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
OEMI1067
Khajurbai
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
?
?
543
OEMI1273
Mankar
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent
Assam
?
?
?
?
643
OEMI1355
Mohammad Reza
author
?
?
681
OEMI1689
Rahimanbai
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
Babu Ram Sahai
857858
OEMI1771
Ramkumar Basak
pakhaawaj player
?
?
881
OEMI1990
Singhanadeva
patron,
Royal patron of Devgiri, near Aurangabad in Maharashtra
?
?
982
OEMI2102
Talim Hussain
Shehnai player of 1900s
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
1055
OEMI2211
Vishnudas Nama
composer
Composer and performer of Marathi aakhyaan for some years after 1550
?
?
1135
OEMI1098
Krishna Iyengar （Madurai）
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for pallavi rendition
Mumbai
?
?
569
OEMI0738
Govinda Dikshitar
musicologist
Musicologist and statesman; author of Sangeeta Sudhaa
?
?
380
OEMI1509
Natarajan,A.K.C.
clarinet player
Noted clarinet player
?
?
?
?
A.K.Chinnakrishnan
739
OEMI1397
Murad Khan(Vocal)
Reputed dhrupad singer
?
?
1889
?
Delhi
697
OEMI1458
Narahari Chakravarti
Singer, poet, and scholar of Bengal
?
?
725
OEMI1599
Parashuram-bua Barve
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
?
?
Vishnupant Chhatre
798
OEMI0764
Guruyacharyulu
vocalist, composer,veena player
Vocalist, composer, and veena exponent of the durbar of Vijayanagaram, Andhra
Vijayanagaram, Andhra
?
?
392
OEMI0958
Jorawar Singh
Noted mridang player of the Gwalior durbar of Maharaja Jankojirao Scindia
Gwalior
?
?
Sukhdev Singh, Narayan Prasad Agnihotri
488
OEMI1169
Lakshmiram Barua
composer
Early 20th cent. Assamese composer and author of Sangeetkos
?
?
591
OEMI0419
Chaggan(Master)
Singer-actor of the 1900s.
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
208
OEMI0002
Abban Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
Dhrupad
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
1922
Saharanpur
Behnam Khan Dagar(c.1800-1887)
1
OEMI1688
Rahim Khan
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
?
?
Amritsen
857
OEMI0021
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Delhi
?
?
?
?
7
OEMI0884
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
?
?
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
445
OEMI1240
Mahmod Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
1920
probably Bhadvar,Rajasthan
622
OEMI1323
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
?
?
671
OEMI0077
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
?
Seni
38
OEMI0846
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
?
?
436
OEMI0091
Allahdi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Delhi
?
?
?
?
42
OEMI1144
Kutub Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
OEMI2253
Zahur Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpu
?
Atrauli
0.19
?
Jodhapur
Jodhpur
his father Mantol Khan
1157
OEMI2119
Thakur Lakshman Singh
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player
?
?
1936
?
?
Mahant Gopal Das
1072
OEMI0506
Chunnilal Hathraswale
Noted nautanki artiste of Dariyapur, near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
dance by Kalkadin and Bindadin, music by Natharam of Hathras
245
OEMI0332
Bhagwatibhai Bhatt
Singer and teacher of haveli songs of the Pushti Maargi Vaishnava sect
?
1977
1217
?
149
OEMI1395
Murad Ali Khan(Lucknow)
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th-cent.
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
696
OEMI1799
Ranjit Singh (Bhai)
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
Bhai Gopal Singh
888
OEMI0483
Chinna Vaithi
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
Mysore
?
?
240
OEMI1186
Lalita Devi
Noted thumti singer of Benares
Benares
?
?
598
OEMI1321
Meruswami
A pioneer of south Indian Harikathaa during the reigns of Maratha kings.
Harikathaa
?
?
669
OEMI1519
Nawabjan
vocalist
Vocalist
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
751
OEMI1740
Ramamatya
Author of Svara Mela Kalaanidhi, dated around 1550
?
?
872
OEMI1609
Pashupati Sevak Mishra
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Mishra Lineage of Benares
Benares
?
?
801
OEMI1127
Kuloi Chandra Sen
musician
musician
?
?
578
OEMI0444
Chantai Das Oja
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
?
?
221
OEMI0803
Hari Dikshit Pandit
Performer of Marathi keertans; peak period sometime during 1700-50
?
?
411
OEMI1175
Lala Bhagwandas
Founder of the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
the Jaawli Pakhaawaj gharaanaa
592
OEMI1753
Rambhau Saverkar
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer of Indore
khayaal
Indore
?
19
?
Haddu Khan
876
OEMI0286
Balwantrao Bhaiyya
vocalist,
Vocalist of Gwalior
Gwalior
?
?
1925
?
?
Gwalior
his mother,the famous dancer Chandrabhaga
115
OEMI1900
Savyasachi Iyengar
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar III （r. 1799-1868）
Mysore
?
?
957
OEMI0404
Brahmananda Paradesi
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
199
OEMI1139
Kunjukrishna Poduval (Ambadi)
vocalist, composer
vocalist and composer
?
?
580
OEMI0164
Appar
Seventh-century saint-poet of Tamil Nadu
?
?
71
OEMI0494
Chirag
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist of Punjjabi sings, mostly qavvaalis
qavvaal
Punjjabi
?
?
241
OEMI0898
Jagaddhara
Scholar of the medieval period
449
OEMI1069
Khande Dasappa
tabla player,mridangam player
Mridangam and tabla player of the durbar of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV
?
?
547
OEMI1277
Mannabai
vocalist
Vocalist
Lucknow or Rampur
?
?
?
?
643
P02382
OEMI1773
Ramlal Bareth
Kathak dancer, teacher
?
1936
0306
?
Jailal Maharaj
881
OEMI1120
Krishnayyar 'Dasavadyam'
Instrumentalist
?
?
573
OEMI1992
Sinnayya （Ghanam）
composer
Telugu composer of padam and keertana
padam and keertana
?
?
982
OEMI1484
Narayanaswami Pillai （Sirkazhi）
violinist
Well-known violinist 19th cent.
?
?
729
OEMI1448
Nanhe Khan （Sarod）
Sarod player?
?
1868
Gwalior
his weii-known father Ghulam Ali Khan
722723
OEMI2144
Ulsor Krishna Iyer
vocalist
Durbar vocalist of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar r.1799-1860 of Mysore state
?
?
Syaamaa Saastri
1102
OEMI0785
Haladhara Mishra
Author of Sangeet Kalpalatika, a manuscript on music and dance
?
?
400
OEMI2120
Thakur Prasad
Eminent Kathak exponent of the 19th-cent.
?
?
1856
?
Lucknow
his father Prakash Prasaad and Wajid Ali Shah
1072
P00080
OEMI0420
Chaitanya Deva,B.
musicologist
Noted musicologist and author
?
Bangalore,Karnataka
1981
0528
New Delhi
208
OEMI0812
Haridas Mukherji
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s, based in Kolkata
Kolkata
?
?
412
OEMI0543
Debo
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
262
OEMI0006
Abdul Gafur
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
?
?
?
?
2
OEMI0244
Badru Zaman Khan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
1938
Hyderabad
his family
98
P06696
OEMI1388
Munne Khan
vocalist
Vocalist and a disc-record singer of the early 1900s.
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
695
OEMI1994
Sitab Khan
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
982
P00105
OEMI0691
Ghulam Sabir Khan （Bade）
Saarangi maestro
?
1962
?
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
363
OEMI2122
Thanuram Kalite Ojha
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali of Assam
?
Pithakowapara,Darrang district,Assam
1974
?
Pithakowapara
1076
OEMI0583
Dilawar Ali Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
khayaal
Rewa
?
?
?
?
Agra
295
OEMI0777
Haidarijan
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
?
?
399400
OEMI1170
Lal Kavi
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
?
?
591
OEMI1500
Nasibjan
vocalist,
Vocalist disc-record singer of the early 20th cent
?
?
?
?
732
OEMI2073
Sunderlal Gangani
Kathak dancer and teacher
?
Shivnarayan and Gauri Shankar
1031
OEMI1451
Nanhe Khan （Vocal, Kirana）
vocalist?
Vocalist?
?
?
Kiraanaa
his father Shahab Khan
723
OEMI0538
Daulatrao Scindia(Shinde)
patron,
Patron and Maharaja of Gwalior state in Madhya Pradesh
?
?
?
?
Gwalior Khayaal
261
OEMI0186
Asghar Ali
Singer-actor of the pioneer Alfred Theatre of Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
81
OEMI0654
Gangadhar
Poet and author of a work of 27 raagamaalaa verses on Bhairav, Maalkauns, Hindool, Deepak, Sri, and Megh raagas and raaginis as per the Hanumaan Mat scheme
?
?
332
P00160
OEMI0919
Jani-miya
vocalist
Eighteenth-century vocalist, particularly known for qavvaali
462
OEMI1189
Lalji-bua
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer
dhrupad
?
19
?
600
OEMI1984
Siddheshwar Sen
Folk artiste known for the theatrical form called Maach of Malwa, Rajasthan
Malwa, Rajasthan
Ujjjain, Madhya Pradesh
Radha Kishan Guru
976
OEMI2263
Zebanjan
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent. She dang daadraa, ghazal, tappaa, and gavvaali
Jhajjar, near Delhi
?
?
1160
OEMI0086
Alladiya Khan (Sarangi, Biturwale)
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Jind, Punjab
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI1673
Radheshyam Sandilya
musician
contemporary folk musician
contemporary folk
Harda village,Hoshangabad district,Madhya Pradesh
?
843
OEMI0498
Chitti Babu Naidu, B.
Author of Key to Hindu Music, an early work in English by an Indian, on this topic
?
?
243
OEMI0492
Chintamani Mishra
vocalist
Dhupad vocalist; lived during the first half of the 19th cent.
?
?
no raliable information
241
OEMI2247
Yashwant-bua Thakurdas
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher,late 19th cent.
?
?
?
?
1153
OEMI0344
Bharata Chodamani
Author of an old Tamil work Taala Samuttiram on taala
?
?
158
OEMI1176
Lala Bhavanidas
An early propagator of the 16th-cent. Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
592
OEMI1944
Shankarlal Hiralal
vocalist
Vocalist and a disc-record singer of 1900-10
Mumbai
?
?
966
OEMI1489
Narayanrao （Baluaji） Joshi
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of the 1930s
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
Krishnarao Pandit
730
OEMI0427
Chammubai
vocalist
Delhi-based vocalist
Delhi
?
?
Hidayat Hussain, Mohammad Jan
214
OEMI0495
Chiranjilal
writer
Writer and artiste of nautanki plays of late 19th cent.
nautanki plays
?
?
241
OEMI0554
Devenacharya
Author
?
?
?
?
275
OEMI0899
Jagadekamalla
Author of a noted Sanskrit work,Sangeeta Choodaamani
449
OEMI1364
Mohanlal
singer-actor
?
?
683
OEMI2225
Qutub-ud-Daula
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
?
?
?
?
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
838839
OEMI0862
Imamuddin Dagar
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher of the 1920s and 1930s
dhrupad
?
?
his father and other elders in the family, elder brother Nasiruddin
439