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
Lakshmiram Barua
OEMI1169
591
20
?
?
composer
Early 20th cent. Assamese composer and author of Sangeetkos
P00055
Chandrasekaran, M.
OEMI0440
221
1937
20
Kolkata
?
violinist
Noted violinist
his mother Charubala Mohan
Chaggan(Master)
?
OEMI0419
208
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer-actor of the 1900s.
Hasir Khan
OEMI0820
418
18
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
the Qavvaal gharaanaa of Dalhi
Rahim Khan
OEMI1688
857
?
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
Amritsen
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
?
OEMI0021
7
Delhi
?
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
P00156
Inder Lal Dhandra
OEMI0875
443
1930
20
Udaipur, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Saarangi player
his father Bihari Lal
Shaukat Ali Khan
OEMI1954
969
1911
20
Gidhaur, Bihar
?
rabaab player
Rabaab player of the Seni gharaanaa
Seni
Mohammad Ali Khan, Raja Nawab Ali
P00113
Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
0321
OEMI0073
37
Kolkata
1939
20
?
shehnai player
Noted shehnai player
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0884
445
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
OEMI1323
671
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
?
OEMI0077
38
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Seni
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
OEMI0846
436
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
Allahdi
?
OEMI0091
42
Delhi
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Kutub Bakhsh
OEMI1144
582
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Wazirjan
?
OEMI2242
1146
Beneres
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
vocalist of Beneres of the 1900s.
Abbasuddin Ahmed
?
OEMI0003
12
Bengal
?
?
?
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
OEMI1982
976
16
?
?
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Purushottama Mishra
OEMI1657
832
Orissa
?
?
Scholar in the durbar of Gajapati Jagannaatha Naaraayanadeva, king of Paralkhemundi, southern Orissa
Lalit Chandranath Ojha
0211
OEMI1182
594
1923
20
Sipajhar, Darrang district, Assam
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali and Deodhani dancer of Assam
his father and Thanuram Kalita Ojha
Chodia Imam Bakhsh
OEMI0502
244
19
?
?
tabla player
Eminent 19th-cent. tabla player
The Fraukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Haji Vilayat Ali Khan
Kumaraswami Bhaktar
OEMI1129
578
Kanjeevaram,Tamil Nadu
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the 1900s
Ramu-bhaiyya Date
OEMI1782
884
?
?
patron,
patron of Hindustani classical music
Arabatta Navalar
OEMI0168
72
?
?
Author of a Tamil work on dance titled Bharata Saastiram （c.18th cemt.）
Banujan
OEMI0301
121
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolhapur during roughly 1900-20
P00146
Fida Hussain
?
OEMI0631
319
1899
?
19-20
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre
P00035
Guruvayur Dorai
OEMI0763
392
1935
20
Guruvayur, Kerala
Mridangam player
Palakkad Subba Iyer, Palani Subramania Pillai
Mehndi Hassan
OEMI1319
667
Jaipur
vocalist,composer
ghazal singer ,composer
ghazal
Sharan Rani
0409
OEMI1952
968
1929
20
Delhi
Reputed sarod player
Allauddin Khan and his son Ali Akber Khan
Surdas
OEMI2079
1035
0.1478
15
Sihi village, near Delhi
?
singer
Blind singer
It is not known
Kallinath Pandit
OEMI0993
505506
?
?
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
Nagabhushanachar,V.
?
OEMI1430
714715
1932
20
Krishnapur,Mysore district,Karnataka
K.Veerappachar
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
OEMI1529
756
?
?
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
Satyabhamabai Pandharpurkar
OEMI1895
953
Sangli district, Maharashtra
Well-known performer of Marathi laavani
Godavaribai Punekar
Wahid Khan（Sitar）
?
OEMI2233
1144
1895
?
19-20
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
sitar player
Well-known sitar and surbahaar player
his father Imdad Khan
P00052
Laxman Krishnarao Pandit
?
OEMI1199
606
Delhi
1934
20
Gwalior,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
Gwaliior
Krishnarao and Shankarrao Pandit
Lal Khan （Jodhpur）
OEMI1172
591
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
OEMI0211
90
Lucknow
19
Kalpi
?
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Kannappa Thambiran
OEMI1020
516
1915
20
Purisai,Tamli Nadu
Performer of Theru Koothu
Sarada Subramaniam
OEMI1881
944
1915
20
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
Rukmini Devi Arundale, Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur), Bhairavan Pillai
Rajkumar Priyogopal Sana
OEMI1713
866
1910
20
Imphal, Manipur
Well-known exponent of Manipuri dance, also an expert in Manipuri martial arts
his father Rajkumar Suryaboro Singh
P00241
Vempati Chinna Satyam
1025
OEMI2181
1121
1929
20-
Kuchipudi village, Andhra Pradesh
Well-known Kuuchipuudi dancer
Tadepalli Perayya Sastri, Vedantam Lakshminarayana Sastry, Chandrakala and Yedavalli Rama
Haricharan Das Swami
OEMI0811
412
Dhaka
18
?
?
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
OEMI0941
480
Kolkata
Author
Dev Kishor Sharma(Phurailatpam)
0118
OEMI0552
273
1921
20
Imphai,Manipur
Senior teacher,music director,and ardent promoter
Maisnam Amubi,Konjeng Toyaima,Haobam Tomba,Huirem Lala,Sorokhaibam Paka,R.K. Akesana,and Chungkham Thambalangou
P00022
Debu Chaudhuri
?
OEMI0544
262
Delhi
1935
20
Mymansingh,now in Bangladesh
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Mustaq Ali Khan(sitar) and Sukhendu Goswami(vocal)
Gajanan Varma
?
OEMI0642
325
1926
20
Ratangarh,Rajasthan
writer, performer
writer and performer
Govindprasad Gopaldas
OEMI0745
382
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th-cent,
Incha Baras
OEMI0874
442
?
?
musician
Musician in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
Khajurbai
OEMI1067
543
?
?
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
Mankar
?
OEMI1273
643
Assam
?
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent
Mohammad Reza
OEMI1355
681
?
?
author
Rahimanbai
OEMI1689
857858
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Babu Ram Sahai
Ramkumar Basak
OEMI1771
881
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Saroja, M.K.
OEMI1892
951
1931
20
Chennnai
Bharata Naatyam danseuse, film actress
Singhanadeva
OEMI1990
982
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of Devgiri, near Aurangabad in Maharashtra
Talim Hussain
?
OEMI2102
1055
Lucknow
?
20
?
?
Shehnai player of 1900s
Vishnudas Nama
OEMI2211
1135
16
?
?
composer
Composer and performer of Marathi aakhyaan for some years after 1550
Krishnayyar 'Dasavadyam'
OEMI1120
573
19
?
?
Instrumentalist
Sinnayya （Ghanam）
OEMI1992
982
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of padam and keertana
padam and keertana
Narayanaswami Pillai （Sirkazhi）
OEMI1484
729
19
?
?
violinist
Well-known violinist 19th cent.
P00101
Sivaraman, K. （Umayalpuram）
1217
OEMI2002
988
1935
20
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Well-known mridangam performer
Arupathi Natesa Iyer, Thanjavur Vaidyanatha Iyer, Palghat Mani Iyer, and Rangu Iyengar
Ulsor Krishna Iyer
OEMI2144
1102
19
?
?
vocalist
Durbar vocalist of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar r.1799-1860 of Mysore state
Syaamaa Saastri
Bhagwat Rasikdev
OEMI0331
148149
1742
18-19
Gadhakosh town, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh
Allahabad
composer
Composer of Vaishnava devotional songs
Swami Lalit Mohinidev
Desikachar,V.
?
OEMI0551
271
1924
20
Mysore
Noted flute exponent and teacher
M.Venkatesa Iyengar and Venkatagiriappa
Haladhara Mishra
OEMI0785
400
?
?
Author of Sangeet Kalpalatika, a manuscript on music and dance
Shrikant Bakre
0825
OEMI1972
974
Kolkata
1930
20
Nagpur, Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Baburao Pathak, Manhar Barve, and Amir Khan
Haridas Mukherji
OEMI0812
412
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s, based in Kolkata
Debo
?
OEMI0543
262
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of 1900s
Abdul Gafur
?
OEMI0006
2
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
P06696
Munne Khan
?
OEMI1388
695
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and a disc-record singer of the early 1900s.
Sitab Khan
OEMI1994
982
18
?
?
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Malati Pande
0419
OEMI1246
625
1930
20
Wardha,North Maharashtra
vocalist
vocalist
Dilawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI0583
295
Rewa
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
Agra
khayaal
Radha Krishna Bhanj
1105
OEMI1667
842
1928
20
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
singer
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
Markandeya Mohapatra Sharma
0718
OEMI1289
652
1915
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Narayan Mohapatra Sharma and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar.
P06142
Arvind Parikh
?
OEMI0177
77
Mumbai
1927
?
20
?
?
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
Haidarijan
OEMI0777
399400
?
?
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
Lal Kavi
OEMI1170
591
?
?
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi
Nasibjan
?
OEMI1500
732
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist disc-record singer of the early 20th cent
Siddharam Jadhav
0815
OEMI1983
976
1927
20
Mangalwedha, Solapur district, Maharashtra
Reputed player of sundri, a wind instrument of the blowin type
his elder brother Baburao
Chunnilal Hathraswale
OEMI0506
245
?
?
Noted nautanki artiste of Dariyapur, near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
dance by Kalkadin and Bindadin, music by Natharam of Hathras
P00078
Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
0202
OEMI1687
857
1927
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
vocalist, teacher
teacher, singer
Murad Ali Khan(Lucknow)
?
OEMI1395
696
Lucknow
?
19
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th-cent.
P00177
Lakshmi Viswanathan
OEMI1163
590
1944
20
Chennai
Bharata Naatyam dancer
Kanchipuram Ellappa Pillai
Ranjit Singh (Bhai)
OEMI1799
888
?
?
tabla player
tabla player
Bhai Gopal Singh
P00172
Kumaran Nair(Kizhpatam)
0530
OEMI1128
578
1915
20
Kerala
Kathakali artiste and teacher
Ravunni Menon
Laila Arjumand Banu
0105
OEMI1152
586
1926
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramani Mohan Bhattacharya, Manju Khan, Gul Mohammad Khan, Yusuf Khan Koraishi, Gopal Dasgupta
Durga Prasad
OEMI0303
304
0.192
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
Noted Kathak dancer, also known as Pande Maharaj
his father, Sukhdev Maharaj,and later from Achchan Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj
Chinna Vaithi
OEMI0483
240
Mysore
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
Lalita Devi
OEMI1186
598
Benares
?
?
Noted thumti singer of Benares
Meruswami
OEMI1321
669
?
?
A pioneer of south Indian Harikathaa during the reigns of Maratha kings.
Harikathaa
Nawabjan
?
OEMI1519
751
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramamatya
OEMI1740
872
16
?
?
Author of Svara Mela Kalaanidhi, dated around 1550
Shubha Mudgal
OEMI1976
975
1959
20
Allahabad
vocalist
Well-known vocalist, recipient of the Padma Shri in 2000
Ramasray Jha, Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, Vasant Thakkar, Naina Devi, Jitendra Abhisheki, and Kumar Gandharva, Shubha
Syed Abdul Hadi
0701
OEMI2099
1049
1940
20-
Comilla,Bangladesh
Singer of light forms of music
Sitaram-bua Phatarphekar
OEMI1998
986
0.191
20
near Phatarphe, Goa
vocalist
Vocalist
the Agra gharaanaa
Parshuram-bua Parsekar, Yashwantrao Lolekar, and Vilayat Hussain Khan
Pashupati Sevak Mishra
OEMI1609
801
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Mishra Lineage of Benares
Kuloi Chandra Sen
OEMI1127
578
19
?
?
musician
musician
Shaukat Ara Islam
1227
OEMI1955
969
1939
20
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Singer of ghazals and Nazrul-geeti

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