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
OEMI1112
Krishnarao Date
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
?
?
Gwaalior
572
OEMI1708
Rajaram Shukla
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1925
0509
Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh
Bhagvatkishor Vyakul, Mohan Misra, Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale, Amir Khan
864
OEMI2157
Vaidiswarankoil
composer
composer
?
?
1108
OEMI1532
Nijaguna Sivayogi
composer
Author and composer of devotional songs
1500
?
?
760
OEMI0380
Bimalindu Mukherji
sitar player
Scholar and exponent of sitar
Bhilai,Chhattisgarh
1926
?
Mymensing district[now in Bangladesh]
191
OEMI0365
Bhringi
composer
Composer
?
?
?
?
183
P05877
OEMI1084
Kishori Amonkar
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Mumbai
1931
0410
?
559
OEMI1275
Mankuverbai
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Raja Bhav Singh of Bhavnagar,Gujarat.
Gujarat
?
?
?
?
Kallan Khan
643
P02973
OEMI1820
Roshan Kumari
kathak danseuse
?
902
P04692
OEMI1607
Parvin Sultana
vocalist
vocalist
1950
0525
Nauga prava,Assam
Chinmay Lahiri
800
P00074
OEMI0922
Jasraj(Pandit)
vocalist
Eminent present-day vocalist and foremost exponent of the Mewaati tradition.
1930
0120
Hissar,Haryana
463
OEMI0068
Akil Ahmed Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
?
?
?
?
Agra
33
OEMI1924
Shahadat Hussain Khan
Sarod player
1958
07??
Comilla, Bangladesh
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
963
OEMI1515
Natthe Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1745
?
?
?
?
Khurjaa
741
OEMI2143
Ujir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
?
?
Jaipur
1101
OEMI0088
Allah Dad Dhadhi
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0424
Challagali Krishnayyar
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
213
OEMI0106
Ambayiram
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0509
Comi Wadia
pianist, singer,conductor
Veteran pianist, singer, and conductor of the Paranjoti Chorus, of Mumbai, Maharashtra
Mumbai
1933
0806
Mumbai
248
OEMI0895
Jadunath Singh
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
449
OEMI1208
Loknath Pal
vocalist
Noted vocalist
1923
0320
Puri,Orissa
Sadashiv Pal,and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar and Khitish Maitra
608
P00223
OEMI1973
Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalwan
composer
Nautankii artiste and writer-composer
Nautanki
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
974
OEMI1226
Mahadeva Nattuvanar
Dance teacher(19th cent.)of Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
619
OEMI0400
Biswanath Sahai
tabla player
Tabla player of the Benares style
Benares, second half of the 19th cent.
?
Benares
Bhairav Sahai
197
OEMI0787
Hamid Ali Khan （Nawab）
Ruler of Rampur state in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
401
OEMI1087
Kodandarama Ayyar
musician
Musician （18th cent.） of Sirgazhi in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
560
OEMI1022
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Bharata Naatyam guru of the 19th cent
?
?
516
OEMI0909
Jahangir Khan(Vocal)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
Uniyara,Rajasthan
Uniyara,Rajasthan
Atraauli
452
OEMI0533
Dattibai
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist.
?
?
?
?
Mughlu Khan
259
OEMI0673
Ghasiram
singer
Composer and singer of Raas-leelaa songs
Raas-leelaa songs
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
356
OEMI0837
Hirabai II
Kathak danseuse of Kanpur
?
?
Krishna Maharaj
431
P00107
OEMI1195
Lata Mangeshkar
singer
Celebrated film singer
film
1929
0928
Indore,Madhya Pradesh
Dinanath Mangeshkar
603604
OEMI1377
Mujaddid Niazi
vocalist
Vocalist
1924
0224
Dera Ismailkhan,now in Pakistan
?
Lucknow
Khurshid Ali,Abdul Wahid Khan,and Mustaq Hussain Khan
691692
OEMI1593
Papajan
vocalist
vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
795
P06507
OEMI1811
Ravi Shankar
sitar player
musician, wizard of the sitar
1920
0407
Benares
895897
OEMI2008
Sohni Singh
Well-known harmonium player of eastern India
1879
?
?
Kanailal Dhendi （esraaj）, his father （khayaal）
991
OEMI2151
Urmila Singh
singer
Contemporary folk singer
folk
?
Radhesharan Singh
1104
OEMI2021
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist
?
?
?
?
994
OEMI0369
Bhupen Hazarika
An eminent name in Assamese music.
1926
?
Sadia district,Assam
183184
OEMI1276
Manmathnath Ray
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
643
OEMI2093
Swamy Naidu, A.
actor, singer
actor, singer
?
?
1042
OEMI0848
Hussain Khan Kalpiwale
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player who founded the Kalpi tradition
?
?
436437
OEMI1734
Ramachandra Rao, S.K.
musicologist
Noted musicologist and scolar with achievements in several fields
1926
Karnataka
871
OEMI1483
Narayanaswami Iyer （Thanjavur）
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
?
?
729
P00211
OEMI1721
Ram Kailas Yadav
Singer of folk songs of Uttar Pradesh
1928
Lamabi village,Uttar Pradesh
Mahavir Yadav
868
OEMI0850
Hussainuddin Dagar
vocalist
Well-known dhrupad vocalist
dhrupad
?
?
his eldest brother Nasiruddin
437
OEMI1324
Miraj Ahmed Nizami
qavvaali singer
?
?
671
OEMI2033
Sripada Pinakapani
vocalist
Noted vocalist
1913
0803
Priyagraharam village, Srikakulam district.Andhra
V.S.Lakshman Rao,Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu, and Rangaramanuja Iyengar
1009
OEMI0429
Chand Khan （Tabla）
tabla player
Tabla pioneer （mid-18th cent.）
?
?
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
214
OEMI1411
Muthukkumara Pulavar
composer
Tamil composer （19th cent.）
?
?
704
OEMI1167
Lakshminarayan Rajak
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
?
his father Chhotelal Rajak
591
OEMI0047
Aga Shergul
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
Pakistan
?
?
?
?
23
OEMI0221
Babi Borkar （Baburao）
Noted harmonium player
1903
0318
Bari, Goa
?
9293
OEMI0434
Chandra Sakhi
Eighteenth-century poet of Vaishnava padas
Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
?
Balkrishna Swami
217
OEMI0784
Hakani Bakhsh
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of the late 19th cent.
Jodhpu
?
?
400
OEMI1006
Kamalam
Danseuse of Tiruvarur
?
?
?
?
Muvvalur Sabhapati Iyer
508509
OEMI1204
Lionel Algama
musician
Contemporary Sri Lankan musician and teacher
Contemporary Sri Lankan
Sri Lank
1935
0324
Sri Lanka
607
OEMI1432
Nagaridev
Sixteenth-century devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
1547
?
?
?
?
715
OEMI1637
Prajnanananda （Swami）
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and scholar of Vedaanta
Kolkata
1907
Prasadpur, Bengal
825
OEMI1909
Serfubai
vocalist
Khayaal singer of 19th-cent. Lucknow
khayaal
Lucknow
?
?
961
OEMI2018
Somnath Pandit
Author of Raaga Viboodha, written in 1609
?
?
993
P02274
OEMI2260
Zakir Hussain
tabla player
Well-known tabla exponent
1951
0309
Mumbai
his father, tabla maestro Allah Rakha Qureshi
11581159
OEMI1743
Ramananda Dvija
composer
Early 17th-cent. composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs and biographer of Saint Sankaradeva
?
Ahatguri, now in Golaghat district, Assam
his father Raamadeva Aataa
873
OEMI2215
Vishwanath Ringe
vocalist, teacher, author
vocalist, teacher, author
1921
?
Gwaalior
Krishnarao Pandit
1137
OEMI0283
Baltazard, Solvyns
European painter,
Kolkata
1760
?
Antwerp,Belgium
?
?
115
OEMI1553
Nor Khan(Jodhpur)
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
766
OEMI1574
Palakkad Raghu,R.
mridangam player
1928
Palakkad,Kerala
783
OEMI1872
Sankaran Embrantiri
vocalist
vocalist
1942
08??
Vellayyoor, Malappuram district, Kerala
G.P.Govinda Pisharoti
940
OEMI0448
Chatterji, M. N.
rudra veena player
Rudra veena performer of early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
224
OEMI0834
Hira Bulbul
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the king of Nepal
Nepal
?
?
431
P00170
OEMI1092
Komik Khongjirem
musician
Folk musician of Meghalaya
Folk music
Meghalaya
?
?
566
OEMI1280
Manohar,S.S.
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
644
OEMI1575
Palanivel,A.K.
performer and teacher of the drum,tavil.
1948
Haridwaramangalam,Tamil Nadu
S.Kumarvel Pillai,G.Muthukumaraswamy Pillai
783
OEMI1759
Ramchandra Vaidya
Poet and performer of Marathi keertans
1871
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain
877
OEMI0972
Kachchi Sastri
vocalist, violinist
Vocalist and violinist （19th cent.）
?
?
493
OEMI0081
Alimulla Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
39
P06002
OEMI2062
Sultan Khan
saarangi player
Veteran saarangi player
Mumbai
1941
Sikar, Rajasthan
Gulab Khan, Amir Khan
1029
OEMI0025
Abhilasha
Author of Sangeet Chandra
south India
?
?
?
10
OEMI0481
Chimman Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
?
?
Atraauli
239
OEMI1040
Kayam Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
532
P00036
OEMI0768
Hafiz Ahmad Khan
vocalist
Hindustani vocalist
1926
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
397
OEMI0845
Hussain Ali Khan
sarod player
Noted sarod player of the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
1850
Madhya Pradesh
?
the Ghulam Bandegi gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Mohammad
436
OEMI0056
Ahmad Nadim Qasami
poet
Urdu poet of ghazals and other forms
ghazals etc.
Lahore, Pakistan
1916
?
?
27
P00003
OEMI0026
Abhinava Gupta
Author of Abhinava Bhaarati
?
?
?
?
11
OEMI0545
Dipali Nag
vocalist
Vocalist
1922
0222
Agra
Agra Rangile
Tassaduq Hussain Khan,Bashir Ahmad Khan,Faiyaz Khan,Vilayat Hussain Khan
264
OEMI0907
Jagu Ojha
Singer-actor of Oriya yaatraa and suaang plays.
451
OEMI1241
Mahmuda Jan
vocalist
vocalist and disc-record singer
?
?
622
OEMI1557
Nrushingha Nath Khuntia
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher of Odissi music
Odissi music
1913
1009
Puri,Orissa
Bhimsen Pratihari,Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
768
OEMI2017
Somnath Das
vocalist,
Vocalist of Odissi music
1906
Puri, Orissa
?
993
OEMI0781
Haidar Khan （Saharanpur）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Imam Bakhash, brother Bairam Khan
400
P00186
OEMI1360
Mohan Chandra Barman
artiste of Bhaaonaa
1900
Kaihatti village,Assam
682
OEMI0960
Joseph Hayim Awaskar
Author of Marathi hymns and plays on Jewish devotional themes
18751900
Awas, near Mumbai
?
488
OEMI0036
Achyutappa Nayak
Sixteenth-century king of Thanjavur
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
17
P00171
OEMI1105
Krishnan Kutty Nair （Kottakkal）
Kathakali performer
1928
Palakkad, Kerala
P.S. Varrier Natyasangham
571
P02206
OEMI1155
Lakshman Prasad Chaube
vocalist
Vocalist
1911
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
588
P02870
OEMI1012
Kanaka Srinivasan
Dancer and choreographer of Bharata Naatyam
1947
?
Chennnai
Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai
513514
OEMI0165
Appu Marar （Pallavor）
Performer of chendaa, edakka, and taayambakaa
1928
Thiruvanjikkulam, Kochi region, Kerala
his father Patturaikkal Sankara Marar, Adantha Kontha Swamy
71
OEMI1375
Mughlu Khan (Jawra)
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and rudra veena player of jawra,Madhya Pradesh.
?
?
?
?
691
P00194
OEMI1596
Paramananda Borbayan
performer and teacher of Sattriiya dance of Assam
1936
Lahalial,Assam
797