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
La Meri
OEMI1146
583
?
?
American danseuse
Nanu Ram
OEMI1456
724
?
?
Well-known performer and writer of Shekhaavati khyaals of Rajasthan
Sukumar Sahu
0815
OEMI2058
1028
1907
20
Balasore, Orissa
composer
Oriya composer
Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
OEMI1714
866
1932
20
Imphal
Noted exponent of Manipuri dance
Amubi Singh, Thambal Angou Singh, Chaoba Singh
Raghuvir-mama Ramnathkar
0212
OEMI1685
857
1877
19-20
Ramnath,Goa
?
pioneer harmonium player
Jagajjyotirmalla
OEMI0900
449
17
Maharaana(king)of Nepal;ruled between 1617-33
Ranganath Mishra
0103
OEMI1790
887
1932
20
Benares, Uttar Pradesh
tabla player
Tabla player
Bikku Maharaj, Gama Maharaj
Kamakoti Sastri
?
OEMI1000
507
Telugu and Sanskrit
?
?
?
composer
Composer of kritis
Kesavapalli Seturamayya
OEMI1049
540
19
?
?
composer
Composer （19th cent.） of Telugu keertana
Telugu keertana
P00057
Anantharaman, M.S.
OEMI0141
5859
1924
20
Chennai
violinist
Violinist
Parur A. Sundaram Iyer
Krishnarao Sangle
OEMI1115
573
?
?
writer
writer
Haidar Khan （Jaipur）
OEMI0779
400
1898
19-20
Jaipur
Delhi
sitar player
Sitar player
Jiyajirao Scindia(Shinde)
OEMI0944
481
patron,
Royal patron of Gwalior state in Madhya Pradesh(r.1843-86)
P00167
Keshava Murthy, H.R.
OEMI1054
540
1920
20
Chickmaglur district, Karnataka
Bharata Naatyam teacher
Guru Gundappa
P00007
Annapurna Devi
OEMI0151
6465
Mumbai
1927
20
Maihar, Madhya Pradesh
surbahar player
Well-known surbahar player and teacher
Bakhshu-miya
OEMI0257
106
0.175
18
?
?
tabla player
Founder of the Lucknow tabla gharaanaa which emerged between 1775 and 1800
Delhi tabla gharaanaa
his grand-father Siddhar Khan Dhaadi, Bade Kale Khan
Chikka Subba Rao
OEMI0478
239
Mysore
?
?
Noted veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
his father Dodda Subba Rao
Govind Ram
OEMI0737
380
?
?
Veteran actor and author of nautanki plays of Hathras, Uttar Pradesh
Haure Gosai
OEMI0826
420
1795
18-19
Medtala. Burdwan district, Bengal
?
singer-composer
Baaul singer-composer
Baaul
Lahiri, S.N.
OEMI1151
586
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Mohammad Hussain
OEMI1348
679
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Parsvadeva
OEMI1602
799
?
?
author
Raghuram Joshi
OEMI1684
857
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ramdas Guru
OEMI1762
878
?
?
Fourth Guru of the Sikhs
Rohini Bhate
OEMI1816
901
1924
20
Pune, Maharashtra
kathak danseuse
Sohan Lal , Munna Lal, Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, Lachhu Maharaj
Shiv Kumar Bai
OEMI1964
972
Benares
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, lived in early 20th-cent. Benares
P06255
Suresh Talwalkar
0720
OEMI2084
1036
Mumbai
1948
20
?
tabla player
Noted performer of tabla
Pandharinath Nageshkar
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
OEMI0488
240241
?
?
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
Girin Chakraborty
OEMI0697
366
?
?
singer
Folk singer
folk
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
OEMI1676
855
1826
19
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
vocalist
vocalist
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
Mira Khirwadkar
0706
OEMI1313
662
1936
20
Maharashtra
vocalist
Vocalist
Vishwanath Joshi
OEMI2214
1137
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
Krishnarao Pandit
Lakshmandas Sandhu
OEMI1160
589
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
Sakharam Sarnaik
OEMI1850
915
19
?
?
poet, playwright
P00180
Lourembam Tombi Devi
0915
OEMI1210
608
1901
?
20
Sagolband Nepra Menjor Leikai,Imphal
?
dancer, musician
Veteran of Manipuri dance and its music
Khomdon Sharma,Gourachandra Sharma,and Senjam Angouton Singh
Manipuri
Day,C.R.
?
OEMI0539
261
?
?
?
Author
Gowri
OEMI0750
383
Baroda
19
?
?
Bharata Naatyam danseuse in 19th-cent. durbar of Baroda
Kannuswaami Nattuvanaar
Madhava Swami
?
OEMI1216
613
Allahabad
?
?
?
Pakhaawaj player
Ramadeva Ata
OEMI1737
872
?
Kaljhar, near Bhavanipur, now in Barpeta district, Assam
composer
Assamese composer of Vaishnava-Sattriiya songs
Bhavanipuriya Gopal Aataa
Sheikh Gulab
OEMI1960
971
1914
20
Lakho village, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh
He represented Madhya Pradesh from 1954 to 1985 in presenting folk dances at the Republic Day parades and at All India folk dance festivals
Niyamat Khan
OEMI1546
765
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Qavvaal-bbachche style
Qavvaal-bbachche style
khayaal
Tabakkal Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2100
1050
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist from Talwandi in Punjab
Jaggan Khan
OEMI0906
451
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Shahab Khan
OEMI1923
963
Aurangabad town, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
Atraauli
his father （name not known）
Wajid Hussain Khan
?
OEMI2234
1144
1918
20-
Lucknow
tabla player
Eminent tabla player
Lucknow
His uncle Munne Khan and Abid Hussain Khan
Sajjad Mohammad Khan
OEMI1848
915
19
?
?
surbahaar exponent
Badi Maina
OEMI0241
98
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Benares durbar
Benares
Madhusudan Kan
?
OEMI1220
616
Bengal
?
19
?
?
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer(c.19th cent.) of Bengal
Gokulchandra Srichandan
OEMI0709
371
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s
P00008
Asad Ali Khan(Vina)
?
OEMI0181
78
1937
20
Alwar,Rajasthan
Reputed contemporary performer of rudra veeba(or biin)
Allah Bandi
?
OEMI0087
41
Rajasthan
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Bindu Bala
OEMI0386
193
?
?
Singer-actress of the Bengali stage sometime during 1900-10
Nanu-bhaiya Telang
OEMI1457
724
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Gwaalior gharaanaa?
Bala-saheb Guruji
Rama Bharati （Panchanada）
OEMI1729
870
?
?
Poet in the durbar of Maharaja Sahaajji II （r.1684-1712） of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Wazir Chand
?
OEMI2239
1145
?
20
?
?
sitar player
Sitar player.
Master Ratan of Punjab
Sundarabai of Benares
OEMI2067
1030
Kolkata
20
?
?
vocalist
She was vocalist of sawaal-jawaab, birhaa, and kajri songs in the 20th-century
Ananta Padmanabha Rao
OEMI0137
58
Mysore
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of the last Maharaja of Mysore
P00229
Sudharani Raghupathy
0321
OEMI2048
1021
Chennai
1944
20
Pollachi,Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
V.S.Kaushik,U.S.Krishna Rao,Chandrabhaga Devi,and Kittappa Pillai
Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
OEMI0685
362
1940
20
Srinagar, Kashmir
Singer of Sufiaanaa Kalaam of Kashmir
his father Ramzan Joo, his uncle Mohammad Siddiq
Kunju Nair (Vazhenkada)
0608
OEMI1138
580
1925
20
Vazhenkada village,Palakkad,Kerala
Kathakali performer and guru
Koppan Nair(Kariyattil),Govinda Pisharodi(Kalluvazhi),Ravunni Menon(Pattikamthodi)
Bishnu Priya Samantasinghar
0205
OEMI0395
195
Cuttack
1927
20
Puri, Orissa
vocalist
Vocalist, first woman artiste of All India Radio, Cuttack
Singhari Shyam Sundar Kar
Chinnayya Mudaliyar （Manali）
OEMI0489
241
Manali near Chennai
?
?
patron,
A patron and feudal landlord of Manali near Chennai
Bhaskarrao Khandeparkar
OEMI0349
163
20
?
?
teacher
Veteran teacher of the 1930s and 1940s
Ganpatrao Pandit
Dejendranath Bagchi
?
OEMI0547
264
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and disc-record singer
Krishnadasa Badajana
OEMI1104
571
16
?
?
Orissa poet of the 16th cent., author of Geeta Prakaasa, an Oriya treatise on music and dance
Bannijan
OEMI0300
120
20
?
?
vocalist
Early 20th-cent. vocalist, based in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Chhota Rani
OEMI0465
236
?
?
Singer-actress of Bengali plays
Indramohan Das
OEMI0878
443444
19
?
?
sitar player
Sitar-maker of late 19th cent
P00222
Sharada Sinha
OEMI1950
968
1953
20
Hulas, Bihar
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for Bihari folk music
Raghu Jha, Hari Dandekar, and Panna Devi
Sunil Kothari
1220
OEMI2074
1031
Kolkata
1933
20
Mumbai
author
Well-known critic and author of books on dance and related topics
Pallikurike Somanatha
OEMI1578
785
Telugu
13
?
?
author
Telugu author
Kalipada Pathak
OEMI0991
505
0.189
19-20
Howrah, Kolkata
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali tappaa and tap khayaal
Phani Shankar Mukherji, Ramzam Khan
Bengali tappaa, tap khayaal
Kashinath Panda
OEMI1035
524
1929
20
Lathi,Berhampur,Prissa
Singer of the Oriya folk form daas kaathia
Wahid Khan(Rudra Vina)
?
OEMI2232
11431144
Indore
?
19
Agra
Indore
musician
Noted musician of the Indore durbar
Bande Ali Khan
Arunachala Sastri
?
OEMI0175
76
?
19
?
?
composer
Composer of the post-1850 period remembered for his Sanskrit songs
Ekambara Mudaliyar
OEMI0610
309
?
?
Author of a noted Tamil operatic play
Kshirabdi Sastri
OEMI1121
574
Tirunelveli district,Tamil Nadu
19
?
?
composer
composer
Sivarama Yogi
P00210
Rajiv Taranath
1017
OEMI1710
865
1932
20
Bangalore, Karnataka
sarod player
Noted sarod player
Bhaiyya-saheb Malvankar
OEMI0336
153
20
?
?
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of the 1930s
Shankarrao Pandit
Rajagopala Pillai (Mannargudi)
OEMI1702
863
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ramzan Khan (Vocal)
OEMI1784
885
?
?
vocalist
tappaa singer
Imam Badi
tappaa
P00184
Mankombu Sivasankara Pillai
?
OEMI1274
643
1922
20
Mankombu,Alappuzha,district,Kerala
Well-known Kathakali artiste and teacher
Krishnarao Ashtewale
OEMI1110
572
Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
1841
19
?
?
sitar player,patron,
sitar player and patron of Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
Raghumatharao
Gopala Iyer （Pallavi）
OEMI0720
374
?
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the durbar of Maharajas Amara Simha and Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Dharmayya Ramasamayya
?
OEMI0569
285
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
Eminent veena player and scholar
Baldevji
?
OEMI0274
112
Raja Vikram Singhji of Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Nineteenth-century dhrupad singer
his uncle Ram Gulamji,and Bade Mohammad Khan and Nabi Khan
dhrupad
Chikkaramappa （Begada）
OEMI0479
239
Mysore
?
?
veena player,
Veena player of the durbar of Mysore during the reign of KrishnarajaWodeyar III
Venkatasubbayya
P00142
Datar,D.K.
1014
OEMI0530
259
1932
20
based in Mumbai
violinist
Noted violinist
Fredilis,M.
?
OEMI0637
321322
?
?
?
musician
Musician-in-charge of the State Military Band of Baroda State
Govindamatya
OEMI0741
381
?
?
Author
Imam Badi
OEMI0858
439
Benares
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the 1850s from Benares
Shadi Khan
Patnaik, D.N.
0201
OEMI1610
805
Cuttack, Orissa
1933
20
?
Scholar of Odissi dance and other performing arts of Orissa
Ragini Devi
OEMI1686
857
1896
19-20
Michigan,USA
?
American danseuse
Ramdas Kamat
0218
OEMI1763
878
1931
20
Goa
Well-known Marathi stage actor and singer
his father Dharma （Shantaram） Kamat
Ropram Katara
OEMI1817
901
?
?
Priest and Raas-leelaa performer
Simha Bhopala
OEMI1988
977
c.14-15
?
?
musicologist
King and musicologist of medieval times
Giriraja Brahmam
OEMI0699
367
?
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional song
Narayanaswamy, K. （Umayalpuram）
0504
OEMI1485
729
1929
20
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
Ghatam player
his father Kothandarama Iyer
Shyamamani Devi
OEMI1979
975
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
Mirza Mahmod Ali
OEMI1330
672
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player,teacher

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