Seeking Bauls of Bengal (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521811255
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Religion - World Religions; Hinduism; Social Science; Religion; India; South East Asia; Anthropology - General; Hinduism - General; Bauls--India; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Bauls; Bangladesh
First sentence: In this chapter the evolution of different perceptions of Bauls is considered from an historical point of view; in particular, the advent of variously inflected, idealised, 'gentry' (bhadralok) images of 'the Baul' from the nineteenth century, which is when the word baul began to emerge in the sources as the name of a class, group, tradition (sampraday) or even sect.