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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Vishwanath-bua Jadhav
OEMI2216
1137
1888
1964
19-20
Hupri
?
vocalist
vocalist
Dattopant Jambhekar
Gauharjan (Jaipur)
OEMI0659
344
1894
1964
05??
19-20
Jaipur, Rajasthan
?
vocalist
Vocalist
family
P00187
Mushtaq Hussain Khan
?
OEMI1403
699
1880
1964
?
19-20
Sahaswan,Uttar Pradesh
Delhi
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
Kallan Khan, Puttan Khan,Haidar Khan and Inayat Hussain Khan
Lakshmibai Jadhav
OEMI1164
590
1964
0311
20
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Kolhapur
vocalist
Noted vocalist
Haidar Khan
Shanta Apte
1123
OEMI1948
967968
1923
1964
02??
20
?
Mumbai
Well-known singer-actress of Hindi and Marathi films, remembered for her singing roles in 'Duniyaa na Maane' (Hin, 1937) and such other films
Nabani Das
?
OEMI1426
711
1964
?
20
?
?
Singer of baaul
Parvatiprasad Baruah
OEMI1606
800
1904
1964
20
Sibsagar district,Assam
?
composer
singer,composer
Vaman-bua Chaphekar
OEMI2160
1112
1879
1964
19-20
Miraj, Maharashtra
?
vocalist
vocalist
Balkrishna-bua
P00145
Dwaram Venkaraswamy Naidu
11??
OEMI0606
306307
1893
1964
1125
19-20
Bangalore, Karnataka
Hyderabad, Andhra
violinist
Eminent violinist
his brother, Venkata Krishnayya Naidu
P06115
Altaf Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0093
44
?
0.1878
1964
?
No
19-20
Khurja, near Delhi
Delhi
vocalist
Noted vocalist of the Khurjaa gharaanaa
Khurjaa
Venkatesa Devaru
OEMI2192
1123
Mysore
1908
1963
20
Tirupadi Puliyar, near Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
?
Noted mridangam player of the Mysore durbar of Maharaja Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar (r.1895-1940)
his well-known father Muthuswami Tewar
Ahmad Hussain Khan
?
OEMI0053
27
Lucknow
1887
1963
1123
19-20
Thakurganj, Lucknou
Lucknow
vocalist
Dhrupad singer and teacher at Bhatkhande College of Music
dhrupad
Dhirendranath Bhattacharya
0409
OEMI0574
287
1891
1963
?
19-20
Bengal
?
vocalist
Vocalist
Bade Sabri Khan
OEMI0240
98
1962
20
?
Lahore
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Amir Bakhsh
?
OEMI0109
48
1882
1962
?
19-20
?
Mumbai
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Jhajjar
P00192
Palladam Sanjiva Rao
1018
OEMI1577
784
1882
1962
19-20
Palladam,Coimbatore district,Tamil Nadu
?
flute player
flute player
Karnatik
P06087
Yusuf Ali Khan
?
OEMI2250
11551156
0.1887
1962
1014
19-20
Lucknow
?
sitar player
Reputed sitar exponent
Azam Khan Kalpiwale and Abdul Ghani Khan
Ananda Samarakon
0113
OEMI0129
56
1911
1962
0405
20
Vatarakka Liyanvala, Padukka, Colombo district, Sri Lanka
?
composer
Noted composer of light music, and creator of Sri Lanka's national anthem
light music
Janardhan Pethe
OEMI0917
462
1912
1962
0328
20
Maharashtra
Kolkata
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Vilayat Hussain Khan
OEMI2204
11281129
Mumbai
1895
1962
0524
19-20
Agra
Delhi
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist of the Agra gharaanaa
Ghulam Abbas and Tasadduk Hussain
Dasganu
?
OEMI0526
258
1868
1962
?
19-20
?
?
Poet and singer of Marathi keertans
P00105
Ghulam Sabir Khan (Bade)
OEMI0691
363
1962
20
?
?
Saarangi maestro
Patiaalaa gharaanaa
It is not known
Dhirendranath Das
0804
OEMI0576
287
1904
1961
1125
20
Kolkata
?
Noted singer-actor and music director of the Bengal stage
Subba Ayyar(Chattapuram)
1227
OEMI2035
1010
1894
1961
0617
19-20
Palghat district,Kerala
?
Mridangam player and teacher
Swaminatha Pillai, T.N.
OEMI2092
1042
1900
1961
20
Tirupamburam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
performer of the flute
Nataraja Sundaram Pillai
P00189
Mysore Vasudevachar
?
OEMI1425
710
0.1865
1961
?
19-20
Mysore
?
vocalist,composer
Well-known vocalist and composer
Indira Devi Chowdhurani
1229
OEMI0876
443
1873
1960
0812
19-20
?
?
Music educator and writer from poet Rabindranath Tagore's family
Jigar Moradabadi
OEMI0939
479
1890
1960
0909
19-20
Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh
Gonda,Uttar Pradesh
poet
Urdu poet,known for his ghazals
ghazals
Jap(Jacob),Kunst
0812
OEMI0887
446
1891
1960
1207
19-20
Groningen,Netherlands
Amsterdam
Ethnomusicologist
Anandiram Das
OEMI0132
57
1909
1960
20
?
?
Assamese song writer
Muthukumara Pillai
1027
OEMI1412
704
1874
1960
0822
19-20
Kattumannar Koil, near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu
Kattumannar Koil
dancer
Well-known dancer and guru of Bharata Naatyam
Bharata Naatyam
Pannalal Ghosh
0724
OEMI1590
794
1911
1960
0420
20
Barisal[now in Bangladesh]
Delhi
flute maestro
Bade Ramdas Mishra
0123
OEMI0239
9798
Benares
1887
1960
0111
19-20
?
?
vocalist
Reputes vocalist of Benares
his vocalist father Shiv Nandan, Shiv Sahai, Jaikaran Mishra
Mehdi Hussain Khan
OEMI2277
666667
1884
1960
19-20
Rampur
Kolkata
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
his illustrious father, Buniyad Hussain Khan. Mitthu Khan,
P06015
Rajab Ali Khan
0903
OEMI1699
861862
1874
1959
0108
19-20
Narsinghar,Madhya Pradesh
?
vocalist
vocalist
Mughlu Khan
Curt Sachs
0129
OEMI0510
248
1881
1959
0205
19-20
Berlin
New York
musicologist
Well-known musicologist and author of works on instruments
Ramkrishna Parvatkar
OEMI1769
880
1959
0214
20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and tabla player
his father Khapru-mama Parvatkar, Ahmedjan Thirakwa[tabla], Bashir Khan, Ratnakant Ramnathkar [vocal]
Khadim Hussain Khan (Sarangi)
OEMI1063
542543
1959
20
?
?
saarangi player
Saarangi player
Narayana Iyengar, K.S.
OEMI1472
727
0.1905
1959
0111
20
Bhootapandi, Tamil Nadu
Bangalore
gottu vaadyam player
Veteran of the string instrument, gottu vaadyam
Kodaganallur Subbayya Bhagavatar, Sakharama Rao
Tyagaraja Bhagavatar, M.K.
0301
OEMI2141
1099
1910
1959
1101
20
Mayavaram, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
singer-actor
Famous singer-actor of Tamil films of the pre-1950s
the Alathur Brothers, Papanasam Sivan, and Vaithikulam Swamigal
Tamil films
Hari Nagabhoshanam
1224
OEMI0804
411
1884
1959
0907
19-20
Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh
?
violinist
Well-known violinist
Edwin Samaradivakara
0622
OEMI0609
309
1916
1959
1008
20
Katna, Sri Lanka
?
composer
Sri Lankan instrumentalist and composer
P06662
Anokhelal Mishra
OEMI0157
66
1914
1958
0310
No
20
Benares
?
tabla player
Noted tabla player
Bhairav Prasad Mishra of Benares
Govindrao Apte
OEMI0746
382
1958
1008
20
?
?
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
Narayan Prasad
OEMI1468
726
1908
1958
0912
20
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Jaipur
Kathak dancer
P02049
Govindrao Burhanpurkar
OEMI0747
382
1880
1957
No
19-20
Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh
?
Distinguished pakhaawaj exponent
Rama Bhagavatar
1015
OEMI1728
870
1888
1957
19-20
?
?
vocalist,
Vocalist of Karnatik music
Saloman Shalom Aptekar
OEMI1856
918
1863
1957
No
19-20
Mumbai
Mumbai
author of keertan-aakhyaans and musical plays in Marathi on Jewish devotional themes
Brajendra Kishore Roy Choudhuri
0421
OEMI0406
201
1874
1957
10??
19-20
Balihari,Rajsahi district,Bangladesh
?
patron,
Patron of Gouripur(now in Bangladesh)
P00236
Rajaratnam Pillai, T.N.
0827
OEMI1709
864865
1898
1956
1212
19-20
Thirumarugal, Tamil Nadu
Chennai
naagaswaram player
Wizard of naagaswaram
Raja-bhaiyya Pochwale
0812
OEMI1701
863
1882
1956
0401
19-20
Gwalior
?
vocalist, teacher
vocalist,teacher
Waman-bua, Lala-bua
Jitendranath Bhattacharya
OEMI0942
480
Bengal
1877
1956
19-20
Ranaghat,Bengal
Kolkata
sitar player
Veteran of sitar in Bengal
his father
Chintoba Gurav
1122
OEMI0493
241
1874
1956
0403
19-20
?
?
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
Gami Khan
OEMI0648
327
1882
1956
06??
19-20
Delhi
Lahore, Pakistan
tabla player
Reputed tabla exponent of the Delhi gharaanaa
Delhi gharaanaa
his father, Chhote Kale Khan
Shankarrao Vyas
0123
OEMI1946
966
1898
1956
1218
19-20
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Mumbai
vocalist, teacher, music director
Vocalist, teacher, and music director of films, mainly in the 1940s
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Shankarrao
films
Chandan Chaube
OEMI0431
215
1870
1955
19-20
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Vaishnava devotional music
Amba Shankar, Bauli-baba
Vaishnava devotional music
Paluskar,D.V.
0518
OEMI1579
785786
1921
1955
1025
20
Kurundwad,Maharashtra
Mumbai
vocalist
vocalist
Vishnu Digambar and Chintamanrao Paluskar.
Sankaran Nambotirippad
OEMI1874
940
1955
20
Ambalapuzha town, Alapuzha district, Kerala
?
Kathakali artiste and guru
Govindrao Tembe
0705
OEMI0749
383
1881
1955
0529
19-20
Sangavade Maharashtra
Delhi
Noted music director of the Marathi stage and harmonium wizard
P06119
Bundu Khan
?
OEMI0415
204205
1880
1955
0113
19-20
Delhi
Karachi
saarangi player
Celebrated saarangi player
Sangi Khan and maternal uncle Mamman Khan
Sakhawat Hussain Khan
OEMI1853
916
1877
1955
07??
19-20
Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
sarod player
Safayet Hussain Khan, Asadullah Khan, Karamatullah Khan
Bapurao Ketkar
?
OEMI0302
121
1898
1954
1129
19-20
Ramdurg, Maharashtra
Pune, Maharashtra
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage and teacher
his father Laxmanrao, Bhaskar-bua Bakhle
Mani Embrantiri
?
OEMI1264
639
1885
1954
?
19-20
Tchilakodu village,Manjeswaram,South Karnataka
Aluva
Singer of Kathakali music
Shanti Vardhan
OEMI1949
968
1916
1954
0903
20
Comilla, Bangladesh
?
Choreographer and dancer of Manipuri
Rahimat Khan
OEMI1690
858
1863
1954
19-20
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Dharwad,Karnataka
sitar player
sitar player
Ghulam Hussain Khan
Kabiram Sarma
OEMI0971
493
1864
1954
19-20
Saruthekerabari, Darrang district, Assam
Saruthekerabari
Singer of Vyaasa Ojaapaali of Assam
Bhabiram Sarma,
Aman Ali Khan (Mumbai)
?
OEMI0096
4546
?
1888
1953
0211
19-20
Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist and teacher of the Bhendi Bazaar gharaanaa
Bhendi Bazaar
Suresh-babu Mane
OEMI2085
10361037
1902
1953
0215
20
?
Miraj, Maharashtra
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father Abdul Karim Khan, mother Tarabai Barodekar, and an uncle Abdul Wahid Khan
Sundarabai Jadhav
OEMI2069
1030
0.1886
1953
0603
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Noted vocalist, especially of light classical varieties
Thakurdas-bua, Ghulam Rasool Khan, and Gamman Khan
Khapru-mama Parvatkar
OEMI1071
547
1880
1953
0903
19-20
Parvat village, Goa
Parvat village
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
his father Raghuvir-mama
Gopalrao Joshi
OEMI0729
376
1897
1953
19-20
Pimpalgaon, Nashik district, Maharashtra
Nashik town
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
Abdul Karim Khan, V.N.Bhatkhande, V.D.Paluskar
Dhirendranath Bose
?
OEMI0575
287
1878
1953
?
19-20
Bengal
Kolkata
Sarod player and teacher
Asadulla Khan and Karamatulla Khan
Mohammad Ghous
OEMI1347
679
1910
1953
0321
20
Bangalore
Sri Lanka
music director
Abdul Satar,Zande Khan
Ghanshyamlal Goswami
OEMI0671
355
1876
1953
19-20
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
?
Performer of the pakhaawaj and harmonium
Jyotiprasad Agarwala
0617
OEMI0967
490
Assam
1903
1953
20
Tamolbari Tea Estate, Dibrugarh district, Assam
Tezpur
musician
Well-known Assamese musician and pioneer of the cinema and modern deama in Assam
his father Paramananda Agarwala and uncle Gopal Chandra
he cinema and modern deama in Assam
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai(Pandanallur)
0922
OEMI1310
662
1869
1952
10??
19-20
Pandanallur,near Kumbhakonam,Tamil Nadu
?
dancer
Well-known exponent of Bharata Naatyam
Bharata Naatyam
Sawai Gandharva
01??
OEMI1901
957958
1886
1952
0912
19-20
Kundgol, Dharwar, Karnataka
Pune, Maharashtra
singer-actor,vocalist
Eminent vocalist and actor-singer of the Marathi stage
Balwantrao Kolhatkar, Abdul Karim Khan
Marathi satge
Bangalore Nagarathammal
1103
OEMI0297
119
Mysore
1878
1952
0519
19-20
Mysore
Tiruvaiyar, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
vocalist
Well-known vocalist and dance exponent of the Mysore durbar
Sadashiv Narayan Thosar
OEMI1834
908
1882
1952
0317
19-20
?
?
writer
writer
Nagaswami Bhagavatar
?
OEMI1433
715
1894
1952
?
19-20
Madurai,Tamil Nadu
?
vocalist,
Vocalist and performer of Kathaa Kaalaksheepam
Hasrat Mohani
OEMI0821
418
1880
1951
0513
19-20
Mohan, Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
poet
Urdu poet
Hirabai Pednekar
OEMI0839
432
1885
1951
19-20
Nashik, Maharashtra
?
music deirector
The first woman Marathi playwright and also the first woman music deirector of the Marathi stage
Marathi stage
Parvat Singh(Chhote)
OEMI1605
800
1876
1951
0718
19-20
Gwalior
?
pakhaawaj player
Venkatagiriyappa
0426
OEMI2188
1122
Mysore
1887
1951
19-20
Heggadedevana Kote village, near Mysore
?
veena player
Veena maestro of the Mysore durbar
his maternal grandmother Dodda Subbarao, maternal uncle Chikka Subbarao
Makhanji Pakhawaji
OEMI1244
623
1876
1951
19-20
Mathura Uttar Pradesh
Mathura
pakhaawaj player
Madan Mohan,Gangaram,Bhawani Shankar
Khurshed Ali Khan
OEMI1076
555
1852
1950
19-20
?
Lucknow
vocalist
Distinguished vocalist of the Lucknow gharaanaa
the Lucknow gharaanaa
Muthayya Pillai (Pazhani)
OEMI1410
704
1950
20
?
?
Mridangam player
'Tiger'Varadachariar
0801
OEMI2126
1079
1876
1950
0131
19-20
Kolathur,Tamil Nadu
Chennai
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
Appadurai Iyer and his son Ramachandran
Sosale Ramadas
?
OEMI2024
995
1890
1950
?
19-20
Sosale,Mysore district,Karnataka
Mysore
Harikathaa exponent and kanjiraa player
P00645
Faiyaz Khan
0208
OEMI0617
315316
1881
1950
1105
No
19-20
Agra
Baroda
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist
Agra
Sinde Khan
OEMI1989
978979
1885
1950
0617
19-20
?
Mumbai
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Amir Khan
Eknath Pandit
?
OEMI0612
310311
1866
1950
0430
19-20
Gwalior
?
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
P06562
Barkat Ali Khan
OEMI0306
123
1950
No
20
Patiala, Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan
vocalist
Vocalist
his father Ali Bakhsh Kasurwale, his uncle Kale Khan
Lakshmanan Pillai, T.
0503
OEMI1159
589
1864
1950
19-20
Tamil Nadu
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
composer
Noted composer of Tamil songs
Tamil song
Hamid Hussain Khan
OEMI0788
401
1950
?
Lucknow
sitar player
Noted sitar player and teacher
his father Tullan Khan, uncle Turab (or Turav) Khan
Gagan Chandra Chatterji
?
OEMI0639
323
1890
1949
1226
19-20
Allahabad
?
violinist
Noted violinist
Tarabai Shirodkar
?
OEMI2105
1065
1889
1949
0706
Shiroda,Goa
?
Noted khyaal singer
Agra
Ramkrishnabua Vaze,Bhasker-bua Bakhle,and Natthan Khan of Agra
Bikku Maharaj
?
OEMI0374
188
Benares
1863
1949
?
19-20
?
?
tabla player
Eminent tabla player of Benares
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅱ
0903
OEMI1309
662
1894
1949
0213
19-20
Needamangalam,Tamil Nadu
?
tavil player
Tavil player
Singaram Pillai and Govinda Pillai
Bhurji Khan
0505
OEMI0371
184
1890
1949
0506
19-20
Jaipur area
Mumbai
vocalist
Khayaal singer and teacher
Jaipur-Atraauli
Alladiya Khan and Haidar Khan
khayaal

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