Seeking Bauls of Bengal'Bauls' have achieved fame as wandering minstrels and mystics in India and Bangladesh. They are recruited from Hindu and Muslim communities and renowned for their beautiful songs. Using her fieldwork and oral and written texts, the author analyses the rise of Bauls to their present revered status, leading the reader from the conventional historical and textual approaches towards a world defined by Bauls, where love and the body are primary and where women are extolled above men. Hers is a challenging and sympathetic approach to a spiritual and creative people. |
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Contents
Rabindranath Tagore as a Baul toriginal in Rabindra Bharati | 1 |
Background literature on Bauls and Baul songs | 19 |
A portrayal of a Baul on a literary magazine cover tDest | 43 |
Mani Gosai a disciple of Raj | 49 |
In search of Bauls | 73 |
householder and renouncer | 125 |
the guru | 140 |
love and women | 169 |
images the T and bartamdn | 183 |
Practice sddhand and talking about practice harikatha | 203 |
Conclusion | 240 |
Glossary | 253 |
| 262 | |
| 280 | |
| 287 | |
Common terms and phrases
amateur Baul anuman ashram associated Bagri bartaman bartaman-panthis bastu Baul songs bhadralok Bhattacarya Birbhum body brahma Brahmin Caitanya called Baul caste characterised concerned connection connotations context contrast conventional diksa disciples emphasis esoteric practice especially essence example Fakirs female partner fieldwork four moons guru Hindu Hindu and Muslim householder human idea identified identity initiation Islamic Jat Vaishnava Kartabhajas Krishnapur Krsna Lalan lineage male and female maner manus mantra manus matter mdnus means menstrual fluids Muslim Nadia Nadia District notion one's Openshaw opposed opposition orthodox path perceptions of Bauls practitioners prakrti pratyaksa Radha Raj Khyapa Raj's Rajesvar Rarh refers renouncer renunciation S. B. Dasgupta sadhana Sahajiya sampraddy Santiniketan scholars sect semen seminal sense sexual Shakta siksa siksa-guru siksd society sources structures substance Tagore Tagorean take bhek Tantric tend tradition transliterated Bengali text usually Vaishnava West Bengal woman women word baul worship
Bibliographic information
| Title | Seeking Bauls of Bengal Volume 60 of New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Issue 60 of University of Cambridge Oriental Publications |
| Author | Jeanne Openshaw |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0521811252, 9780521811255 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › Music / Religious / General Religion / General Religion / Hinduism / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Regional Studies |
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