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
name
date of birth
OEMI ID
page
place
year of birth
year of death
date of death
photo
century
birth place
place of death
profession
explanation about profession
gharana
guru
music field
Saraswatibai
OEMI1887
948
1850
19
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Sakharam
Zahur Khan Kalavant
OEMI2258
1158
Banda, Madhya Pradesh
19
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 19th cent.
Dimbh Muni Krishnadas
?
OEMI0586
296
?
?
?
Poet
Kadigai Namasivaya Pulavar
OEMI0977
494
?
?
Author of the Tamil dance-drama
Uttam Singh (Bhai)
OEMI2153
1104
19-20
?
?
Sabad keertan performer and teacher of Amritsar, Punjab.
Bhai Gurmukh Singh, Bhai Harsa Singh
Hussain Sharqi （Sultan）
OEMI0849
437
?
?
patron,musician
Patron and musician
Shambhu Prasad Tiwari
OEMI1933
964
1885
19-20
Banda, Uttar Pradesh
?
Noted pakhaawaj player
his eminent father Ayodhya Prasad
P00147
Gangadhar Pradhan
OEMI0655
332
1948
20
Panikula village, Orissa
Odissi teacher and dancer
Mahadev Rout, Minati Mishra, D.N. Patnaik, Kelucharan Mohapatra
Vijay Raghava Rao
1103
OEMI2202
1127
Mumbai
1925
20-
Chennai
Well-known flute exponent and music director
Chokkalingam Pillai （music and dance）
Pandharinath Nageshkar
0316
OEMI1584
792
1913
20
Nageshi,Goa
tabla player
tabla player,teacher
Yashwant(Valle-mama) Bandiwadekar
Mallika Sarabhai
?
OEMI1253
631
1953
20
Ahmedabad,Gujarat
Noted danseuse
Sawai Pratap Singh
OEMI1902
958
?
?
patron,
Patron, Scholar, and Maharaja of Jaipur who reigned during 1779-1804
Chand Khan
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
1031
OEMI1523
754755
1927
20
Clifton, England
Professor Emeritus of music and ethnomusicology,University of California,author and audio-visual documentator.
Bhoja Raja
?
OEMI0363
179
?
?
?
patron,
Ruler,patron,and writer
Ali Bakhsh II
?
OEMI0527
37
Hyderabad
?
?-19?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Harichandan
OEMI0810
412
?
?
Author of the work
Kalu-miya
?
OEMI0995
506
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Mohammad Usman
OEMI1358
681682
Barabanki district,Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,senior teacher
Ashiq Ali Khan,Baba Nasir Khan
Rani Karna
OEMI1796
887
1939
20
Hyderabad, Sind province of Pakistan
Kathak dancer
Lalitha Sastri, Navendra Kumar Singh
Sivakkolundu Desikar （Kottaiyur）
OEMI2000
987
Kottaiyur village, Thanjavur
?
composer
Composer of the Tamil opera
Tulaja the First
OEMI2137
1095
about 18
?
?
Maharaja of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Kadigai Mokku Pulavar
OEMI0976
494
19
?
?
composer
Composer （19rh cent.） and Tamil scholar who sesrved the Ettayapuram ruler of his time
P02854
Samanduram Tondon Devi
OEMI1857
921
20
Imphal, Manipur
exponent of Manipuri dance
Amubi Singh, Haobam Atomba Singh, Amudon Sharma
Baliram Pandey
?
OEMI0275
112
?
20
Mohappa,near Nagpur,Maharashtra
?
Pakhaawaj player of the early 20th cent.
P06271
Dhirendra Chandra Mitra
?
OEMI0573
287
1914
20
Kolkata
vocalist
Vocalist, particularly known for Nazrul geeti
Hanumandas Singh
Narayana Sastrulu （Loka）
OEMI1475
728
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist （19th cent.） and compiler of the first published volume of Tyaagaraaja's operatic works
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar
Dipali Barthakur
OEMI0589
298
Assam
1941
20
Nilmoni Tea Estate, Dibrugarh district, Assam
Noted singer of modern Assamese songs
By her uncle Bhaben Barthakur
modern Assamese songs
Lakshmi Narayana
OEMI1162
589
?
?
musician
Musician and author of Sangeeta Suryodaya
Pratibha Prahlad
OEMI1643
826827
1963
20
Mysore
Bharata Naatyam dancer and choreographer
U.S. Krishna Rao, Chandrabhaga Devi, V.S. Muthuswamy Pillai, Kalanidhi Narayanan
P00015
Buddhadev Dasgupta
0201
OEMI0410
203
Kolkata
1933
20
Bhagalpur,Bihar
Eminent sarod player
Seni Shahjahanour
Radhika Mohan Moitra
Hassan Khan Dhadhi
OEMI0823
418
?
?
vocalist, rudra veena player
Vocalist and eminent rudra veena player
Shadi Khan （Delhi）
OEMI1918
963
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar （r.1837-57）, the last Mughal emperor
Pachu Pillai(Champakulam)
10??
OEMI1562
779
1907
20
Champakulam,Kerala
Kathakali dancer
Paramu Pillai,Vechoor Raman Pillai
Kathakali
Bhupat Khan(Jodhpur)
?
OEMI0367
183
Gwalior
?
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Sohrabji R. Dhondi
OEMI2010
991992
20
?
?
actor, singer
Actor-singer of the New Alfred Theatre of the early 20th cent.
Sundaram Iyer （Umayalpuram）
OEMI2070
1030
20
?
?
Noted performer of ghatam （pot-drum）
Minakshi Shirodkar
?
OEMI1307
661662
Mumbai
?
?
?
Singer-actress of Marathi films and the stage
P00245
Zia Fariduddin Dagar
OEMI2264
1160
1933
Rajasthan
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
Kesi, Narayanaswamy
OEMI1059
541
1919
20
Chennai
Noted flute player
T. Brinda
Augustus Willard
?
OEMI0204
88
?
?
?
British author of A Treatise on the Music of Hindoostan(1834)
P00019
Chitta Babu
1013
OEMI0497
243
1936
20
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
veena player
Well-known veena player
Dhannabai
?
OEMI0566
283
?
?
?
vocalist
Acclaimed vocalist,a pupil of the khayaal pioneer Sadaarang
Pannaabaai
khayaal
Gauri
OEMI0660
346
19
?
?
dancer
Well-known danseuse of the late 19th-cent
Kannuswami Nattuvanar
Lalu Rababi
?
OEMI1193
601
?
?
?
rabaab player
An early rabaab player
Minapa
?
OEMI1311
662
Kamarup,Assam
?
?
?
singer,composer
Buddhist singer and composer
P00096
Mukta,T.
?
OEMI1379
692
1914
20
Chennai
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
Nayana Pillai
Nilufar Yasmin
0213
OEMI1535
761
1948
20
Khulna, Bangkadesh
Singer, noted for Nazrul-geeti and some other forms of songs, presented on the Bangladesh radio, television, in films, and contests
P.C. Gomes and some other
Pitambardas
OEMI1626
812
?
?
veena player, vocalist
Veena player and vocalist
Sahir Sable
OEMI1845
914
1923
20
Pasarani, Maharashtra
exponent of folk music and folk drama
Sayyed Mir Ali
OEMI1905
959
Lucknow
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known 19th-cent. vocalist of Lucknow
Somaraja Deva
OEMI2014
992
13
?
?
Author of Sangeeta Ratnaavalii, a 13th-dent.
Tiwadi Tejkaran
OEMI2132
1085
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist, of the durbar of the Jodhpur ruler Mahaaraaja Maan Singh （r.1803-43）, from 1830 till 1851.
Balakrishna Das
0202
OEMI0265
109110
1928
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, music director
Vocalist and exponent of Oriyaa champu,chhand,janaanaa,Jayadeeva`s padas, and also music director for plays and films
Kalyana Bharati
?
OEMI0996
506
Tamil Nadu
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist(19th cent.)
Sundarlal Vaidya
OEMI2072
1031
1840
19
Modoi village, Makhira district, Uttar Pradesh
?
Poet, singer, and performer of Raas-leelaa
Narayana Tirtha
OEMI1476
728
?
?
Playwright
Bhatta Devacharya
OEMI0354
168
?
?
Devotee-poet of Braja Pradesh
Sitaramayya （Todi）
OEMI1997
986
19
?
?
vocalist
Well-known vocalist of early 119th cent.
P05922
Bhimsen Joshi
0204
OEMI0361
177178
1922
20
Ron,Karnataka
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Nathmal Joshi
?
OEMI1512
740
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Siyaram Tiwari
0121
OEMI2005
989
1921
20
Amta village, Darbhanga district, Bihar
vocalist
Noted dhrupad singer
his maternal grandfather Vishnudeva Pathak
dhrupad
Nongthon Singh,N.
0215
OEMI1552
766
1935
20
Imphal,Manipur
tabla player
performer of tabla and other drums
Kavasji Jamshedji
OEMI1039
532
?
?
Singer-actor
Akil Ahmed Khan
?
OEMI0068
33
?
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher, of the Agra tradition
Agra
Shahadat Hussain Khan
07??
OEMI1924
963
1958
20
Comilla, Bangladesh
Sarod player
his father Abid Hussain Khan and uncle Bahadur Hussain Khan
Natthe Khan
?
OEMI1515
741
0.1745
?
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Khurjaa
Ujir Khan
OEMI2143
1101
Jaipur
19
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the Jaipur darbar of the 1860s, during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh
Jaipur
Allah Dad Dhadhi
?
OEMI0088
41
?
?
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player of the 17th cent.
Kalicharan Patnaik （Kavichandra）
OEMI0990
503504
20
?
?
Twentieth-century Odissi poet, playwright, and scholar
Challagali Krishnayyar
OEMI0424
213
Thanjavur
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player who served in the durbar of the Maratha ruler Sivaji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Ambayiram
?
OEMI0106
48
?
19
?
?
violinist
Violinist of Karnatik music (19th cent.)
Comi Wadia
0806
OEMI0509
248
Mumbai
1933
20
Mumbai
pianist, singer,conductor
Veteran pianist, singer, and conductor of the Paranjoti Chorus, of Mumbai, Maharashtra
Jadunath Singh
OEMI0895
449
17
Author of Abhinaya Darpana Prakaas,a 17th-cent
Loknath Pal
0320
OEMI1208
608
1923
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Sadashiv Pal,and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar and Khitish Maitra
P00223
Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalwan
OEMI1973
974
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
?
composer
Nautankii artiste and writer-composer
Nautanki
Ghulam Abbas Khan （Pakhawaj）
OEMI0675
360
19
?
?
For some time from 1828 he was attached to Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Sabha as a pakhaawaj player
Vasudevan （Neyyantinkara）
OEMI2173
1118
1940
20-
Neyyaantinkara, central Kerala
vocalist
Vocalist
Ramnad Krishnan and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Gulab Singh （Sant）
OEMI0755
386
Rawalpindi
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, based in Rawalpindi
Pandoba Yavateshwarkar
OEMI1585
792
1840
19
?
?
vocalist, producer
vocalist,pioneer producer of Marathi musical plays
Marathi musical plays
Ambikagiri Roy Chowdhuri
?
OEMI0108
48
Assam
?
20
?
?
composer
Twentieth-century composer of Assam
Munnibai(late 19th cent.)
?
OEMI1391
695
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Babu Khuda Bakhsh
Ambaram
?
OEMI0105
48
Mumbai
?
?
?
Pioneer singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays.
Awadabai
?
OEMI0205
89
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer
khayaal
Bi Rahimanbai
?
OEMI0372
184
Charkhari
?
19
?
?
Mid 19th cent. singer of Charkhari,Uttar Pradesh
P00149
Ghana Kant Bora
OEMI0668
354
1950
20
Majuli, Assam
?
Sattriiya dancer and teacher
Maniram Dutta Muktiyar, Maniram Gayan Muktiyar, Kamal Chandra Bargayan, and Raseswar Saikiya Barbayan
Hirabai I
OEMI0836
431
0.1828
19
Lucknow region
?
vocalist
Vocalist
P00164
Kamala
0616
OEMI1001
507
1934
20
Mayuram,Tamil Nadu
Well-known Bharata Naatyam danseuse
Bharata Naatyam
Lalu Ram Sahu
?
OEMI1194
601
1920
20
Bajrangpur town,Rajnandgaon district,Madhya Pradesh
Folk artiste
Paglibai
OEMI1570
781
19
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Ras Baras
OEMI1801
888
17
?
?
author
Bellari M. Venkatesachar
OEMI0322
135
Mysore
1933
20
Bellari, Karnataka
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Mundaragi Raghavendrachar, his elder brother Narasimha
P00122
Appukutty Poduval, K.
OEMI0167
72
1923
20
Tiruvilvamala, near Palakkad, Kerala
Well-known player of the drum maddalam
Venkichan Swamy
Bhanudatta Misra
OEMI0341
156
?
?
Author of a Sanskrit work
Shalomo Aharonji Bhastekar
OEMI1928
964
Mumbai, region
?
Author of the musical play
Lakshmikanta Maharaja
OEMI1166
591
?
?
composer
Composer and Sanskrit scholar of Andhra
Radhakrishna Iyer (Kanjira)
OEMI1669
842843
?
?
Stalwart of kanjiraa,a south Indian rhythmic instrument of the tambourine family.
Mansa Singh(Bhai)
?
OEMI1285
645
?
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Sikh sacred music(sabad)
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
OEMI2095
10441045
20-21
Chennai
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
Roprasik Devacharya
OEMI1818
902
16
?
?
composer
composer
Kumaraswamy lyer,K.R.
0409
OEMI1130
578
1913
20
Kettavarampalayam,Tamil Nadu
vocalist
veteran vocalist
Mecheri Sundara Sastri

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