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
OEMI2070
Sundaram Iyer （Umayalpuram）
Noted performer of ghatam （pot-drum）
?
?
1030
OEMI1307
Minakshi Shirodkar
Singer-actress of Marathi films and the stage
Mumbai
?
?
?
?
661662
P00245
OEMI2264
Zia Fariduddin Dagar
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
1933
Rajasthan
1160
OEMI1059
Kesi, Narayanaswamy
Noted flute player
1919
Chennai
T. Brinda
541
OEMI0204
Augustus Willard
British author of A Treatise on the Music of Hindoostan(1834)
?
?
?
?
88
P00019
OEMI0497
Chitta Babu
veena player
Well-known veena player
1936
1013
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
243
OEMI0566
Dhannabai
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist,a pupil of the khayaal pioneer Sadaarang
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Pannaabaai
283
OEMI0660
Gauri
dancer
Well-known danseuse of the late 19th-cent
?
?
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
346
OEMI1193
Lalu Rababi
rabaab player
An early rabaab player
?
?
?
?
601
OEMI1311
Minapa
singer,composer
Buddhist singer and composer
Kamarup,Assam
?
?
?
?
662
P00096
OEMI1379
Mukta,T.
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1914
?
Chennai
Nayana Pillai
692
OEMI1535
Nilufar Yasmin
Singer, noted for Nazrul-geeti and some other forms of songs, presented on the Bangladesh radio, television, in films, and contests
1948
0213
Khulna, Bangkadesh
P.C. Gomes and some other
761
OEMI1626
Pitambardas
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
?
?
812
OEMI1845
Sahir Sable
exponent of folk music and folk drama
1923
Pasarani, Maharashtra
914
OEMI1905
Sayyed Mir Ali
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent. vocalist of Lucknow
Lucknow
?
?
959
OEMI2014
Somaraja Deva
Author of Sangeeta Ratnaavalii, a 13th-dent.
?
?
992
OEMI2132
Tiwadi Tejkaran
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh （r.1803-43）, from 1830 till 1851.
?
?
1085
OEMI0265
Balakrishna Das
vocalist, music director
Vocalist and exponent of Oriyaa champu,chhand,janaanaa,Jayadeeva`s padas, and also music director for plays and films
1928
0202
Puri,Orissa
109110
OEMI0996
Kalyana Bharati
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Tamil Nadu
?
?
?
?
506
OEMI2072
Sundarlal Vaidya
Poet, singer, and performer of Raas-leelaa
1840
Modoi village, Makhira district, Uttar Pradesh
?
1031
OEMI1476
Narayana Tirtha
Playwright
?
?
728
OEMI0354
Bhatta Devacharya
Devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
?
?
168
OEMI1997
Sitaramayya （Todi）
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of early 119th cent.
?
?
986
P00013
OEMI0361
Bhimsen Joshi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
1922
0204
Ron,Karnataka
177178
OEMI1512
Nathmal Joshi
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
?
?
740
OEMI2005
Siyaram Tiwari
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1921
0121
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
his maternal grandfather Vishnudeva Pathak
989
OEMI1552
Nongthon Singh,N.
tabla player
performer of tabla and other drums
1935
0215
Imphal,Manipur
766
OEMI1039
Kavasji Jamshedji
Singer-actor
?
?
532
P00176
OEMI1143
Kutub Ali Khan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
582
OEMI0216
Azmatullah Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the mid-19th cent.
Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh
Agra region
his father Rahmatullah Khan
91
OEMI1802
Ras Rag Khan
tabla player
tabla player
?
?
888
OEMI0467
Chhote Kale Khan
tabla player
Tabla player of the Delhi gharaanaa
?
?
Delhi gharaanaa
237
OEMI0957
Joravar Khan
vocalist
Vocalist （17th-cent.）
?
?
488
OEMI0312
Bashir Ahmad Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
1903
Agra
Kolkata
his maternal grandfather Kallan Khan
129
OEMI0710
Gokuldas Dhanji
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent., based in Mumbai
Mumbai
?
?
371
OEMI0088
Allah Dad Dhadhi
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
?
?
?
?
?
41
OEMI0990
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
?
?
503504
OEMI0424
Challagali Krishnayyar
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
213
OEMI0106
Ambayiram
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
48
OEMI0509
Comi Wadia
pianist, singer,conductor
Veteran pianist, singer, and conductor of the Paranjoti Chorus, of Mumbai, Maharashtra
Mumbai
1933
0806
Mumbai
248
OEMI0895
Jadunath Singh
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
449
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
OEMI0432
Chandidasa
Medieval poet whose works have influenced Bengali devotional music
?
?
215216
OEMI0925
Jatto
vocalist
Vocalist
465
OEMI0988
Kale Khan （Saras-piya）
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the durbar of Lunvada, in North Gujarat
0.186
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
family
503
OEMI1081
Kiron
Singer-actress of early 20th cent.
Kolkata
?
?
558
P05988
OEMI1631
Prabha Atre
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher of the Kiraanaa tradition
Mumbai
1932
0913
Pune, Maharashtra
Kiraanaa
821
OEMI1846
Sai Ilyas
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
914
OEMI1908
Sena Nhavi
Devotional poet
?
?
961
OEMI2015
Someswara
patron,
Author and royal patron, quoted by Saarangadeva 13th cent., Saarada Tanaya, and Paarsvade
?
?
992
OEMI2135
Trimohanlal
Pioneer artiste, writer, and producer of swaang and nautanki of the Kanpur style
?
?
1089
OEMI2246
Yashtka
musicologist
Ancient musicologist
?
?
?
?
1153
OEMI0289
Balwantrao Pohre
vocalist
Reputed Khayaal singer of the last quarter of the 19th cent
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Inayat Hussain Khan
116
OEMI1112
Krishnarao Date
teacher, scholar
teacher and scholar of the Gwaalior style
?
?
Gwaalior
572
OEMI1708
Rajaram Shukla
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1925
0509
Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh
Bhagvatkishor Vyakul, Mohan Misra, Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale, Amir Khan
864
OEMI2157
Vaidiswarankoil
composer
composer
?
?
1108
OEMI1532
Nijaguna Sivayogi
composer
Author and composer of devotional songs
1500
?
?
760
OEMI0380
Bimalindu Mukherji
sitar player
Scholar and exponent of sitar
Bhilai,Chhattisgarh
1926
?
Mymensing district[now in Bangladesh]
191
OEMI0365
Bhringi
composer
Composer
?
?
?
?
183
P05877
OEMI1084
Kishori Amonkar
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Mumbai
1931
0410
?
559
OEMI1275
Mankuverbai
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Raja Bhav Singh of Bhavnagar,Gujarat.
Gujarat
?
?
?
?
Kallan Khan
643
P02973
OEMI1820
Roshan Kumari
kathak danseuse
?
902
P04692
OEMI1607
Parvin Sultana
vocalist
vocalist
1950
0525
Nauga prava,Assam
Chinmay Lahiri
800
P00074
OEMI0922
Jasraj(Pandit)
vocalist
Eminent present-day vocalist and foremost exponent of the Mewaati tradition.
1930
0120
Hissar,Haryana
463
OEMI0068
Akil Ahmed Khan
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
?
?
?
?
Agra
33
OEMI1924
Shahadat Hussain Khan
Sarod player
1958
07??
Comilla, Bangladesh
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
963
OEMI1515
Natthe Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1745
?
?
?
?
Khurjaa
741
OEMI2143
Ujir Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
?
?
Jaipur
1101
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