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
OEMI0372
Bi Rahimanbai
Mid 19th cent. singer of Charkhari,Uttar Pradesh
Charkhari
?
?
?
?
184
OEMI1570
Paglibai
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
781
OEMI1801
Ras Baras
author
?
?
888
OEMI0341
Bhanudatta Misra
Author of a Sanskrit work
?
?
156
OEMI1928
Shalomo Aharonji Bhastekar
Author of the musical play
Mumbai, region
?
964
OEMI1166
Lakshmikanta Maharaja
composer
Composer and Sanskrit scholar of Andhra
?
?
591
OEMI1669
Radhakrishna Iyer (Kanjira)
Stalwart of kanjiraa,a south Indian rhythmic instrument of the tambourine family.
?
?
842843
OEMI1285
Mansa Singh(Bhai)
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Sikh sacred music(sabad)
?
?
?
?
645
OEMI2095
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Chennai
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
10441045
OEMI1308
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅰ
composer
Composer of Tamil songs
Tamil Nadu
?
?
1971
?
?
662
OEMI1818
Roprasik Devacharya
composer
composer
?
?
902
OEMI0045
Aga Amir
vocalist,
Vocalist of Peshawar
Pakistan
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0432
Chandidasa
Medieval poet whose works have influenced Bengali devotional music
?
?
215216
OEMI0500
Chokhamela
Poet of Marathi abhangs
?
0.1338
Mangalwedha, near Sangli, Maharashtra
243
OEMI0925
Jatto
vocalist
Vocalist
465
OEMI1081
Kiron
Singer-actress of early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
558
OEMI1539
Nirmala Devi
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
Mumbai
Benares
1996
0615
Mumbai
Benares
762
OEMI1846
Sai Ilyas
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
914
OEMI1908
Sena Nhavi
Devotional poet
?
?
961
OEMI2015
Someswara
patron,
Author and royal patron, quoted by Saarangadeva 13th cent., Saarada Tanaya, and Paarsvade
?
?
992
OEMI2135
Trimohanlal
Pioneer artiste, writer, and producer of swaang and nautanki of the Kanpur style
?
?
1089
OEMI2246
Yashtka
musicologist
Ancient musicologist
?
?
?
?
1153
OEMI0289
Balwantrao Pohre
vocalist
Reputed Khayaal singer of the last quarter of the 19th cent
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Inayat Hussain Khan
116
OEMI1112
Krishnarao Date
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
?
?
Gwaalior
572
OEMI2157
Vaidiswarankoil
composer
composer
?
?
1108
OEMI0365
Bhringi
composer
Composer
?
?
?
?
183
OEMI1275
Mankuverbai
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Raja Bhav Singh of Bhavnagar,Gujarat.
Gujarat
?
?
?
?
Kallan Khan
643
P02973
OEMI1820
Roshan Kumari
kathak danseuse
?
902
OEMI1281
Manohar-bua Joshi
vocalist
Noted 19-cent. vocalist.
?
Wadatha village,Maharashtra
1888
?
Aundh region,Maharashtra
644
OEMI0081
Alimulla Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
39
OEMI1838
Sadruddin Khan
vocalist
vocalist
Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
1880
Jaipur
Haapur gharaanaa
910
OEMI0025
Abhilasha
Author of Sangeet Chandra
south India
?
?
?
10
OEMI0481
Chimman Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
?
?
Atraauli
239
OEMI1040
Kayam Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
532
OEMI2146
Umar Khan
Sarod player
Kolkata
?
1982
0222
Dhaka, Bangladesh
his father Sakhawat Hussain Khan
1102
P00003
OEMI0026
Abhinava Gupta
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
?
?
?
?
11
OEMI0907
Jagu Ojha
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
451
OEMI1241
Mahmuda Jan
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
?
?
622
OEMI1226
Mahadeva Nattuvanar
Dance teacher(19th cent.)of Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
619
OEMI0400
Biswanath Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player of the Benares style
Benares, second half of the 19th cent.
?
Benares
Bhairav Sahai
197
OEMI1410
Muthayya Pillai （Pazhani）
Mridangam player
?
1950
?
704
OEMI0787
Hamid Ali Khan （Nawab）
Ruler of Rampur state in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
401
OEMI1087
Kodandarama Ayyar
musician
Musician （18th cent.） of Sirgazhi in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
560
OEMI1022
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam guru of the 19th cent
?
?
516
OEMI0114
Amir Khan(Sikandarabad)
vocalist
Vocalist
Sikandarabad,near Agra,Uttar Pradesh.
?
?
1860
?
Bihar
Rangile
his famous uncle Ramzan Khan Rangile
50
OEMI1394
Murad Ali Khan(Hyderabad)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
0.1915
?
?
696
OEMI0909
Jahangir Khan(Vocal)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
Uniyara,Rajasthan
Uniyara,Rajasthan
Atraauli
452
OEMI0533
Dattibai
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist.
?
?
?
?
Mughlu Khan
259
OEMI0673
Ghasiram
singer
Composer and singer of Raas-leelaa songs
Raas-leelaa songs
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
356
OEMI0837
Hirabai II
Kathak danseuse of Kanpur
?
?
Krishna Maharaj
431
OEMI1593
Papajan
vocalist
vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
795
OEMI2151
Urmila Singh
singer
Contemporary folk singer
folk
?
Radhesharan Singh
1104
OEMI2021
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist
?
?
?
?
994
OEMI1276
Manmathnath Ray
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
643
OEMI2093
Swamy Naidu, A.
actor, singer
actor, singer
?
?
1042
OEMI0848
Hussain Khan Kalpiwale
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player who founded the Kalpi tradition
?
?
436437
OEMI1483
Narayanaswami Iyer （Thanjavur）
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
?
?
729
OEMI0850
Hussainuddin Dagar
vocalist
Well-known dhrupad vocalist
dhrupad
?
?
his eldest brother Nasiruddin
437
OEMI1324
Miraj Ahmed Nizami
qavvaali singer
?
?
671
OEMI0429
Chand Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla pioneer （mid-18th cent.）
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
214
OEMI1411
Muthukkumara Pulavar
composer
Tamil composer （19th cent.）
?
?
704
OEMI2050
Suhasini Mulgaonkar
Stage artiste known for her one-woman shows in Marathi
Marathi
?
?
1989
0612
Mumbai
1025
OEMI1167
Lakshminarayan Rajak
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
?
his father Chhotelal Rajak
591
OEMI0047
Aga Shergul
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Pakistan
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0434
Chandra Sakhi
Eighteenth-century poet of Vaishnava padas
Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
?
Balkrishna Swami
217
OEMI0784
Hakani Bakhsh
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of the late 19th cent.
Jodhpu
?
?
400
OEMI1006
Kamalam
Danseuse of Tiruvarur
?
?
?
?
Muvvalur Sabhapati Iyer
508509
OEMI1909
Serfubai
vocalist
Khayaal singer of 19th-cent. Lucknow
khayaal
Lucknow
?
?
961
OEMI2018
Somnath Pandit
Author of Raaga Viboodha, written in 1609
?
?
993
OEMI1743
Ramananda Dvija
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
his father Raamadeva Aataa
873
OEMI1553
Nor Khan(Jodhpur)
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
766
OEMI0448
Chatterji, M. N.
rudra veena player
Rudra veena performer of early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
224
OEMI0834
Hira Bulbul
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the king of Nepal
Nepal
?
?
431
P00170
OEMI1092
Komik Khongjirem
musician
Folk musician of Meghalaya
Folk music
Meghalaya
?
?
566
OEMI1280
Manohar,S.S.
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
644
OEMI0972
Kachchi Sastri
vocalist, violinist
Vocalist and violinist （19th cent.）
?
?
493
OEMI1922
Shah Mir Khan
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore
Indore
?
?
963
OEMI1581
Pan Khan
vocalist,sitar player
vovalist,sitar player
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
788
OEMI0855
Ilahijan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
439
OEMI0063
Ajoy Bhattacharya
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
?
?
?
?
2930
OEMI0782
Haidar Khan （Sahaswan）
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
Rampur
?
?
some elders
400
OEMI1558
Nunnijan
vocalist
vocalist, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
768769
OEMI0781
Haidar Khan （Saharanpur）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Imam Bakhash, brother Bairam Khan
400
OEMI0036
Achyutappa Nayak
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
17
OEMI1375
Mughlu Khan (Jawra)
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and rudra veena player of jawra,Madhya Pradesh.
?
?
?
?
691
OEMI0209
Ayyaval
composer
Composer of devotional songs
?
?
90
OEMI0548
Deo Kavi
Author
?
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
1749
?
?
266
OEMI1007
Kamalbai
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
?
?
?
?
509
OEMI1390
Munnibai
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
695
OEMI1616
Pedda Dasari
composer
Composer of keertans in Telugu and Sanskrit
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
807
OEMI2152
Utpala Deva
Abhinava Gupta's parama-guru in Saiva theology.
?
?
1104
OEMI1783
Ramzan Khan (Sarangi)
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Delhi region
1897
Mumbai
Lal Khan
885
OEMI0055
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
singer
An early singer for disc-records
?
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0701
Girisa Ayyar （Vishalur）
vocalist
Vocalist, a contemporary of Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
?
?
367
OEMI2039
Subbayyar Jhanjhamritam
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
1011
OEMI1368
Moroba Waghulikar
Pioneer singer-actor of the Marathi stage
?
1908
0120
?
686
OEMI0491
Chinni Krishna Dasa
composer
Composer （19th cent） of kritis and svarajaatis in Telugu
?
?
241
OEMI2106
Tarabai Welingkar
vocalist
Khayaal and thumrii singer of the 1930s
Khayaal,thumrii
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
Muraba Govekar and Ali Hussain
1065
OEMI0724
Gopalakrishna Sastri
A pioneer （18th cent.） in theatrical arts
?
?
375
OEMI1917
Shadi Khan （Benares）
Noted tappaa singer of the mid-19th cent.
?
?
963