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
OEMI2101
Taj Khan
vocalist
Eminent singer of dhrupad and khayaal
dhrupad,khayaal
0.182
?
?
0.1904
?
Nepal
Haidar Khan,Sadiq Ali Khan,
10521053
OEMI0113
Amir Khan(Seni,Rampur)
vocalist, rudra veena player,
Reputed rudra veena player,proficient as a vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar as well.
0.182
?
Banda,Uttar Pradesh
0.1873
?
Rampur
his father Umrao Khan
50
OEMI0706
Gokhibai
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and dancer, sometimes mentioned as Gorkhibai
0.182
Punjab
187580
?
Bairam Khan
370371
OEMI1223
Mahadev Gokhale
vocalist
Believed to be the earliest proponent of khayaal in Maharashtra
khayaal
0.1819
?
Khol,Ratnagiri district,Maharashtra
1901
?
?
Bapu-saheb Budhkar
618619
OEMI1547
Niyamatullah Khan
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
0.1816
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
0.1902
Delhi
765766
OEMI1726
Ram Sahai
tabla player
Outstanding tabla player, originator of the Benares tradition in tabla
0.1815
Benares
0.1868
Benares
Benares
870
OEMI1540
Nissar Ali Khan （Seni）
sursingaar player,rabaab player
Sursingaar and rabaab exponent
0.1814
Lucknow
0.188
Benares
his father, Zaffar Khan, his elder brother, Sadiq Ali
763
OEMI2104
Tanras Khan
Khyaal stalwart
0.1814
?
Dasna,near Delhi
0.1885
?
Hyderabad
10591060
OEMI0124
Amritsen
sitar player
Sitar and surabin （string） maestro
0.1813
Jhajjar, near Delhi
0.1893
Jaipur
his father Rahimsen
5253
OEMI1383
Munduru Khan
Sarod player
0.181
?
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1884
?
Rampur
693694
OEMI0246
Bahadur Hussain Khan
sursingaar player
Sursingaar maestro of the Rampur royal durbar
0.1808
?
0.187
?
Rampur royal durbar
101
OEMI0653
Ganga Narayan Chattopadhyaya
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher
dhrupad
0.1808
Bilwapushkarini village, Nadia district, Bengal
0.1874
Kolkata
Mir Nasiram
331332
OEMI1929
Sham Singh Adanshahi Mahant
Singer of sabad keertan in the Golden Temple of Amritsar for many decades
0.1803
?
?
964
OEMI0674
Ghasit Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer of the Fatehpur Sikri tradition
dhrupad
0.18
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
0.188
Fatehpur Sikri
his father, Dulhe Khan. Haidar Khan
356
OEMI0864
Imdad Khan （Agra）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.18
Agra
0.186
Agra
agra gharaanaa
his family
440
OEMI1424
Mysore Sadasiva Rao
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer
0.18
?
?
1885
?
Mysore
709710
OEMI0560
Devji-bua Paranjape
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and teacher
0.1798
?
Pune,Maharashtra
1878
?
Dhar,Madhya Pradesh
Gadgil-bua
279
OEMI0847
Hussain Khan Babbar
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.1795
?
0.187
?
his cousin Rahimsen
436
OEMI1371
Mubarak Ali Khan(Jaipur)
vocalist
Noted vocalist
0.1795
?
Lucknow
0.188
?
Jaipur
Bade Mohammad Khan
689
OEMI1963
Sher Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
khayaal
0.1792
Agra
0.1862
Agra
Agra
his paternal uncle Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
971
OEMI0825
Hassu Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the brother-duo Haddu-Hassu Khan of Gwalior
Gwalior
0.179
Gwalior
0.1855
Gwalior
Gwalior
419
OEMI0666
Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
vocalist
Founder of the Agra khayaal tradition
khayaal
0.179
Agra
0.188
Agra
the Agra khayaal
353
OEMI2148
Umrao Khan （Rudra Vina）
rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena exponent of the Seni tradition
0.1788
?
0.184
probably Rewa
Seni
his father Chhote Naubat Khan, his uncle Nirmal Shah
1102
OEMI0314
Basit Khan
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
0.1787
?
0.1887
?
129
OEMI0034
Achpal-miya
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbabr of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
0.178
?
Delhi
0.1854
?
?
Delhi Qavvaal
17
OEMI0775
Haidar Bakhsh （Jaipur）
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of Jaipur
Jaipur
0.1777
?
0.1833
?
Dulhe Khan, Masit Khan
399
OEMI2252
Zaffar Khan
rabaab player
Eminent rabaab player
0.1776
?
?
0.184
?
Benares
Seni
his father Chhajju Khan
1157
OEMI1177
Lalan Fakir
singer-composer
Baaul singer-composer
Baaul
0.1774
Bhandra, Kustia district, Bengal
1891
?
592
OEMI0951
Jodhe Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
0.177
?
?
Khurjaa
483
OEMI0783
Haidar Khan Seni
vocalist
A master of dhrupad and dhamaar
dhrupad,dhamaar
0.177
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
0.184
?
his father Jeevan Khan,
400
OEMI0234
Bade Changeh Khan
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of the durbar of Mughal king Bahadur Shah Zafar
khayaal
0.177
Panipat
0.1857
?
96
OEMI0249
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
Eminent exponent
0.1765
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
102
OEMI0248
Bahadur Khan （Seni）
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
0.1762
?
0.1805
Delhi
his father Masit Khan
102
OEMI1514
Natthan Pir Bakhsh
vocalist
Khayaal pioneer of Gwalior
khayaal
0.176
?
Gwalior
0.1837
?
Gwalior
his father Pir Bakhsh
741
OEMI1538
Nirmal Shah
rudra veena player
Eminent performer of the rudra veena
0.176
Lucknow
0.183
Benares
his father Jeevan Shah
762
OEMI1720
Ram Joshi
Poet, writer of tamaashaa plays, and performer of Marathi keertan
0.1758
Solapur district, Maharashtra
1813
06??
?
868
OEMI0464
Chhota Naubat Khan
rudra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
0.1756
?
?
his illustrious father Jeevan Khan
236
OEMI2055
Sukhsen
Reputed dhrupad exponent of the Seni tradition
0.175
?
Gwalior
0.18
?
Gwalior
Seni
1027
OEMI0257
Bakhshu-miya
tabla player
Founder of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa which emerged between 1775 and 1800
0.175
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
his grand-father Siddhar Khan Dhaadi, Bade Kale Khan
106
OEMI0597
Dulha Khan
vocalist
Noted 18th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer of Jaipur
dhrupad
Jaipur
0.1745
?
0.182
?
303
OEMI1515
Natthe Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1745
?
?
?
?
Khurjaa
741
OEMI1968
Shori-miya （Ghulam Nabi）
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer
0.174
?
1803
Lucknow
his father Ghulaam Rasool, Nawab Suja-ud-daulaa
973
OEMI2254
Zahur Khan(Dhurupad)
He probably belonged to the early dhrupad veterans of Atrauli some of whom migrated to Rajasthan
0.174
?
Atrauli
?
?
1157
P02009
OEMI1293
Masit Khan
Innovator of the Mastikhaani gat
0.173
?
?
0.18
?
?
655
OEMI1185
Lalit Mohinidev
Poet-devotee of Braja Pradesh
0.1727
?
0.1805
?
595
OEMI1725
Ram Prasad Sen
musician
Ascetic musician of 18th-cent. Bengal
0.1723
Halisahar-Kumarhatta in Nadia [now in Bangladesh]
0.1783
?
869870
OEMI1097
Krishna Chandra Ray
patron,
Music lover and patron
0.171
?
0.1783
?
569
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
OEMI2186
Venkata Subbayyar （Uttukkadu）
composer
Composer of keertanam in Tamil and Sanskrit
0.17
Uttukkaadu, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1765
?
Nidamangalam Raja Bhagavatar
11211122
OEMI0754
Gulab Khan （Seni）
vocalist,rabaab player
Dhrupad singer and rabaab player
dhrupad
0.17
Delhi
0.1768
Jaipur, Rajasthan
his father Hassan Khan Seni
386
OEMI0368
Bhupat Khan(Maharang)
rudra veena player
A master of rudra veena in the Seni tradition.
0.1696
?
?
0.1778
?
?
Seni
his father Sadaarang
183
OEMI0037
Adarang(Feroze Khan)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of the durbar
0.1692
?
?
0.1776
?
Delhi
Sadaarang
19
OEMI0824
Hassan Khan Seni
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
0.166
?
0.173
?
his father Sughar （or Sudhar） Khan
418419
OEMI0326
Bhadrachala Ramadas
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
0.162
Nelakondapalle, Golkonda, Andhra Pradesh
0.168
?
145
OEMI1077
Khushal Khan
vocalist
Vocalist, the foremost luminary of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
0.16
Agra
168090
Delhi
his father Laai Khan Seni
555
OEMI1496
Narharidevji
Devotional poet of Vrindavan.
0.1587
?
?
0.1688
?
?
731
OEMI1958
Sheikh Bahauddin Burnawa
musician
Ascetic musician
0.158
0.168
970971
OEMI1171
Lal Khan （Bade or Seni）
vocalist
Eminent 17th-cent. vocalist
0.1562
?
0.165
?
591
OEMI0376
Bilas Khan
vocalist,composer
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
0.154
?
Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
0.1621
?
?
189
OEMI2077
Suratsen
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1539
Rewa, Madhta Pradesh
0.1615
Agra
his father Taansen
1034
OEMI2080
Surdas Madanmohan
composer
Composer of devotional songs
0.1537
?
1600
Vrindaavan, Uttar Pradesh
1035
OEMI1497
Narottamdas Thakur
composer
Vaishnava devotee and composer
Vaishnava saint-musician
0.1533
?
Kheturi,Bengal
?
?
731
OEMI2139
Tulsidas
Saint-poet, celebrated author of Raama Charita Maanas, the story of Sri Raama, in Avadhi, a dialect of the Hindi-speaking region of India
0.1532
?
1623
?
Naraharidaas
10951096
OEMI1427
Nabat Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena maestro of the Seni gharaanaa
0.153
?
Singhalgad, Rajasthan
0.161
?
Agra[then called Akbarabad]
Seni
711
OEMI1314
Mirabai
Sixteenth-century saint-poet of legendary fame
0.1504
?
Kudki,near Merta,former Jodhpur state of Rajasthan
1546
?
?
663664
OEMI0813
Haridas Swami （Vrindavan）
composer
Legendary saint-composer
0.148
Kher, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh
0.1575
Vrindavan, near Agra
412413
OEMI2079
Surdas
singer
Blind singer
0.1478
Sihi village, near Delhi
?
It is not known
1035
OEMI1651
Purandaradasa
musician
Saint-musician, usually called the grandfather of present-day Karnatik music
0.1471
Purandaragad village
1564
0102
Hampi Karnataka
830831
OEMI1977
Shyam Kumbhar
Pakhaawaj player of the Vrindavan region, Uttar Pradesh
0.1466
?
?
975
OEMI1520
Nayak Baiju
One of the finest singers of dhrupad of the 15th cent.
0.1465
?
Champaner village,North Gujarat
0.154
?
?
751
OEMI1521
Nayak Bakhshu
vocalist
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
0.146
?
?
0.1535
?
?
Raja Maansingh Toomar
751752
OEMI0970
Kabir
Saint-poet
0.1398
?
0.1518
?
492493
OEMI2201
Vidyapati Thakur
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
0.136
?
0.1448
?
1127
OEMI0968
Jyotiriswara
Author of Varna Ratnaakara and two more works titled Maithili Dhurta Sumagama and Nritya Vidyaa Kathaa
0.128
?
1340
?
490
OEMI0733
Gora Kumbhar
Poet of Marathi abhangs
Teradhoki
0.1267
?
?
0.1296
?
?
377
OEMI0116
Amir Khusrau
poet-musician, Sufi mystic
Thirteenth-century poet-musician and Sufi mystic of the Delhi Sultanate
0.1253
?
Patiala
1325
?
?
Qavvaal
5051
OEMI1899
Savta Mali
Poet of Marathi abhangs
0.125
?
0.1295
?
957
OEMI0311
Basaveswara
Spiritual leader of the Veena Saiva movement of Karnataka
0.1139
Bagewadi, Bijasur district, Karnataka
0.1196
Kudala Sangama, Bagalkot district, Karnaraka
128129
OEMI0018
Abdul Sattar
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
6
P06191
OEMI0161
Anwar Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
?
?
Agra
70
OEMI1335
Mitthu Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
673
OEMI1898
Savaliya Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
Pyar Khan
954
P00159
OEMI0896
Jaffar Hussain Khan
Noted qavvaali singer
Sahaswan,Uttar Pradesh
449
OEMI0185
Asgarijan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s and an early singer for disc-records.
?
?
?
?
Agra
81
OEMI0937
Jhire Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the Paanipat tradition
478
OEMI0191
Ashiq Ali Khan(Jaipur)
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
?
?
0.1905
?
Jaipur
82
OEMI2068
Sundarabai of Charkhari
vocalist
She was vocalist of khayaal in the 20th-century
khayaal
?
?
1030
OEMI0315
Bauli Bakhsh
Eminent performer of the Delhi rabla haraanaa
?
?
Delhi rabla gharaanaa
his father Bade Kale Khan
130
OEMI1372
Mubarak Ali Khan(Mumbai)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
689690
OEMI1650
Pundarika Vitthal
musicologist
Eminent 16th-cent. musicologist
Satanur village, near Sivaganga, Bangalor region, Karnataka
?
829
OEMI1406
Mussammat Lajjat Bakhsh
Thumrii and ghazal singer of Farukhabad
thumrii
?
?
703
OEMI0439
Chandrarekha
The most privileged danseuse of the durbar of Thanjavur Maharaja Vijaya Raghava Nayak
Thanjavur
?
?
220
OEMI0717
Gopal Nayak
musician
there are at least five medieval musicians of the same name, mentioned in different sources
?
?
373374
OEMI0854
Ilahi Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rangile gharaanaa
?
?
Rangile
439
OEMI1453
Nanja Raja
Author of Sangeeta Gangaadhara
?
?
723
OEMI2047
Sudhakalasa
Author
?
?
?
?
1021
OEMI2189
Venkatamakhi
musicologist
Outstanding musicologist of the 17th cent
Thanjavur
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
Nothing authentic is known
11221123
OEMI0287
Balwantrao Ketkar
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Sangli,Maharashtra
khayaal
Sangli,Maharashtra
?
?
?
?
Antu-bua Apte
115116
OEMI1386
Munnan Khan(Murshidabad)
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player(second half, 19th cent.)
Murshidabad (now in Bangladesh)
?
?
?
?
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
694
OEMI1765
Rameshwar Pathak
sitar player
Sitar player of early 20th cent. Darbhanga, Bihar
?
?
879