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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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
OEMI0556
Devendranath Changkatti
vocalist
Vocalist
1890
?
Guwahati,Assam
?
?
probably Lakshmiram Barooah
275
P05933
OEMI1269
Manilal Nag
sitar player
Sitar player
1939
?
Bankura,West Bengal
Gokul Nag
640
OEMI1558
Nunnijan
vocalist
vocalist, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
768769
OEMI2057
Sukumar Ray
musicologist
Musicologist and author
1912
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hakim Mohammad Hussain and Gul Mohammad Khan
1028
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
OEMI0209
Ayyaval
composer
Composer of devotional songs
?
?
90
OEMI0385
Bindijan
vocalist
Vocalist, particularly noted for toppaa
toppaa
1828
Mir Roshan Ali, Khadem Shafi
193
OEMI1007
Kamalbai
courtesan singer-dancer
Courtesan singer-dancer
?
?
?
?
509
P00179
OEMI1203
Lila Samson
Bharata Naatyam exponent
1951
?
Coonoor,Tamil Nadu
606
OEMI1390
Munnibai
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
695
OEMI1616
Pedda Dasari
composer
Composer of keertans in Telugu and Sanskrit
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
807
P00098
OEMI1825
Rukmini, T.
violinist
violinist
1936
1127
Shimoga, Karnataka
R.R.Keshava Murthy
904905
P00225
OEMI2019
Sonal Mansingh
Eminent exponent of Odissi dance
1944
?
Mumbai
Kelucharan Mahapatra and Bharata Mylapore Gowri Amma
993
OEMI2152
Utpala Deva
Abhinava Gupta's parama-guru in Saiva theology.
?
?
1104
OEMI1034
Kashinath Pajapanda
vocalist,
vocalist of Odissi music
1921
0315
Puri,Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
524
P00231
OEMI2060
Suleman Juma Jumani
Veteran of folk music of Kutch, Gujarat
folk music
Kutch, Gujarat
1905
Kutch
his father Juma Jumani and Langa Bachhu Ustad
1029
OEMI1315
Mirabai Badkar
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1916
0713
Maharashtra
Kalyanibai and Anwar Hussain Khan and Khadim Hussain Khan
664
OEMI0055
Ahmad Khan(Lahore)
singer
An early singer for disc-records
?
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0701
Girisa Ayyar (Vishalur)
vocalist
Vocalist, a contemporary of Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
?
?
367
P00181
OEMI1214
Madhabi Devi(Ningombam)
Performer and teacher of Manipuri dance and music
Imphal
1926
?
Kiyamegi village,Manipur
612
OEMI2039
Subbayyar Jhanjhamritam
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
1011
P00084
OEMI1792
Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
veena player and teacher
1932
Poongulam, Tamil Nadu
Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
887
OEMI0491
Chinni Krishna Dasa
composer
Composer (19th cent) of kritis and svarajaatis in Telugu
?
?
241
OEMI2106
Tarabai Welingkar
vocalist
Khayaal and thumrii singer of the 1930s
Khayaal,thumrii
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
Muraba Govekar and Ali Hussain
1065
P00206
OEMI2174
Vasudevan Nambodiri (Nelliyodu)
Kathakali artiste
1940
Ernakulam district, Kerala
Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair, etc...
1118
OEMI0724
Gopalakrishna Sastri
A pioneer (18th cent.) in theatrical arts
?
?
375
OEMI1917
Shadi Khan (Benares)
Noted tappaa singer of the mid-19th cent.
?
?
963
OEMI1461
Narasimha Dasa (Tumu)
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
devotional songs in Telugu
1790
Andhra
?
725726
OEMI1420
Muttu Ayyar(Karaikudi)
mridangam player
1901
?
?
Tirugokarnam Sivanandam Pillai
706
OEMI0059
Ahobal Pandit
author
Well-known author of Sangeet Paarijaat(16th cent.)
probably born near Benares
?
?
?
?
29
OEMI0225
Baburam Sahai
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher of Allahabad
Allahabad
?
?
Ramanujdas, Narayandas
9394
OEMI0435
Chandrabai
vocalist
Vocalist
Agra
1833
?
?
Mansingh Vaidprakash
217
P00141
OEMI0517
Damayanti Joshi
Kathak danseuse
1932
?
?
Lucknow Kathak
253
OEMI0582
Dilaram Mishra
Founder(c.17th cent.) of the Benares gharaanaa of vocal music.
Benares
?
?
?
?
Benares
295
OEMI0694
Giribala Dasi
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent
Kolkata
?
?
365
OEMI0928
Jayadiva
poet,author of the Masterpiece Geet Govinda in Sanskrit
Kindubilvam(or Kenduli)village,Puri,Orissa
467
OEMI1008
Kambal
musician
A sage-musician of ancient times
?
?
?
?
509
OEMI1551
Nomita Ghose
vocalist
vocalist
1959
1211
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Jashoda Ghose,P.C.Gomes,Barin Mazumdar
766
P00242
OEMI1795
Rani
singer-actress
?
?
887
OEMI1859
Sambayya
veena player
veena performer
?
?
922
OEMI1925
Shahu Maharaj
patron,
Well-known patron of the arts
?
?
963
OEMI2027
Srijanbai
singer
Competent singer
Lucknow
?
?
?
?
Ghasit Khan
1008
OEMI1198
Lauji,Viswanath
musician
Musician from Kaathiawar,Gujarat
?
?
?
?
604
OEMI2219
Viswanath Lauji
musician
musician
?
?
1138
OEMI1768
Ramkishan Solanki
Performer of the drum, nagaaraa
1938
1225
Pushkar, Rajasthan
880
OEMI1589
Pannalal Bajpayi
sitar player
sitar player
?
?
Pyar Khan and Zafar Khan
794
OEMI1093
Kovana Samayya
composer
Noted 18th-cent. composer of the pre-Trinity period of south India
?
?
568
OEMI1283
Manomohan Basu
Author of jatraa folk plays of 19th-cent.
Bengal
?
?
?
?
644
OEMI1822
Roy, R.N.
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
903
OEMI2030
Srinivas Pandit
Author
?
?
?
?
1009
OEMI0819
Harmasji Ardeshir
Singer-actor of Hindi plays
Mumbai
?
?
416
OEMI1055
Keshav-bua Ingle
vocalist
Vocalist of the Gwalior gharaanaa and teacher
?
?
Gwalior
his father Gundo-bua Ingle
540
OEMI1922
Shah Mir Khan
rudra veena player
Performer of the saarangi and rudra veena in the durbar of Indore
Indore
?
?
963
OEMI0027
Abid Hussain Khan(Dhaka)
sitar player, sarod player
Sitar and sarod player
1928
0401
Shibpur,Comilla district
Ayet Ali Khan(brother of Allauddin Khan of Maihar)
14
OEMI1581
Pan Khan
vocalist,sitar player
vovalist,sitar player
Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
?
?
788
OEMI2245
Yashin Khan
vocalist
vocalist
1935
?
Dhaka,Bangladesh
his father Gul Mohammad Khan
1153
P01269
OEMI1501
Nasir Ahmad Khan
saarangi player
Saarangi player
1930
0105
Uttar Pradesh
Buddhu Khan, Mahaphuz Khan, Habib Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan
733
OEMI0855
Ilahijan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
439
OEMI0063
Ajoy Bhattacharya
Noted lyricist of Bengali songs of the 1940s
?
?
?
?
2930
OEMI0782
Haidar Khan (Sahaswan)
vocalist
Vocalist of the Rampur durbar
Rampur
?
?
some elders
400