Seeking Bauls of Bengal

Bauls have achieved fame as wandering minstrels and mystics in India and Bangladesh. They are recruited from Hindu and Muslim communities and renowned for their beautiful songs. Using fieldwork and oral and written texts, Jeanne Openshaw analyzes the rise of the Bauls to their present revered status, traversing from the conventional historical and textual approaches towards an ethnographic study of their world, where love and the body are valued and women extolled above men. Her approach is challenging and sympathetic to this spiritual and creative people.

Author: Jeanne Openshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/30/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521811255

About the Author
Openshaw, Jeanne: - Jeanne Openshaw is lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh.