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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OEMI1555
Norbai
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
?
Vrindavan,Yttar Pradesh
767
OEMI1588
Pannabai
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile(r.1719-48)
?
?
793794
OEMI0834
Hira Bulbul
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the king of Nepal
Nepal
?
?
431
OEMI1573
Paidala Gurumorti Sastri
composer,vocalist
composer,vocalist
Chennai
Kayatar village,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
Sonti Venkata Subbaya
782
OEMI1752
Ramaswami Dikshitar
composer,vocalist
Well-known composer and vocalist
1735
Virinjiouram near Kanchipuram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
0.1817
Thanjavur
his father Muthuswaami Diikshitar, Melattur Veerabhadrayya, Venkata Vaidyanatha Diikshitar
875
P00230
OEMI2049
Sudhir Phadke
composer,vocalist
Noted singer and music composer
1919
0725
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
2002
0729
Mumbai
Vamanrao Phadke and Baburao Gokhale
10211022
OEMI2269
Feroze Khan (Sitar)
composer,sitar player
Well-known composer of Feroze-khaani sitar-gat
0.17
probably Delhi
0.1768
Delhi
his father Amirkhan-Khusraukhan, Sadaarang
319
OEMI0797
Haraprasad Bandopadhyay
composer,rudra veena player
Composer of Bengali bhajans and an early rudra veena player of Kolkata
Kolkata
1830
Bengal
1899
?
Ganganarayan Chattopadhyaya
410
OEMI2097
Swati Tirunal (Maharaja)
composer,patron,
composer, patron of the arts
1813
0416
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
1846
1225
Thiruvananthapuram
Tanjore Subba Rao, Karamana Subrahmanya Bhagavatar, Nemom Natesa Bhagavatar
1045
OEMI2147
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Assam
?
?
1102
OEMI1748
Ramanna
composer, performer
Veteran composer of jaavalis and performer of Harikathaa
jaavalis,Harikathaa
0.1855
Hullahalli village, Andhra
1918
Hullahalli
874
OEMI0013
Abdul Latif
composer
Singer and composer
1930
?
Barisal,Bangladesh
Surendranath Das
5
OEMI0007
Abdul Gani Bayati
composer
Singer and composer,especially of zari
1909
?
Nurullahpur,Barisal district,Bangladesh
1978
0819
Dhaka
2
OEMI0017
Abdul Salam
composer
Composer,a contemporary of the famous Kazi Nazrul Islam(b.1899)
?
?
?
?
6
OEMI0314
Basit Khan
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
0.1787
?
0.1887
?
129
OEMI1559
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
composer
singer-composer
1948
1013
Lyallpur,Punjab region of Pakistan
1997
0816
London
769
OEMI2201
Vidyapati Thakur
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
0.136
?
0.1448
?
1127
OEMI2080
Surdas Madanmohan
composer
Composer of devotional songs
0.1537
?
1600
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
1035
P00120
OEMI0144
Anil Biswas
composer
Well-known composer of Hindi film music
Hindi film music
Mumbai
1914
0714
Barisal
2003
0531
Delhi
61
OEMI0203
Atulprasad Sen
composer
Composer
1871
?
Lucknow
1934
?
?
87
OEMI0210
Azad Rahman
composer
Singer and music composer
Bangladesh
1944
Burdwan, West Bengal
90
OEMI0061
Ajan Fakir (Shah Milan)
composer
Seventeeth-century Assamese composer of Jilirs
?
?
?
Saraguri
29
OEMI1530
Nilakantha Sivan
composer
Well-known composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
1839
Nagorcoil area, now in Tamil Nadu, then part of the Travancore princely state of Kerala
1900
0728
?
756757
OEMI1656
Purushottam Thakur
composer
Composer of traditional Vaishnava-Sattriiya music of Assam
1561
Patbausi, near Barpeta
1619
Bhela, in the former state of Cooch-Behar
832
OEMI0722
Gopala Pillai, K.N.
composer
Noted composer and writer
1902
?
Kerala
1990
0828
?
Lakshmi Narayana Iyer
374
OEMI1037
Kasinatha Kavi
composer
Composer
?
?
525
OEMI1381
Mukunda Das
composer
Poplar composer
1878
?
Barisal [now in Bangladesh]
1934
?
?
692693
P00223
OEMI1973
Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalwan
composer
Nautankii artiste and writer-composer
Nautanki
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
974
OEMI0263
Baladev Rath(Kavisuryya)
composer
Composer of champu songs of Odissi music
1789
?
?
1848
?
?
109
OEMI1632
Prabhakar Datar Sahir
composer
Composer of laavani and powaasaa in Marathi
1755
Gangapur, Nasik district, Maharashtra
1843
?
821
OEMI1594
Papanasam Sivan
composer
singer,composer of devotional songs
1890
Polagam,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
1973
Chennai
Mahadeva Bhagavathar(Noorani),Vaidyanatha Iyer(Konerirajapuram)
795
OEMI0129
Ananda Samarakon
composer
Noted composer of light music, and creator of Sri Lanka's national anthem
light music
1911
0113
Vatarakka Liyanvala, Padukka, Colombo district, Sri Lanka
1962
0405
?
56
OEMI0813
Haridas Swami (Vrindavan)
composer
Legendary saint-composer
0.148
Kher, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh
0.1575
Vrindavan, near Agra
412413
OEMI1005
Kamalakant Bhattacharya
composer
Singer and composer of devotional songs
devotional songs
1770
?
Burdwan district,Bengal
1820
?
Burdwan district,Bengal
508
OEMI2184
Venkata Kavi Othukadu
composer
Composer
1700
Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu
1765
?
Pooranur Natesa Bhagavatar
1121
OEMI0108
Ambikagiri Roy Chowdhuri
composer
Twentieth-century composer of Assam
Assam
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0038
Adiappayya(Pachhimiriyam)
composer
Composer of Karnatik music,and guru of Syaamaa Saastri
?
?
?
?
21
OEMI1779
Ramshankar Bhattacharya
composer
composer
1761
Vishnupur
1853
Vishnupur
Vishnupur gharaanaa of Bengal
Gadadhar Bhattacharya
884
OEMI0609
Edwin Samaradivakara
composer
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and composer
1916
0622
Katna, Sri Lanka
1959
1008
?
309
OEMI0130
Ananda Shankar
composer
Composer
1942
1202
Almora, Uttar Pradesh
1999
0326
Kolkata
56
OEMI0147
Aniruddha
composer
Acclaimed composer of Vaishnava-Sattriya music of Assam
1553
?
1626
?
Gopala Ata, Yadumoni
62
OEMI0209
Ayyaval
composer
Composer of devotional songs
?
?
90
OEMI0528
Dasharathi Roy
composer
Reputed composer of paanchaali,kavi-gaan,and other similar Bengali songs.
1806
?
Badhmuda,Burdwan district,Bengal
1857
?
?
258259
OEMI0700
Giriraja Kavi
composer
Eminent 18th-cent. composer of Telugu origin
?
?
367
P01281
OEMI1517
Naushad Ali
composer
Renowned composer of Hindi film music
Hindi film music
1919
1225
Lucknow
2006
0506
Mumbai
745746
OEMI1616
Pedda Dasari
composer
Composer of keertans in Telugu and Sanskrit
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
807
OEMI1705
Rajanikant Sen
composer
Reputed poet-composer of a type of Bengali songs, identified by his name as Kaanta-geeti
1865
Bhangabari, Pabna district (now Bangladesh)
1910
?
864
OEMI1843
Sahachari Sukh
composer
composer
?
?
911
OEMI2000
Sivakkolundu Desikar (Kottaiyur)
composer
Composer of the Tamil opera
Kottaiyur village, Thanjavur
?
987
OEMI2037
Subbanna
composer
Eminent veena player and composer
1854
?
Mysore
1939
?
Mysore
Dodda Seshanna and Sadasiva Rao
1011
OEMI2058
Sukumar Sahu
composer
Oriya composer
1907
0815
Balasore, Orissa
1028
OEMI2237
Walter Kaufmann
composer
Composer,conductor,pianist,scholar,and author from Europe
1907
0401
Karlsbad,Germany
1984
0908
Bloomington,USA
in music from his uncle Moritz Kaufmann,and in composing from Fidelio F.Finke.
11441145
OEMI0326
Bhadrachala Ramadas
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
0.162
Nelakondapalle, Golkonda, Andhra Pradesh
0.168
?
145
OEMI0453
Chengalvaraya Sastri
composer
Well-known composer of the poet-Tyaagaraaja period
1810
?
Marakanam area, Chingleput district, Tamil Nadu
1900
0228
?
229
OEMI0976
Kadigai Mokku Pulavar
composer
Composer (19rh cent.) and Tamil scholar who sesrved the Ettayapuram ruler of his time
?
?
494
OEMI1100
Krishna Kamal Goswami
composer
Composer of jatraa songs of Bengal
1810
?
1888
?
569
P00247
OEMI2096
Swarna Venkatesa Dikshitar, V.V.
composer
composer
1921
0721
Tamil Nadu
2002
0316
?
Pataka Sundaram Pillai
1045
OEMI1813
Raya Ramananda
composer
Oriya composer of devotional songs, mainly of the kaavya-geeti variety.
1467
?
1525
?
897
OEMI0418
Chacha Vrindavandas
composer
Prolific poet composer of devotional songs
16971712
?
Vrindavan Uttar Pradesh
1791
?
?
207208
OEMI0515
Dakshinamorti Sastri
composer
Composer(19th cent.) of Telugu devotional songs
?
?
?
?
252
OEMI1000
Kamakoti Sastri
composer
Composer of kritis
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
?
507
OEMI1166
Lakshmikanta Maharaja
composer
Composer and Sanskrit scholar of Andhra
?
?
591
OEMI1367
Morgaumkar Bhave
composer
composer
Morgon village,near Pune,Maharashtra
?
686
OEMI1601
Parshuram Shahir
composer
composer
1754
Vavi,Nasik district,Maharashtra
1844
?
798799
OEMI1732
Ramachandra Ata
composer
Composer of Assamese Vaishnava-Sattriiya music
1687
Narowa Sattra, Vasudeva Than, Assam
1752
?
his father Ramaakaanta Aataa
871
OEMI1749
Ramapati Bandopadhyaya
composer
Composer of kavigaan and some other forms of Bengali music
Chandrakona, Midnapore, Bengal
1872
?
his father Gangabishnu
874
OEMI2235
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
composer
Illustrious disciple of composer Tyaagaraaja
1781
0218
probably Ayyampettai,former kingdom of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
1874
?
Walajapet,near Chennai
his father Nalluswaamy
1144
OEMI1049
Kesavapalli Seturamayya
composer
Composer (19th cent.) of Telugu keertana
Telugu keertana
?
?
540
OEMI0138
Anantadas Goswami
composer
Singer and composer of baul songs and a highly esteemed baul guru
baul songs
1790
Birbhum, West Bengal
?
58
OEMI0175
Arunachala Sastri
composer
Composer of the post-1850 period remembered for his Sanskrit songs
?
?
?
?
76
OEMI0484
Chinnaswami Dasar
composer
Composer of keertans in Sanskrit and Tamil
0.1828
Kuttanur, near Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
0.1881
?
240
OEMI1121
Kshirabdi Sastri
composer
composer
Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
?
Sivarama Yogi
574
OEMI1612
Pattabhiramayya (Tirupanandal)
composer
Composer of Jaavali songs
0.1863
Tirupanandal, near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
?
805
OEMI0491
Chinni Krishna Dasa
composer
Composer (19th cent) of kritis and svarajaatis in Telugu
?
?
241
OEMI1411
Muthukkumara Pulavar
composer
Tamil composer (19th cent.)
?
?
704
OEMI1497
Narottamdas Thakur
composer
Vaishnava devotee and composer
Vaishnava saint-musician
0.1533
?
Kheturi,Bengal
?
?
731
OEMI1739
Ramalinga Swamigal
composer
Composer of Tamil hymns, especially on Subrahmania
1823
1005
Mrudur, Tamil Nadu
1874
0130
?[as per some documents]
872
OEMI2043
Subramanya Bharathi
composer
Celebrated Tamil poet and composer of songs
1882
1211
Ettayapuram,Tamil Nadu
1921
0912
?
1013
OEMI1791
Ranganathaswami Nigadikar
composer
performer and composer of Marathi aakhyaans for keertans
1612
?
1684
?
887
OEMI1299
Matrubhotayya(Kavi)
composer
Noted composer of the pre-Tyaagaraaja period
?
?
?
?
657
OEMI1308
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅰ
composer
Composer of Tamil songs
Tamil Nadu
?
?
1971
?
?
662
OEMI1818
Roprasik Devacharya
composer
composer
?
?
902
OEMI2012
Somadasa, Elvitigala
composer
Music composer of the stage, films, and radio
1925
1001
Kattota, near Veyangoda, Sri Lanka
1990
0827
Colombo
992
OEMI0150
Annamacharya (Tallapakam)
composer
Telugu composer (15th cent.) considered to be the pioneer of south Indian keertan
Telugu
1408
Tallapaka village,Cuddapah district, Andhra Pradesh
1503
?
64
OEMI0568
Dharmapuri Subbarayar
composer
Well-known composer of jaavali
?
?
?
?
284
OEMI1461
Narasimha Dasa (Tumu)
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
devotional songs in Telugu
1790
Andhra
?
725726
OEMI1595
Papavinasa Mudaliar
composer
composer
?
?
795
OEMI1606
Parvatiprasad Baruah
composer
singer,composer
1904
Sibsagar district,Assam
1964
?
800
OEMI2186
Venkata Subbayyar (Uttukkadu)
composer
Composer of keertanam in Tamil and Sanskrit
0.17
Uttukkaadu, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1765
?
Nidamangalam Raja Bhagavatar
11211122
OEMI1826
Rukminibai Tampuratti
composer
Princess-composer of the Travancore (Kerala) royal family.
1800
?
1838
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
905
OEMI2227
Vrindavan Devacharya
composer
Poet-composer of devotional songs.
?
?
?
?
11401141
OEMI0136
Ananta Bharati
composer
Composer of keertans
keertan
1845
Umayalapuram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1905
?
58
P00089
OEMI0417
Burman,S.D.
composer
Eminent composer of Hindi film music
1906
10??
Agartala,Tripura
1975
1031
Mumbai
205206
OEMI0428
Chanchal Sasi
composer
Sixteenth-century voclist and composer
?
?
214
OEMI0461
Chhedilal
composer
Producer and writer-composer of nautanki musical plays of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, during the 1920s-30s
?
?
235
OEMI0672
Ghantasala
composer
Well-known singer-composer of south Indian films
1922
1214
Chautapelle, Andhra Pradesh
1974
?
?
355
P00162
OEMI0979
Kaibuaia, H.
composer
Singer and composer of tribal folk music of Mizoram
tribal folk music
Mizoram
1919
Luangpawn, Mizoram
497
OEMI1122
Kshitrayya
composer
composer
1600
Muvvapuri,Krishna district,Andhra
1680
Varahur,Tamil Nadu
574575
OEMI1178
Lalan Prasad
composer
Noted singer-composer of thumriis
0.1856
Farukhabad, Uttar Pradesh
1926
?
592
OEMI1245
Makulloluwa,W.B.
composer
composer,researcher,music educator
1922
0217
Idamegama in Harispattuwa,Kandy,Sri Lanka
1984
0908
?
623