Parvathy Baul: The most celebrated woman Baul performer from Bengal
The Baul tradition dates back to the early 8th C. AD and has grown weaving together threads from Sahajiya Buddhism, Turkish Sufism and Hinduism.
The Baul tradition dates back to the early 8th C. AD and has grown weaving together threads from Sahajiya Buddhism, Turkish Sufism and Hinduism.
विंध्यवासिनी देवी को ‘’बिहार कोकिला’’ भी कहा जाता है जिन्होंने न केवल बिहार के लोकगीतों को अपनी आवाज दी बल्कि उनका संकलन और विस्तार दोनों किया।
“लोक-शिल्प परंपराओं के विकास में उपेंद्र महारथी शिल्प अनुसंधान संस्थान काफी काम कर रहा है, यह सराहनीय है। – Tokio Hasegawa”
Sir George Abraham Grierson: Irish Linguist, Indian civil servant (1851-1941) and a philologist.
Like other forms of intangible cultural heritage, oral traditions are threatened by rapid urbanization, large-scale migration, industrialization and environmental change.
Sir George Abraham Grierson OM KCIE (7 January 1851 – 9 March 1941) was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. He worked in the Indian Civil Services but an interest in philology and linguistics led him …
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