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
P01441
OEMI0155
Annavarupa Ramaswamy
violinist
Violinist of the Karnatik style
1926
Somavarappadu, Andhra Pradesh
Maganti Jagannatha Chowdary, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu
65
P01070
OEMI0148
Anjanibai Lolekar
vocalist
Vocalist
Mumbai
1928
Goa
Agra
her brother Yashwantao Lolekar, husband R.L. Borkar, Anwar Hussain Khan
62
P00152
OEMI0798
Hare Krishna Behera
Exponent of dance and dance music
1938
Balasore area, Orissa
410
P02426
OEMI0266
Balakrishna Sastrigal,T.S.
Harikathaa performer
1918
0818
Chennnai
110
P01280
OEMI0735
Govind Narayan Natu
vocalist, teacher
Veteran teacher of vocal music at Bhatkhande College of Music, Lucknow
1905
0514
?
?
V.N.Bhatkhande, Raja-bhaiya Poonchwale
380
P02378
OEMI0048
Agat A. Sangma
vocalist, instrumentalist
Vocalist and instrumentalist
1945
?
Selbalgre,West Garo Hills,Meghalaya
23
P00377
OEMI0189
Ashesh Chandra Banerji
esraaj player
Well-known esraaj player and teacher
1920
1216
Vishnupur,Bankura district,Bengal
Vishnupur
82
P05853
OEMI0664
Gautam, M.R.
vocalist, teacher
Teacher, author, and vocalist
1924
0319
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
vocal music; Dilip Chandra Vedi, Vilayat Hussain Khan
350
P02120
OEMI0447
Chathunni Panikkar （Kavungal）
Kathakali artiste
1922
Thichoor village, Thrissur district, Kerala,1922
his granduncle Sankara Panikkar, K. M. Gopalan Nair
224
P02665
OEMI0193
Ashok Ranade
musicologist,vocalist
Musicologist,author,and vocalist
Mumbai
1937
1025
?
82
P06309
OEMI0285
Balwantrai Bhatt
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1921
?
Bhavnagar,Gujarat
Omkarnath Thakur
115
P01784
OEMI0613
Eknath Sarolkar
vocalist
Vocalist(mid-20th cent.)
?
?
?
?
Gwalior
311
P03011
OEMI0446
Charu Sija Mathur
Performer of Manipuri dance
1940
Delhi
R. K. Singhajit Singh
224
P02301
OEMI0570
Dharmiklal Pandya
Noted exponent of Gujarati aakhyaan
1932
0811
Baroda,Gujarat
his father Chunilal Govindram Pandya
285
OEMI1568
Padmavati Gokhale (Shaligram)
vocalist
vocalist
Mumbai
1929
Kolhapur,Maharashtra
Govindrao Shaligram,a pupil of Alladiya Khan
780
OEMI1302
Maula Bakhsh(Sarangi)
father of Allam Khan and Mohammad Khan
Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh
?
?
?
?
659
OEMI0761
Gurumurti Sastri （Paidala）
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer
?
?
Sonti Venkata Subbayya
392
OEMI1065
Khagendranath Das
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
1916
0908
Bilortarihat, Barpeta, Assam
his father Golok Chandra Das, paternal uncle Motilal Das, Bhatkhande College
543
OEMI1841
Sagolshem Kalidaman Singh
vocalist
vocalist
20
Imphal, Manipur
?
Y.Kartik Singh, Rajkumar Suryaboro Sana
911
P00136
OEMI0391
Birju Maharaj
Eminent Kathak dancer and guru of the Lucknow Kathak tradition
Delhi
1937
0204
Lucknow
Lachhu Maharaj
194
OEMI0704
Godavari
vocalist,
Vocalist and prolific disc-record artiste of 1900-10, in Telugu and Tamil
?
?
370
OEMI1207
Lokanath Ratha
vocalist
Noted Odissi vocalist
Odissi
1919
0901
Balisahi,Puri,Orissa
608
OEMI1431
Nagaridas
Devotional poet of Vrindavan
?
?
?
?
715
OEMI1843
Sahachari Sukh
composer
composer
?
?
911
OEMI2028
Srikantha
Author
Kathiawad(now in Gujarat)
?
?
?
?
1008
OEMI2155
Vadiraja
author of dance-dramas and songs
Hoovinakere, Kundapurtaluk, Karnataka
?
1107
OEMI1600
Parasu Sekh Ojha
singer.dancer
Marai village,Darrang district.Assam
?
798
OEMI0115
Amir Khan Gulab Sagar
Jaltarang player in the Baroda state Indian orchestra.
?
?
?
?
50
OEMI2082
Surendranath Mazumdar
vocalist
Vocalist （dhrupads and tap-khayaals） of Kolkata, a contemporary of Dwijendralal Roy （1863-1913）
khayaal,dhrupad
?
?
1036
OEMI1735
Ramachandra Sastri, H.
Noted flautist of the Karnatik style, and teacher
1906
1118
Thanjavur region, Tamil Nadu
maestro Palladam Sanjeeva Rao
871
P00228
OEMI2046
Suddhendra Narayan Singh Deo
dancer
Noted dancer of Chhau of the Seraikella tradition
1926
?
Seraikella,Bihar
1021
OEMI2196
Venugopala Krishna Sharma （Pasumarty）
Well-known performer of Kuuchipuudi dance-drama
1933
Kuchipudi village, Andhra Pradesh
Chinta Venkatarama Ayya and Vedantam Lakshmi Narayana Sastri
1123
OEMI1497
Narottamdas Thakur
composer
Vaishnava devotee and composer
Vaishnava saint-musician
0.1533
?
Kheturi,Bengal
?
?
731
OEMI1477
Narayanadeva Dvija
Seventeeth-century poet of Maanasaa Ojaapaali songs of Assam
?
?
728
OEMI1481
Narayanaswami Ayyar
vocalist
Vocalist 19th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI0460
Chhataki
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Wazir Khan
231
OEMI0590
Diwaliben Bhil
Noted singer of Gujarati folk songs
Gujarati folk songs
1943
0602
Dalkhauia, Amreli district, Gujarat
299
OEMI0791
Hamirji
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
?
?
404
OEMI1571
Pahad Singh
pakhaawaj player
pakhaawaj player
?
?
Jaawli
781
OEMI1659
Putli
vocalist
vovalist
?
?
834
OEMI1804
Rasikdev
poet-devotee
?
?
891892
OEMI1934
Shambhu Qavval
Qavvaali singer who usually sang with his brother Shankar （d. 1984）
?
?
964
P00203
OEMI2042
Subramaniam,L
violinist
Well-known violinist and composer
?
?
1012
OEMI2163
Vangamani
author
?
?
1113
OEMI1359
Mohan Chand Basu
composer
composer
?
?
?
?
682
OEMI0805
Hari Prasad Bandopadhya
Singer-actor of the 1900s
Kolkata
?
?
411
OEMI0389
Birchandra Manikya
patron,
King of Tripura, poet and a great patron of music and alied arts
?
?
194
P00150
OEMI0731
Gopi （Kalamandalam）
Kathakali exponent and guru
1937
Kothachira village, Palakkad district, Kerala
376
OEMI1731
Rama Poduval N.P.
vocalist
Veteran singer of sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
sopaana sangeetam of Kerala temples
Alanalloor, Kerala
his father Sankunni Poduval, famous Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
870871
OEMI0278
Balkrishna-bua(Bade)
vocalist
Well-known vocalist 19th-cent
?
?
?
?
112113
OEMI0482
Chinna Pakkiri
Celebrated naagasrwaram player of early 20th cent.
?
?
240
OEMI0703
Giriyappagaru
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu and Sanskrit
Telugu devotional songs
?
?
368
OEMI1290
Marris,W.S.
Governor of the United Provinces in the 1920s in British India
?
?
?
?
652
OEMI1625
Pitambara Dvija
Singer and poet of Assam
?
?
812
OEMI2032
Srinivasulu
composer
Composer
Tamil nadu
?
?
?
?
1009
OEMI1860
Samina Choudhuri
singer
1966
0824
Khulna, Bangladesh
923
OEMI1126
Kulatillake,C.de S.
musicologist
musicologist
1926
1214
Ambalangoda,Sri Lanka
577578
OEMI1197
Latif Khan
vocalist,
Vocalist of the Agra tradition
1875
?
Agra Uttar Pradesh
Agra
Pyar Khan
604
P00699
OEMI0690
Ghulam Sabir Khan
saarangi player
Noted saarangi player
Moradabad
?
his father Hussain Bakhsh
363
OEMI1301
Maujuddin Khan
vocalist
Eminent vocalist
?
?
?
?
658659
OEMI2076
Suraj Khan
vocalist
Sixteenth-century vocalist
?
?
1034
P00692
OEMI0681
Ghulam Hussain Khan
vocalist
Vocalist of the late 19th cent
?
?
Khurjaa gharaanaa
his father Imam Khan
361
OEMI1259
Mangal Khan
sitar player
Sitar player
?
?
?
?
638
P00204
OEMI2272
Maman Khan
Recipient of the Central Sangeeet Natak Akademi award in 2000 for folk music of Haryana
folk music of Haryana
1945
Hissar, Haryana
his grandfather Peer Mauj Khan and father Munshi Khan
633
P00220
OEMI1936
Shamim Ahmad Khan
sitar player
Well-known sitar player
1938
Baroda
the Agra sharaanaa
maestro Ravi Shankar
965
OEMI0099
Amara Simha
patron,
Patron and playwright
?
?
?
?
?
46
OEMI0179
Asad Ali Khan(Agra)
vocalist
Vocalist
?
?
Agra
his family
78
OEMI0915
Janaki Ballabh Mohanty
Oriya literatteur whose works include collections of lyrical poetry and songs
1925
0614
Puridistrict,Orissa
461
OEMI0051
Ahmad Bakhsh
vocalist
Vocalist
Jodhpur
?
?
?
?
27
OEMI0591
Dodda Subba Rao
veena player
Veena maestro of the durbar of Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV （r.1895-1940）
Mysore
?
?
299300
OEMI0950
Jodh Singh
Eminent 19th-cent. pakhaawaj player
?
?
his father Tikaram
483
OEMI0974
Kader Bakhsh （Pakhawaj）
Scion of an early （18th cent.） pakhaawaj gharaanaa
?
?
pakhaawaj gharaanaa
Laalaa Bhavaanidaas
494
OEMI1306
Maya Lambo(Bhai)
vocalist, sabad keertan
Vocalist and leader of a group of sabad keertan singers
?
?
?
?
660
OEMI1619
Perumalayya （Mahipalai）
veena player,composer
Veena player and composer in the durbar of Thanjavur king Sarabhoji I （r.1712-28）
?
?
Kalahastayya（veena）
808
P02635
OEMI0983
Kalanidhi Narayanan
Bharata Naatyam teacher and danseuse
1927
Tamil Nadu
Mylapore Gowri Amma, Kanchipuram Kannappa Pillai, Chinnayya Naidu
500
OEMI1543
Nitai Charan Sinha
vocalist
Vocalist
1916
02??
Cuttack, Orissa
his maternal uncle Gopal Charan Gosh, few teachers
764
P00237
OEMI1747
Ramankutty Nair （Kalamandalam）
Kathakali performer and guru
1925
Palakkad district, Kerala
Ravunni Menon
874
OEMI0687
Ghulam Rasol （Jodhpur）
vocalist
Vocalist of the durbar of Maharaja Takhat Singh of Jodhpur
Jodhpur
Lahore
?
362
OEMI1742
Raman, Lakshmanan, B.V.
vocalist,
Vocalist duo, twins
1921
Gooty, Andhra Pradesh
873
OEMI0340
Bhaktabatsala Patra
udra veena player
Performer of rudra veena and mardal
1930
0919
Ganjam, Orissa
Byachanna Narasingham
155
OEMI0778
Haidar Khan （Dagar）
vocalist,
Vocalist, son of Imam Bakhsh
?
?
400
OEMI1465
Narayan Moreshwar Khare
vocalist, teacher
Vocalist and teacher
?
?
726
OEMI2254
Zahur Khan(Dhurupad)
He probably belonged to the early dhrupad veterans of Atrauli some of whom migrated to Rajasthan
0.174
?
Atrauli
?
?
1157
P00226
OEMI2020
Sonam Tsersing Lepcha
Recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 in the category of folk music.
1928
0103
Sikkim
993
OEMI0131
Anandadasa
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist of Kannanda javalis and performer of Harikatha
Kannanda javalis
56
OEMI0408
Brhat Kasyapa
Quoted as an author
?
?
?
?
201
P00144
OEMI0579
Dhruba Ghosh
saarangi player
Well-known saarangi player
1957
1025
Mumbai
Delhi
290
P00033
OEMI0715
Gopal Krishna
Noted vichitra veena player
Delhi
his father Nand Kishore, Khubchand Brahmchari
372
OEMI0851
Ibomcha Sharma
Veteran teacher of Manipuri nata sankeertana
Manipuri nata sankeertana
Manipur
1897
0101
Imphal, Manipur
?
Chongtham Chaoba, Nongmaithem Kanhai Singh, Laisram Mangaljao Singh, Thokcho Angou Singh, Loitam Jhulon
438
OEMI1211
Madanapala
A prince of Andhra, author of Ananda Sanjeevan
?
?
?
?
611
OEMI1436
Najukjan
vocalist
vocalist
?
?
?
?
717
OEMI1646
Prem Singh
Singer of Sikh devotional hhymns
?
?
827
OEMI2034
Subashi
Singer-actress of early 20th cent
Kolkata
?
?
?
?
1010
OEMI2156
Vadyanadha Iyer
singer
disc-record singer of south India
?
?
1107
OEMI1142
Kushaba Nana Bhide
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
?
?
581
P02712
OEMI1678
Raghunath Dutta
Odissi dancer,choreographer,teacher
1933
0201
Masundapur village,Cuttack district,Orissa
Pankaj Charan Das,Gurudayal Sharan,Kelucharan Mahapatra
856
OEMI0277
Balkrishna Dhamanaskar
Author of 19th-cent
?
?
?
?
112
OEMI2134
Tourangbam Nadia Singh
Performer of Manipuri dance
1923
1015
Imphal, Manipur
Maisnam Amubi Singh, Haobam Atomba Singh, Takhelchangbam Amudon Sharma
1088
OEMI1287
Mansukhram Nayak
vocalist,musician
Vocalist, chief musician
?
?
?
?
645
OEMI0987
Kale Khan （Lahore）
Singer of light classical varieties such as daadraa and qavvaali
?
?
503

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