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...Rajeshwari Datta Abstract The socio-religious songs composed in village Bengal by the adherents of the mystical sect known as the Bāuls are of great interest to students of folk music and poetry, but they are of no less interest to a student of the history of the religions of Bengal. In his songs...

...Antoinette E. DeNapoli Drawing on the work of Wynne Maggi, Saba Mahmood, and Sadaf Ahmad, Knight's book concludes by explaining that Baul women's constructive projects, though engaged in the goal of liberation, are not “centrally concerned with women's equality” (p. 182). Baul women share Baul...

...Carol Salomon The Bauls of Bangladesh: A Study of an Obscure Cult . By Anwarul Karim . Kushtia, Bangladesh : Lalan Academy , 1980 . viii , 208 pp. List of Composers of Baul Songs, Bibliography. Tk. 35. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Charles H. Capwell Abstract Among their fellow Bengalis, the Bauls, who constitute a religious sect, are esteemed because their iconoclasm, disregard of caste, and merger of Hindu and Islamic traditions gives them an enviable freedom to confront life as individuals outside the prevailing social...

...Edward O. Henry Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 The Music of the Bauls of Bengal . By Charles Capwell . Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press , 1986 . x, 242 pp. Appendixes, Tables, Index. $32.50. 424 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES by many...

... of Rabindranath, to reach us across cultural barriers which in many other ways seem insurmountable. Rabindranath Tagore-"The Greatest of The Bauls of Bengal"1 EDWARD C. DIMOCK, JR. w HEN Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 and was thereby rocketed into international prominence...

... Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 638 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES B.S. {1959 which is the most authoritative work on the Bauls to date. Karim, however, stops short of calling the Bauls tantrics. Bhattacharya contends that the basis of the cult is Buddhist and Vaisnava Sahajlya; in Karim's view it is Sufism. He...

.... “ Rallying round the Subaltern .” Journal of Peasant Studies 16, no. 1: 310 –20. Bhattacharya Bhaskar . 1993 . The Path of the Mystic Lover: Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy . Rochester : Destiny Books . Bhattacharya Deben . 1969 . Songs of the Bards of Bengal . New York : Grove...

... Westbury The Music of the Bauls of Bengal. By CHARLES CAPWELL. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1986. x, 242 pp. Appendixes, Tables, Index. $32.50. In addition to thirty-four transliterated and translated song texts, the musical transcription of one complete song and many excerpts...

... of Warwick The Bauls of Bangladesh: A Study of an Obscure Cult. By ANWARUL KARIM. Kushtia, Bangladesh: Lalan Academy, 1980. viii, 208 pp. List of Composers of Baul Songs, Bibliography. Tk. 35. Anwarul Karim, an anthropologist and honorary director of the Lalan Academy in Kushtia, Bangladesh, has had...

... arrived much earlier, in the 1890s itself. 6 Throughout this essay, I have referred to Bāul as a genre in italics ( Bāul ) and Bāul as a tune and as an individual singer in the standard form (Bāul). The word is used in all three senses in the local vernacular. 5 See Guha's ( 2002...

... asserts that Rabindranath Tagore's conception of moner mdnus, literally, the "man of the heart," or in Tagore's terms, the "infinite within my own humanity," neglected the Baul's own interpretation: "Moner mdnus. . . alludes to the eternal substance of the universe which takes a volatile, physical form...

... the development of Vinaya and the early history of Buddhist thought are considerably diminished. The Esoteric Belief of the Bauls of Bengal. BY CHARLES H. CAPWELL. Pages 255-264. Among their fellow Bengalis, the Bauls, who constitute a religious sect, are esteemed because their traditions give them an enviable...

... the music of the Bauls. expression and the Brahma Samaj religious Though research on the music of the Baul movement of the nineteenth and earlier twen- brotherhood is growing (see Charles H. Cap- tieth centuries are as precisely drawn as the well's "The Esoteric Beliefs of the Bauls of examples from...

... with written texts (Urdu ghazal, Bengali Baul songs, Telugu court drama, Kerala's Rdmdyana puppet theater). Noteworthy in this collection are the essays on Muslim communities of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, as well as the attention given to the voices of women. The masterful introduction...

... on Islamic themes; more folk and Baul literature; and romantic narrative poems such as Laila-Majnun. The bibliographic style is not consistent. Some entries do not even include facts of publication, while others include brief annotations. The apparatus is poor: the table of contents and appendixes...

... resembles Bengali Baul songs, both of which draw heavily upon Tantric physiognomy and philosophy. If McLean is right on the importance of Tantra in Ramprasad's poetry and I think he is then it is ironic that Ramprasad's presentday interpreters emphasize the devotional over the Tantric strains in his poems...

... interesting article "Rabindranath Tagore 'The Greatest of the Bauls of Bengal' " in theJAS, xix, 1959, pp. 33-51 and Stephen N. Hay's very thoroughgoing research Asian Ideas ofEast and West, Harvard Univ. Press, 1970). As a poet, however, he has been in effect lost to the wider English-speaking audience, much...

... to descriptive catalogues of manuscripts, including Jatindra Mohan Bhattacharya's monumental Bdmld Puthir Tdlikd Samanvaya, would be helpful. Future editions would be improved by the inclusion of articles; social novels and short stories on Islamic themes; more folk and Baul literature; and romantic narrative...

... Dhold and Gopichand, women's songs in Tulu, Chattisgarhi, and Tamil), while the remainder examine performance traditions associated with written texts (Urdu ghazal, Bengali Baul songs, Telugu court drama, Kerala's Rdmdyana puppet theater). Noteworthy in this collection are the essays on Muslim...