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
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
Abdul Latif
?
OEMI0013
5
1930
20
Barisal,Bangladesh
composer
Singer and composer
Surendranath Das
Abdul Hassan Qaisar
?
OEMI0010
3
?
17
?
?
Author of the work Margat-ul-Naghm(1676)
Sujan Khan
?
OEMI2051
10251026
?
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
Agra
Bilas Baras Khan
?
OEMI0375
189
Pune
?
?
?
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Pune durbar
Pune durbar
dhrupad
Dayar Khan
?
OEMI0540
262
?
18
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1760s.
Maharaja Takhat Singh
P00088
Sabri Khan
0410
OEMI1831
908
1927
20
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
saarangi player
contemporary player of the saarangi
Haji Mohammad Khan, Chhajju Khan
Binaoani Mohanty
0628
OEMI0382
192
1928
20
Cuttack,Orissa
sitar player,vocalist
Vocalist,sitar player,and teacher.
Allauddin Khan and Inayat Hussain Khan
Imdad Khan （Sahaswan）
OEMI0865
440
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Sahaswaan gharaanaa
Sahaswaan
Aghawan
?
OEMI0049
23
Unav,near Lucknow
?
19
?
?
tabla player
Nineteenth-century tabla player
Amirjan
?
OEMI0118
51
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Bahadur Khan （Seni, Rabab）
OEMI0249
102
0.1765
18
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
Eminent exponent
his father Jeevan Khan Seni
Dhruba Charan Ratha
0415
OEMI0578
290
1917
20
Ghantiali,Cuttack,Orissa
tabla player
Tabla player
Raghunath Mallick and Balaichand Das
Jatadhar
OEMI0923
464
18
Early 18th-cent. pakhaawaj veteran of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.
Master Ratan
1110
OEMI1297
657
1914
20
Hadiyabad town,
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Shaam Chauraasi
Poorna Chandra
Padma Nath
OEMI1563
780
Kolkata
20
?
?
instrumentalist
Sultan Bakhsh
OEMI2061
1029
19
?
?
sitar player
Well-known late 19th-cent. sitar player of Dhaka
Ratan Chand Das
Muthurama Kavirayar
OEMI1413
704705
?
?
Author of the opera Bhaarata Naatakam
Nizamuddin Khan(Vocalist)
OEMI1549
766
?
?
Qavvaali singer
Kader Bakhsh （Tabla）
OEMI0975
494
1902
20
Lahore
?
tabla player
Tabla player
his father Fakir Bakhsh
Muddu Venkatamakhi
?
OEMI1373
690
?
18
?
?
veena player,
Veena player(18th cent.)
Mahadev Prasad Mishra
?
OEMI1224
619
1907
20
Allahabad
vocalist
Vocalist
Barkat Ali Khan （Sitar）
OEMI0307
123
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player
Raja Ramchan Waghela
OEMI1698
861
16
?
?
patron,
ruler,royal patron
Munir Khaton Begum
0202
OEMI1385
694
1934
20
Allahabad,Uttar Pradesh
vocalist
Vocalist
Kiraanaa
Habib Khan
Joseph Kaimaparamban
OEMI0961
488
1924
20
Cherthala, Alapuzha district, Kerala
Performer of Kathaa Prasangam, a veteran of the modern form of this art in Kerala
Purushottam Damodar
OEMI1652
831
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Giriraja Kavi
OEMI0700
367
18
?
?
composer
Eminent 18th-cent. composer of Telugu origin
Kantimati
OEMI1025
517
19
?
?
Along with her danseuse-colleague Gowri and guru Kannuswami.
Lochan Kavi
?
OEMI1206
607
?
17
?
?
Author of Raaga Taranginii(17th cent.)
Nabi Bakhsh
?
OEMI1428
712
Jodhpur
?
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar.
Pir Bakhsh
OEMI1617
807
Jodhpur
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player of the Jodhpur durbar
Ruparam
OEMI1827
905
20
?
?
actor, writer
Vadammal
OEMI2154
11061107
18
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Bobbili Kesavayya
OEMI0401
197
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent vocalist
his father, Gopalayya
Ratnakant Ramnathkar
OEMI1810
894
1900
20
Mumbai
Mumbai
vocalist
harmonium player and vocalist
Raghuvir Ramnathkar, Nanhe Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
Gokalram （Bhagat）
OEMI0705
370
Jodhpur
?
?
vocalist,patron,
Vocalist attached to the temples of Jodhpur, directly patronized by the royal palace
P00060
Malini Rajurkar
OEMI1248
629
1941
20
Ajmer,Rajasthan
vocalist
vocalist
Govindrao Rajurkar
Sudarshan Shastri
?
OEMI2045
1013
?
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player and author
Pyar Khan (Rudra Vina)
OEMI1663
834
1737
18
Delhi
?
son of Bhupat Khan,grandson of khaayal luminary Sadaarang
Narayan-bua Gogate
OEMI1488
729
?
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of tappaa and keertana of Maharashtra during the second half of the 19th cent.
Tirumalayya Naidu,C.
?
OEMI2128
1083
?
19-20?
?
?
Author
Vengichan Swami （Thiruvilwamala）
OEMI2183
1121
0.1873
19-?
Thiruvilwaamala, Thrissur district, Kerala
?
Performer of the drum, maddalam, for Kathakali
his uncle Chittan Pattar and Chinnaswami Bhagavatar （maddalam）
Hira Singh Boralia
0612
OEMI0835
431
1934
20
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
Ram Narayan, Harlal Makwana, Bhailal Barot, Devilal Samar
Narasimha Bhagavatar
OEMI1460
725
19
?
?
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
Rama Iyengar
Sesha Ayyangar （Margadarsi）
OEMI1910
961
18
?
?
vocalist
Early 18th-cent. composer and vocalist of Karnatik music
P00112
Ajoy Chakrabarty
?
OEMI0064
30
Kolkata
1953
20
Kolkata
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Bhagwan Nayak
OEMI0329
148
15
?
?
Late 15th-cent. dhrupad singer
Damodara
?
OEMI0520
253
?
16
?
?
Author of the 16th-cent.
P00032
Girija Devi
0508
OEMI0695
365366
Kolkata
1929
20
Benares
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Hamidanbai
OEMI0790
401
19
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 19th cent.
Jayapa
OEMI0929
470
13
Author of Nritta Ratnaavali,a 13th-cent
Kamleshwari Devi
?
OEMI1009
510
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist,mainly sang thumriis
thumrii
Kohala
OEMI1089
560561
?
?
Generally believed to be the autor of a Sanskrit work, in verse, titled Sangeeta Meru, on drama and music
Madhavi Mudgal
?
OEMI1218
613
1951
20
Delhi
Odissi danseuse
Harekrishna Behra and Kelucharan Mahapatra
Nanda Malini
0823
OEMI1443
721
1943
20
Levvan Duva, Alutgama, Sri Lanka
singer, music director
Contemporary Sri Lankan singer and music director
Contemporary Sri Lankan
Norbai
OEMI1555
767
?
Vrindavan,Yttar Pradesh
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
Ranjana Devi
0117
OEMI1797
887888
1949
20
?
singer, teacher
Y.Gulap Singh, Ibemcha Devi, Y. Gambhini Devi
Shamanna
OEMI1930
964
?
?
veena player,
Veena vidwaan - popular as Veena Shamanna - of the durbar of Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar （r.1799-1868）
P00240
Uma Sharma
OEMI2145
1102
20
?
Kathak danseuse, recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1987
（Kathak） Sunder Prasad, Shambhu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj, （Raas dance of Vrindavan） Ladli Sharanji Sharma and Devaki Nandanji
Zohrabai
OEMI2268
1161
?
?
Singer
Abdul Karim Khan （Kiraanaa） and Abdul Wahid Khan
Ramtaran Sanyal
OEMI1781
884
19
Faridpur district [now in Bangladesh]
?
musician
Musician associated with old Bengali plays.
Kana Jogen, Gopal Chandra Chakravarty
Vithaldas Joshi
OEMI2222
1139
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player, singer
keertan singer and pakhaawaj player.
pakhaawaj
keertan
Bhausaheb Guruji
?
OEMI0357
169
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior tradition
Gwalior
Nanubhaiya Telang
Gopalakrishna Yati
OEMI0725
375
?
?
composer
Composer of Telugu devotional songs
Telugu devotional songs
Pannalal Goswami
OEMI1591
794795
19
?
?
sitar player, rudra veena player
sitar and rudra veena player
Ramlal Goswaami.Ratanlal Goswaami
Viraraghavayya （Tsallagali）
OEMI2179
1120
Thanjavur
18
?
?
veena player, vocalist
Veena maestro （18th cent.） and vocalist of the durbar of Thanjavur King, Sarabhooji I （r.1712-28）
Giriraj Prasad
OEMI0698
366367
?
?
Performer of swaang
Ivor Dennis
0528
OEMI0886
445
1932
20
Seeduwa, Sri Lanka
vocalist, composer, teacher
Vocalist, composer, and teacher
Srinivasan,M.B.
?
OEMI2031
1009
1925
20
Chittoor,Andhra
Music director of south Indian films
Visvavasu
OEMI2218
1138
?
?
?
ancient author
Ravji-bua Gogate
OEMI1812
897
19
Maharashtra
?
vocalist
vocalist
Jayarama lyer,T.K.
OEMI0930
470
1894
19-20
Kuttalam,near Kumbakonam,Tamli Nadu,
violinist
Violinist and a former conductor
Latif Khan
?
OEMI1197
604
1875
19-20
Agra Uttar Pradesh
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra tradition
Agra
Pyar Khan
Ghulam Sabir Khan
OEMI0690
363
Moradabad
?
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
his father Hussain Bakhsh

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