Seeking Bauls of Bengal
Publisher: Foundation Books
Published: May 30, 2005
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9788175962057
Subjects: Social classes; Bangladesh; India
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.