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
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
OEMI0675
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Pakhawaj）
For some time from 1828 he was attached to Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Sabha as a pakhaawaj player
?
?
360
OEMI2173
Vasudevan （Neyyantinkara）
vocalist
Vocalist
1940
Neyyaantinkara, central Kerala
Ramnad Krishnan and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
1118
OEMI0755
Gulab Singh （Sant）
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
?
?
386
OEMI1585
Pandoba Yavateshwarkar
vocalist, producer
vocalist,pioneer producer of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
1840
?
?
792
OEMI0108
Ambikagiri Roy Chowdhuri
composer
Twentieth-century composer of Assam
Assam
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI1391
Munnibai(late 19th cent.)
vocalist
Vocalist
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
Babu Khuda Bakhsh
695
OEMI0105
Ambaram
Pioneer singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays.
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0205
Awadabai
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
?
?
?
?
89
OEMI0372
Bi Rahimanbai
Mid 19th cent. singer of Charkhari,Uttar Pradesh
Charkhari
?
?
?
?
184
P00149
OEMI0668
Ghana Kant Bora
Sattriiya dancer and teacher
1950
Majuli, Assam
?
Maniram Dutta Muktiyar, Maniram Gayan Muktiyar, Kamal Chandra Bargayan, and Raseswar Saikiya Barbayan
354
OEMI0836
Hirabai I
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1828
Lucknow region
?
431
P00164
OEMI1001
Kamala
Well-known Bharata Naatyam danseuse
Bharata Naatyam
1934
0616
Mayuram,Tamil Nadu
507
OEMI1194
Lalu Ram Sahu
Folk artiste
1920
?
Bajrangpur town,Rajnandgaon district,Madhya Pradesh
601
OEMI1570
Paglibai
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
781
OEMI1801
Ras Baras
author
?
?
888
OEMI0322
Bellari M. Venkatesachar
vocalist
Vocalist
Mysore
1933
Bellari, Karnataka
his father Mundaragi Raghavendrachar, his elder brother Narasimha
135
P00122
OEMI0167
Appukutty Poduval, K.
Well-known player of the drum maddalam
1923
Tiruvilvamala, near Palakkad, Kerala
Venkichan Swamy
72
OEMI0341
Bhanudatta Misra
Author of a Sanskrit work
?
?
156
OEMI1928
Shalomo Aharonji Bhastekar
Author of the musical play
Mumbai, region
?
964
OEMI1166
Lakshmikanta Maharaja
composer
Composer and Sanskrit scholar of Andhra
?
?
591
OEMI1669
Radhakrishna Iyer (Kanjira)
Stalwart of kanjiraa,a south Indian rhythmic instrument of the tambourine family.
?
?
842843
OEMI1285
Mansa Singh(Bhai)
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Sikh sacred music(sabad)
?
?
?
?
645
OEMI2095
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Chennai
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
10441045
OEMI1818
Roprasik Devacharya
composer
composer
?
?
902
OEMI1130
Kumaraswamy lyer,K.R.
vocalist
veteran vocalist
1913
0409
Kettavarampalayam,Tamil Nadu
Mecheri Sundara Sastri
578
P00238
OEMI2124
Thingbaijam Babu Singh
Well-known Manipuri dance exponent and teacher of Imphal
1936
0208
Lairensajik village,Manipur
Laisram Apabi Singh,and in Raas dance under Maisnam Amubi Singh
1078
OEMI0045
Aga Amir
vocalist,
Vocalist of Peshawar
Pakistan
?
?
?
?
23
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
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
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