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
P00242
Rani
OEMI1795
887
?
?
singer-actress
Sambayya
OEMI1859
922
18-19
?
?
veena player
veena performer
Shahu Maharaj
OEMI1925
963
20
?
?
patron,
Well-known patron of the arts
Srijanbai
?
OEMI2027
1008
Lucknow
?
?
?
singer
Competent singer
Ghasit Khan
Lauji,Viswanath
?
OEMI1198
604
?
?
?
musician
Musician from Kaathiawar,Gujarat
Viswanath Lauji
OEMI2219
1138
20
?
?
musician
musician
Balwant-bua Bapat
?
OEMI0284
115
19039
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Vasudev-bua Joshi(Gwalior gharaanaa),Kolhapur and Pune Gayan Samaj
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
P00091
Sesha Iyer （Pallavi）
OEMI1911
961962
1908
19-20
Neykkarapatti, Salem district, Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist and composer of the poet-Tyaagaraaja period
Kovana Samayya
OEMI1093
568
18
?
?
composer
Noted 18th-cent. composer of the pre-Trinity period of south India
Manomohan Basu
?
OEMI1283
644
Bengal
?
19
?
?
Author of jatraa folk plays of 19th-cent.
Roy, R.N.
OEMI1822
903
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Srinivas Pandit
?
OEMI2030
1009
?
?
?
Author
Harmasji Ardeshir
OEMI0819
416
Mumbai
?
?
Singer-actor of Hindi plays
Keshav-bua Ingle
OEMI1055
540
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa and teacher
Gwalior
his father Gundo-bua Ingle
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
?
OEMI0010
3
?
17
?
?
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
Sujan Khan
?
OEMI2051
10251026
?
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Agra
Bilas Baras Khan
?
OEMI0375
189
Pune
?
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Pune durbar
Pune durbar
dhrupad
Dayar Khan
?
OEMI0540
262
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1760s.
Maharaja Takhat Singh
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0865
440
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
Sahaswaan
Aghawan
?
OEMI0049
23
Unav,near Lucknow
?
19
?
?
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Amirjan
?
OEMI0118
51
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Jatadhar
OEMI0923
464
18
Early 18th-cent. pakhaawaj veteran of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.
Padma Nath
OEMI1563
780
Kolkata
20
?
?
instrumentalist
Sultan Bakhsh
OEMI2061
1029
19
?
?
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
Ratan Chand Das
Muthurama Kavirayar
OEMI1413
704705
?
?
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
OEMI1549
766
?
?
Qavvaali singer
Muddu Venkatamakhi
?
OEMI1373
690
?
18
?
?
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
Ghulam Mohammad （Surbahar）
OEMI0683
362
0.1856
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
Balarampur, Uttar Pradesh
Reputed exponent of surbahaar
Umrao Khan Seni, Ghulam Mohammad
Barkat Ali Khan （Sitar）
OEMI0307
123
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Raja Ramchan Waghela
OEMI1698
861
16
?
?
patron,
ruler,royal patron
Purushottam Damodar
OEMI1652
831
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Bada Dikshit
OEMI0217
93
1883
19
?
Benares
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa
Gwalior
Hassu Khan, Haddu Khan
Giriraja Kavi
OEMI0700
367
18
?
?
composer
Eminent 18th-cent. composer of Telugu origin
Kantimati
OEMI1025
517
19
?
?
Along with her danseuse-colleague Gowri and guru Kannuswami.
Lochan Kavi
?
OEMI1206
607
?
17
?
?
Author of Raaga Taranginii(17th cent.)
Nabi Bakhsh
?
OEMI1428
712
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar.
Pir Bakhsh
OEMI1617
807
Jodhpur
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar
Ruparam
OEMI1827
905
20
?
?
actor, writer
Vadammal
OEMI2154
11061107
18
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Bobbili Kesavayya
OEMI0401
197
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent vocalist
his father, Gopalayya
Gokalram （Bhagat）
OEMI0705
370
Jodhpur
?
?
vocalist,patron,
Vocalist attached to the temples of Jodhpur, directly patronized by the royal palace
Sudarshan Shastri
?
OEMI2045
1013
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player and author
Narayan-bua Gogate
OEMI1488
729
?
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of tappaa and keertana of Maharashtra during the second half of the 19th cent.
Tirumalayya Naidu,C.
?
OEMI2128
1083
?
19-20?
?
?
Author
Narasimha Bhagavatar
OEMI1460
725
19
?
?
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
Rama Iyengar
Shankarrao Gaikwad
OEMI1945
966
Pune
1971
0517
20
?
Pune, Maharashtra
Shehnai player
Sesha Ayyangar （Margadarsi）
OEMI1910
961
18
?
?
vocalist
Early 18th-cent. composer and vocalist of Karnatik music
Narayanaswami Appa
OEMI1480
728
0.1906
Thanjavur
Thanjavur
Mridangam celebrity of the state of Thanvavur, Tamil Nadu
Bhagwan Nayak
OEMI0329
148
15
?
?
Late 15th-cent. dhrupad singer
Chandrabhaga
OEMI0436
217218
Gujarat
1889
19
?
Lucknow
Reputed singer-dancer at the durbar of Maharaja Jiyajirao of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Ghasit Khan
Damodara
?
OEMI0520
253
?
16
?
?
Author of the 16th-cent.
Hamidanbai
OEMI0790
401
19
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th cent.
Jayapa
OEMI0929
470
13
Author of Nritta Ratnaavali,a 13th-cent
Kamleshwari Devi
?
OEMI1009
510
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist,mainly sang thumriis
thumrii
Kohala
OEMI1089
560561
?
?
Generally believed to be the autor of a Sanskrit work, in verse, titled Sangeeta Meru, on drama and music
Norbai
OEMI1555
767
?
Vrindavan,Yttar Pradesh
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
Shamanna
OEMI1930
964
?
?
veena player,
Veena vidwaan - popular as Veena Shamanna - of the durbar of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar （r.1799-1868）
P00240
Uma Sharma
OEMI2145
1102
20
?
Kathak danseuse, recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1987
（Kathak） Sunder Prasad, Shambhu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj, （Raas dance of Vrindavan） Ladli Sharanji Sharma and Devaki Nandanji
Zohrabai
OEMI2268
1161
?
?
Singer
Abdul Karim Khan （Kiraanaa） and Abdul Wahid Khan
Ramtaran Sanyal
OEMI1781
884
19
Faridpur district [now in Bangladesh]
?
musician
Musician associated with old Bengali plays.
Kana Jogen, Gopal Chandra Chakravarty
Vithaldas Joshi
OEMI2222
1139
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player, singer
keertan singer and pakhaawaj player.
pakhaawaj
keertan
Bhausaheb Guruji
?
OEMI0357
169
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior tradition
Gwalior
Nanubhaiya Telang
Ramprasad Mishra
OEMI1775
882
1980
0822
20
Benares region
Gaya, Bihar
vocalist
vocalist
Bade Ramdasji
Gopalakrishna Yati
OEMI0725
375
?
?
composer
Composer of Telugu devotional songs
Telugu devotional songs
Pannalal Goswami
OEMI1591
794795
19
?
?
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
OEMI2179
1120
Thanjavur
18
?
?
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Giriraj Prasad
OEMI0698
366367
?
?
Performer of swaang
Visvavasu
OEMI2218
1138
?
?
?
ancient author
Ravji-bua Gogate
OEMI1812
897
19
Maharashtra
?
vocalist
vocalist
P00352
Bahadur Khan
OEMI0247
101
1989
10??
No
20
?
Kolkata
sarod player
Noted sarod player
P00325
Antonio de Figueiredo
OEMI0158
67
1981
1105
No
20
Loutolim, Salcete, Goa
?
Noted exponent of Western classical music
P02301
Chunilal Pandya
OEMI0504
245
1948
No
20
Modasa, North Gujarat
?
Well-known performer of Gujarati aakhyaan
P01948
Balabhau Umadekar(Kundal Guruji)
?
OEMI0262
109
1968
0604
No
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher, composer
Vocalist,teacher,and composer
Gwalior
P06562
Barkat Ali Khan
OEMI0306
123
1950
No
20
Patiala, Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale, his uncle Kale Khan
P02937
Acharyalu,C.R.
?
OEMI0031
16
1998
0322
No
20
?
Ahmedabad
Kuchipudi dance guru
P01784
Eknath Sarolkar
?
OEMI0613
311
?
No
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
Gwalior

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