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
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
Thakur Prasad
?
OEMI2120
1072
1856
?
19
?
Lucknow
Eminent Kathak exponent of the 19th-cent.
his father Prakash Prasaad and Wajid Ali Shah
P00080
Chaitanya Deva,B.
?
OEMI0420
208
1981
0528
20
Bangalore,Karnataka
New Delhi
musicologist
Noted musicologist and author
Haridas Mukherji
OEMI0812
412
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s, based in Kolkata
Debo
?
OEMI0543
262
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s
Abdul Salam
?
OEMI0017
6
?
20
?
?
composer
Composer,a contemporary of the famous Kazi Nazrul Islam(b.1899)
Ahmad Khan
?
OEMI0054
27
?
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of llate 18th cent.,
Ghulam Haidar Khan
OEMI0680
361
1920
19-20
Khurja, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Khurjaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
Chhajju Khan
OEMI0457
230
19
Bijnor, Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of the mid-19th cent.
his father Dilawar Khan , Inayat Hussain Khan
P00161
Jhamman Khan
OEMI0935
475
1938
0208
19-20
Nagaaraa player
Nagaaraa player
Sulaiman
OEMI2059
1029
Lucknow
?
?
vocalist
Reputed khayaal and tappaa singer of Lucknow
Rajab Ali Khan
khayaal
Ambika Charan Guha
?
OEMI0107
48
?
19
?
?
patron,
Nineteenth-century teacher and patron
Fazue Lal Pandit
?
OEMI0627
319
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Shehnai player of the early 20th cent.
Sundarabai of Surat
OEMI2066
1030
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist in the 20th-century
Murad Ali Khan(Darbhanga)
?
OEMI1393
696
?
19
?
?
sarod player
Nineteenth-century sarod player
Aman Ali Khan (Lucknow)
?
OEMI0095
45
Gwalior
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Qavvaal-bachhe
Lal Khan Sani
OEMI1173
591
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player of the durbar of Mughal Emperor Aurangzab
Naval Sakhi
?
OEMI1518
749750
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
Performer of devotional dances
Sunderlal Gangani
OEMI2073
1031
?
Kathak dancer and teacher
Shivnarayan and Gauri Shankar
Nanhe Khan （Vocal, Kirana）
OEMI1451
723
?
?
vocalist?
Vocalist?
Kiraanaa
his father Shahab Khan
Daulatrao Scindia(Shinde)
?
OEMI0538
261
?
?
?
patron,
Patron and Maharaja of Gwalior state in Madhya Pradesh
Gwalior Khayaal
Asghar Ali
?
OEMI0186
81
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actor of the pioneer Alfred Theatre of Mumbai
Gangadhar
OEMI0654
332
?
?
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
P00160
Jani-miya
OEMI0919
462
vocalist
Eighteenth-century vocalist, particularly known for qavvaali
Lalji-bua
OEMI1189
600
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Siddheshwar Sen
OEMI1984
976
Malwa, Rajasthan
20
Ujjjain, Madhya Pradesh
Folk artiste known for the theatrical form called Maach of Malwa, Rajasthan
Radha Kishan Guru
Zebanjan
OEMI2263
1160
Jhajjar, near Delhi
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent. She dang daadraa, ghazal, tappaa, and gavvaali
Alladiya Khan (Sarangi, Biturwale)
?
OEMI0086
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Jind, Punjab
Radheshyam Sandilya
OEMI1673
843
Harda village,Hoshangabad district,Madhya Pradesh
?
musician
contemporary folk musician
contemporary folk
Chitti Babu Naidu, B.
OEMI0498
243
?
?
Author of Key to Hindu Music, an early work in English by an Indian, on this topic
Chintamani Mishra
OEMI0492
241
19
?
?
vocalist
Dhupad vocalist; lived during the first half of the 19th cent.
no raliable information
Yashwant-bua Thakurdas
?
OEMI2247
1153
?
19
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher,late 19th cent.
Bharata Chodamani
OEMI0344
158
?
?
Author of an old Tamil work Taala Samuttiram on taala
Lala Bhavanidas
OEMI1176
592
16
?
?
An early propagator of the 16th-cent. Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Jaawli pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Shankarlal Hiralal
OEMI1944
966
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and a disc-record singer of 1900-10
Narayanrao （Baluaji） Joshi
OEMI1489
730
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of the 1930s
Krishnarao Pandit
Chammubai
OEMI0427
214
Delhi
?
?
vocalist
Delhi-based vocalist
Hidayat Hussain, Mohammad Jan
Chiranjilal
OEMI0495
241
19
?
?
writer
Writer and artiste of nautanki plays of late 19th cent.
nautanki plays
Devenacharya
?
OEMI0554
275
?
?
?
Author
Jagadekamalla
OEMI0899
449
Author of a noted Sanskrit work,Sangeeta Choodaamani
Mohanlal
OEMI1364
683
?
?
singer-actor
Qutub-ud-Daula
?
OEMI2225
838839
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player, described as one of the sitar gurus of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow
Pyar Khan, Umrao Khan
Imamuddin Dagar
OEMI0862
439
?
?
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher of the 1920s and 1930s
his father and other elders in the family, elder brother Nasiruddin
dhrupad
Nor Khan(Ratlam)
OEMI1554
766767
1870
19
Delhi
Ratlam,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
vocalist
Narasayya （Padala）
OEMI1459
725
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th cent.）, noted for singing devotional songs with great fervour
Munnan Khan(Rampur)
?
OEMI1387
695
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Vasudev-bua Joshi
OEMI2175
1118
0.189
19
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Hassu Khan
P00010
Devendrappa,B.
?
OEMI0557
275276
1986
?
20
Ayanur,Shimoga district,Karnataka
Mysore
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Hanuman Kattuck
OEMI0793
408
Jaipur
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Jaipur
Manada Sundari
?
OEMI1256
634
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Bishwanath Rao
Vaikunta Sastri
OEMI2159
1108
18-19
?
?
composer
composer
Mahadeva Annavi
?
OEMI1225
619
?
?
?
Dance exponent of the durbar of Thanjavur
Afruddin Khan
?
OEMI0042
23
?
?
?
Qavvaali singer
Juma Khan
OEMI0965
490
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player employed in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
Nirmal Shah Seni
Ghulam Raza Khan
OEMI0689
363
?
?
sitar player
Innovator of the Raazaakhaani-gat, a composition for string instruments like the sitar and sarod
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
OEMI0684
362
20
Lahore
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Umrao Khan
Chhange Khan
OEMI0459
231
0.1857
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Appukkutti Nattuvan
OEMI0166
7172
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a contemporary of Syaamaa Saastri （1762-1827）of the Karnnatik trinity
Jagannath Kumhar
OEMI0902
450
Mathia Gosain village,Raisen district,Madhya Pradesh
?
singer
Folk singer,born in a family of folk artisites
his father
folk
Bade Munne （Khan Khayal）
OEMI0237
97
0.1912
?
Lucknow
Reputed exponent
Buddi Sani
?
OEMI0411
203
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Mid-19th-cent. vocalist
Balwantrao Vaidya
Lal Rababi （Bhai）
OEMI1174
591
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1920s
Baldev Prasad Nayak
?
OEMI0273
112
?
Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Vocalist
P00012
Arunagiri Nathar
?
OEMI0176
76
Vijayanagar kingdom
?
15
?
?
Author of the celebrated 15th-cent
Ismail Khan-Bakhsh
OEMI0885
445
Jodhpu
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar during the reign of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Sarjan Singh (Bhai)
OEMI1890
950
1965
06??
20
?
?
singer
Mohammad Ali Khan(Benares)
OEMI1340
677
1860
19
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player
his father
Allah Jilaibai
?
OEMI0089
41
?
1998
0903
20
Bikaner, Rajasthan
?
Singer of Rajasthani folk music
Ashiq Hussain
?
OEMI0192
82
1946
?
20
?
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player of Panipat
Hari Vallabh I
OEMI0808
411
17
?
?
Author of Sangeet Darpan （c.1625-1643） in Hindi
Mohammad Pana
OEMI1353
680
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Omdajan
OEMI1561
772
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Simha
OEMI1987
977
16
?
?
Author of a late 16th-cent. Kannada work on dance, Laasya Ranjanaa
Majhiram Urav
OEMI2271
623
20?
Tilanga, Kohpani village, Raigarh district, Madhya Pradesh
Folk artiste
His grandmother. His Paternal uncles, Magraram, Thilleram, and Bunduram
Jahangir Khan(Tabla)
OEMI0908
451
Indore
1976
0511
20
Benares
tabla player
Reputed tabla player of the Indore durbar
Dakshinamorti Sastri
?
OEMI0515
252
?
19
?
?
composer
Composer(19th cent.) of Telugu devotional songs
Krishna Rao, U.S.
OEMI1101
570
?
?
Noted Bharata Naatyam exponent
Munnibai(mid-19th cent.)
?
OEMI1392
695
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Sheikh Khan Mohammad
OEMI1961
971
Cuttack, Orissa
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Chinnaswamy Mudaliar, A.M.
OEMI0486
240
20
?
?
A pioneer in modern compilation of musical compositions
Matrubhotayya(Kavi)
?
OEMI1299
657
?
?
?
composer
Noted composer of the pre-Tyaagaraaja period
Inayat Khan （Dhrupad）
OEMI0872
442
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer of dhrupads
the family
Krishnaraja Wodeyar Ⅲ
OEMI1109
571572
18-19
?
?
patron,
royal patron of music and author
Chanchal Sasi
OEMI0428
214
?
?
composer
Sixteenth-century voclist and composer
Chitrabai
OEMI0496
242
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Tappaa singer of Benares
tappaa
Devidas
?
OEMI0558
278
Pune,Maharashtra
?
18
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player at the turn of the 18th cent.
Bijaram
Gurulugomi
OEMI0760
392
?
?
Author of Sri Lankan medieval works
Jaisukhbai
OEMI0911
456
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal

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