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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Sagara Daivajna
OEMI1840
910
19
Salmara village, near Pingalesvara, Kamrup district, Assam
?
singer
Zahur Khan (Khurja)
OEMI2256
11571158
0.185
20
19-20
?
?
vocalist,composer
Noted vocalist (dhrupad, hoori, and khayaal) and composer
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Ghulam Hussain Khan
kdhrupad, hoori,,hayaal
Chinnaswamy Mudaliar, A.M.
OEMI0486
240
20
?
?
A pioneer in modern compilation of musical compositions
Baba Farid
OEMI0218
92
1200
1280
13
Delhi
Poet
Sopandev
?
OEMI2022
994
1277
1296
?
13
?
?
Poet of Marathi abhangs
Amir Khusrau
?
OEMI0116
5051
0.1253
1325
?
13-14
Patiala
?
poet-musician, Sufi mystic
Thirteenth-century poet-musician and Sufi mystic of the Delhi Sultanate
Qavvaal
Jyotiriswara
OEMI0968
490
0.128
1340
13-14
?
?
Author of Varna Ratnaakara and two more works titled Maithili Dhurta Sumagama and Nritya Vidyaa Kathaa
Namdev
OEMI1439
718719
1270
1350
13-14
Pandharpur, Maharashtra
?
He was a contemporary of the celebrated saint-poet Jnaaneswar
Janabai
OEMI0914
461
1350
14
Poetess of Marathi abhangs
Narsinh Mehta
?
OEMI1498
732
1415
1481
?
15
Talaja, near Junagadh town,north Gujarat
?
Saint-poet of Gujarat
Annamacharya (Tallapakam)
OEMI0150
64
Telugu
1408
1503
15-16
Tallapaka village,Cuddapah district, Andhra Pradesh
?
composer
Telugu composer (15th cent.) considered to be the pioneer of south Indian keertan
Mansingh Tomar
?
OEMI1286
645
1450
1517
?
15-16
?
?
?
Raya Ramananda
OEMI1813
897
1467
1525
15-16
?
?
composer
Oriya composer of devotional songs, mainly of the kaavya-geeti variety.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
?
OEMI0421
208209
1486
1533
07??
15-16
Nabadwip,Bengal
Puri,Orissa
Founder of the Gaudiya Vaishnava sect
Mirabai
?
OEMI1314
663664
0.1504
1546
?
16
Kudki,near Merta,former Jodhpur state of Rajasthan
?
Sixteenth-century saint-poet of legendary fame
Hitaharivans
OEMI0842
433
1506
1556
16
Baad, near Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
Devotional poet and propagator of the Sri Raadhaa Vallabh Vaishnava sect
Samokhan Singh (Maharaj)
OEMI1861
923
1495
1556
15-16
?
?
rudra veena player,vocalist
rudra veena player and singer of dhruvapada
Adil Shah Sur
?
OEMI0040
22
1524
1557
?
16
?
?
musician
Afghan nobleman,reputedly a musician as well
Sevakji (Damodar Swami)
OEMI1914
962
1524
1557
16
Ghadha, Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh
Vrindavan
Devotional poet of Vrindavan
Purandaradasa
OEMI1651
830831
0.1471
1564
0102
15-16
Purandaragad village
Hampi Karnataka
musician
Saint-musician, usually called the grandfather of present-day Karnatik music

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