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
OEMI ID
Name
Field
Notes about Field
Speciality
Place of Residence
Year of Birth
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Year of Death
Date of Death
Place of Death
Gharana
Guru
Page
P06726
OEMI0644
Gajananrao Joshi
violinist
Reputed violinist
1911
0630
Mumbai
1987
0628
?
325
OEMI2198
Victor Perera, B.
violinist
Violinist, vocalist, and teacher
1931
0223
Dematagoda, Sri Lanka
1998
0326
?
H. Don Vincent, J. Sadiris Silva, and Edmund Silva （of Peliyagoda）, C.R. Vyas, S.C.R. Bhat. and Chindanand Nagarkar, Shridhar Parsekar
1126
P00055
OEMI0440
Chandrasekaran, M.
violinist
Noted violinist
1937
Kolkata
?
his mother Charubala Mohan
221
OEMI0930
Jayarama lyer,T.K.
violinist
Violinist and a former conductor
1894
Kuttalam,near Kumbakonam,Tamli Nadu,
470
OEMI0616
Irode Viswanatha lyer
violinis
Veteran violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik
1905
?
?
1988
0914
New Delhi
311
OEMI2113
Tatachar,T.S.
violinis
Veteran violinist of the Karnatik style
Karnatik
1917
05??
Pavgada,Tumkur district,Karnataka
2001
1208
Bangalore
his father T.Srinivasachar,uncle T.Seshachar,Krishnamachar(veena),and Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma
1068
OEMI2130
Tiruvottiyur(Kuppayyar)
veena player,vocalist,composer
Veena player,vocalist,and composer
1798
?
?
1904
?
Chennai
Tyaagaraaja
1085
OEMI0476
Chikka Lakshminaranappa
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer
?
?
238
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
P00027
OEMI0615
Emani Sankara Sastri
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer in Karnatik style
1922
0923
Draksharamam,Andhra Pradesh
1987
1223
?
311
OEMI1567
Padmanabhayya
veena player,composer
Veena performer and composer
1847
?
1900
Mysore city
Venkatesa Saastri and Shamanna
780
OEMI2003
Sivaramayya
veena player,composer
Well-known veena player and composer of the Mysore durbar
1886
Mysore
1946
?
his father Veena Padmanabhayya, Veena Seshanna
988
OEMI1626
Pitambardas
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
?
?
812
OEMI2179
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Thanjavur
?
?
1120
P00023
OEMI1471
Narayana Iyengar, A.
veena player, teacher
Veena exponent and teacher
1905
Devakottai, Tamil Nadu
1987
?
Sakharama Rao
727
OEMI0425
Chaluvaraya Swamy, M.
veena player, author
Veena player, and author
1908
Mysore
1988
?
Chikka Subba Rao, M. Venkatesa Iyengar
213
P00043
OEMI0994
Kalpakam Swaminathan
veena player,
Veena player, based in Chennai
Chennai
1922
0815
Sethalapati village, Tamil Nadu
his mother, and A. Anantha Krishna Iyer, T.L. Venkatarama Iyer, and a few others
506
OEMI1373
Muddu Venkatamakhi
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
?
?
?
?
690
OEMI1900
Savyasachi Iyengar
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar III （r. 1799-1868）
Mysore
?
?
957
OEMI0479
Chikkaramappa （Begada）
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of KrishnarajaWodeyar III
Mysore
?
?
Venkatasubbayya
239
OEMI1930
Shamanna
veena player,
Veena vidwaan - popular as Veena Shamanna - of the durbar of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar （r.1799-1868）
?
?
964
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI0137
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
Mysore
58
P00026
OEMI0595
Doreswamt Iyengar, V.
veena player
Well-known veena player of Mysore
Mysore
1920
Mysore
his father, Venkatesa Iyengar
300
OEMI1486
Narayanaswamy, K.S.
veena player
Veteran veena player of the Thavancore style
1914
0927
Koduvayur, near Palakkad, Kerala
1999
1209
?
Thavancore style
729
P00019
OEMI0497
Chitta Babu
veena player
Well-known veena player
1936
1013
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
243
OEMI1859
Sambayya
veena player
veena performer
?
?
922
OEMI1531
Nilamma Kadambai
veena player
Veena player
1908
?
1998
1214
Mysore
her father Venkatesachar and later from Mysore Venkatagiriappa
757
OEMI0564
Dhanammal(Vina)
veena player
Veena celebrity
1867
?
Chennai
1938
1015
Chennai
281
OEMI1047
Kesava Murthy,R.S.
veena player
veena player
1904
0304
Rudrapatna village,Hassan district,Karnataka
1982
1217
Basavangudi,Karnataka
539
OEMI2193
Venkatesa Iyengar
veena player
Veena player
1888
?
1973
Mysore
Chikka Subba Rao and Venkatagiriyappa
1123
OEMI1868
Sangameswara Sastri
veena player
veena maestro
1879
Peethapuram, Andhra
1931
?
926
OEMI1119
Krishnayya(Tsallagali)
veena player
veena player
1822
?
1866
Thanjavur
573
OEMI2188
Venkatagiriyappa
veena player
Veena maestro of the Mysore durbar
Mysore
1887
0426
Heggadedevana Kote village, near Mysore
1951
?
his maternal grandmother Dodda Subbarao, maternal uncle Chikka Subbarao
1122
OEMI2191
Venkatasubbayya
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Krishnaraja Wodeyar （III r.1799-1868 ）of Mysore
Mysore
1792
?
1838
Mysore
1123
OEMI1217
Madhavadeva
Vaishnava saint-musician
Vaishnava saint-musician of Assam
Assam
1490
?
Letekuphukuri in Narayanpur region,along the north bank of River Brahmaputra
1597
?
Bhela Kakatkuta in the present Cooch-Behar region
613
OEMI0211
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Lucknow
Kalpi
?
90
P01173
OEMI0293
Bande Ali Khan
udra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
0.183
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1896
?
Pune,Maharashtra
Seni
116117
OEMI0340
Bhaktabatsala Patra
udra veena player
Performer of rudra veena and mardal
1930
0919
Ganjam, Orissa
Byachanna Narasingham
155
OEMI1268
Manik-bua Thakurdas
teacher,vocalist, author
Veteran teacher,vocalist,and author
1910
1110
Solapur,Maharashtra
2002
1001
Mumbai
Yashwant-bua and Master Krishnarao
640
OEMI0962
Joshi, D.K.
teacher, scholar
Teacher and scholar
1860
Jamkhandi, Karnataka
1942
0717
?
488489
OEMI1112
Krishnarao Date
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
?
?
Gwaalior
572
OEMI2208
Vincent Somapala
teacher, composer, author
Teacher, composer, and author
1906
0517
Gorakana, Panadura, Sri Lanka
1989
0607
J. Sadiris Silva and H.W.Rupasinha
1131
OEMI1707
Rajaram, S.
teacher, composer
Teacher and composer
1925
Mysore, Karnataka
864
OEMI2170
Vasantrao Kulkarni
teacher
teacher
1917
Maharashtra
1997
0303
Mumbai
Gwaalior and Agra
Anant Manohar Joshi, Jagannath-bua Purohit, Khadim Hussain Khan
1118
OEMI0349
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
?
?
Ganpatrao Pandit
163
OEMI1529
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
?
?
756
OEMI1495
Nariswar Sarma Barua
teacher
Well-known teacher
1911
0112
Dipila,Darrang district,Assam
1986
1011
Dipila
his father Tapeswar Sarma and Chandrakantadeva Sarma
731
OEMI1309
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅱ
tavil player
Tavil player
1894
0903
Needamangalam,Tamil Nadu
1949
0213
?
Singaram Pillai and Govinda Pillai
662
P06258
OEMI1522
Nayan Jyoti Ghosh
tabla, sitar player
Well-known tabla and sitar player, and teacher.
1956
0428
Mumbai
753754
P00686
OEMI0946
Jnan Prakash Ghosh
tabla, harmonium player, composer
tabla and harmonium exponent,composer,and teacher
1911
Kolkata
1997
0218
Kolkata
481
OEMI1622
Phuljhuri Khan
tabla, esraaj player
Tabla and esraaj player
1920
Bramhanbaria, Bangladesh
1982
Dhaka
his paternal encles Aftabuddin Khan （in tabla） and Ayet Ali Khan （in esraaj）
809
P00688
OEMI1534
Nikhil Ghosh
tabla player,musicologist
Renoened tabla maestro, acclaimed teacher, educationist, and musicologist
1918
1228
Barisal Bangladesh
1995
0303
Mumbai
legends Amir Hussain Khan, Ahmedjan Thirakwa
760761
OEMI1069
Khande Dasappa
tabla player,mridangam player
Mridangam and tabla player of the durbar of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV
?
?
547
OEMI2203
Vilayat Ali （Haji）
tabla player,composer
Tabla wizard, teacher, composer of gats, and founder of the 19th-cent.
18
?
?
Farukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Miyaa Bakhshu
1128
P00004
OEMI0090
Allah Rakha Khan
tabla player
Celebrated tabla maestro
?
1919
0429
Gurdaspur, Punjab
2000
0203
Mumbai
4142
OEMI0412
Bughara Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent
?
?
?
?
Delhi
204
OEMI0648
Gami Khan
tabla player
Reputed tabla exponent of the Delhi gharaanaa
1882
Delhi
1956
06??
Lahore, Pakistan
Delhi gharaanaa
his father, Chhote Kale Khan
327
OEMI1291
Masidullah Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent and teacher
0.189
?
?
1974
1216
?
Farukhaabaad
Nanne Khan
655
OEMI1337
Modu Khan
tabla player
Tabla player
?
?
676
P06695
OEMI1384
Munir Khan
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
1857
?
Laliyana,near Meerut,Uttar Pradesh
1938
0911
Raigarh,Madhya Pradesh
694
OEMI1802
Ras Rag Khan
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
888
OEMI0041
Afaq Hussain Khan
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
1930
0712
Lucknow
1990
0219
?
Lucknow
Abid Hussaion Khan and Wajad Hussain Khan
22
OEMI0110
Amir Hussain Khan
tabla player
Tabla maestro
1899
10??
Bankhanda,Uttar Pradesh
1969
0105
?
Farukhaabaad
4849
OEMI0467
Chhote Kale Khan
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
?
?
Delhi gharaanaa
237
P06425
OEMI0767
Habibuddin Khan
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
1899
Meerut
1972
0720
?
the Ajraadaa tabla gharaanaa
his father Shammu Khan, Munir Khan
396
OEMI1994
Sitab Khan
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
982
P06273
OEMI2234
Wajid Hussain Khan
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
1918
?
Lucknow
Lucknow
His uncle Munne Khan and Abid Hussain Khan
1144
OEMI0029
Abid Hussain Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
Ace performer of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa
1867
?
Lucknow
1936
0612
Lucknow
Lucknow
Mohammad Khan(d.1879) and Munne Khan
1415
OEMI0058
Ahmedijan Thirakawa Khan
tabla player
tabla maestro
?
0.1874
?
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
1976
0112
Lucknow
28
OEMI0197
Ata Hussain Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
table player
0.183
?
Lucknow
0.1907
?
Bhawal,Bengal
Farukhaabaad
84
OEMI2117
Thakur Jagdish Singh 'Din'
tabla player
Noted pakhaawaj and tabla player
1905
0113
Raigarh Madhya Pradesh
1982
1215
Raigarh
his uncle Thakur Lakshman Singh and in pakhaawaj from Baba Thakurdas and in tabla from Munir Khan,Natthu Khan,and Abid Hussain
1071
OEMI0049
Aghawan
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Unav,near Lucknow
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0392
Biru Mishra
tabla player
Reputed tabla and pakhaawaj player
Nepal durbar
188696
Benares
0.1935
?
Vishwanath Prasad, Madan Mohan Mishra
194
OEMI0578
Dhruba Charan Ratha
tabla player
Tabla player
1917
0415
Ghantiali,Cuttack,Orissa
Raghunath Mallick and Balaichand Das
290
OEMI1548
Nizamuddin Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla performer of the Lucknow tradition
1932
Jawra, Madhya Pradesh
2000
0623
Mumai
Lucknow
his father Azim Bakhsh Jewerwale and Ahmedjan Thirakwa
766
OEMI0400
Biswanath Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player of the Benares style
Benares, second half of the 19th cent.
?
Benares
Bhairav Sahai
197
OEMI0975
Kader Bakhsh （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla player
1902
Lahore
?
his father Fakir Bakhsh
494
OEMI1982
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
976
OEMI0402
Boral. R.C. （Raichand）
tabla player
Eminent music director of film, tabla exponent, and pianist
1905
Kolkata
1981
1125
Kolkata
198
OEMI1584
Pandharinath Nageshkar
tabla player
tabla player,teacher
1913
0316
Nageshi,Goa
Yashwant(Valle-mama) Bandiwadekar
792
OEMI1938
Shamsuddin Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla maestro
1890
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
1968
Mumbai
Munir Khan, and Abdul Karim Khan
965
OEMI0502
Chodia Imam Bakhsh
tabla player
Eminent 19th-cent. tabla player
?
?
The Fraukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Haji Vilayat Ali Khan
244
P00053
OEMI1187
Lalji Raghunath Gokhale
tabla player
Veteran tabla player
Mumbai
1919
Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
Ahmedjan Thirakwa
600
OEMI1799
Ranjit Singh (Bhai)
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
Bhai Gopal Singh
888
OEMI0230
Bachu Bawa
tabla player
Tabla player
?
1914
?
94
OEMI0374
Bikku Maharaj
tabla player
Eminent tabla player of Benares
Benares
1863
?
?
1949
?
?
188
OEMI0450
Chaturlal
tabla player
Eminent tabla exponent
0.1925
Udaipur
1965
1014
Ahmedjan Thirakwa
226
OEMI0841
Hiru Ganguli
tabla player
Noted tabla player
1911
Bhawanipur, near Kolkata
1990
Kolkata, mid-
his father Manmathnath and later from Abid Hussain Khan, Nagendranath Basu
432
OEMI1190
Lallu Singh
tabla player
Tabla player and teacher
0.1928
?
2000
0824
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Madho Singh
600
OEMI1454
Nannu Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player
1892
Benares
1926
?
723
OEMI1726
Ram Sahai
tabla player
Outstanding tabla player, originator of the Benares tradition in tabla
0.1815
Benares
0.1868
Benares
Benares
870
OEMI2107
Taranath Rao
tabla player
Noted tabla player and teacher
1915
0306
Mangalore,Karnataka
1991
0110
Pune,Maharashtra
Subbarao Ankolekar and Shamshuddin Khan
1066
OEMI0908
Jahangir Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Indore durbar
Indore
Benares
1976
0511
451
OEMI1864
Samta Prasad Mishra
tabla player
tabla exponent
1921
0719
Benares
1994
0531
Pune, Maharashtra
Bikku Maharaj
924925
P06662
OEMI0157
Anokhelal Mishra
tabla player
Noted tabla player
1914
Benares
1958
0310
?
Bhairav Prasad Mishra of Benares
66
OEMI1790
Ranganath Mishra
tabla player
Tabla player
1932
0103
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
Bikku Maharaj, Gama Maharaj
887
OEMI1052
Keshav Chandra Bandopadhyay
tabla player
Tabla exponent
1892
0106
near Dhaka, Bangladesh
?
Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Maulaviram Mishra, Natthu Khan
540
OEMI0413
Bulakilal Yadav
tabla player
Tabla player
0.1923
?
?
2000
0408
Allahabad
Lalji Shrivastav
204