Talk:Baul

message: I am not sure Bauls should be referred to as Hindus.
-ppm
The first song seems to me to be a Rabindra Sangeet.
--ppm 23:32, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
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message: dear sirs
I just would like invite you to check better the religious origin of Lalon Fakir. Actually I know that he was a hindu baul and then became muslim because an islamic family saved and guested him. This was remarkable, he was one of the few gurus with half muslim and half hindu followers.
Regards
Raimondo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.147.15.11  (talk • contribs) 
:True, but from what I know of him, he was a universalist ... not favoring any particular religion, but rather the whole humanity. His songs have this theme. --Ragib 16:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  lalon, hindu or muslim? 

message: After all, it is difficult to do justice to the Bauls in a short article.
With syncretism it is good to mention also that many rural movements are syncretist and that people in the area often follow a blend of Sufi and Hindu beliefs.  
There are many arguments that follow personal agenda - that they are purely Hindu, that they are not, that they are chiefly Sufi, that Sufis are not really Muslim...there is much controversy really and it is only by speaking with one source that an observer gets the idea there is one opinion!
...But...it is Capwell, not Chapwell.  Please do correct the source name.
And I think one of the sources listed(Jean Openshaw) would stress how it is difficult to determine if a song is 'baul' or not.  It is not so easy.  She writes extensively on this problem in her dissertation on Rejo Khepa.  Also it is difficult to identify a 'real baul' by appearance or instruments, as so many town boys 'dress up' for the melas and sing with great gusto in the patchwork coat made by 'Joy Guru Tailors, Bolpur', and because 'baul dress' is used by other groups too.  It is even difficult to define exactly what a 'real baul' believes, because there is so much diversity of belief.
I think a good treatment would include that it has always been a fluid and mercurial group, and that there are many different degrees of 'true baul', together with much controversy and debate.  
sujon  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slc2 (talk • contribs) 22:39, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  It is not SO bad.... 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Lalon big.jpg

message: The article has almost nothing about Lalon! There should some photos and more details about Lalon and the Lalon akhra in Kushtia! Kmzayeem (talk) 15:41, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos and details of Lalon 

message: The first line reads "The Baul (Bengali: বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal, which includes the Indian State of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh; they are completely extinct there now."
In the last part of the line 'there' is unclear: is it referring to all places mentioned before or only Bangladesh? In the text which follows it seems that in all the mentioned regions there are still Bauls and specific Baul events in these regions are referred to, so the phrase 'they are completely extinct there now' seems to be incorrect.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.104.124.209 (talk) 07:32, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear introductory line 

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message: Many articles start with a phonetic description of the pronunciation of the subject, and I think this one ought to as well . . . but I am not qualified to add it, neither as a Bengali speaker nor as a phoneticist.Nick Barnett (talk) 12:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation