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
P02818
OEMI1816
Rohini Bhate
kathak danseuse
1924
Pune, Maharashtra
Sohan Lal , Munna Lal, Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, Lachhu Maharaj
901
OEMI1964
Shiv Kumar Bai
vocalist
Vocalist, lived in early 20th-cent. Benares
Benares
?
?
972
P06255
OEMI2084
Suresh Talwalkar
tabla player
Noted performer of tabla
Mumbai
1948
0720
?
Pandharinath Nageshkar
1036
OEMI0488
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
?
?
240241
OEMI0697
Girin Chakraborty
singer
Folk singer
folk
?
?
366
OEMI1676
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
vocalist
vocalist
1826
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
855
OEMI1313
Mira Khirwadkar
vocalist
Vocalist
1936
0706
Maharashtra
662
OEMI2214
Vishwanath Joshi
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
?
?
Krishnarao Pandit
1137
OEMI1160
Lakshmandas Sandhu
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
?
?
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
589
OEMI1850
Sakharam Sarnaik
poet, playwright
?
?
915
P00180
OEMI1210
Lourembam Tombi Devi
dancer, musician
Veteran of Manipuri dance and its music
Manipuri
1901
0915
Sagolband Nepra Menjor Leikai,Imphal
?
?
Khomdon Sharma,Gourachandra Sharma,and Senjam Angouton Singh
608
OEMI0539
Day,C.R.
Author
?
?
?
?
261
OEMI0750
Gowri
Bharata Naatyam danseuse in 19th-cent. durbar of Baroda
Baroda
?
?
Kannuswaami Nattuvanaar
383
OEMI1216
Madhava Swami
Pakhaawaj player
Allahabad
?
?
?
?
613
OEMI1737
Ramadeva Ata
composer
Assamese composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs
?
Kaljhar, near Bhavanipur, now in Barpeta district, Assam
Bhavanipuriya Gopal Aataa
872
P02951
OEMI1960
Sheikh Gulab
He represented Madhya Pradesh from 1954 to 1985 in presenting folk dances at the Republic Day parades and at All India folk dance festivals
1914
Lakho village, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh
971
OEMI1546
Niyamat Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Qavvaal-bbachche style
khayaal
?
?
Qavvaal-bbachche style
765
OEMI2100
Tabakkal Hussain Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist from Talwandi in Punjab
?
?
?
?
1050
OEMI0906
Jaggan Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
?
?
451
OEMI1923
Shahab Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Atraauli
his father （name not known）
963
P06273
OEMI2234
Wajid Hussain Khan
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
1918
?
Lucknow
Lucknow
His uncle Munne Khan and Abid Hussain Khan
1144
OEMI1848
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
surbahaar exponent
?
?
915
OEMI0241
Badi Maina
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
?
?
Benares
98
OEMI1220
Madhusudan Kan
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Bengal
?
?
?
?
616
OEMI0709
Gokulchandra Srichandan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
?
?
371
P00008
OEMI0181
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
1937
?
Alwar,Rajasthan
78
OEMI0087
Allah Bandi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0386
Bindu Bala
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
?
?
193
OEMI1457
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
724
OEMI1729
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
870
OEMI2239
Wazir Chand
sitar player
Sitar player.
?
?
?
?
Master Ratan of Punjab
1145
OEMI2067
Sundarabai of Benares
vocalist
She was vocalist of sawaal-jawaab, birhaa, and kajri songs in the 20th-century
Kolkata
?
?
1030
OEMI0137
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
Mysore
58
P00229
OEMI2048
Sudharani Raghupathy
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Chennai
1944
0321
Pollachi,Tamil Nadu
V.S.Kaushik,U.S.Krishna Rao,Chandrabhaga Devi,and Kittappa Pillai
1021
P02258
OEMI0685
Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
Singer of Sufiaanaa Kalaam of Kashmir
1940
Srinagar, Kashmir
his father Ramzan Joo, his uncle Mohammad Siddiq
362
OEMI1138
Kunju Nair (Vazhenkada)
Kathakali performer and guru
1925
0608
Vazhenkada village,Palakkad,Kerala
Koppan Nair(Kariyattil),Govinda Pisharodi(Kalluvazhi),Ravunni Menon(Pattikamthodi)
580
OEMI0395
Bishnu Priya Samantasinghar
vocalist
Vocalist, first woman artiste of All India Radio, Cuttack
Cuttack
1927
0205
Puri, Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar
195
OEMI0489
Chinnayya Mudaliyar （Manali）
patron,
A patron and feudal landlord of Manali near Chennai
Manali near Chennai
?
?
241
OEMI0349
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
?
?
Ganpatrao Pandit
163
OEMI0547
Dejendranath Bagchi
vocalist
Vocalist and disc-record singer
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
264
OEMI1104
Krishnadasa Badajana
Orissa poet of the 16th cent., author of Geeta Prakaasa, an Oriya treatise on music and dance
?
?
571
OEMI0300
Bannijan
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist, based in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
120
OEMI0465
Chhota Rani
Singer-actress of Bengali plays
?
?
236
OEMI0878
Indramohan Das
sitar player
Sitar-maker of late 19th cent
?
?
443444
P00222
OEMI1950
Sharada Sinha
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for Bihari folk music
1953
Hulas, Bihar
Raghu Jha, Hari Dandekar, and Panna Devi
968
P02103
OEMI2074
Sunil Kothari
author
Well-known critic and author of books on dance and related topics
Kolkata
1933
1220
Mumbai
1031
OEMI1578
Pallikurike Somanatha
author
Telugu author
Telugu
?
?
785
OEMI0991
Kalipada Pathak
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
0.189
Howrah, Kolkata
?
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
505
OEMI1035
Kashinath Panda
Singer of the Oriya folk form daas kaathia
1929
Lathi,Berhampur,Prissa
524
OEMI2232
Wahid Khan(Rudra Vina)
musician
Noted musician of the Indore durbar
Indore
?
Agra
?
Indore
Bande Ali Khan
11431144
OEMI0175
Arunachala Sastri
composer
Composer of the post-1850 period remembered for his Sanskrit songs
?
?
?
?
76
OEMI0610
Ekambara Mudaliyar
Author of a noted Tamil operatic play
?
?
309
OEMI1121
Kshirabdi Sastri
composer
composer
Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
?
?
Sivarama Yogi
574
P00210
OEMI1710
Rajiv Taranath
sarod player
Noted sarod player
1932
1017
Bangalore, Karnataka
865
OEMI0336
Bhaiyya-saheb Malvankar
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of the 1930s
?
?
Shankarrao Pandit
153
OEMI1702
Rajagopala Pillai (Mannargudi)
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
863
OEMI1784
Ramzan Khan (Vocal)
vocalist
tappaa singer
tappaa
?
?
Imam Badi
885
P00184
OEMI1274
Mankombu Sivasankara Pillai
Well-known Kathakali artiste and teacher
1922
?
Mankombu,Alappuzha,district,Kerala
643
OEMI1110
Krishnarao Ashtewale
sitar player,patron,
sitar player and patron of Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
1841
?
?
Raghumatharao
572
OEMI0720
Gopala Iyer （Pallavi）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the durbar of Maharajas Amara Simha and Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
374
OEMI0569
Dharmayya Ramasamayya
Eminent veena player and scholar
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
285
OEMI0274
Baldevji
vocalist
Nineteenth-century dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Raja Vikram Singhji of Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
?
?
?
?
his uncle Ram Gulamji,and Bade Mohammad Khan and Nabi Khan
112
OEMI0479
Chikkaramappa （Begada）
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of KrishnarajaWodeyar III
Mysore
?
?
Venkatasubbayya
239
P00142
OEMI0530
Datar,D.K.
violinist
Noted violinist
1932
1014
based in Mumbai
259
OEMI0637
Fredilis,M.
musician
Musician-in-charge of the State Military Band of Baroda State
?
?
?
?
321322
OEMI0741
Govindamatya
Author
?
?
381
OEMI0858
Imam Badi
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the 1850s from Benares
Benares
?
?
Shadi Khan
439
OEMI1610
Patnaik, D.N.
Scholar of Odissi dance and other performing arts of Orissa
Cuttack, Orissa
1933
0201
?
805
OEMI1686
Ragini Devi
American danseuse
1896
Michigan,USA
?
857
OEMI1763
Ramdas Kamat
Well-known Marathi stage actor and singer
1931
0218
Goa
his father Dharma （Shantaram） Kamat
878
OEMI1817
Ropram Katara
Priest and Raas-leelaa performer
?
?
901
OEMI1988
Simha Bhopala
musicologist
King and musicologist of medieval times
?
?
977
OEMI0699
Giriraja Brahmam
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional song
?
?
367
OEMI1485
Narayanaswamy, K. （Umayalpuram）
Ghatam player
1929
0504
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
his father Kothandarama Iyer
729
OEMI1979
Shyamamani Devi
vocalist
Vocalist
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
975
OEMI1330
Mirza Mahmod Ali
saarangi player
saarangi player,teacher
?
?
672
OEMI2240
Wazir Khan(Hapur)
vocalist
Noted vocalist
?
?
?
?
his father Nizam Khan
1145
OEMI1237
Maheswara Mahapatra
author
?
?
621622
OEMI1897
Satyanarayana, R.
Reputed author and scholar of music and dance
1927
Mysore city, Karnataka
his mother Varalakshmi
953
OEMI1249
Malkajan Agrewali
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
?
?
629630
OEMI0069
Akshay Chowdhury
composer
Poet and composer of patriotic songs in Bengali
?
?
?
?
34
OEMI0955
John Menezes
Noted exponent of Western music
1906
Sao Mathias, Divar Island, Goa
?
487
OEMI1380
Muktaram Barua
Singer and Deodhani dancer
1932
03??
Rainakuchi village, Darrang district,Assam
his father Kalaram
692
OEMI1962
Sheikh Munna
Shehnai player of the 1900s
Lucknow
?
?
971
OEMI1161
Lakshmandas Seth
patron,
Patron of the arts
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
589
OEMI0348
Bhaskar-bua Joshi
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
1914
1231
Karanj, Pune district, Maharastra
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze, Shivram-bua Vaze, Dinkar Pathak, Haribhau Ghangrekar
163
OEMI0403
Bose,R.N.
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali songs
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
198
OEMI1931
Shambhu （Master）
Singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays of the 1900s
?
?
964
OEMI0311
Basaveswara
Spiritual leader of the Veena Saiva movement of Karnataka
0.1139
Bagewadi, Bijasur district, Karnataka
0.1196
Kudala Sangama, Bagalkot district, Karnaraka
128129
OEMI1899
Savta Mali
Poet of Marathi abhangs
0.125
?
0.1295
?
957
OEMI0733
Gora Kumbhar
Poet of Marathi abhangs
Teradhoki
0.1267
?
?
0.1296
?
?
377
OEMI0500
Chokhamela
Poet of Marathi abhangs
?
0.1338
Mangalwedha, near Sangli, Maharashtra
243
OEMI2201
Vidyapati Thakur
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
0.136
?
0.1448
?
1127
OEMI0970
Kabir
Saint-poet
0.1398
?
0.1518
?
492493
OEMI1521
Nayak Bakhshu
vocalist
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
0.146
?
?
0.1535
?
?
Raja Maansingh Toomar
751752
OEMI2273
Mardana （Bhai）
rabaab player
Rabaab player, loyal accompanist of Guru Nanak, born in a Muslim family of folk musicians
1496
Talwandi, old Punjab Province
0.154
?
650651
OEMI1520
Nayak Baiju
One of the finest singers of dhrupad of the 15th cent.
0.1465
?
Champaner village,North Gujarat
0.154
?
?
751
OEMI0813
Haridas Swami （Vrindavan）
composer
Legendary saint-composer
0.148
Kher, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh
0.1575
Vrindavan, near Agra
412413
OEMI0317
Baz Bahadur
musician
sixteenth-century musician and ruler of Mandu in Malwa, Rajasthan
152530
?
0.1594
?
131132
OEMI0817
Hariram Vyas
vocalist
Noted story-teller and vocalist
1492
Orchha, Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the river Betwa
0.1598
?
415416