Fakir, Aul, Sai, Dervish, and Shah are 'NOT' Baul.
There are not 4 or 5 types of Baul. This is repeated by people who are using Baul ing Baul.
Baul does not mean 'afflicted by the wind'. Most Scholars say, Bauls are illiterate, this is not true either, the people who come to Baul, the people who follow Baul may be illiterate, but a Baul is never illiterate. .
Oral Sanskrit is way beyond any English Scholarly translations. Bauls could speak Sanskrit by 'hearing and remembering' along with reading manuscripts, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul had many manusripts.
Bauls is not an 'umbrella' name for groups of random peoples? I have documented all, and it is clear how this all came into being. I will present all my findings in the new book, everybody is to blame including Babu Kishan who used to post things to see if others would post the same things, I have to say and you know what they did?
Babu Kishan aka Krishendu Das Baul noticed long ago, that scholars and others would randomly make false untrue statements about the Bauls. He watched how these statements were copied and pasted by other and scholars.
Babu did experiments decades ago, planting things to see if it would be reposted as truth and it was. Even his own family copied and pasted, without even knowing?
Copy and paste about Baul is wrong, It is all copy and paste as truth when most of it is not even true.