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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can.(June 2006) Lalon Shah Lalon Fokir, also known as Lalon Shah (Bangla: লালন ফকির) (c.1774–1890), lived in the village of Cheuria in the area known during pre-colonial, undivided Bengal as Nodia (in the District of Kushtia in present-day Bangladesh). Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x653, 79 KB) Summary www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x653, 79 KB) Summary www. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War. ... Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... Kushtia is a district in south-western Bangladesh. ... Contents 1 Early life 2 Philosophy 3 Works 4 Legacy 5 Influence 6 External links [edit] Early life Lalon intentionally kept his place of birth and the identity of his parents unknown. Around the age of sixteen he was found floating by the bank of Kaliganga river, suffering from smallpox. He was taken to the home of Malam Shah and his wife Matijan, who brought him up. Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a contagious disease unique to humans. ... [edit] Philosophy Lalon left no trace of his birth or his 'origin' and remained absolutely silent about his past, fearing that he would be cast into class, caste or communal identities by a fragmented and hierarchical society. Despite this silence on his origins, communal appropriation of this great politico-philosophical figure has created a controversy regarding whether he is 'muslim' or a 'Hindu' -- a 'sufi' or a follower 'bhakti'tradition -- a 'baul' or a 'fakir', etc. He is none, as he always strove to go beyond all politics of identities. Lalon does not fit into the construction of the so called 'bauls' or 'fakirs' as a mystical or spiritual types who deny all worldly affairs in desperate search for a mystical ecstasy of the soul. Such construction is very elite and middle class and premised on the divide between 'modern' and 'spiritual' world. It also conveniently ignores the political and social aspects of Bengal's spiritual movements and depoliticises the trasformative role of 'bhakti' or 'sufi' traditions. This role is still continued and performed by the poet-singers and philosophers in oral traditions of Bangladesh, a cultural reality of Bangladesh that partly explains the emergence of Bangladesh with distinct identity from Pakistan back in 1971. Depicting Lalon as 'baul shomrat' (the Emperor of the Bauls) as projected by elite marginalises Lalon as a person belonging to a peripheral movement, an outcaste, as if he is not a living presence and increasingly occupying the central cultural, intellectual and political space in both side of the border between Bangladesh and India (West Bengal). [edit] Works Lalon has composed numerous songs and poems which depicts his philosophy.Among his favourite songs are khachar bhitor auchin pakhi,jat gelo,dekhna mon jhokmariay duniyadari,paare loye jao amay,milon hobe koto dine, aar amare marishne maa, etc. [edit] Legacy Lalon is one of the most brilliant and philosophically insightful minds born in oral and textual traditions who expressed his ideas in beautiful songs and wonderful musical compositions using instruments that could be made by any rural households from materials available at home: an Ektara (a one string musical instrument) and a Dugdugi (a hand drum). The texts of the songs was explicitly written to engage in the philosophical discourses of Bengal continuing since Tantric traditions of the subcontinent, particularly Nepal, Bengal and the Gangetic plains. In Lalon one finds critical reappropriation of the various philosophical positions emanating from the legacies of Hindu, Jaina, Buddha and Islamic traditions developing into a coherent discourse without falling into the mixes of being syncretic. He is definitely going to occupy a central position in various ecological, feminist and politics of care and responsibility aiming radical transformation of the society. In recent years Lalon has inspired Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agricultural Movement), the well known biodiversity-based ecological movements of the peasants of Bangladesh as well as inspiring young musical generations to build upon his oral and musical foundations. Ektara (Bangla: একতারা) is a one string instrument used in Bangladesh and India. ... [edit] Influence Lalon Shah had a perceptible influence on the poet Rabindranath Tagore, who introduced the Baul tradition of Bengal to the world. His own music had been influenced by the diversity of Baul tradition. (Bengali: , IPA: ) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... In 1963, a mausoleum and a research centre were built at the site of his shrine, the place of knowledge-practices. Thousands of people come to the shrine known in Bengali as akhra twice a year, Dol-Purnima, in the month of Falgun (February to March) and in October, on the occasion of the anniversary of his death. During these three-day song melas, people,particularly fakirs and bauls pay tributes to this great mind the subcontinent has produced. Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In Bengal, Holi is celebrated as Dol Purnima. ... Falgun is the 11th month in the Bangla Calendar. ... For Mela Festivals today, see Mela Festival. ... Among the modern singers, Farida Parvin is definitely the most notable one as she has recorded so far 300 songs composed by Lalon Shah. [edit] External links Lalon Fakir: Saint Lalon by Machizo Documentary on Lalon's Life and Philosophy. (UnnayanTV) Lyric of pabe samanye ki tar dekha in Manipuri translated by Konthoujam Suranjit Categories: Cleanup from June 2006 | All pages needing cleanup | Bengali musicians | Bengali poets | Performers of Hindu music | Bangladeshi music

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	Lalon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (389 words) Lalon Fokir (Bangla: লালন ফকির) (1774-1890), also known as Lalon Shah was born in an obscure village in the district of Kushtia, now in Bangladesh. One of the greatest mystic-singers the Indian subcontinent has ever produced, Lalon was one of the most radical and secular voice in India during British colonial rule which also witnessed increased miscommunication between Hindus and Muslims. Always opposed to casteism, sectarianism, and colonialism, Lalon represents and exemplifies the true revolutionary and secular nature of his community known as "Baul", a community of low-class, illiterate, wandering singers whose wisdom and wit do not come from academic training, but from an active contact with a life intensely lived. Science Fair Projects - Music of Bangladesh (2684 words) Lalon Fokir is a popular Bangladeshi mystic poet, famous for his spiritual tunes. Lalon: best known of all folk songs and the most import sub-genre of Baul songs, almost entirely attribute to spiritual writer and composer, Lalon Fokir of Kustia (Western Bangladesh, near the border with West Bengal) Lalon geeti is the work of composer and philosopher, Lalon Shah (also known as Lalon Fokir).
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