"As will become clear, authorities on Bāuls agree on very little, and several contradictory images persist. While the passage cited accurately reflects the perceptions of some Bengalis, virtually all Dimock’s assertions would be contradicted by one or other specialist in this topic. Indeed one of the arguments of the present volume is that this lone male minstrel with ‘only the wind as his home’ is a relative newcomer in the history of ‘Bāuls.’ "
Jeanne Openshaw/ Seeking Bāuls of Bengal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. xiii
artist: Purnendu Patri
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