The Baul tradition of Bengal is generally approached through the categories of mysticism, humanism, anti-caste thought, religious syncretism, and spiritual liberation. Yet Baul songs also contain a significant ecological imagination in which the human body, soil, plants, animals, rivers, rain, and the wider natural world are understood as interconnected forms of existence. This paper examines...
Bengal has a glorious and long-standing lineage of folk traditions.Amongst them, Baul tradition stands at the acme of the indigenous hierarchy of Bengal (both East and West Bengal).Baul tradition is exclusively an amalgamation of various distinctive religious traditions including Sufi mysticism, Sahajiya Buddhism, and Tantric philosophies.Baul practices historically resisted the established...