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
Wazir Khan(Hapur)
?
OEMI2240
1145
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist
his father Nizam Khan
Maheswara Mahapatra
OEMI1237
621622
?
?
author
Malkajan Agrewali
OEMI1249
629630
?
?
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
Akshay Chowdhury
?
OEMI0069
34
?
?
?
composer
Poet and composer of patriotic songs in Bengali
Sheikh Munna
OEMI1962
971
Lucknow
20
?
?
Shehnai player of the 1900s
Lakshmandas Seth
OEMI1161
589
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
patron,
Patron of the arts
Bose,R.N.
?
OEMI0403
198
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali songs
Shambhu （Master）
OEMI1931
964
20
?
?
Singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays of the 1900s
Abban Khan
?
OEMI0002
1
1922
19-20
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
Behnam Khan Dagar(c.1800-1887)
Dhrupad
Rahim Khan
OEMI1688
857
?
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
Amritsen
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
?
OEMI0021
7
Delhi
?
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0884
445
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
Mahmod Khan
OEMI1240
622
1920
19-20
?
probably Bhadvar,Rajasthan
vocalist
vocalist
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
OEMI1323
671
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
?
OEMI0077
38
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Seni
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
OEMI0846
436
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
Allahdi
?
OEMI0091
42
Delhi
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Kutub Bakhsh
OEMI1144
582
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Wazirjan
?
OEMI2242
1146
Beneres
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
vocalist of Beneres of the 1900s.
Abbasuddin Ahmed
?
OEMI0003
12
Bengal
?
?
?
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
OEMI1982
976
16
?
?
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Purushottama Mishra
OEMI1657
832
Orissa
?
?
Scholar in the durbar of Gajapati Jagannaatha Naaraayanadeva, king of Paralkhemundi, southern Orissa
Chodia Imam Bakhsh
OEMI0502
244
19
?
?
tabla player
Eminent 19th-cent. tabla player
The Fraukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Haji Vilayat Ali Khan
Kumaraswami Bhaktar
OEMI1129
578
Kanjeevaram,Tamil Nadu
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the 1900s
Ramu-bhaiyya Date
OEMI1782
884
?
?
patron,
patron of Hindustani classical music
Arabatta Navalar
OEMI0168
72
?
?
Author of a Tamil work on dance titled Bharata Saastiram （c.18th cemt.）
Banujan
OEMI0301
121
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolhapur during roughly 1900-20
Mehndi Hassan
OEMI1319
667
Jaipur
vocalist,composer
ghazal singer ,composer
ghazal
Kallinath Pandit
OEMI0993
505506
?
?
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
OEMI1529
756
?
?
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
Satyabhamabai Pandharpurkar
OEMI1895
953
Sangli district, Maharashtra
Well-known performer of Marathi laavani
Godavaribai Punekar
Babu Khan （Tabla）
OEMI0224
93
1899
29
Delhi
Kolkata
tabla player
Tablaa player?
his mother
Lal Khan （Jodhpur）
OEMI1172
591
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
OEMI0211
90
Lucknow
19
Kalpi
?
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Haricharan Das Swami
OEMI0811
412
Dhaka
18
?
?
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
OEMI0941
480
Kolkata
Author
Appa Tulsi
OEMI0163
71
1920
19
?
?
Late 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and scholar
Govindprasad Gopaldas
OEMI0745
382
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th-cent,
Incha Baras
OEMI0874
442
?
?
musician
Musician in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
Khajurbai
OEMI1067
543
?
?
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
Mankar
?
OEMI1273
643
Assam
?
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent
Mohammad Reza
OEMI1355
681
?
?
author
Rahimanbai
OEMI1689
857858
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Babu Ram Sahai
Ramkumar Basak
OEMI1771
881
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Singhanadeva
OEMI1990
982
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of Devgiri, near Aurangabad in Maharashtra
Talim Hussain
?
OEMI2102
1055
Lucknow
?
20
?
?
Shehnai player of 1900s
Vishnudas Nama
OEMI2211
1135
16
?
?
composer
Composer and performer of Marathi aakhyaan for some years after 1550
Krishna Iyengar （Madurai）
OEMI1098
569
Mumbai
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for pallavi rendition
Govinda Dikshitar
OEMI0738
380
?
?
musicologist
Musicologist and statesman; author of Sangeeta Sudhaa
Natarajan,A.K.C.
?
OEMI1509
739
?
?
?
clarinet player
Noted clarinet player
A.K.Chinnakrishnan
Murad Khan(Vocal)
?
OEMI1397
697
1889
?
19
?
Delhi
Reputed dhrupad singer
Narahari Chakravarti
OEMI1458
725
?
?
Singer, poet, and scholar of Bengal
Parashuram-bua Barve
OEMI1599
798
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
Vishnupant Chhatre
Guruyacharyulu
OEMI0764
392
Vijayanagaram, Andhra
?
?
vocalist, composer,veena player
Vocalist, composer, and veena exponent of the durbar of Vijayanagaram, Andhra
Jorawar Singh
OEMI0958
488
Gwalior
?
?
Noted mridang player of the Gwalior durbar of Maharaja Jankojirao Scindia
Sukhdev Singh, Narayan Prasad Agnihotri
Lakshmiram Barua
OEMI1169
591
20
?
?
composer
Early 20th cent. Assamese composer and author of Sangeetkos
Chaggan(Master)
?
OEMI0419
208
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer-actor of the 1900s.
Abdul Gafur
?
OEMI0006
2
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Badru Zaman Khan
OEMI0244
98
1938
20
?
Hyderabad
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
his family
P06696
Munne Khan
?
OEMI1388
695
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and a disc-record singer of the early 1900s.
Sitab Khan
OEMI1994
982
18
?
?
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
P00105
Ghulam Sabir Khan （Bade）
OEMI0691
363
1962
20
?
?
Saarangi maestro
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
?
OEMI2122
1076
1974
?
20
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
Pithakowapara
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
Dilawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI0583
295
Rewa
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
Agra
khayaal
Haidarijan
OEMI0777
399400
?
?
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
Lal Kavi
OEMI1170
591
?
?
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
Nasibjan
?
OEMI1500
732
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist disc-record singer of the early 20th cent
Zahur Bakhsh
?
OEMI2253
1157
Jodhpu
0.19
?
19-20
Atrauli
Jodhapur
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpur
his father Mantol Khan
Thakur Lakshman Singh
?
OEMI2119
1072
1936
?
19-20
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player
Mahant Gopal Das
Chunnilal Hathraswale
OEMI0506
245
?
?
Noted nautanki artiste of Dariyapur, near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
dance by Kalkadin and Bindadin, music by Natharam of Hathras
Bhagwatibhai Bhatt
OEMI0332
149
1977
1217
20
?
?
Singer and teacher of haveli songs of the Pushti Maargi Vaishnava sect
Murad Ali Khan(Lucknow)
?
OEMI1395
696
Lucknow
?
19
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th-cent.
Ranjit Singh (Bhai)
OEMI1799
888
?
?
tabla player
tabla player
Bhai Gopal Singh
Chinna Vaithi
OEMI0483
240
Mysore
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
Lalita Devi
OEMI1186
598
Benares
?
?
Noted thumti singer of Benares
Meruswami
OEMI1321
669
?
?
A pioneer of south Indian Harikathaa during the reigns of Maratha kings.
Harikathaa
Nawabjan
?
OEMI1519
751
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramamatya
OEMI1740
872
16
?
?
Author of Svara Mela Kalaanidhi, dated around 1550
Pashupati Sevak Mishra
OEMI1609
801
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Mishra Lineage of Benares
Kuloi Chandra Sen
OEMI1127
578
19
?
?
musician
musician
Chantai Das Oja
OEMI0444
221
?
?
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Hari Dikshit Pandit
OEMI0803
411
18
?
?
Performer of Marathi keertans; peak period sometime during 1700-50
Lala Bhagwandas
OEMI1175
592
?
?
Founder of the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Rambhau Saverkar
OEMI1753
876
Indore
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Indore
Haddu Khan
khayaal
Balwantrao Bhaiyya
?
OEMI0286
115
Gwalior
1925
?
19-20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Gwalior
Gwalior
his mother,the famous dancer Chandrabhaga
Savyasachi Iyengar
OEMI1900
957
Mysore
?
?
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar III （r. 1799-1868）
Brahmananda Paradesi
?
OEMI0404
199
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
Kunjukrishna Poduval (Ambadi)
OEMI1139
580
?
?
vocalist, composer
vocalist and composer
Appar
OEMI0164
71
7
?
?
Seventh-century saint-poet of Tamil Nadu
Chirag
OEMI0494
241
Punjjabi
20
?
?
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist of Punjjabi sings, mostly qavvaalis
qavvaal
Jagaddhara
OEMI0898
449
Scholar of the medieval period
Khande Dasappa
OEMI1069
547
?
?
tabla player,mridangam player
Mridangam and tabla player of the durbar of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV
Mannabai
?
OEMI1277
643
Lucknow or Rampur
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramlal Bareth
OEMI1773
881
1936
0306
20
?
?
Kathak dancer, teacher
Jailal Maharaj
Krishnayyar 'Dasavadyam'
OEMI1120
573
19
?
?
Instrumentalist
Sinnayya （Ghanam）
OEMI1992
982
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of padam and keertana
padam and keertana
Narayanaswami Pillai （Sirkazhi）
OEMI1484
729
19
?
?
violinist
Well-known violinist 19th cent.
Nanhe Khan （Sarod）
OEMI1448
722723
1868
19
?
Gwalior
Sarod player?
his weii-known father Ghulam Ali Khan
Ulsor Krishna Iyer
OEMI2144
1102
19
?
?
vocalist
Durbar vocalist of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar r.1799-1860 of Mysore state
Syaamaa Saastri
Haladhara Mishra
OEMI0785
400
?
?
Author of Sangeet Kalpalatika, a manuscript on music and dance

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