Parvatkar and Balkrishna-bua and Laxmanrao
Mirasi Rimju Ali
OEMI1326
672
19
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Samokhan Singh (Maharaj)
OEMI1861
923
1495
1556
15-16
?
?
rudra veena player,vocalist
rudra veena player and singer of dhruvapada
Haidar Ali Khan （Nawab）
OEMI0773
398399
1846
1901
19-20
?
?
rudra veena player,sursingaar player
Sursingaar and rudra veena player
Amir Khan, Bahadur Hussain Khan
Sadiq Ali Khan (Seni)
OEMI1837
909
1805
1970
19-20
?
?
rudra veena player,rabaab player
exponent of the rudra veena and rabaab
Zaffar Khan, Pyar Khan, Basat Khan
Juma Khan
OEMI0965
490
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
Nirmal Shah Seni
Musharraf Khan
?
OEMI1401
699
Jaipur Rajasthan
?
19
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player(19th cent.)
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
Nabat Khan
?
OEMI1427
711
0.153
0.161
?
16
Singhalgad, Rajasthan
Agra[then called Akbarabad]
rudra veena player
Rudra veena maestro of the Seni gharaanaa
Seni
Shah Mir Khan
OEMI1922
963
Indore
?
?
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore

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