Renowned as wandering minstrels and mystics from India and Bangladesh, Bauls have attained iconic status as representatives of the 'spiritual East'. Studies on their beautiful and enigmatic songs, however, rarely relate to their social and historical contexts, or to the lives of individual composers. Focusing on the early twentieth-century autobiography of a guru and composer, Raj Krishna, this book brings forth his 'many selves' as well as Baul ...
