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
OEMI0287
Balwantrao Ketkar
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the durbar of Sangli,Maharashtra
khayaal
Sangli,Maharashtra
?
?
?
?
Antu-bua Apte
115116
OEMI1386
Munnan Khan(Murshidabad)
vocalist, sitar player
Vocalist and sitar player(second half, 19th cent.)
Murshidabad (now in Bangladesh)
?
?
?
?
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
694
OEMI1765
Rameshwar Pathak
sitar player
Sitar player of early 20th cent. Darbhanga, Bihar
?
?
879
OEMI2177
Vedantam Prahlada Sarma
Noted Kuuchipuudi dancer and teacher
1923
Kuchipudi village, Andhra
his father Rattayya Sarma and two other gurus Lakshmi Narayana Sastri and Vempati Venkata Narayana
1119
OEMI1090
Kolar Nagaratnam
vocalist
Popular concert vocalist of 1900-25
?
?
Bidaram Krishnappa
563
P00191
OEMI1564
Padma Subrahmanyam
dancer,scholar
Chennai
?
B.V.Lakshmanan,Ramayya Pillai,Gowri Amma
780
OEMI1482
Narayanaswami Iyer （Bharatam）
Stage artiste of early 20th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI0727
Gopalayya （Pallavi）
vocalist
Prominent vocalist and veena player of the durbar of King Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
?
?
Pachhimiriyam Adiappayya
375
OEMI1648
Pulin Behari Mitter
vocalist,
Vocalist of the 1900s, an early disc-record artiste
?
?
828
OEMI2125
Thouranishabi Devi,L.
Manipuri danseuse
1946
1103
Imphal,Manipur
G.Iboton Sharma,Chongtham Achou,Okram Leikai,and Thangjam Munal.
1078
OEMI0568
Dharmapuri Subbarayar
composer
Well-known composer of jaavali
?
?
?
?
284
OEMI1595
Papavinasa Mudaliar
composer
composer
?
?
795
P00227
OEMI2023
Sorokhaibam Naran Singh
Performer and teacher of Manipuri dance
1913
?
Khurai Kongapal Sajor,Manipur
Hijam Borajao Singh, Oinam Ibungo Singh and a few others
995
OEMI0127
Ananda Gajapati
Ruler of Vizianagaram, a
Andhra Pradesh
56
OEMI0252
Bahinabai
Saint-Poetess
?
?
104
OEMI0359
Bhava Bhatta
author
?
Dhavalpur,in Malwa,Rajasthan
?
?
169170
OEMI0472
Chhoti Maina II
vocalist
Vocalist of the Benares tradition
?
?
Benares
237
OEMI0525
Dasari
Reputed naagaswaram exponent of the first half of the 19th cent
?
?
?
?
258
OEMI1038
Kasyapa
Quoted as an authority on music
?
?
525
P00174
OEMI1134
Kumudini Lakhia
Kathak danseuse
1935
Maharashtra
579
OEMI1257
Manarang
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer of khayaal
khayaal
?
?
?
?
Manarang
634
OEMI1345
Mohammad Bakhsh
saarangi player
saarangi player
?
?
679
P04625
OEMI1473
Narayana Iyer
ghatam player
Noted 19th-cent. performer of ghatam
?
?
727
OEMI1588
Pannabai
courtesan singer
Courtesan-singer of the durbar of the Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah Rangile(r.1719-48)
?
?
793794
OEMI1666
Radha Krishna
poet,author
?
?
842
OEMI1814
Raza Hussain
vocalist, jaltarang player
vocalist and jaltarang player of the Baroda durbar.
Baroda
1891
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
?
Pyar Khan
897
OEMI1879
Sarabhoji Ⅱ
Maharaja of Thanjavur
?
?
944
OEMI1941
Shankar Hombal
Bharata Naatyam dancer and teacher
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
1927
12??
Dharwar, Karnataka
Rukmini Devi Arundale's Kalakshetra, Chennai
966
OEMI2176
Vasuki
Ancient authority
?
?
1118
OEMI1462
Narayan Behera
vocalist
Vocalist
1917
1214
Ganjam, Orissa
Surya Narayan Shastri, Venkataswami Naidu
726
OEMI1154
Lakpati Singh Leimapokapam
Singer of Manipuri nata sankeertana songs
1953
0812
Imphal, Manipur
his father Herachandra Singh, and mother Ibemhal Devi, Birahari Singh, Tolpishak Singh, Chaoba Singh, Gulapi Singh
587
OEMI0602
Durgavara Kayastha
Noted Ojaapaali singer and poet of 16th-cent. Assam
?
?
305
OEMI0921
Jankibai(Udaipur)
vocalist,
Vocalist of Marwari songs
463
OEMI1844
Sahaji Maharaja
musician
musician-king of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1680-1712.
Thanjavur
?
?
911
OEMI1136
Kunjari Raja(Guru)
performer of svarabat
?
?
579
OEMI1050
Kesavayyar （Polagam）
violinist
Noted violinist of the early 20th cent.
?
?
540
OEMI1470
Narayana Iyengar （Titte）
vocalist,
Vocalist and veena player of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja, Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar
?
?
Chikka Subba Rao, Veena Seshanna
727
OEMI0519
Damodar Pandit
vocalist,
Vocalist and poet(13th cent.)
?
?
?
?
Naagdevaachaarya
253
OEMI1201
Lebdev,G.S.
writer
wrote the first modern Bengali play
modern Bengali play
?
?
?
?
606
P00205
OEMI2274
Mayadhar Raut
Noted teacher of Odissi dance
Odissi dance
1933
Kantapahara, near Banki, Orissa
Mohan Mahapatra, Yudhishtira Mahapatra, Mohan Sunderdev Goswami, and Pankaj Charan Das
660
OEMI0752
Gul Bardhan
Dancer of Manipuri, Chhaau, and some regional folk dances of Rajasthan and Gujarat
1928
Mumbai
Shanti Bardhan, Maisnam Amubi Singh
386
OEMI1401
Musharraf Khan
rudra veena player
Rudra veena player(19th cent.)
Jaipur Rajasthan
?
?
?
?
Bade Rajab Ali Khan
699
OEMI0294
Bande Hussain Khan
vocalist
Khayaal singer of the Agra gharaanaa
khayaal
Baroda
1906
?
?
?
?
Agra
Faiyaz Khan
117
OEMI1061
Kiwal Kishan
Pakhaawaj pioneer of the early 18th cent.
?
?
probably Jaawali gharaanaa
542
OEMI0061
Ajan Fakir (Shah Milan)
composer
Seventeeth-century Assamese composer of Jilirs
?
?
?
Saraguri
29
OEMI1068
Khan Khanan Bairam Khan
singer,patron,
Afghan nobleman of Delhi who was very fond of music and patronized a singer called Raamdaas
?
?
546547
OEMI0880
Isak Sadiq Chordekar
An early writer of Marathi keertan-aakhyaans based on Bene-Israeli religious themes
Mumbai
Mumbai
444445
OEMI1629
Poluri Govinda Kavi
Author of Raaga Taala Chintaamani
?
?
813
OEMI0074
Ali Bakhsh I
vocalist
Vocalist
Hyderabad
?
?
?
?
37
OEMI0156
Annu Akhtar
vocalist
Noted vocalist, a pupil of Kale Khan of the Agra gharaanaa
?
?
Agra
66
OEMI0342
Bhanumathi, K.
Bharata Naatyam danseuse
1922
12??
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Papanasam Vadivelu Pillai, Mylapore Gowri Amma
157
OEMI0677
Ghulam Ali
Well-known ghazal singer
Pakistan
1940
Kaleke village, Sialkot district
his father, Ghulam Ali Khan, his brothers Barqat Ali Khan and Mubarak Ali Khan
360
OEMI1037
Kasinatha Kavi
composer
Composer
?
?
525
OEMI1700
Rajab Ali Khan (Bade)
rudra veena player
rudra veena player
?
?
Sahaji-saheb
862863
OEMI1778
Ramsahai Pande
Contemporary performer of folk dances
Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh
?
884
P06689
OEMI0024
Abhay Narayan Mallick
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist and teacher
1937
?
Amta,Bihar
9
OEMI1671
Radharani Mohapatra
vocalist
Odissi vocalist
Odissi
1934
0406
Cuttack,Orissa
Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar,Balakrishna Dash,Dhiren Das,Khitish Maitra
843
OEMI0501
Chokkanatha Naik
Ruler （r.1701-31） of Madurai, Tamil Nadu
?
?
244
OEMI1683
Raghunatha Nayak
Maharaja of Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu, who reigned during 1600-34
?
?
857
OEMI1416
Muthuswami Nattuvanar
Dance guru of Chennai
?
?
706
OEMI1566
Padmanabhan Nair(Kalamandalam)
Kathakali artiste,teacher
Kathakali
1925
Kuruvattur,Palakkad district,Kerala
Ravunni Menon(Pattikkamthodi)
780
OEMI0903
Jagannatha Bhutgoswami
Mayuuri veena player of Thanjavur,Tamli Nadu
450
OEMI0384
Bindhyabasini Devi
vocalist
Vocalist and teacher
1912
1102
Vishnupur, West Bengal
Surendranath Banerji
193
P00195
OEMI1627
Pithukuli Murugadas
Singer of south Indian bhajans
1920
Coimbatore, Taml Nadu
Brahmananda Paradesi
812
OEMI0038
Adiappayya(Pachhimiriyam)
composer
Composer of Karnatik music,and guru of Syaamaa Saastri
?
?
?
?
21
OEMI2257
Zahur Khan （Sikandarabad）
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
his father Imam Khan, Mehboob Khan and Natthan Khan
1158
P00166
OEMI1053
Keshav Lakshman Badge
Well-known performer of gondhal a folk play of Maharashtra
1941
Pune, Maharashtra
540
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
P00131
OEMI0270
Balasubrahmanya Sarma,M.S.
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1929
?
Rajahmundry,Andhra Pradesh
G.paidiswami
111
OEMI1640
Prasunkumar Banerji
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
Kolkata
1926
0815
?
Jamini Ganguly, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Jnan Prakash Ghosh
826
OEMI2150
Upanishad Brahma Yogi
musician
Musician-philosopher
Sri Lanka
?
?
Vaasudevendra
1103
P00026
OEMI0595
Doreswamt Iyengar, V.
veena player
Well-known veena player of Mysore
Mysore
1920
Mysore
his father, Venkatesa Iyengar
300
OEMI2227
Vrindavan Devacharya
composer
Poet-composer of devotional songs.
?
?
?
?
11401141
OEMI0473
Chhotibibi
tabla player
Mid-19th cent. female tabla player of the Lucknow durbar
Lucknow
?
?
Lucknow durbar
237
OEMI0620
Fakruddin
vocalist,
Vocalist of Ajmer,Rahasthan
Rahasthan
?
?
?
?
316317
OEMI0822
Hassan Imam
Dancer and teacher
1958
0701
Dhaka, Bangladesh
G.A. Mannan
418
OEMI1045
Kempegauda
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
Patnam Subrahmania Ayyar
538
OEMI1261
Mangi Singh,L.
sitar player
Sitar player
1929
?
Imphal,Manipur
Chandam Tarakanta Singh
639
OEMI1668
Radhabai
singer-actress
?
?
842
P01439
OEMI1750
Ramaratnam, V.
vocalist, teacher, author
Vocalist, teacher, and author
1917
Chittor, Andhra Pradesh
D. Subbaramayya, Palghat Someswara Bhagavator, Mysore Vasudevacher, T. Chowdiah
874875
OEMI1815
Rekibuddin Ahmed
singer of jikir (also zikr), a variety of Islamic devotional songs found in Assam.
1940
Balihat, Golaghat district, Assam
Ramizuddin Ahmed
899
OEMI1882
Sarangadeva
musicologist
musicologist, author
?
?
944945
OEMI1942
Shankar Vaze
Author of Marathi musical plays
?
?
966
OEMI2180
Vema Bhopala
Author and Komati king of Kondaveedu, Andhra
?
?
11201121
OEMI0488
Chinnayya （Tallapakam）
composer
Telugu composer of devotional music
devotional music
?
?
240241
OEMI0697
Girin Chakraborty
singer
Folk singer
folk
?
?
366
OEMI1676
Raghava Iyer (Coimbatore)
vocalist
vocalist
1826
Vadesseri,South Travancore,Kerala
?
Parameswara Bhagavatar,Chidambara Nattuvan
855
OEMI1313
Mira Khirwadkar
vocalist
Vocalist
1936
0706
Maharashtra
662
OEMI2214
Vishwanath Joshi
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
?
?
Krishnarao Pandit
1137
OEMI1160
Lakshmandas Sandhu
vocalist
Vocalist; peak years 1940s
?
?
his grandfather, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ali Bakhsh Zahur
589