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
OEMI1513
Natthan Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.184
?
Agra
0.1907
?
Mysore
Agra
his uncle Ghulam Abbas Khan
741
OEMI0183
Asgar Ali Khan
Well-known sarod player of the durvar of Darbhanga,Bihar
0.1841
?
Gwalior
0.1912
?
Darbhanga
81
OEMI0022
Abdulla Khan(Sarod)
musician
Durber musician of Darbhanga state,Bihar
arbhanga state,Bihar
0.1843
?
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
0.1926
?
Darbhanga,Bihar
7
OEMI0334
Bhairav Prasad Misra
tabla player
Noted tabla player of the Benares gharaanaa
0.1844
Patna
1940
1221
probably Benares
Benares gharaanaa
Bhagat Maharaj
150
OEMI1541
Nissar Hussain Khan （Gwalior）
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
0.1844
Gwalior
0.1916
?
his foster-father Natthu Khan
763764
OEMI2149
Umrao Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1845
0.192
Hyderabad
his illustrious father Tanras Khan
1102
OEMI0667
Ghagge Nazir Khan
vocalist
Well-known khayaal singer
khayaal
0.1845
Agra
1910
Agra
Mewaati gharaanaa
his father Wazir Khan, Haddu Khan
353354
OEMI0238
Bade Munne （Tabla）
0.1845
?
0.1905
Lucknow
his father Mohammad Khan, Mamman Khan
97
OEMI0268
Bala-saheb Guruji
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa
0.1846
?
Gwalior
0.192
?
Gwalior
Gwalior
110
OEMI0112
Amir Khan(Seni,Gwalior)
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
0.1847
?
Gwalior
0.1915
?
Gwalior
50
OEMI0863
Imdad Hussain Khan
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
0.1848
Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
1920
Indore
his father Sahabdad Hussain Khan
439440
OEMI0771
Hafiz Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.185
Jaipur
0.1909
?
his father Mammu Khan
398
OEMI1262
Mangubai
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer of the Gwalior durbar
dhrupad
0.185
?
?
0.194
?
?
Haddu and Hassu Khan
639
OEMI0152
Anna-saheb Gharpure
sitar player,udra veena player
Rudra veena and sitar player
0.185
probably Pune district, Maharashtra
1920
Pune
Vinayakrao Limaye
65
P00114
OEMI0076
Ali Bakhsh Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the reputed duo Alia-Fattu
0.185
?
?
1925
?
?
38
OEMI2256
Zahur Khan （Khurja）
vocalist,composer
Noted vocalist （dhrupad, hoori, and khayaal） and composer
kdhrupad, hoori,,hayaal
0.185
?
20
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
11571158
OEMI0598
Dulichand （Seth）
patron,
Patron
0.185
Kolkata
1920
Kolkata
303
OEMI0599
Duliya Rana
writer, performer
Writer and performer of Shekhaawati khyaals of Rajasthan
0.1855
?
0.1935
Jaipur
303
OEMI1748
Ramanna
composer, performer
Veteran composer of jaavalis and performer of Harikathaa
jaavalis,Harikathaa
0.1855
Hullahalli village, Andhra
1918
Hullahalli
874
OEMI1178
Lalan Prasad
composer
Noted singer-composer of thumriis
0.1856
Farukhabad, Uttar Pradesh
1926
?
592
OEMI0180
Asad Ali Khan(Rampur)
Sursinger maestro
0.1858
?
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1918
?
Rampur
78
P00204
OEMI1255
Mamman Khan
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
0.1859
?
Delhi
1940
0602
Delhi
Sangi Khan and Ghulam Hussain Khan
633
OEMI0222
Bablibai Salgaonkar
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of her time
khayaal
0.186
Salgaon, Goa
0.1925
Mumbai
Agra
Natthan Khan
93
OEMI0308
Barkatullah Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.186
probably Patiala
1928
Mumbai
123
OEMI0016
Abdul Rahim Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.186
?
Delhi
0.193
?
probably Hyderabad
his family(Ghulam Gaus Khan and Tanras Khan
6
OEMI0988
Kale Khan （Saras-piya）
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the durbar of Lunvada, in North Gujarat
0.186
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
family
503
OEMI1399
Muravvat Khan
sitar player,vocalist
Durbar musician. vocalist and sitar player
0.186
?
?
0.1945
?
?
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
698
OEMI1010
Kanailal Dhendi
Reputed esraaj exponent
0.1861
?
Gaya
1901
?
Gaya
esraaj
Hanumandas Singh
513
OEMI0649
Ganapati-bua Bhilavadikar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist, reputed teacher, and an early musical guide of V.N. Bhatkhande
0.1861
Vathar village, near Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1927
0823
Sangli, Maharashtra
Vasudev-bua Joshi
328329
OEMI0043
Aftabuddin Khan
Instrumentalist
0.1862
?
Shibpur,Bangladesh
1933
?
?
Ramdhan and Ramkanai Sheel(violin),and other instruments from Kasim Ali
23
OEMI1612
Pattabhiramayya （Tirupanandal）
composer
Composer of Jaavali songs
0.1863
Tirupanandal, near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
?
805
P06532
OEMI1425
Mysore Vasudevachar
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer
0.1865
?
Mysore
1961
?
?
710
OEMI0661
Gauri Shankar Mishra
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
0.1865
Benares
1945
Kolkata
Birai Misir
349
OEMI0601
Duraiswami Iler （Manattattai）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1865
?
0.1926
?
his paternal uncle Manattattai Ramaswami Iyer
303
OEMI0986
Kale Khan （Kasurwale; Patiala）
vocalist
Emiinent vocalist
Mumbai
0.187
Patiala, Punjab
0.1915
Kanpur
his uncle Ustaad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
502503
OEMI2267
Zohrabai （Agrewali）
vocalist
Vocalist, rated topmost among the female singers of her time in north India
0.187
Agra
0.1911
Patna
Her first teacher was Ahmed Khan, later Mehboob Khan
11601161
OEMI1447
Nanhe Khan （Mumbai）
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
Gujarat and Mumbai
0.1872
?
0.194
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh, his elder brother Ghasit Khan
722
OEMI2183
Vengichan Swami （Thiruvilwamala）
Performer of the drum, maddalam, for Kathakali
0.1873
Thiruvilwaamala, Thrissur district, Kerala
?
his uncle Chittan Pattar and Chinnaswami Bhagavatar （maddalam）
1121
OEMI0020
Abdulla Khan(Agra)
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa tradition
0.1873
Agra
19221919
?
?
Agra
7
OEMI0058
Ahmedijan Thirakawa Khan
tabla player
tabla maestro
?
0.1874
?
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
1976
0112
Lucknow
28
P00016
OEMI2185
Venkata Rao （Chintalapalli）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1875
?
1969
Mysore
his uncles Bhaskar Rao and Venkataramayya and some others
1121
OEMI0057
Ahmed Ali Khan
Distinguished sarod player
0.1875
?
Rampur
1920
?
Rampur
2728
OEMI0004
Abudul Azis Khan
saarangi player
saarangi
0.1875
?
Bithur,near Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh
1946
?
?
Alladiya Khan Biturwale
2
OEMI0084
Allabande Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Dagar lineage
?
0.1875
?
Shahjahanour,Uttar Pradesh
1925
?
Alwar, Rajasthan
39
OEMI0633
Fida Hussain Khan(Sitar)
sitar player
Son of Gwalior sitar veteran,Amir Khan.
0.1875
?
?
0.1927
?
?
Amir Khan
320
OEMI0759
Gundo-bua Ingle
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Aundh, a small princely state in Maharashtra
Maharashtra
0.1876
Aundh
0.1925
Sangi, Maharashtra
Gwalior gharaanaa,durbar of Aundh
Balkrishna-bua Ichalkaranjikar
389
OEMI0625
Fazal Hussain
sitar player
Eminent sitar player of the Seni lineage
0.1878
?
?
0.1949
?
?
Agra,Seni
Amir Khan
318319
P06115
OEMI0093
Altaf Hussain Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
?
0.1878
?
Khurja, near Delhi
1964
?
Delhi
Khurjaa
44
OEMI0019
Abdul Wahid Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1878
?
Kirana, Uttar Pradesh
0.1949
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
Haidar Bakhsh
6
OEMI0843
Honavar Krishnabhat
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
0.1878
Gokarn, South Karnataka
1942
Shirali, in the same region
S.N. Ratanjankar, S.C.R. Bhat
434
OEMI0973
Kader Bakhsh
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Jhajjar gharaanaa
0.188
?
1934
?
his father Axim Bakhsh
494
OEMI1712
Rajeshwari Devi
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Benares
Benares
0.188
?
1940
?
865
OEMI1305
Maulaviram Misir
tabla player
Noted tabla player
0.188
?
Benares
1940
?
?
his father Biharilal
660
P00005
OEMI0092
Allauddin Khan (Maihar)
musician
Celebrated guru and all-round musician
?
0.1881
?
Shibpur, Tripura
1972
0906
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
4243
OEMI0629
Feroze Khan(Patiala)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Patiaalaa gharaanaa
0.1881
?
?
1971
0826
?
Patiaalaa
Natthe Khan
319
OEMI0571
Dhaturam Sarma Oja
Noted singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Assam
0.1883
?
Athiyabari,Darrang district,Assam
1970
?
Athiyabari,Assam
Chandrakantadeva Sarma, Bhabiram Sarma, and Manoranjan Sastri.
285
OEMI0242
Badi Motibai
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist of Benares
Benares
0.1885
Darbhanga, Bihar
1977
0214
Benares
Siyaji Maharaj, Mithailalji, Maujuddin Khan
98
OEMI2069
Sundarabai Jadhav
vocalist
Noted vocalist, especially of light classical varieties
0.1886
?
1953
0603
Mumbai
Thakurdas-bua, Ghulam Rasool Khan, and Gamman Khan
1030
P00244
OEMI2250
Yusuf Ali Khan
sitar player
Reputed sitar exponent
0.1887
?
Lucknow
1962
1014
?
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
11551156
OEMI0800
Harendra Kishore Roy Choudhuri
patron,musician
Patron and musician
0.1887
Ramgopalpur, now in Bangladesh
0.195
?
tabla; Natthu Khan, Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Masid Khan, Maulaviram, Abid Hussain Khan
410
OEMI0033
Achhan Maharaj
Legendary Kathak dancer of Lucknow
0.1888
?
Lucknow
1946
?
?
Kalkadin Prasad and Bindadin Prasad
17
OEMI0015
Abdul Majid Khan
saarangi player
Reputed saarangi player
0.1888
?
?
1977
0319
Mumbai
Abdulla Khan(d.1917)and Kale Khan
5
OEMI2087
Suryaboro Singh
Noted exponent of nata sankeertana music and dance of Manipur
0.189
Imphal, Manipur
1939
Imphal
his maternal uncle Chingsubam Ibeton Singh
1039
OEMI0991
Kalipada Pathak
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
0.189
Howrah, Kolkata
?
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
505
OEMI1291
Masidullah Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent and teacher
0.189
?
?
1974
1216
?
Farukhaabaad
Nanne Khan
655
OEMI1996
Sitaram Mundale
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1891
?
1947
1205
Mumbai
986
P00188
OEMI1422
Mylapore Gowri Amma
dancer
Noted dancer and teacher of Bharata Naatyam
0.1892
?
Chennai
1971
06??
Chennai
Nallur Munuswamy Nattavanar, Chinnayya Naidu and her mother.
707
OEMI0223
Babu Khan （Rudra Vina）
Noted performer and teacher
0.1892
Narwar, Madhhya Pradesh
1941
1125
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Murad Khan
93
OEMI0650
Ganpatrao Dewaskar
vocalist,
Vocalist and singer-actor of Marathi plays
0.1896
?
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
1978
0717
Mumbai
Rajab Ali Khan, Haidar Khan
329
OEMI0531
Dattaram Parvatkar
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
0.1898
?
Parvati town,Goa
1973
0715
Mumbai
Khaprumama Parvatkar and Balkrishna-bua and Laxmanrao
259
OEMI2276
Mehbobjan
vocalist
Vocalist
Pune, Maharashtra
0.1898
?
1970
Solapur, Maharashtra
Tupelkhan Sitariya
666
OEMI2026
Srichand Misra
tabla player
Tabla player
0.19
?
Benares
0.197
?
?
his father Sarju Misra and uncle Bikku Maharaj
1008
OEMI1404
Mushtaribai
vocalist
Vocalist
0.19
?
most probably Fatehbad or Fatehpur,Agra region,Uttar Pradesh
1933
?
Agra
699700
P05631
OEMI0235
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
0.1901
0404
Kasur
1968
0423
Hyderabad
his uncle Kale Khan, his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale
95
OEMI0243
Badri Prasad Mishra
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1903
1980
0423
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
98
OEMI1472
Narayana Iyengar, K.S.
gottu vaadyam player
Veteran of the string instrument, gottu vaadyam
0.1905
Bhootapandi, Tamil Nadu
1959
0111
Bangalore
Kodaganallur Subbayya Bhagavatar, Sakharama Rao
727
OEMI1658
Purushottamadas Pakhawaji
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player of the Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Nathadwara
0.1907
Nathadwara
?
Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Goswami Govindlalji
832
P00219
OEMI1932
Shambhu Maharaj
dancer
Veteran Kathak dancer, Padma Shri awardee
Kathak
0.1907
?
1970
1104
Delhi
his paternal uncle Bindadin Maharaj and brother Achhan Maharaj
964
OEMI1998
Sitaram-bua Phatarphekar
vocalist
Vocalist
0.191
near Phatarphe, Goa
the Agra gharaanaa
Parshuram-bua Parsekar, Yashwantrao Lolekar, and Vilayat Hussain Khan
986
OEMI2090
Sushila Mishra
Author and connoisseur of both Karnatik and Hindustani music
0.192
Thrissur district, Kerala
1998
0808
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
1039
OEMI0303
Durga Prasad
Noted Kathak dancer, also known as Pande Maharaj
0.192
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
his father, Sukhdev Maharaj,and later from Achchan Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj
304
P02700
OEMI1719
Ram Gopal
Reputed dancer who, like Uday Shankar, took Indian dances to many parts of the world
0.192
?
2003
1012
London
868
P00034
OEMI0716
Gopal Mishra
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
0.192
Benares
1977
1222
Delhi
his grandfather Ganeshji Mishra, Bade Ramdas Mishra
372373
OEMI0413
Bulakilal Yadav
tabla player
Tabla player
0.1923
?
?
2000
0408
Allahabad
Lalji Shrivastav
204
OEMI0450
Chaturlal
tabla player
Eminent tabla exponent
0.1925
Udaipur
1965
1014
Ahmedjan Thirakwa
226
OEMI1715
Rajkumari
Noted singer-actress of yesteryears
0.1925
Benares
2000
0317
Mumbai
866
OEMI0840
Hiradevi Mishra
vocalist,
Vocalist of light classical forms, specially of the Benares tradition
Benares
0.1926
?
1983
0107
Benares
Alla Khan, her husband Kamal Mishra
432
OEMI1190
Lallu Singh
tabla player
Tabla player and teacher
0.1928
?
2000
0824
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Madho Singh
600
OEMI0097
Amanat Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
0.1928
?
probably Narsingarh, Madhya Pradesh
1968
0103
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
46
OEMI2223
Vitthal Vipuldev
composer
Composer of Vaishnava devotional songs
16
?
17
?
1139
OEMI1419
Mutthu Thandavar
composer
composer
16
Sirkazhi,south of Chidambaram,Tamil Nadu
?
706
OEMI0622
Faqirullah Saif Khan
Author of Raaga Darpan
17
?
?
1684
0826
Allahabad
317
OEMI0820
Hasir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
18
?
?
the Qavvaal gharaanaa of Dalhi
418
OEMI2259
Zainul Abedin
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
18
in or around Lucknow
0.1887
Hyderabad
1158
OEMI1516
Natthu Khan
vocalist
Eminent exponent of the Gwaalior Khayaal gharaanaa
khayaal
18
?
?
0.1884
?
?
Gwaalior khayaal
his father Kader Bakhsh
741
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
OEMI0505
Chunnabai
vocalist
Vocalist
19
?
1901
Pune, Maharashtra
Bande Ali Khan
245
OEMI1937
Shamsuddin Khan （Sitar）
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jaipur gharaanaa
Mumbai
19
?
1920
?
his father Amir Khan
965
OEMI1754
Ramchandra Agnihotri
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
20
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
1982
0630
Gwalior
Rajaa-bhaiyaa Poochwale
876
OEMI1841
Sagolshem Kalidaman Singh
vocalist
vocalist
20
Imphal, Manipur
?
Y.Kartik Singh, Rajkumar Suryaboro Sana
911