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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Norbai
OEMI1555
767
?
Vrindavan,Yttar Pradesh
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
Pannabai
OEMI1588
793794
18
?
?
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile(r.1719-48)
Hira Bulbul
OEMI0834
431
Nepal
?
?
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the king of Nepal
Paidala Gurumorti Sastri
OEMI1573
782
Chennai
18
Kayatar village,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
composer,vocalist
composer,vocalist
Sonti Venkata Subbaya
Ramaswami Dikshitar
OEMI1752
875
1735
0.1817
18-19
Virinjiouram near Kanchipuram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
composer,vocalist
Well-known composer and vocalist
his father Muthuswaami Diikshitar, Melattur Veerabhadrayya, Venkata Vaidyanatha Diikshitar
P00230
Sudhir Phadke
0725
OEMI2049
10211022
1919
2002
0729
20-21
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
Mumbai
composer,vocalist
Noted singer and music composer
Vamanrao Phadke and Baburao Gokhale
Feroze Khan (Sitar)
OEMI2269
319
0.17
0.1768
18
probably Delhi
Delhi
composer,sitar player
Well-known composer of Feroze-khaani sitar-gat
his father Amirkhan-Khusraukhan, Sadaarang
Haraprasad Bandopadhyay
OEMI0797
410
Kolkata
1830
1899
19
Bengal
?
composer,rudra veena player
Composer of Bengali bhajans and an early rudra veena player of Kolkata
Ganganarayan Chattopadhyaya
Swati Tirunal (Maharaja)
0416
OEMI2097
1045
1813
1846
1225
19
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram
composer,patron,
composer, patron of the arts
Tanjore Subba Rao, Karamana Subrahmanya Bhagavatar, Nemom Natesa Bhagavatar
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
OEMI2147
1102
Assam
20
?
?
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Ramanna
OEMI1748
874
0.1855
1918
19-20
Hullahalli village, Andhra
Hullahalli
composer, performer
Veteran composer of jaavalis and performer of Harikathaa
jaavalis,Harikathaa
Abdul Latif
?
OEMI0013
5
1930
20
Barisal,Bangladesh
composer
Singer and composer
Surendranath Das
Abdul Gani Bayati
?
OEMI0007
2
1909
1978
0819
20
Nurullahpur,Barisal district,Bangladesh
Dhaka
composer
Singer and composer,especially of zari
Abdul Salam
?
OEMI0017
6
?
20
?
?
composer
Composer,a contemporary of the famous Kazi Nazrul Islam(b.1899)
Basit Khan
OEMI0314
129
0.1787
0.1887
18-19
?
?
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1013
OEMI1559
769
1948
1997
0816
20
Lyallpur,Punjab region of Pakistan
London
composer
singer-composer
Vidyapati Thakur
OEMI2201
1127
0.136
0.1448
14-15
?
?
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
Surdas Madanmohan
OEMI2080
1035
0.1537
1600
16
?
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
composer
Composer of devotional songs
P00120
Anil Biswas
0714
OEMI0144
61
Mumbai
1914
2003
0531
20-21
Barisal
Delhi
composer
Well-known composer of Hindi film music
Hindi film music
Atulprasad Sen
?
OEMI0203
87
1871
1934
?
19-20
Lucknow
?
composer
Composer

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