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
OEMI0335
Bhairav sahai
tabla player
Noted tabla player of Benares
Benares
0.1839
?
0.191
?
Ram Sahai, Modu Khan
151
OEMI0771
Hafiz Khan
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.185
Jaipur
0.1909
?
his father Mammu Khan
398
OEMI1513
Natthan Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.184
?
Agra
0.1907
?
Mysore
Agra
his uncle Ghulam Abbas Khan
741
OEMI0197
Ata Hussain Khan(Tabla)
tabla player
table player
0.183
?
Lucknow
0.1907
?
Bhawal,Bengal
Farukhaabaad
84
OEMI1480
Narayanaswami Appa
Mridangam celebrity of the state of Thanvavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
0.1906
Thanjavur
728
OEMI0238
Bade Munne （Tabla）
0.1845
?
0.1905
Lucknow
his father Mohammad Khan, Mamman Khan
97
OEMI0191
Ashiq Ali Khan(Jaipur)
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
?
?
0.1905
?
Jaipur
82
OEMI1398
Murai Mohan Gupta
Well-known pakhaawaj player and teacher.
0.1824
?
Barrackpore,Bengal
0.1904
?
Kolkata
pakhaawaj
697698
OEMI2101
Taj Khan
vocalist
Eminent singer of dhrupad and khayaal
dhrupad,khayaal
0.182
?
?
0.1904
?
Nepal
Haidar Khan,Sadiq Ali Khan,
10521053
OEMI0619
Faiz Mohammad Khan
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the Baroda durbar
Baroda
0.1835
?
probably Agra
0.1904
?
Baroda,Gujarat
Baroda durbar
Fateh Mohammad and Ghasit Khan
316
OEMI1547
Niyamatullah Khan
Sarod maestro, a pioneer
0.1816
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
0.1902
Delhi
765766
OEMI2253
Zahur Bakhsh
vocalist
vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar
Jodhpu
?
Atrauli
0.19
?
Jodhapur
Jodhpur
his father Mantol Khan
1157
OEMI0071
Alamsen
Eminent dhrupad exponent
0.183
?
Gwalior
0.19
?
Gwalior
34
OEMI0139
Anantalal Bandopadhyaya
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
0.1832
Vishnupur
0.1896
Vishnupur
Vishnupur
58
P01173
OEMI0293
Bande Ali Khan
udra veena player
Eminent rudra veena player
0.183
?
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1896
?
Pune,Maharashtra
Seni
116117
OEMI0124
Amritsen
sitar player
Sitar and surabin （string） maestro
0.1813
Jhajjar, near Delhi
0.1893
Jaipur
his father Rahimsen
5253
OEMI2175
Vasudev-bua Joshi
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of the Gwaalior gharaanaa
?
0.189
Gwalior
the Gwaalior gharaanaa
Hassu Khan
1118
OEMI2259
Zainul Abedin
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
18
in or around Lucknow
0.1887
Hyderabad
1158
OEMI0984
Kalbe Ali Khan
patron,
Royal patron of Rampur state
0.1836
?
0.1887
?
502
OEMI0314
Basit Khan
composer
Reputed 19th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer
0.1787
?
0.1887
?
129
OEMI0288
Balwantrao Panse
Reputed mridang player
?
?
0.1886
?
?
116
OEMI0079
Ali Mohammad Khan (Badku-miya)
sursingaar player
Well-known sursingaar player, descendant of Taansen
?
0.1824
?
Lucknow
0.1885
?
Benares
38
OEMI2104
Tanras Khan
Khyaal stalwart
0.1814
?
Dasna,near Delhi
0.1885
?
Hyderabad
10591060
OEMI1383
Munduru Khan
Sarod player
0.181
?
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
0.1884
?
Rampur
693694
OEMI1516
Natthu Khan
vocalist
Eminent exponent of the Gwaalior Khayaal gharaanaa
khayaal
18
?
?
0.1884
?
?
Gwaalior khayaal
his father Kader Bakhsh
741
OEMI0867
Inayat Ali Khan
sarod player
A sarod pioneer
1790
probably in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
0.1883
Dhaka
his father Hussain Ali Khan
440441
OEMI0484
Chinnaswami Dasar
composer
Composer of keertans in Sanskrit and Tamil
0.1828
Kuttanur, near Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
0.1881
?
240
OEMI1540
Nissar Ali Khan （Seni）
sursingaar player,rabaab player
Sursingaar and rabaab exponent
0.1814
Lucknow
0.188
Benares
his father, Zaffar Khan, his elder brother, Sadiq Ali
763
OEMI0674
Ghasit Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer of the Fatehpur Sikri tradition
dhrupad
0.18
Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra
0.188
Fatehpur Sikri
his father, Dulhe Khan. Haidar Khan
356
OEMI0253
Bahram Khan
vocalist
Dhrupad singer of the Jaipur durbar, and a stalwart of the Dagar tradition
dhrupad
1800
Ambaitha, Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh
0.188
Jaipur
His father Imam Khan, Baba Kalidas
104
OEMI0666
Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
vocalist
Founder of the Agra khayaal tradition
khayaal
0.179
Agra
0.188
Agra
the Agra khayaal
353
OEMI1371
Mubarak Ali Khan(Jaipur)
vocalist
Noted vocalist
0.1795
?
Lucknow
0.188
?
Jaipur
Bade Mohammad Khan
689
OEMI0776
Haidar Bakhsh Khan
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player of the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
?
0.1875
?
the Sonipat-Paanipat gharaanaa
his father Changay Khan
399
OEMI0195
Ashtaputre(Bhau Sastri)
Author of Gaayan Prakaasa
Pune
0.1825
?
?
0.1875
?
Pune
83
OEMI0653
Ganga Narayan Chattopadhyaya
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer and teacher
dhrupad
0.1808
Bilwapushkarini village, Nadia district, Bengal
0.1874
Kolkata
Mir Nasiram
331332
OEMI0113
Amir Khan(Seni,Rampur)
vocalist, rudra veena player,
Reputed rudra veena player,proficient as a vocalist of dhrupad and dhamaar as well.
0.182
?
Banda,Uttar Pradesh
0.1873
?
Rampur
his father Umrao Khan
50
OEMI0246
Bahadur Hussain Khan
sursingaar player
Sursingaar maestro of the Rampur royal durbar
0.1808
?
0.187
?
Rampur royal durbar
101
OEMI1079
Khwaja Ahmad Khan
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Atraauli tradition
?
0.187
Tonk, Rajasthan
family
556
OEMI0847
Hussain Khan Babbar
sitar player
Noted sitar player
0.1795
?
0.187
?
his cousin Rahimsen
436
OEMI1726
Ram Sahai
tabla player
Outstanding tabla player, originator of the Benares tradition in tabla
0.1815
Benares
0.1868
Benares
Benares
870
OEMI1963
Sher Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
khayaal
0.1792
Agra
0.1862
Agra
Agra
his paternal uncle Ghagge Khuda Bakhsh
971
OEMI0864
Imdad Khan （Agra）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.18
Agra
0.186
Agra
agra gharaanaa
his family
440
OEMI0459
Chhange Khan
vocalist
Vocalist
?
0.1857
?
231
OEMI0234
Bade Changeh Khan
vocalist
Reputed khayaal singer of the durbar of Mughal king Bahadur Shah Zafar
khayaal
0.177
Panipat
0.1857
?
96
OEMI0683
Ghulam Mohammad （Surbahar）
Reputed exponent of surbahaar
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
0.1856
Balarampur, Uttar Pradesh
Umrao Khan Seni, Ghulam Mohammad
362
OEMI0825
Hassu Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the brother-duo Haddu-Hassu Khan of Gwalior
Gwalior
0.179
Gwalior
0.1855
Gwalior
Gwalior
419
OEMI0034
Achpal-miya
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbabr of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar
0.178
?
Delhi
0.1854
?
?
Delhi Qavvaal
17
OEMI0739
Govinda Marar （Shat-kala）
vocalist
Early 19th-cent. Karnatik vocalist
1798
Ramamangalam, Muvattupuzha district, Kerala
0.1842
Pandharpur, Maharashtra
Haripad Ramaswami Bhagvatar
380381
OEMI0783
Haidar Khan Seni
vocalist
A master of dhrupad and dhamaar
dhrupad,dhamaar
0.177
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
0.184
?
his father Jeevan Khan,
400
OEMI2252
Zaffar Khan
rabaab player
Eminent rabaab player
0.1776
?
?
0.184
?
Benares
Seni
his father Chhajju Khan
1157
OEMI2148
Umrao Khan （Rudra Vina）
rudra veena player
Reputed rudra veena exponent of the Seni tradition
0.1788
?
0.184
probably Rewa
Seni
his father Chhote Naubat Khan, his uncle Nirmal Shah
1102
OEMI1514
Natthan Pir Bakhsh
vocalist
Khayaal pioneer of Gwalior
khayaal
0.176
?
Gwalior
0.1837
?
Gwalior
his father Pir Bakhsh
741
OEMI1080
Khwaja Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Atraauli gharaanaa
?
0.1836
?
Atraauli
556
OEMI0775
Haidar Bakhsh （Jaipur）
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player of Jaipur
Jaipur
0.1777
?
0.1833
?
Dulhe Khan, Masit Khan
399
OEMI1538
Nirmal Shah
rudra veena player
Eminent performer of the rudra veena
0.176
Lucknow
0.183
Benares
his father Jeevan Shah
762
OEMI0597
Dulha Khan
vocalist
Noted 18th-cent. dhrupad singer and composer of Jaipur
dhrupad
Jaipur
0.1745
?
0.182
?
303
OEMI1752
Ramaswami Dikshitar
composer,vocalist
Well-known composer and vocalist
1735
Virinjiouram near Kanchipuram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
0.1817
Thanjavur
his father Muthuswaami Diikshitar, Melattur Veerabhadrayya, Venkata Vaidyanatha Diikshitar
875
OEMI1185
Lalit Mohinidev
Poet-devotee of Braja Pradesh
0.1727
?
0.1805
?
595
OEMI0248
Bahadur Khan （Seni）
sitar player
Eminent sitar player
0.1762
?
0.1805
Delhi
his father Masit Khan
102
P02009
OEMI1293
Masit Khan
Innovator of the Mastikhaani gat
0.173
?
?
0.18
?
?
655
OEMI2055
Sukhsen
Reputed dhrupad exponent of the Seni tradition
0.175
?
Gwalior
0.18
?
Gwalior
Seni
1027
OEMI1097
Krishna Chandra Ray
patron,
Music lover and patron
0.171
?
0.1783
?
569
OEMI1725
Ram Prasad Sen
musician
Ascetic musician of 18th-cent. Bengal
0.1723
Halisahar-Kumarhatta in Nadia [now in Bangladesh]
0.1783
?
869870
OEMI0368
Bhupat Khan(Maharang)
rudra veena player
A master of rudra veena in the Seni tradition.
0.1696
?
?
0.1778
?
?
Seni
his father Sadaarang
183
OEMI0037
Adarang(Feroze Khan)
vocalist
Eminent vocalist of the durbar
0.1692
?
?
0.1776
?
Delhi
Sadaarang
19
OEMI0754
Gulab Khan （Seni）
vocalist,rabaab player
Dhrupad singer and rabaab player
dhrupad
0.17
Delhi
0.1768
Jaipur, Rajasthan
his father Hassan Khan Seni
386
OEMI2269
Feroze Khan （Sitar）
composer,sitar player
Well-known composer of Feroze-khaani sitar-gat
0.17
probably Delhi
0.1768
Delhi
his father Amirkhan-Khusraukhan, Sadaarang
319
OEMI0119
Amirkhan Khusrau Khan
sitar player
Sitar pioneer.
1670
?
probably Delhi
0.1742
?
Delhi
51
OEMI0824
Hassan Khan Seni
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
0.166
?
0.173
?
his father Sughar （or Sudhar） Khan
418419
OEMI0580
Dhruvadasji
Devotional poet of Braja-bhoomi
1565
?
?
0.17
?
?
292
OEMI1496
Narharidevji
Devotional poet of Vrindavan.
0.1587
?
?
0.1688
?
?
731
OEMI1958
Sheikh Bahauddin Burnawa
musician
Ascetic musician
0.158
0.168
970971
OEMI0326
Bhadrachala Ramadas
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
0.162
Nelakondapalle, Golkonda, Andhra Pradesh
0.168
?
145
OEMI1171
Lal Khan （Bade or Seni）
vocalist
Eminent 17th-cent. vocalist
0.1562
?
0.165
?
591
OEMI0376
Bilas Khan
vocalist,composer
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
0.154
?
Rewa,Madhya Pradesh
0.1621
?
?
189
OEMI2077
Suratsen
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1539
Rewa, Madhta Pradesh
0.1615
Agra
his father Taansen
1034
OEMI1427
Nabat Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena maestro of the Seni gharaanaa
0.153
?
Singhalgad, Rajasthan
0.161
?
Agra[then called Akbarabad]
Seni
711
OEMI0817
Hariram Vyas
vocalist
Noted story-teller and vocalist
1492
Orchha, Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the river Betwa
0.1598
?
415416
OEMI0317
Baz Bahadur
musician
sixteenth-century musician and ruler of Mandu in Malwa, Rajasthan
152530
?
0.1594
?
131132
OEMI0813
Haridas Swami （Vrindavan）
composer
Legendary saint-composer
0.148
Kher, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh
0.1575
Vrindavan, near Agra
412413
OEMI1520
Nayak Baiju
One of the finest singers of dhrupad of the 15th cent.
0.1465
?
Champaner village,North Gujarat
0.154
?
?
751
OEMI2273
Mardana （Bhai）
rabaab player
Rabaab player, loyal accompanist of Guru Nanak, born in a Muslim family of folk musicians
1496
Talwandi, old Punjab Province
0.154
?
650651
OEMI1521
Nayak Bakhshu
vocalist
Eminent dhrupad singer and composer
dhrupad
0.146
?
?
0.1535
?
?
Raja Maansingh Toomar
751752
OEMI0970
Kabir
Saint-poet
0.1398
?
0.1518
?
492493
OEMI2201
Vidyapati Thakur
composer
Legendary poet and composer of sings rich in devotional and literary content
0.136
?
0.1448
?
1127
OEMI0500
Chokhamela
Poet of Marathi abhangs
?
0.1338
Mangalwedha, near Sangli, Maharashtra
243
OEMI0733
Gora Kumbhar
Poet of Marathi abhangs
Teradhoki
0.1267
?
?
0.1296
?
?
377
OEMI1899
Savta Mali
Poet of Marathi abhangs
0.125
?
0.1295
?
957
OEMI0311
Basaveswara
Spiritual leader of the Veena Saiva movement of Karnataka
0.1139
Bagewadi, Bijasur district, Karnataka
0.1196
Kudala Sangama, Bagalkot district, Karnaraka
128129
OEMI0621
Fani Bala
Singer-actress
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
317
OEMI0718
Gopal Oriya
Nineteenth-century author of jaatraa folk plays
jaatraa folk plays
?
?
374
OEMI0859
Imam Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar during 1830-62
Jodhpu
?
?
439
OEMI1919
Shafikul Hassan
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist of the 1950s
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
Ata Hussain Khan, Khadim Hussain Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan
963
OEMI1658
Purushottamadas Pakhawaji
pakhaawaj player
Veteran pakhaawaj player of the Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Nathadwara
0.1907
Nathadwara
?
Nathadwara temple tradition of Rajasthan
Goswami Govindlalji
832
OEMI1292
Masilamani Mudaliyar
violinist
Reputed Chennnai-based violinist of the late 19th cent.
Chennnai
?
?
?
?
655
OEMI0861
Imam Khan （Vocal）
vocalist
Vocalist （19th-cent）
Khurjaa, Uttar Pradesh
Khurjaa
the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Shahab Khan
439
OEMI1789
Ranga Rao, V.A.K.
discographer,collector,columnist,music and dance historian
1930
Chennai
886
OEMI2206
Vinayak-bua Thakurdas
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Marathi keertan
Mumbai
?
?
1130
OEMI0138
Anantadas Goswami
composer
Singer and composer of baul songs and a highly esteemed baul guru
baul songs
1790
Birbhum, West Bengal
?
58
OEMI1612
Pattabhiramayya （Tirupanandal）
composer
Composer of Jaavali songs
0.1863
Tirupanandal, near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
?
805