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
Ropram Katara
OEMI1817
901
?
?
Priest and Raas-leelaa performer
Simha Bhopala
OEMI1988
977
c.14-15
?
?
musicologist
King and musicologist of medieval times
Giriraja Brahmam
OEMI0699
367
?
?
composer
Composer of devotional songs
devotional song
Narayanaswamy, K. （Umayalpuram）
0504
OEMI1485
729
1929
20
Umayalpuram, Tamil Nadu
Ghatam player
his father Kothandarama Iyer
Shyamamani Devi
OEMI1979
975
Cuttack, Orissa
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar, Balakrishna Dash, and, Kundal Adinarayana Rao
Mirza Mahmod Ali
OEMI1330
672
?
?
saarangi player
saarangi player,teacher
Wazir Khan(Hapur)
?
OEMI2240
1145
?
19
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist
his father Nizam Khan
Maheswara Mahapatra
OEMI1237
621622
?
?
author
Satyanarayana, R.
OEMI1897
953
1927
20
Mysore city, Karnataka
Reputed author and scholar of music and dance
his mother Varalakshmi
Malkajan Agrewali
OEMI1249
629630
?
?
vocalist
Thumrii singer
thumrii
Akshay Chowdhury
?
OEMI0069
34
?
?
?
composer
Poet and composer of patriotic songs in Bengali
John Menezes
OEMI0955
487
1906
20
Sao Mathias, Divar Island, Goa
?
Noted exponent of Western music
Muktaram Barua
03??
OEMI1380
692
1932
20
Rainakuchi village, Darrang district,Assam
Singer and Deodhani dancer
his father Kalaram
Sheikh Munna
OEMI1962
971
Lucknow
20
?
?
Shehnai player of the 1900s
Lakshmandas Seth
OEMI1161
589
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
?
?
patron,
Patron of the arts
Bhaskar-bua Joshi
1231
OEMI0348
163
1914
20
Karanj, Pune district, Maharastra
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze, Shivram-bua Vaze, Dinkar Pathak, Haribhau Ghangrekar
Bose,R.N.
?
OEMI0403
198
Kolkata
?
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Bengali songs
Shambhu （Master）
OEMI1931
964
20
?
?
Singer-actor in Gujarati and Hindi plays of the 1900s
Hasir Khan
OEMI0820
418
18
18
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist
the Qavvaal gharaanaa of Dalhi
Rahim Khan
OEMI1688
857
?
?
sitar player,rudra veena player
rudra veena and sitar player
Amritsen
Abdulla Khan(Delhi)
?
OEMI0021
7
Delhi
?
?
?
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
P00156
Inder Lal Dhandra
OEMI0875
443
1930
20
Udaipur, Rajasthan
saarangi player
Saarangi player
his father Bihari Lal
Shaukat Ali Khan
OEMI1954
969
1911
20
Gidhaur, Bihar
?
rabaab player
Rabaab player of the Seni gharaanaa
Seni
Mohammad Ali Khan, Raja Nawab Ali
P00113
Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
0321
OEMI0073
37
Kolkata
1939
20
?
shehnai player
Noted shehnai player
Ishtiyaq Hussain Khan
OEMI0884
445
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Sahaswaan tradition
his father Mustaq Hussain Khan
Mir Mehbob Ali Khan
OEMI1323
671
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of the arts
Ali Bakhsh Khan (Bihar)
?
OEMI0077
38
Gidhaur in Bihar
?
?
rabaab player
Rabaab exponent of the Seni tradition
Seni
Hussain Bakhsh （Kishangarh）
OEMI0846
436
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Pakhaawaj player of the Jodhpur royal durbar from 1794 till 1834
Allahdi
?
OEMI0091
42
Delhi
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th cent.
Kutub Bakhsh
OEMI1144
582
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Wazirjan
?
OEMI2242
1146
Beneres
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
vocalist of Beneres of the 1900s.
Abbasuddin Ahmed
?
OEMI0003
12
Bengal
?
?
?
vocalist
Singer of folk music of North and East Bengal
folk music
Sidhar Khan Dhadi
OEMI1982
976
16
?
?
tabla player
Founder of the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Purushottama Mishra
OEMI1657
832
Orissa
?
?
Scholar in the durbar of Gajapati Jagannaatha Naaraayanadeva, king of Paralkhemundi, southern Orissa
Lalit Chandranath Ojha
0211
OEMI1182
594
1923
20
Sipajhar, Darrang district, Assam
Singer of Manasaa-Ojaapaali and Deodhani dancer of Assam
his father and Thanuram Kalita Ojha
Chodia Imam Bakhsh
OEMI0502
244
19
?
?
tabla player
Eminent 19th-cent. tabla player
The Fraukhaabaad tabla gharaanaa
Haji Vilayat Ali Khan
Kumaraswami Bhaktar
OEMI1129
578
Kanjeevaram,Tamil Nadu
20
?
?
vocalist
vocalist of the 1900s
Ramu-bhaiyya Date
OEMI1782
884
?
?
patron,
patron of Hindustani classical music
Arabatta Navalar
OEMI0168
72
?
?
Author of a Tamil work on dance titled Bharata Saastiram （c.18th cemt.）
Banujan
OEMI0301
121
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Kolhapur during roughly 1900-20
P00146
Fida Hussain
?
OEMI0631
319
1899
?
19-20
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
?
Singer-actor of the Parsi Theatre
P00035
Guruvayur Dorai
OEMI0763
392
1935
20
Guruvayur, Kerala
Mridangam player
Palakkad Subba Iyer, Palani Subramania Pillai
Mehndi Hassan
OEMI1319
667
Jaipur
vocalist,composer
ghazal singer ,composer
ghazal
Sharan Rani
0409
OEMI1952
968
1929
20
Delhi
Reputed sarod player
Allauddin Khan and his son Ali Akber Khan
Surdas
OEMI2079
1035
0.1478
15
Sihi village, near Delhi
?
singer
Blind singer
It is not known
Kallinath Pandit
OEMI0993
505506
?
?
Also known as Chatura Kallinaath
Nagabhushanachar,V.
?
OEMI1430
714715
1932
20
Krishnapur,Mysore district,Karnataka
K.Veerappachar
Nilakantha Ayyar （Nangavaram）
OEMI1529
756
?
?
teacher
Veteran teacher, a direct disciple of Tyaagaraaja
Satyabhamabai Pandharpurkar
OEMI1895
953
Sangli district, Maharashtra
Well-known performer of Marathi laavani
Godavaribai Punekar
Wahid Khan（Sitar）
?
OEMI2233
1144
1895
?
19-20
Etawah,Uttar Pradesh
?
sitar player
Well-known sitar and surbahaar player
his father Imdad Khan
P00052
Laxman Krishnarao Pandit
?
OEMI1199
606
Delhi
1934
20
Gwalior,Madhya Pradesh
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
Gwaliior
Krishnarao and Shankarrao Pandit
Lal Khan （Jodhpur）
OEMI1172
591
?
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Jodhpur durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh
Azam Khan Kalpiwale
OEMI0211
90
Lucknow
19
Kalpi
?
udra veena player,sitar player
Performer of the rudra veena and sitar of mid-19th cent. Lucknow
Kannappa Thambiran
OEMI1020
516
1915
20
Purisai,Tamli Nadu
Performer of Theru Koothu
Sarada Subramaniam
OEMI1881
944
1915
20
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Bharata Naatyam danseuse and teacher
Rukmini Devi Arundale, Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (Pandanallur), Bhairavan Pillai
Rajkumar Priyogopal Sana
OEMI1713
866
1910
20
Imphal, Manipur
Well-known exponent of Manipuri dance, also an expert in Manipuri martial arts
his father Rajkumar Suryaboro Singh
P00241
Vempati Chinna Satyam
1025
OEMI2181
1121
1929
20-
Kuchipudi village, Andhra Pradesh
Well-known Kuuchipuudi dancer
Tadepalli Perayya Sastri, Vedantam Lakshminarayana Sastry, Chandrakala and Yedavalli Rama
Haricharan Das Swami
OEMI0811
412
Dhaka
18
?
?
sitar player
Sitar olayer of 18th-cent. Bengal
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
OEMI0941
480
Kolkata
Author
Dev Kishor Sharma(Phurailatpam)
0118
OEMI0552
273
1921
20
Imphai,Manipur
Senior teacher,music director,and ardent promoter
Maisnam Amubi,Konjeng Toyaima,Haobam Tomba,Huirem Lala,Sorokhaibam Paka,R.K. Akesana,and Chungkham Thambalangou
P00022
Debu Chaudhuri
?
OEMI0544
262
Delhi
1935
20
Mymansingh,now in Bangladesh
sitar player
Noted sitar player
Mustaq Ali Khan(sitar) and Sukhendu Goswami(vocal)
Gajanan Varma
?
OEMI0642
325
1926
20
Ratangarh,Rajasthan
writer, performer
writer and performer
Govindprasad Gopaldas
OEMI0745
382
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist of the early 20th-cent,
Incha Baras
OEMI0874
442
?
?
musician
Musician in the durbar of Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile
Khajurbai
OEMI1067
543
?
?
vocalist
Noted khayaal singer
khayaal
Mankar
?
OEMI1273
643
Assam
?
16
?
?
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent
Mohammad Reza
OEMI1355
681
?
?
author
Rahimanbai
OEMI1689
857858
?
?
vocalist
vocalist
Babu Ram Sahai
Ramkumar Basak
OEMI1771
881
19
?
?
pakhaawaj player
Saroja, M.K.
OEMI1892
951
1931
20
Chennnai
Bharata Naatyam danseuse, film actress
Singhanadeva
OEMI1990
982
?
?
patron,
Royal patron of Devgiri, near Aurangabad in Maharashtra
Talim Hussain
?
OEMI2102
1055
Lucknow
?
20
?
?
Shehnai player of 1900s
Vishnudas Nama
OEMI2211
1135
16
?
?
composer
Composer and performer of Marathi aakhyaan for some years after 1550
Krishna Iyengar （Madurai）
OEMI1098
569
Mumbai
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist, noted for pallavi rendition
Govinda Dikshitar
OEMI0738
380
?
?
musicologist
Musicologist and statesman; author of Sangeeta Sudhaa
Natarajan,A.K.C.
?
OEMI1509
739
?
?
?
clarinet player
Noted clarinet player
A.K.Chinnakrishnan
Shyamdas Mishra
0713
OEMI1980
975
1948
20
Mungher district, Bihar
vocalist
Vocalist
Omkarnath Thakur and Balwantrai Bhatt
P00224
Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury
OEMI1993
982
1937
20
Shillong, Meghalaya
violinist
Noted violinist and teacher
V.G. Jog
Malbarao Sardesai
1231
OEMI1247
627
1911
20
Panaji,Goa
performer of the pot drum ghumat,author
Surchand Sharma, G.
0210
OEMI2078
10341035
Manipur
1915
20
Imphal
Noted author and scholar of the Manipur cultural tradition
Amudon Sharma, Meiti Tomba Singh, Kshetritombi Devi （Manipuri dance）
Narahari Chakravarti
OEMI1458
725
?
?
Singer, poet, and scholar of Bengal
Parashuram-bua Barve
OEMI1599
798
?
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
Vishnupant Chhatre
Amaradeva,W.D.
1205
OEMI0100
46
Sri Lanka
1927
20
Koralavalla,Moratuva,Sri Lanka
violinist
Noted singer,music director,and violinist
Guruyacharyulu
OEMI0764
392
Vijayanagaram, Andhra
?
?
vocalist, composer,veena player
Vocalist, composer, and veena exponent of the durbar of Vijayanagaram, Andhra
Jorawar Singh
OEMI0958
488
Gwalior
?
?
Noted mridang player of the Gwalior durbar of Maharaja Jankojirao Scindia
Sukhdev Singh, Narayan Prasad Agnihotri
Mahadkar,S.A.
?
OEMI1227
619
1915
20
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Ganpatrao Phadke,S.N. Ratanjankar and Mallikarjun Mansoor
Nadira Begum
0810
OEMI1429
713
1948
20
Joipurhat,Bogra,Bangladesh
Singer
Umed Ali Khan, Mohammad Fazlul Haque, Narayan Chandra Basak, and Nizamuddin Qavval.
Lakshmiram Barua
OEMI1169
591
20
?
?
composer
Early 20th cent. Assamese composer and author of Sangeetkos
P00055
Chandrasekaran, M.
OEMI0440
221
1937
20
Kolkata
?
violinist
Noted violinist
his mother Charubala Mohan
Chaggan(Master)
?
OEMI0419
208
Kolkata
?
20
?
?
Singer-actor of the 1900s.
Abdul Gafur
?
OEMI0006
2
?
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of early 20th cent
P06696
Munne Khan
?
OEMI1388
695
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
?
20
?
?
vocalist
Vocalist and a disc-record singer of the early 1900s.
Sitab Khan
OEMI1994
982
18
?
?
tabla player
Tabla pioneer, late 18th cent.
the Delhi tabla gharaanaa
Malati Pande
0419
OEMI1246
625
1930
20
Wardha,North Maharashtra
vocalist
vocalist
Dilawar Ali Khan
?
OEMI0583
295
Rewa
?
?
?
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Rewa
Agra
khayaal
Radha Krishna Bhanj
1105
OEMI1667
842
1928
20
Baripada,Mayurbhanj,Orissa
singer
Sitanshu Nandi,Narayan Darji
Markandeya Mohapatra Sharma
0718
OEMI1289
652
1915
20
Puri,Orissa
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Narayan Mohapatra Sharma and Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar.
P06142
Arvind Parikh
?
OEMI0177
77
Mumbai
1927
?
20
?
?
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
Haidarijan
OEMI0777
399400
?
?
Noted thumrii and soz singer of Lucknow
Lal Kavi
OEMI1170
591
?
?
Author of a few raagamaalaa verses, in Hindi

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