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
Chand Khan （Tabla）
OEMI0429
214
18
?
?
tabla player
Tabla pioneer （mid-18th cent.）
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Muthukkumara Pulavar
OEMI1411
704
19
?
?
composer
Tamil composer （19th cent.）
Lakshminarayan Rajak
OEMI1167
591
Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
?
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
his father Chhotelal Rajak
Aga Shergul
?
OEMI0047
23
Pakistan
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Babi Borkar （Baburao）
0318
OEMI0221
9293
1903
20
Bari, Goa
?
Noted harmonium player
Chandra Sakhi
OEMI0434
217
Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
?
Eighteenth-century poet of Vaishnava padas
Balkrishna Swami
Hakani Bakhsh
OEMI0784
400
Jodhpu
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of the late 19th cent.
Kamalam
?
OEMI1006
508509
?
?
?
Danseuse of Tiruvarur
Muvvalur Sabhapati Iyer
Lionel Algama
0324
OEMI1204
607
Sri Lank
1935
20
Sri Lanka
musician
Contemporary Sri Lankan musician and teacher
Contemporary Sri Lankan
Nagaridev
?
OEMI1432
715
1547
?
16
?
?
Sixteenth-century devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
Prajnanananda （Swami）
OEMI1637
825
Kolkata
1907
20
Prasadpur, Bengal
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Vedaanta
Serfubai
OEMI1909
961
Lucknow
19
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of 19th-cent. Lucknow
khayaal
Somnath Pandit
OEMI2018
993
17
?
?
Author of Raaga Viboodha, written in 1609
Zakir Hussain
0309
OEMI2260
11581159
1951
20-
Mumbai
tabla player
Well-known tabla exponent
his father, tabla maestro Allah Rakha Qureshi
Ramananda Dvija
OEMI1743
873
17
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
his father Raamadeva Aataa
Vishwanath Ringe
OEMI2215
1137
1921
20
?
vocalist, teacher, author
vocalist, teacher, author
Gwaalior
Krishnarao Pandit
Baltazard, Solvyns
?
OEMI0283
115
Kolkata
1760
?
Antwerp,Belgium
?
European painter,
Nor Khan(Jodhpur)
OEMI1553
766
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Palakkad Raghu,R.
OEMI1574
783
1928
20
Palakkad,Kerala
mridangam player
Sankaran Embrantiri
08??
OEMI1872
940
1942
20
Vellayyoor, Malappuram district, Kerala
vocalist
vocalist
G.P.Govinda Pisharoti
Chatterji, M. N.
OEMI0448
224
Kolkata
20
?
?
rudra veena player
Rudra veena performer of early 20th cent.
Hira Bulbul
OEMI0834
431
Nepal
?
?
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the king of Nepal
P00170
Komik Khongjirem
OEMI1092
566
Meghalaya
?
?
musician
Folk musician of Meghalaya
Folk music
Manohar,S.S.
?
OEMI1280
644
Mumbai
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Palanivel,A.K.
OEMI1575
783
1948
20
Haridwaramangalam,Tamil Nadu
performer and teacher of the drum,tavil.
S.Kumarvel Pillai,G.Muthukumaraswamy Pillai
Ramchandra Vaidya
OEMI1759
877
1871
19
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain
Poet and performer of Marathi keertans
Kachchi Sastri
OEMI0972
493
19
?
?
vocalist, violinist
Vocalist and violinist （19th cent.）
Alimulla Khan
?
OEMI0081
39
Lucknow
?
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
P06002
Sultan Khan
OEMI2062
1029
Mumbai
1941
20
Sikar, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Veteran saarangi player
Gulab Khan, Amir Khan
Abhilasha
?
OEMI0025
10
south India
?
?
Author of Sangeet Chandra
Chimman Khan
OEMI0481
239
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
Kayam Khan
OEMI1040
532
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
P00036
Hafiz Ahmad Khan
OEMI0768
397
1926
20
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Hindustani vocalist
Hussain Ali Khan
OEMI0845
436
1850
19
Madhya Pradesh
?
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
?
OEMI0056
27
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
P00003
Abhinava Gupta
?
OEMI0026
11
?
?
?
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
Dipali Nag
0222
OEMI0545
264
1922
20
Agra
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra Rangile
Tassaduq Hussain Khan,Bashir Ahmad Khan,Faiyaz Khan,Vilayat Hussain Khan
Jagu Ojha
OEMI0907
451
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
Mahmuda Jan
OEMI1241
622
?
?
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
Nrushingha Nath Khuntia
1009
OEMI1557
768
1913
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher of Odissi music
Bhimsen Pratihari,Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
Odissi music
Somnath Das
OEMI2017
993
1906
20
Puri, Orissa
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Odissi music
Mahadeva Nattuvanar
?
OEMI1226
619
?
19
?
?
Dance teacher(19th cent.)of Tamil Nadu
Biswanath Sahai
OEMI0400
197
Benares, second half of the 19th cent.
?
tabla player
Tabla player of the Benares style
Benares
Bhairav Sahai
Hamid Ali Khan （Nawab）
OEMI0787
401
?
?
Ruler of Rampur state in Uttar Pradesh
Kodandarama Ayyar
OEMI1087
560
18
?
?
musician
Musician （18th cent.） of Sirgazhi in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
OEMI1022
516
19
?
?
Bharata Naatyam guru of the 19th cent
Mughlu Khan (Jawra)
?
OEMI1375
691
?
?
?
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and rudra veena player of jawra,Madhya Pradesh.
P00194
Paramananda Borbayan
OEMI1596
797
1936
20
Lahalial,Assam
performer and teacher of Sattriiya dance of Assam
Ayyaval
OEMI0209
90
?
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs
Bindijan
OEMI0385
193
1828
19
vocalist
Vocalist, particularly noted for toppaa
Mir Roshan Ali, Khadem Shafi
toppaa
Kamalbai
?
OEMI1007
509
?
?
?
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
P00179
Lila Samson
?
OEMI1203
606
1951
20
Coonoor,Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam exponent
Munnibai
?
OEMI1390
695
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Pedda Dasari
OEMI1616
807
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
17
?
?
composer
Composer of keertans in Telugu and Sanskrit
P00098
Rukmini, T.
1127
OEMI1825
904905
1936
20
Shimoga, Karnataka
violinist
violinist
R.R.Keshava Murthy
P00225
Sonal Mansingh
?
OEMI2019
993
1944
20
Mumbai
Eminent exponent of Odissi dance
Kelucharan Mahapatra and Bharata Mylapore Gowri Amma
Utpala Deva
OEMI2152
1104
11
?
?
Abhinava Gupta's parama-guru in Saiva theology.
Kashinath Pajapanda
0315
OEMI1034
524
1921
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist,
vocalist of Odissi music
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
P00231
Suleman Juma Jumani
OEMI2060
1029
Kutch, Gujarat
1905
20
Kutch
Veteran of folk music of Kutch, Gujarat
his father Juma Jumani and Langa Bachhu Ustad
folk music
Mirabai Badkar
0713
OEMI1315
664
1916
20
Maharashtra
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Kalyanibai and Anwar Hussain Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
?
OEMI0055
27
?
?
?
?
singer
An early singer for disc-records
Girisa Ayyar （Vishalur）
OEMI0701
367
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, a contemporary of Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
P00181
Madhabi Devi(Ningombam)
?
OEMI1214
612
Imphal
1926
20
Kiyamegi village,Manipur
Performer and teacher of Manipuri dance and music
Subbayyar Jhanjhamritam
?
OEMI2039
1011
Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
P00084
Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
OEMI1792
887
1932
20
Poongulam, Tamil Nadu
veena player and teacher
Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
Chinni Krishna Dasa
OEMI0491
241
19
?
?
composer
Composer （19th cent） of kritis and svarajaatis in Telugu
Tarabai Welingkar
?
OEMI2106
1065
Mumbai
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal and thumrii singer of the 1930s
Muraba Govekar and Ali Hussain
Khayaal,thumrii
P00206
Vasudevan Nambodiri （Nelliyodu）
OEMI2174
1118
1940
20-
Ernakulam district, Kerala
Kathakali artiste
Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair, etc...
Gopalakrishna Sastri
OEMI0724
375
18
?
?
A pioneer （18th cent.） in theatrical arts
Shadi Khan （Benares）
OEMI1917
963
19
?
?
Noted tappaa singer of the mid-19th cent.
Narasimha Dasa （Tumu）
OEMI1461
725726
1790
18-19
Andhra
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
devotional songs in Telugu
Muttu Ayyar(Karaikudi)
OEMI1420
706
1901
20
?
?
mridangam player
Tirugokarnam Sivanandam Pillai
Ahobal Pandit
?
OEMI0059
29
probably born near Benares
?
16
?
?
author
Well-known author of Sangeet Paarijaat(16th cent.)
Baburam Sahai
OEMI0225
9394
Allahabad
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of Allahabad
Ramanujdas, Narayandas
Chandrabai
OEMI0435
217
Agra
1833
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Mansingh Vaidprakash
P00141
Damayanti Joshi
?
OEMI0517
253
1932
20
?
Kathak danseuse
Lucknow Kathak
Dilaram Mishra
?
OEMI0582
295
Benares
?
17
?
?
Founder(c.17th cent.) of the Benares gharaanaa of vocal music.
Benares
Giribala Dasi
OEMI0694
365
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Jayadiva
OEMI0928
467
12
Kindubilvam(or Kenduli)village,Puri,Orissa
poet,author of the Masterpiece Geet Govinda in Sanskrit
Kambal
?
OEMI1008
509
?
?
?
musician
A sage-musician of ancient times
Nomita Ghose
1211
OEMI1551
766
1959
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
vocalist
vocalist
Jashoda Ghose,P.C.Gomes,Barin Mazumdar
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
Ramkishan Solanki
1225
OEMI1768
880
1938
20
Pushkar, Rajasthan
Performer of the drum, nagaaraa
Pannalal Bajpayi
OEMI1589
794
19
?
?
sitar player
sitar player
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
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
Shah Mir Khan
OEMI1922
963
Indore
?
?
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore
Abid Hussain Khan(Dhaka)
0401
OEMI0027
14
1928
20
Shibpur,Comilla district
sitar player, sarod player
Sitar and sarod player
Ayet Ali Khan(brother of Allauddin Khan of Maihar)
Pan Khan
OEMI1581
788
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
18
?
?
vocalist,sitar player
vovalist,sitar player
Yashin Khan
?
OEMI2245
1153
1935
20
Dhaka,Bangladesh
vocalist
vocalist
his father Gul Mohammad Khan
Nasir Ahmad Khan
0105
OEMI1501
733
1930
20
Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan

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