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
OEMI1903
Sawai Ram Singh
patron,musician
Patron, musician, and Maharaja of Jaipur （r.1835-80）
Jaipur
?
?
958
OEMI1158
Lakshmanachariar
Sanskrit scholar and noted Harikathaa performer
?
1919
?
588589
OEMI0338
Bhaiyya-saheb Joshi
vocalist
Exponent of the Gwalior vocal style
?
1920
Mumbai
Gwalior
his well-known father Vasudev-bua Joshi
154
OEMI1123
Kshirod Prasad
playwright
Bengal
?
?
575
OEMI1328
Mirza Ghalib
poet
?
?
672
OEMI1628
Pohre-bua
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
812813
OEMI2038
Subbanna(Mugur)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
Andalanuru Subbayya
1011
OEMI0412
Bughara Khan
tabla player
Noted tabla exponent
?
?
?
?
Delhi
204
OEMI1337
Modu Khan
tabla player
Tabla player
?
?
676
OEMI1346
Mohammad Bashir Khan
vocalist
vocalist
Aligarh
1936
Jabra,Uttar Pradesh
679
OEMI0678
Ghulam Ali Khan
sarod player
A sarod pioneer of the 19th-cent.
?
?
360361
OEMI1854
Salem Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
Agra gharaanaa
917
OEMI2086
Surujbai Khande
singer
Contemporary singer of folk songs of Madhya Pradesh. Particulary bharthari, dholaa maaru, chandaini, alha, and Raam kissaa songs
folk songs of Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
?
Family, Jawaharlal Baghel and Pritam Pahadi
10381039
OEMI0892
Jadumani Dasi
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolkata
Kolkata
448
OEMI2116
Tej Khan
singer
Eminent qavvaali singer
qavvaali
?
?
?
?
1070
OEMI0981
Kalahasti Ayya
veena player
Eminent veena exponent of the durbar of King TulajaII of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
500
OEMI1350
Mohammad Jan
saarangi player
saarangi player
?
?
Fida Hussain
680
OEMI1339
Mohammad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
vocalist
Sikandarabad,near Agra
1890
?
Imam Bakhsh Hande
677
OEMI0687
Ghulam Rasol （Jodhpur）
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh of Jodhpur
Jodhpur
Lahore
?
362
OEMI0778
Haidar Khan （Dagar）
vocalist,
Vocalist, son of Imam Bakhsh
?
?
400
OEMI1465
Narayan Moreshwar Khare
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
726
OEMI1026
Karam Imam(Mohammad)
Author of the Urdu work
?
1865
?
518
OEMI0131
Anandadasa
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist of Kannanda javalis and performer of Harikatha
Kannanda javalis
56
OEMI0408
Brhat Kasyapa
Quoted as an author
?
?
?
?
201
P00033
OEMI0715
Gopal Krishna
Noted vichitra veena player
Delhi
his father Nand Kishore, Khubchand Brahmchari
372
OEMI1082
Kirtidhara
One of the commentators of Bharata-muni's Naatyasaastra
?
?
558
OEMI1681
Raghunath Rath
author
?
?
856
OEMI2162
Vanasri Rao
kuuchipuudi danseuse
?
?
1112
OEMI0474
Chidambara Bhagavatar
Eminent Harikathaa performer of the 1930s.
?
?
238
OEMI0652
Ganesilal Chaube
vocalist,
Vocalist of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
Ganesilal
?
?
331
OEMI0327
Bhagabai Nadkaikarin
vocalist
Vocalist and early singer for discrecords during 1900-10
Mumbai
?
?
145
OEMI2147
Umesh Chandra Chowdhury
composer, poet
Twentieth-century composer and poet of Assam
Assam
?
?
1102
OEMI0281
Balkrishnapati Bajpeyi
sitar player
Sitar player of Gwalior
Gwalior
?
?
?
?
114
OEMI0762
Gurusami Disikar
Well-known singer of Tamil Tevaaram hymns
?
?
392
OEMI1367
Morgaumkar Bhave
composer
composer
Morgon village,near Pune,Maharashtra
?
686
OEMI1749
Ramapati Bandopadhyaya
composer
Composer of kavigaan and some other forms of Bengali music
Chandrakona, Midnapore, Bengal
1872
?
his father Gangabishnu
874
OEMI1524
Nazir Khan(Jodhpur)
vocalist
Vocalist(late 19th cent.) of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
755
OEMI0873
Inayat Khan 'Rasikh'
musician
Author of an Urdu work in music and musicians
?
?
442
OEMI2053
Sukavi Narayanadeva
poet and compiler of Manasaa Ojaapaali songs
?
?
?
?
1026
OEMI0316
Bavdekar-pant Amatya
patron,
Music patron of Kolhapur
?
1929
Kolhapur
130131
OEMI0121
Ammakannu
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
52
OEMI0345
Bharati Sivaji
dancer
Noted contemporary dancer
?
Lalita Sastri
161
OEMI0471
Chhoti Maina I
vocalist, dancer
Vocalist and dancer
?
?
237
OEMI0726
Gopalasambayya
vocalist
Noted veena player and vocalist
?
?
375
OEMI0809
Hari Vallabh II
Author of a commentary on the Bhagavad Geetaa
?
?
411
P00173
OEMI1133
Kumkum Mohanty
contemporary Odissi danseuse
Cuttack,Orissa
579
OEMI1250
Malkajan Chulbulewali
singer-dancer
?
?
630
OEMI1455
Nannu-miya
Well-known performer of dholak
?
?
723
OEMI1877
Sanyal, A.N.
author, teacher
?
?
943
OEMI1407
Muthachar, T.N.
vocalist, composer,
Vocalist, composer, and teacher
?
1993
?
R.K. Ramanathan
703704
OEMI1756
Ramchandra Gosavi
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbau of Bajirao Peshwa II
?
?
877
OEMI0918
Janardhanrao Joshi
Pakhaawaj player
462
OEMI0927
Jaya Senapati
Mid-13th-cent.Telugu author,better known as Japaya,who wrote Nritta Ratnaavali.
467
OEMI1145
Kuvarpal Swami
composer
composer
?
?
582
OEMI1333
Mithas Joshi
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
673
OEMI1884
Sarasdev
poet-devotee of Braja Pradesh
?
?
946
OEMI2229
Vyas,D.G.
Scholar
?
?
1966
?
Mumbai
1142
OEMI0584
Dilawar Khan
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
Bengal
?
?
1909
?
Delhi
Delhi
Murad Khan
295
OEMI2251
Yusuf Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
Haapur
1156
OEMI1329
Mirza Khan
author
?
?
672
OEMI1865
Samwal Khan
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
?
?
925
OEMI0469
Chhote Mohammad Khan
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent.）
?
?
Haddu Khan
237
OEMI0924
Jatan Kathak
Mid-19th cent.saarangi player of Benares.
Benares
464
OEMI0080
Ali Naqi Khan (Nawab)
sitar player
Sitar player in the durbar of Nawaab
?
?
?
?
?
38
OEMI0959
Joseph David Penkar
writer
Writer of musical plays on Jewish religious themes, in Marathi, in the early 20th cent,
Mumbai
1949
0906
Mumbai
488
OEMI0638
Gaforan
singer-actress and disc-record artiste of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
323
OEMI1376
Mughlu Khan(Kolhapur)
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
?
probably Narsinghar,Rajasthan
?
?
Gwalior
691
OEMI1573
Paidala Gurumorti Sastri
composer,vocalist
composer,vocalist
Chennai
Kayatar village,Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
Sonti Venkata Subbaya
782
OEMI1164
Lakshmibai Jadhav
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1964
0311
Kolhapur
Haidar Khan
590
OEMI0688
Ghulam Rasol （Lucknow）
vocalist
Eminent vocalist, fonder of the Lucknow khayaal gharaanaa
khayaal
?
?
the Lucknow khayaal gharaanaa
362363
OEMI1874
Sankaran Nambotirippad
Kathakali artiste and guru
Ambalapuzha town, Alapuzha district, Kerala
1955
?
940
OEMI0256
Baiju Bawra
There are a few legends on the identity and life of Baiju
?
?
105
OEMI0593
Don Bastian, C.
Late 19th-cent. pioneer of Noorti plays of Sri Lanka
?
?
300
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
OEMI1090
Kolar Nagaratnam
vocalist
Popular concert vocalist of 1900-25
?
?
Bidaram Krishnappa
563
P00191
OEMI1564
Padma Subrahmanyam
dancer,scholar
Chennai
?
B.V.Lakshmanan,Ramayya Pillai,Gowri Amma
780
OEMI1482
Narayanaswami Iyer （Bharatam）
Stage artiste of early 20th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI0727
Gopalayya （Pallavi）
vocalist
Prominent vocalist and veena player of the durbar of King Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
Pachhimiriyam Adiappayya
375
OEMI1648
Pulin Behari Mitter
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
828
OEMI0568
Dharmapuri Subbarayar
composer
Well-known composer of jaavali
?
?
?
?
284
OEMI1595
Papavinasa Mudaliar
composer
composer
?
?
795
OEMI0127
Ananda Gajapati
Ruler of Vizianagaram, a
Andhra Pradesh
56
OEMI0252
Bahinabai
Saint-Poetess
?
?
104
OEMI0359
Bhava Bhatta
author
?
Dhavalpur,in Malwa,Rajasthan
?
?
169170
OEMI0472
Chhoti Maina II
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
?
?
Benares
237
OEMI0525
Dasari
Reputed naagaswaram exponent of the first half of the 19th cent
?
?
?
?
258
OEMI1038
Kasyapa
Quoted as an authority on music
?
?
525
OEMI1257
Manarang
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer of khayaal
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Manarang
634
OEMI1345
Mohammad Bakhsh
saarangi player
saarangi player
?
?
679
P04625
OEMI1473
Narayana Iyer
ghatam player
Noted 19th-cent. performer of ghatam
?
?
727
OEMI1588
Pannabai
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile(r.1719-48)
?
?
793794
OEMI1666
Radha Krishna
poet,author
?
?
842
OEMI1879
Sarabhoji Ⅱ
Maharaja of Thanjavur
?
?
944
OEMI2176
Vasuki
Ancient authority
?
?
1118
OEMI0562
Dewan Raghunath
composer
Composer of Syaamaa songs of Bengal
?
?
?
?
280