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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OEMI1789
Ranga Rao, V.A.K.
discographer,collector,columnist,music and dance historian
1930
Chennai
886
OEMI0377
Bimal Mukherji
sitar player
Noted sitar player
1930
?
?
1997
01??
Kolkata
his father Amulya Chandra Mukherjee and Abid Hussain Khan who was earlier the guru of Amulya Chandra.
190
P00156
OEMI0875
Inder Lal Dhandra
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1930
Udaipur, Rajasthan
his father Bihari Lal
443
OEMI1246
Malati Pande
vocalist
vocalist
1930
0419
Wardha,North Maharashtra
625
OEMI0094
Altaf Mahmud
Singer and music director
?
1930
1220
Barisal, Bangladesh
1971
0830
Dhaka
4445
OEMI1356
Mohammad Sali
harmonium player
1930
0716
Colombo,Sri Lanka
1988
0413
Colombo
681
OEMI1972
Shrikant Bakre
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
1930
0825
Nagpur, Maharashtra
Baburao Pathak, Manhar Barve, and Amir Khan
974
P05937
OEMI1951
Sharafat Hussain Khan
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
1930
07??
Agra
1985
07??
Delhi
Gwaalior
his father Liyaqut Hussain Khan, Faiyaz Khan, his maternal uncle Ata Hussain and father-in-law Vilayat Hussain Khan
968
OEMI0264
Balakram Worlikar
composer
Composer of Koli fisherfolk songs
1930
?
?
2002
0419
Mumbai
109
P00054
OEMI0267
Balamurali Krishna,M.
vocalist,composer
Eminent vocalist and composer
1930
07??
Sankaragupta region,Andhra Pradesh
Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
110
OEMI0041
Afaq Hussain Khan
tabla player
Well-known tabla player
1930
0712
Lucknow
1990
0219
?
Lucknow
Abid Hussaion Khan and Wajad Hussain Khan
22
P00074
OEMI0922
Jasraj(Pandit)
vocalist
Eminent present-day vocalist and foremost exponent of the Mewaati tradition.
1930
0120
Hissar,Haryana
463
P01269
OEMI1501
Nasir Ahmad Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1930
0105
Uttar Pradesh
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan
733
OEMI0346
Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury
Dancer and choreographer
1930
Chennai
2003
0804
New York, USA
162
P00032
OEMI0695
Girija Devi
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Kolkata
1929
0508
Benares
365366
OEMI1568
Padmavati Gokhale (Shaligram)
vocalist
vocalist
Mumbai
1929
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
Govindrao Shaligram,a pupil of Alladiya Khan
780
P00001
OEMI0009
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
sitar player
sitar player
1929
0218
Jawara,Madhya Pradesh
3
P00137
OEMI0393
Bishan Dass Sharma
Maker of musical instruments
Delhi
1929
Lahore
his father Rikhi Ram Sharma
195
OEMI1278
Manohar Chimote
Well-known harmonium player
Mumbai
1929
03??
Nagpur,Maharashtra
Bhishmadev Vedi,Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale,and Amir Hussain Khan
643
P00246
OEMI2265
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
rudra veena player
Noted rudra veena (biin) player
1929
Udaipur, Rajasthan
1990
0928
Mumbai
his father Ziauddin Dagar
1160
P00218
OEMI1880
Sarada Hoffman
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
1929
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Pandanallur Chokkalingam Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Ambu Panikker, Chandu Panikker
944
P00131
OEMI0270
Balasubrahmanya Sarma,M.S.
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1929
?
Rajahmundry,Andhra Pradesh
G.paidiswami
111
OEMI1261
Mangi Singh,L.
sitar player
Sitar player
1929
?
Imphal,Manipur
Chandam Tarakanta Singh
639
OEMI1035
Kashinath Panda
Singer of the Oriya folk form daas kaathia
1929
Lathi,Berhampur,Prissa
524
OEMI1485
Narayanaswamy, K. (Umayalpuram)
Ghatam player
1929
0504
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
his father Kothandarama Iyer
729
P02319
OEMI1952
Sharan Rani
Reputed sarod player
1929
0409
Delhi
Allauddin Khan and his son Ali Akber Khan
968
P00241
OEMI2181
Vempati Chinna Satyam
Well-known Kuuchipuudi dancer
1929
1025
Kuchipudi village, Andhra Pradesh
Tadepalli Perayya Sastri, Vedantam Lakshminarayana Sastry, Chandrakala and Yedavalli Rama
1121
OEMI1757
Ramchandra Mohapatra
vocalist
Vocalist
1929
0715
Balasore, Orissa
Bhagavat Mohanty, Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
877
P02347
OEMI1894
Satish Bhatia
He has composed for films, plays, and other stage forms and also conducted orchestral and choral music for radio and other media
1929
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
952
OEMI1213
Madavor Vasudevan Nair
Kathakali artiste and teacher
1929
?
Kerala
Madavoor Parameswaran Pillai,Kurichi Panicker,and Chengannur Raman Pillai
611
P00107
OEMI1195
Lata Mangeshkar
singer
Celebrated film singer
film
1929
0928
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
Dinanath Mangeshkar
603604
OEMI0382
Binaoani Mohanty
sitar player,vocalist
Vocalist,sitar player,and teacher.
1928
0628
Cuttack,Orissa
Allauddin Khan and Inayat Hussain Khan
192
P01070
OEMI0148
Anjanibai Lolekar
vocalist
Vocalist
Mumbai
1928
Goa
Agra
her brother Yashwantao Lolekar, husband R.L. Borkar, Anwar Hussain Khan
62
OEMI1809
Ratilal Bhavsar
vocalist, singer-actor
vocalist, singer-actor
1928
0617
Chopade town, Jalgaom district, Maharashtra
2001
1024
near Pune
894
OEMI1370
Mrinalini Sarabhai
dancer,choreographer
1928
0507
Chennai
689
P00226
OEMI2020
Sonam Tsersing Lepcha
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 in the category of folk music.
1928
0103
Sikkim
993
OEMI0752
Gul Bardhan
Dancer of Manipuri, Chhaau, and some regional folk dances of Rajasthan and Gujarat
1928
Mumbai
Shanti Bardhan, Maisnam Amubi Singh
386
P01704
OEMI2168
Vasanthakumari, M.L.
vocalist
vocalist
1928
0603
Chennai
1990
1031
Chennai
Ayyaswami Ayyar, Madras Lalithangi, G.N.Balasubramaniam, Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer, Vasanthakumari
11161117
P01797
OEMI0173
Arun Kumar Sen
vocalist, educationist
Vocalist and educationist
1928
0606
Rajim town,Raipur district,Chhattisgarh
2001
1214
Mumbai
Vishnu Krishna Joshi
76
OEMI1667
Radha Krishna Bhanj
singer
1928
1105
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
842
P03166
OEMI1231
Maharajapuram Santhanam
vocalist
vocalist
1928
0520
Sirunangur,Tamil Nadu
Maharajapuram Viswanatha
620
P00169
OEMI1086
Kochukuttan Chakyar (Mozhikkulam)
Noted Koodiyaattam artiste of the Ammanur tradition
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
1928
0513
Kerala
560
P00087
OEMI0916
Janakiraman,S.R.
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1928
0712
Lalgudi,Tamil Nadu
461
P00213
OEMI1751
Ramasray Jha
scholar,vocalist
Noted scholar, university teacher, author, and vocalist
Allahabad
1928
0811
Khajura town, Darbhanga, Bihar
2009
0101
Kolkata
his father Sukhdev Jha, uncle Madhusudan Jha
875
OEMI0265
Balakrishna Das
vocalist, music director
Vocalist and exponent of Oriyaa champu,chhand,janaanaa,Jayadeeva`s padas, and also music director for plays and films
1928
0202
Puri,Orissa
109110
OEMI1556
Norjahan
singer-actress
1928
Kassur village,near Lahore,Pakistan
2000
1223
Lahore
Ghulam Mohammad Khan
767
OEMI1414
Muthusamy, R.
violinist
Violinist and music director of Sinhalese films
1928
0105
Nagarcoil, Tamil Nadu
1988
0627
Sri Lanka
his father, Ramayya Bhagavatar
705
P00211
OEMI1721
Ram Kailas Yadav
Singer of folk songs of Uttar Pradesh
1928
Lamabi village,Uttar Pradesh
Mahavir Yadav
868
OEMI2221
Vithabai Narayangaokar
Laavani singer and tamaashaa artise.
1928
Solapur
2002
0115
Pune, Maharashtra
Bhau Mang Narayangaokar
1139
OEMI1574
Palakkad Raghu,R.
mridangam player
1928
Palakkad,Kerala
783
OEMI0027
Abid Hussain Khan(Dhaka)
sitar player, sarod player
Sitar and sarod player
1928
0401
Shibpur,Comilla district
Ayet Ali Khan(brother of Allauddin Khan of Maihar)
14
P00171
OEMI1105
Krishnan Kutty Nair (Kottakkal)
Kathakali performer
1928
Palakkad, Kerala
P.S. Varrier Natyasangham
571
OEMI0165
Appu Marar (Pallavor)
Performer of chendaa, edakka, and taayambakaa
1928
Thiruvanjikkulam, Kochi region, Kerala
his father Patturaikkal Sankara Marar, Adantha Kontha Swamy
71
P06043
OEMI1831
Sabri Khan
saarangi player
contemporary player of the saarangi
1927
0410
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Haji Mohammad Khan, Chhajju Khan
908
P00108
OEMI1645
Prem Lata Sharma
musicologist
Well-known Sanskrit scholar, university professor, researcher, and musicologist
1927
0510
Nakodar, Punjab
1998
1204
Benares
P.L. Vaidya and Gopinath Kaviraj, and Omkarnath Thakur
827
OEMI1017
Kandaswami Pillai,M.N.
Mridangam player
1927
?
1995
0430
Chennai
his father
515
P00024
OEMI0588
Dinkar Kaikini
vocalist, teacher
Well-knownn vocalist and teacher
Mumbai
1927
1002
Mumbai
2010
0123
Mumbai
Kerekatti Nageshrao, Omkarnath Thakur, S.N. Ratanjankar
298
P02635
OEMI0983
Kalanidhi Narayanan
Bharata Naatyam teacher and danseuse
1927
Tamil Nadu
Mylapore Gowri Amma, Kanchipuram Kannappa Pillai, Chinnayya Naidu
500
P05656
OEMI2205
Vilayat Khan
sitar player
Highly acclaimed sitar maestro of the 20th cent.
1927
0820
Gouripur, Mymensingh district [now in Bangladesh]
2004
0312
Mumbai
his father Inayat Khan, his mother Bashiran Bibi, maternal uncle Zinda Hassan Khan, and maternal grandfather Bande Hossan Khan, his paternal uncle Wahid Khan, Dhruba Tara Joshi and Bimla Kanta Roy Choudhuri
11291130
OEMI2052
Sukadev Patri
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1927
?
Kendrapada,Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar,Kundaladi Narayan Rao,and Khitish Chandra Maitra.
1026
OEMI1941
Shankar Hombal
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
1927
12??
Dharwar, Karnataka
Rukmini Devi Arundale's Kalakshetra, Chennai
966
P00081
OEMI1724
Ram Narayan
saarangi player
Eminent saarangi player
Mumbai
1927
1225
Udaipur
his father Nathuji Biawat, Uday Lal
869
OEMI1296
Master Madan
Singer
1927
1226
Shimla,Himachal Pradesh
1942
0605
Shimla
656657
P01145
OEMI0366
Bhubaneswar Mishra
violinist,composer
Noted violinist and composer.
1927
?
Paralakhemundi;Orissa
1993
0507
?
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu and Dwaram Narsinga Rao
183
P00007
OEMI0151
Annapurna Devi
surbahar player
Well-known surbahar player and teacher
Mumbai
1927
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
6465
OEMI0395
Bishnu Priya Samantasinghar
vocalist
Vocalist, first woman artiste of All India Radio, Cuttack
Cuttack
1927
0205
Puri, Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar
195
OEMI1897
Satyanarayana, R.
Reputed author and scholar of music and dance
1927
Mysore city, Karnataka
his mother Varalakshmi
953
OEMI0100
Amaradeva,W.D.
violinist
Noted singer,music director,and violinist
Sri Lanka
1927
1205
Koralavalla,Moratuva,Sri Lanka
46
P06735
OEMI1967
Shobha Gurtu
vocalist,
Vocalist, well known especially for thumrii, daadraa, hoori, ghazal, and such other forms
thumrii, daadraa, hoori, ghazal
Mumbai
1927
Belgaum, Karnataka
2004
0927
Mumbai
Menakabai Shirodkar, Gamman Khan, Nattan Khan
973
P01321
OEMI0177
Arvind Parikh
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
Mumbai
1927
?
?
?
?
77
OEMI1983
Siddharam Jadhav
Reputed player of sundri, a wind instrument of the blowin type
1927
0815
Mangalwedha, Solapur district, Maharashtra
his elder brother Baburao
976
P00078
OEMI1687
Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
vocalist, teacher
teacher, singer
1927
0202
Alwar,Rajasthan
857
OEMI0603
Durgeswar Nath Oja
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
1927
0307
Pakadali, Darrang district, Assam
1994
0305
Pakadali, Assam
his family, and Cheniram Nath, Ghotaram, and Haliram Sarma
305306
OEMI1523
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Professor Emeritus of music and ethnomusicology,University of California,author and audio-visual documentator.
1927
1031
Clifton, England
754755
P00228
OEMI2046
Suddhendra Narayan Singh Deo
dancer
Noted dancer of Chhau of the Seraikella tradition
1926
?
Seraikella,Bihar
1021
P01441
OEMI0155
Annavarupa Ramaswamy
violinist
Violinist of the Karnatik style
1926
Somavarappadu, Andhra Pradesh
Maganti Jagannatha Chowdary, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
65
OEMI1126
Kulatillake,C.de S.
musicologist
musicologist
1926
1214
Ambalangoda,Sri Lanka
577578
OEMI1621
Phul Mohammad
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1926
12??
Baharampur, Murshidabad district, Bangladesh
his father and Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Kader Baksh, Ram Govind Pathak, Mehdi Hussain Khan (of Rampur), Girija Shankar Chakravarti
809
OEMI1135
Kundanlal Gangani
Kathak dancer
1926
Sujangarh,Rajasthan
1984
0716
Jaipur,Rajasthan
579
OEMI0522
Damodarlal Kabra
Sarod player
1926
0317
Kuchaman[Marwad],Rajasthan
1979
0804
Ahmedabad,Gujarat
Ali Akbar Khan(of Maihar)
253
OEMI1044
Kelucharan Mahapatra
dancer and guru
1926
0801
Raghurajpur village,Puri district,Orissa
2004
0407
Bhubaneshwar,Orissa
537538
OEMI1640
Prasunkumar Banerji
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Kolkata
1926
0815
?
Jamini Ganguly, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Jnan Prakash Ghosh
826
P00887
OEMI1661
Puttur Devdas Joshi
violinist
violinist
1926
09??
?
1986
1030
?
Ganesh,T.Chowdiah,P.Sambamoorthy
834
P00062
OEMI1267
Manik Varma
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1926
05??
Pune,Maharashtra
1996
1110
Mumbai
Benares and Punjabi style
Jagannath-bua Purohit,Bholanath Bhatt,and Azmat Hussain Khan
640
P02464
OEMI0178
Asa Singh Mastana
Noted singer of Punjabi folk music
Punjabi folk music
1926
?
Lahore
1999
0523
Delhi
77
OEMI0642
Gajanan Varma
writer, performer
writer and performer
1926
?
Ratangarh,Rajasthan
325
OEMI2029
Srikrishna Dalvi
Music critic and actor of Marathi plays
1926
?
?
2004
01??
Mumbai
1008
OEMI1152
Laila Arjumand Banu
vocalist
Vocalist
1926
0105
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ramani Mohan Bhattacharya, Manju Khan, Gul Mohammad Khan, Yusuf Khan Koraishi, Gopal Dasgupta
586
OEMI2220
Viswanathan, T.
flute player
1926
0815
Tamil Nadu
2002
0910
?
Swaminatha Pillai
11381139
P00121
OEMI0162
Appa Jalgaonkar
harmonium player
Veteran harmonium player
1926
Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Balkrishna-bua Chikhalukar, Shabbu Khan
71
P00153
OEMI0807
Hari Uppal
Exponent of folk dances, especially of Bihar
1926
Patna, Bihar
411
OEMI0891
Jadhurama Devangan
Performer of Paandavani
1926
Madhya Pradesh
448
P00208
OEMI2123
Thilagam,P.R.
Performer in Kuravanji dance dramas
1926
?
Tiruvarur,Tamil Nadu
?
?
grandmother Tiruvarur Kamalambal and Madurai Srirangam Iyengar in dance,and Ganesa Pillai in dance.
1078
P00099
OEMI1229
Mahalingam,T.R.(Mali)
flute player
A master of the flute
1926
11??
Thalainayar village,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
1986
0531
?
619620
OEMI0380
Bimalindu Mukherji
sitar player
Scholar and exponent of sitar
Bhilai,Chhattisgarh
1926
?
Mymensing district[now in Bangladesh]
191
P00036
OEMI0768
Hafiz Ahmad Khan
vocalist
Hindustani vocalist
1926
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
397
OEMI0369
Bhupen Hazarika
An eminent name in Assamese music.
1926
?
Sadia district,Assam
183184
OEMI1734
Ramachandra Rao, S.K.
musicologist
Noted musicologist and scolar with achievements in several fields
1926
Karnataka
871
P00181
OEMI1214
Madhabi Devi(Ningombam)
Performer and teacher of Manipuri dance and music
Imphal
1926
?
Kiyamegi village,Manipur
612
OEMI2031
Srinivasan,M.B.
Music director of south Indian films
1925
?
Chittoor,Andhra
1009