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
Balwantrao Panse
?
OEMI0288
116
0.1886
?
?
?
Reputed mridang player
Imam Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0861
439
Khurjaa, Uttar Pradesh
Khurjaa
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent）
the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Shahab Khan
Vinayak-bua Thakurdas
OEMI2206
1130
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Marathi keertan
Rahmat Khan (Sitar)
OEMI1693
858
1985
03??
20
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Kannayya Bhagavatar
OEMI1021
516
1846
19
Tamli Nadu
Travancore,Kerala
vocalist
Vocalist
Upanishad Brahma Yogi
OEMI2150
1103
Sri Lanka
18
?
?
musician
Musician-philosopher
Vaasudevendra
Vrindavan Devacharya
?
OEMI2227
11401141
?
18
?
?
composer
Poet-composer of devotional songs.
Chhotibibi
OEMI0473
237
Lucknow
19
?
?
tabla player
Mid-19th cent. female tabla player of the Lucknow durbar
Lucknow durbar
Fakruddin
?
OEMI0620
316317
Rahasthan
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Ajmer,Rahasthan
Kempegauda
OEMI1045
538
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
Radhabai
OEMI1668
842
?
?
singer-actress
Sarangadeva
OEMI1882
944945
13
?
?
musicologist
musicologist, author
Shankar Vaze
OEMI1942
966
?
?
Author of Marathi musical plays
Vema Bhopala
OEMI2180
11201121
?
?
Author and Komati king of Kondaveedu, Andhra
Durgavara Kayastha
OEMI0602
305
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent. Assam
Jankibai(Udaipur)
OEMI0921
463
vocalist,
Vocalist of Marwari songs
Sahaji Maharaja
OEMI1844
911
Thanjavur
17-18
?
?
musician
musician-king of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1680-1712.
Kunjari Raja(Guru)
OEMI1136
579
?
?
performer of svarabat
Kesavayyar （Polagam）
OEMI1050
540
20
?
?
violinist
Noted violinist of the early 20th cent.
Narayana Iyengar （Titte）
OEMI1470
727
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja, Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
Chikka Subba Rao, Veena Seshanna
Damodar Pandit
?
OEMI0519
253
?
13
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and poet(13th cent.)
Naagdevaachaarya
Lebdev,G.S.
?
OEMI1201
606
?
?
?
writer
wrote the first modern Bengali play
modern Bengali play
Daulat Khan
?
OEMI0537
260
Kolkata
1920
?
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
Natthu Khan Khandare
P00126
Ashraf Khan
?
OEMI0194
83
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre of Mumbai
Fazal Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0626
319
Lahore
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Lahore of the early 1900s
Ghulam Ghaus Khan
OEMI0679
361
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of Atraululi, Uttar Pradesh, of the early 19th cent.
dhrupad
Bhajan Khan
OEMI0339
155
Jodhpur
19
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar during 1845-61
Jodhpur durbar
Imam Khan
OEMI0860
439
19
?
?
dholak player
Noted dholak player of the mid-19th cent.
Shad Khan
OEMI1916
962963
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra
Wahid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2231
1143
1985
1103
20
?
Karachi,Pakistan
vocalist
vocalist
his father Altaf Hussain Khan
Mehandi Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1317
666
1915
?
20
?
Gwalior
vocalist
Vocalist
Khurshaidjan
OEMI1075
555
Kanpur
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, and an early disc-record singer
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Vocal）
OEMI0676
360
1932
Agra
Agra
vocalist
Outstanding vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Agra gharaanaa
his father, his maternal cousin Ghasit Khan and his paternal cousin Sher Khan
Alla Rakhi
?
OEMI0083
39
?
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Bhatt, K.H.
OEMI0353
168
Mumbai
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Kitijan
OEMI1043
537
?
?
vocalist
ghazal singer
ghazal
Tulaja the Second
OEMI2138
1095
about 18
?
?
Maratha king of Thanjavur （r.1763-87）
Aghornath Chakraborti
?
OEMI0050
2324
1920
Rajpur village of 24 Parganas,Bengal
Benares
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
Murad Ali Khan, Daulat Khan, and Srijanbai
dhrupad
Ghulam Mohammad （Sarangi）
OEMI0682
361
?
?
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the period of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
Ram Sarop Sharma
OEMI1727
870
?
?
Singer-actor of Raas-leelaa and Swang, both these being folk theatres of Uttar Pradesh
Bhai Uttam Singh Hakim
OEMI0333
149
Amritsar, Punjab
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
'Chaukam' Sinu Ayyar
OEMI0451
227
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
17
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, during the reigns of Sarabhoji II and Sivaji.
Acheria
?
OEMI0032
16
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer and actress of the early 20th cent
Chhaila Bhai
OEMI0456
230
?
?
Singer of light classical music
Fateh Ali
?
OEMI0624
318
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
Patiaalaa
Inayat Hussain
OEMI0868
441
19
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar during 1873-88
La Meri
OEMI1146
583
?
?
American danseuse
Nanu Ram
OEMI1456
724
?
?
Well-known performer and writer of Shekhaavati khyaals of Rajasthan
Jagajjyotirmalla
OEMI0900
449
17
Maharaana(king)of Nepal;ruled between 1617-33
Kamakoti Sastri
?
OEMI1000
507
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
composer
Composer of kritis
Kesavapalli Seturamayya
OEMI1049
540
19
?
?
composer
Composer （19th cent.） of Telugu keertana
Telugu keertana
Krishnarao Sangle
OEMI1115
573
?
?
writer
writer
Jiyajirao Scindia(Shinde)
OEMI0944
481
patron,
Royal patron of Gwalior state in Madhya Pradesh(r.1843-86)
Chikka Subba Rao
OEMI0478
239
Mysore
?
?
Noted veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
his father Dodda Subba Rao
Govind Ram
OEMI0737
380
?
?
Veteran actor and author of nautanki plays of Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
Lahiri, S.N.
OEMI1151
586
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Mohammad Hussain
OEMI1348
679
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Parsvadeva
OEMI1602
799
?
?
author
Raghuram Joshi
OEMI1684
857
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ramdas Guru
OEMI1762
878
?
?
Fourth Guru of the Sikhs
Shiv Kumar Bai
OEMI1964
972
Benares
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, lived in early 20th-cent. Benares
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
OEMI0488
240241
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
Girin Chakraborty
OEMI0697
366
?
?
singer
Folk singer
folk
Vishwanath Joshi
OEMI2214
1137
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Krishnarao Pandit
Lakshmandas Sandhu
OEMI1160
589
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
Sakharam Sarnaik
OEMI1850
915
19
?
?
poet, playwright
Day,C.R.
?
OEMI0539
261
?
?
?
Author
Gowri
OEMI0750
383
Baroda
19
?
?
Bharata Naatyam danseuse in 19th-cent. durbar of Baroda
Kannuswaami Nattuvanaar
Madhava Swami
?
OEMI1216
613
Allahabad
?
?
?
Pakhaawaj player
Ramadeva Ata
OEMI1737
872
?
Kaljhar, near Bhavanipur, now in Barpeta district, Assam
composer
Assamese composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs
Bhavanipuriya Gopal Aataa
P01784
Eknath Sarolkar
?
OEMI0613
311
?
No
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
Gwalior
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

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