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
OEMI1237
Maheswara Mahapatra
author
?
?
621622
OEMI1249
Malkajan Agrewali
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
?
?
629630
OEMI0069
Akshay Chowdhury
composer
Poet and composer of patriotic songs in Bengali
?
?
?
?
34
OEMI1962
Sheikh Munna
Shehnai player of the 1900s
Lucknow
?
?
971
OEMI1161
Lakshmandas Seth
patron,
Patron of the arts
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
589
OEMI0403
Bose,R.N.
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali songs
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
198
OEMI1931
Shambhu （Master）
Singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays of the 1900s
?
?
964
OEMI0776
Haidar Bakhsh Khan
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
?
0.1875
?
the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
his father Changay Khan
399
OEMI1546
Niyamat Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Qavvaal-bbachche style
khayaal
?
?
Qavvaal-bbachche style
765
OEMI2100
Tabakkal Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist from Talwandi in Punjab
?
?
?
?
1050
OEMI0788
Hamid Hussain Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player and teacher
?
1950
Lucknow
his father Tullan Khan, uncle Turab （or Turav） Khan
401
OEMI0906
Jaggan Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
?
?
451
OEMI1923
Shahab Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Atraauli
his father （name not known）
963
OEMI1848
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
surbahaar exponent
?
?
915
OEMI0241
Badi Maina
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
?
?
Benares
98
OEMI1220
Madhusudan Kan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Bengal
?
?
?
?
616
OEMI0709
Gokulchandra Srichandan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
?
?
371
OEMI0087
Allah Bandi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0386
Bindu Bala
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
?
?
193
OEMI1457
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
724
OEMI1729
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
870
OEMI2239
Wazir Chand
sitar player
Sitar player.
?
?
?
?
Master Ratan of Punjab
1145
OEMI2067
Sundarabai of Benares
vocalist
She was vocalist of sawaal-jawaab, birhaa, and kajri songs in the 20th-century
Kolkata
?
?
1030
OEMI0137
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
Mysore
58
OEMI0489
Chinnayya Mudaliyar （Manali）
patron,
A patron and feudal landlord of Manali near Chennai
Manali near Chennai
?
?
241
OEMI0349
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
?
?
Ganpatrao Pandit
163
OEMI0547
Dejendranath Bagchi
vocalist
Vocalist and disc-record singer
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
264
OEMI0168
Arabatta Navalar
Author of a Tamil work on dance titled Bharata Saastiram （c.18th cemt.）
?
?
72
OEMI0301
Banujan
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolhapur during roughly 1900-20
?
?
121
OEMI1319
Mehndi Hassan
vocalist,composer
ghazal singer ,composer
ghazal
Jaipur
667
OEMI0993
Kallinath Pandit
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
?
?
505506
OEMI1529
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
?
?
756
OEMI1895
Satyabhamabai Pandharpurkar
Well-known performer of Marathi laavani
Sangli district, Maharashtra
Godavaribai Punekar
953
OEMI0224
Babu Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tablaa player?
Delhi
1899
Kolkata
his mother
93
OEMI1172
Lal Khan （Jodhpur）
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh
?
?
591
OEMI0211
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Lucknow
Kalpi
?
90
OEMI0811
Haricharan Das Swami
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Dhaka
?
?
412
OEMI0941
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
Author
Kolkata
480
OEMI0163
Appa Tulsi
Late 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and scholar
?
1920
?
71
OEMI0745
Govindprasad Gopaldas
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th-cent,
?
?
382
OEMI0874
Incha Baras
musician
Musician in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
?
?
442
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
OEMI2242
Wazirjan
vocalist,
vocalist of Beneres of the 1900s.
Beneres
?
?
?
?
1146
OEMI0003
Abbasuddin Ahmed
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Bengal
?
?
?
?
12
OEMI1982
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
?
?
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
976
OEMI1657
Purushottama Mishra
Scholar in the durbar of Gajapati Jagannaatha Naaraayanadeva, king of Paralkhemundi, southern Orissa
Orissa
?
?
832
OEMI0502
Chodia Imam Bakhsh
tabla player
Eminent 19th-cent. tabla player
?
?
The Fraukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Haji Vilayat Ali Khan
244
OEMI1129
Kumaraswami Bhaktar
vocalist
vocalist of the 1900s
Kanjeevaram,Tamil Nadu
?
?
578
OEMI1782
Ramu-bhaiyya Date
patron,
patron of Hindustani classical music
?
?
884
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