Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

9/1/1985 - 3/31/1987

Funding Totals

$20,000.00 (approved)
$20,000.00 (awarded)


The Collected Songs of the Bengali Baul Poet Lalan Shah Phakir: Edition and Translation

FAIN: RL-20866-85

Carol G. Salomon
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Seattle, WA 98103)

To support a translation, with extensive explication, of the devotional poems of Lalan Shah, 19th-century poet and composer of the Baul religious movement inBengal, a movement that fuses traditions of Bakhti Hinduism and Muslim Sufism.