“When people steal from our culture they end up distorting our culture, they turn it into something we do not even recognize, erasing us by replacing us.”
They re-package a watered-down or romanticized version. The mainstream world then accepts the fake/distorted version as authentic, effectively erasing the original living caretakers and replacing them in the public consciousness. I have see this in academia, and in the western audiences who do not have a clue, if it sweetly smiles and looks exotic it must be, whether their lineage is fake, their style and songs are apppropriated, they have not got a clue.
When a sacred song, medicine, or teaching is taken out of its traditional lineage, it loses its spirit or in this case Baul essence (the Shakti that has been passed down for hundreds of years). When the dominant society spreads that distorted version, the original community is erased because their true practice is no longer recognized—even by their own youth who grow up seeing only the mainstream caricature. aa 3 to be released soon.
https://youtu.be/rvbCXtzEOcE?si=6Jn4m6YTDzyAzm9H
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Stalking the Footprint: The Theft of Authentic Baul Historical Preserved Roots over 60 years by KD Babu Kishan
Contact: krishnendudas@mail.com
Shadow Footprinting: The systematic physical retracing of a primary source's historical footprint to absorb its institutional prestige and obscure the original creator 'first and Lasts' of indigenous Baul."Shadow Footprinting"
Shadow Footprinting & Identity Cannibalization:
The systematic ingestion of a primary lineage holder’s lived experiences, personal relationships, academic breakthroughs, and oral body-science the tatva, songs, tune Lyrics Baul Kirtan that Babu Kishan has recorded, preseerved, already written about and categorized into Baul tattvas of which there are 108 and only a small few have been inclued in and copied directly from Purna Das Bauls 2004 book on Baul Philosophy now used and reprocuced. Metabolizing their (Purna Das Baul, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Manju Das, Brajabala Dasi, Radharani Dasi and Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan's) actual identity into a commercial PR brand that feeds off the original creator while attempting to erase their existence.
Shadow Footprinting & Archival Squatting:
The hostile strategy of occupying the exact institutional coordinates, university archives, sacred ashrams, and international performance venues where the true lineage made history—effectively "squatting" on established cultural authority to deceive audiences into mistaking a modern re-enactment for legitimate heritage.
Shadow Footprinting & Spectral Theft:
"The deliberate copying of the historical roots, physical locations, and ancestral legacy of a primary source, alongside the philosophical and colonial impact of this deception—rebranding, remaking, tracking all of this lineage, "firsts and lasts" in Baul History, and replacing the authentic roots of Baul with performative cosplay acting.
Shadow Footprinting & Chronological Hijacking:
The exploitation of public memory loss and modern search engine algorithms by flooding the digital landscape with recent, high-volume media that co-opts original terminology (Historical Baul, Roots of Baul)—overwriting older historical records to make the synthetic copy appear as the sole surviving authority. Caliming you are the next Purna Das Baul or Baul Ambassador both indigneous one and only in Baul history. Claiming you are Baul, your Guru was Baul and that you actually are a lineage Baul when 100% it can be proven you are not. The indigneous intellectual property theft can be proven.
Shadow Footprinting (the method) with Spectral Theft or Archival Squatting (the act) creates an immediate, undeniable diagnosis of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) fraud that cuts straight through marketing spin of 'erasing indigenous Baul by those who are systemically replacing us as cosplyer Baul Artists and self-title Baul Masters'. The indigenous intellectual shadow footprinting of this one and only pioneering indigenous Baul, the shadow footprinting of all their 'firsts and lasts' of historical Baul roots, their songs, dress, style, instruments, where they went, who they met and what they have created as a modern template for the indigenous Bauls to survive the modern worl.
Decades, lifetimes of preserving Baul under the most difficult situations, war, famine, campaings of hate by the orthodox and now we have the fake Bauls when Baul has lived through a cultural genocide, copying everything (shadow footprinting) everything this lineage has ever done, yes, this is serious claim and according to the United Nations it erodes the indigenous rights of self-determination and is indigenous fraud.
There is a difference betwen cultural appreciation and cultural mis-appropriation is shadow footprinting, not just borrowing an idea but looting, poaching, stealing the songs and the lived lives of this lineage. "Saying you are historical, and the roots when you are not, saying you are the next Purna Das Baul in a campaing of dropping oh he was just a shilpi Baul in youtube videos all documented over 20 years in my files and over 60 years by Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) on the ground as the son of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul (the last Baul Guru and Baul Avadhut who passed in 1969). This is when it all started and during the over the refuee flood to Calcutta after the 1971 war that created Bangladesh. They heard Purna Das Baul songs on the radio, then cosplayed him singing his song, re-recording the songs of this lineage, dressing as Purna Das Baul then following where he went, everything he did and this spread to copying Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) however, today it has taken a viral social media influencer twist.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/04/kd-babukishan-osho-bauls-of-bengal.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/07/kichhu-din-mone-mone-by-nabani-das.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2021/08/bob-dylan-and-babukishan-why-do-people.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-evening-concluded-with-presentation_3.htmlhttps://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/10/allen-ginsberg-his-baul-guru-nabani-das.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/06/baul-fusion-creator-kd-babu-kishan-with.html
The Unsung Success of Babu Kishan's "Hanuman Chalisa"
Babu Kishan Music has an astounding 3 billion listens on YouTube with T-Series for his iconic "Hanuman Chalisa." This entire Hanuman album was not only produced by Babu Kishan, he also composed the music for it, wrote the lyrics for the other Hanuman Bhajans on the album, and personally funded its recording. This is the first ever Hanuman Chalisa commercialy recorded and it is played in all temples of India. Music Composed, arranged, paid for and concieve by KD Babu Kishan in the early 1980s.
Tragically, Babu Kishan's master
recording of the "Hanuman Chalisa" was stolen from his Juhu studio. This
theft has a significant history, leading to millions in profits for
record companies, none of which ever reached KD Babu Kishan.
This groundbreaking "Hanuman Chalisa," recorded in the 1980s, was the first ever recorded version and became a staple in temples across India. It features the powerful vocals of the late Hari Om Sharan. Beyond the T-Series numbers, it has accumulated 15 million listens with another company, 20 million on a different site, and millions more across various other platforms, with all these rights sold to different music companies in Bombay.
Babu Kishan's "Hanuman Chalisa" is, in fact, the most listened-to devotional song in Indian history, sung by his dear late friend, Hari Om Sharan. It stands as the first-ever Hanuman Chalisa recording, produced, and music-composed entirely by Babu Kishan.
Billions of people have listened to Babu Kishan's music without ever knowing it's his life's work. Even today, 80% of the recorded Baul music attributed to his father, Purna Das Baul, was produced and composed by KD Babu Kishan, also known as Krishnendu Das.
Shadow Footprinting: The systematic physical retracing of a primary source's historical footprint to absorb its institutional prestige and obscure the original creator 'first and Lasts' of indigenous Baul."Shadow Footprinting"
Shadow Footprinting & Identity Cannibalization:
The systematic ingestion of a primary lineage holder’s lived experiences, personal relationships, academic breakthroughs, and oral body-science tattva ("that-ness," "truth," "reality," or the "essential nature" of things that are Baul), songs, tune, lyrics Baul Kirtan the 108 tattvas only categorized by KD Babu Kishan.
Shadow Footprinting (the method) with Spectral Theft or Archival Squatting (the act) creates an immediate, undeniable diagnosis of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) fraud that cuts straight through marketing spin of 'erasing indigenous Baul by those who are systemically replacing us as cosplyer Baul Artists and self-title Baul Masters'. The indigenous intellectual shadow footprinting of this one and only pioneering indigenous Baul, the shadow footprinting of all their 'firsts and lasts' of historical Baul roots, their songs, dress, style, instruments, where they went, who they met and what they have created as a modern template for the indigenous Bauls to survive the modern world.
Babu Kishan has recorded, preserved the entire lineage there is no new things to preserve no new "firsts and lasts" especially as claimed by the cosplayer fake Bauls who are busy shadow printing and exagerating their who fake lineage. Babu Kishan has written about Baul since the 1970's and is the author 3 previous books, the last one sponsored by George Harrison who had a book release party for Krishnendu Das "Babu Kishan' in LA California in 1985 or 1986 it is written her in this blog, however, after decades I can't remember the exact date.
The lived lives of (Purna Das Baul, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Manju Das, Brajabala Dasi, Radharani Dasi and Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan's) have been copied and 'shadow footprinted' a remaking, of their actual identity, their 'lived lives' have been retraced, tracked and re-acted out in a 'replacing them by erasing them'. They either were stupid or thought they were clever and nobody would every know, let alone say a word? I have all the reciepts.
They have been shadow footprined and turned into a 'commercial Baul brand' that feeds off the original creator or lineage of indigenous Baul, while attempting to erase their existence, and now represented as a social media influencer, cosplayer Baul.
For decades this has been going on, the cosplayer's have made a career of pretending to be Baul, by stripping the roots of this lineage, purposely erasing us by replacing us, through shadow footprinting this one and only lineage? Now they say they are the replacement for Purna Das Baul a new Purna Das Baul so that they can steal his huge irreplaceable legacy. Impossible and now that we have caught on we will not tolerate this kind of intellectual indigenous fraud.
Shadow Footprinting & Archival Squatting:
The hostile strategy of occupying the exact institutional coordinates, university archives, sacred ashrams, and international performance venues where the true lineage made history—effectively "squatting" on established cultural authority to deceive audiences into mistaking a modern re-enactment for legitimate heritage.
Shadow Footprinting & Spectral Theft:
"The deliberate copying of the historical roots, physical locations, and ancestral legacy of a primary source, alongside the philosophical and colonial impact of this deception—rebranding, remaking, tracking all of this lineage, "firsts and lasts" in Baul History, and replacing the authentic roots of Baul with performative cosplay acting.
Shadow Footprinting & Chronological Hijacking:
The exploitation of public memory loss and modern search engine algorithms by flooding the digital landscape with recent, high-volume youtube media that co-opts original terminology (Historical Baul, Roots of Baul)—overwriting older historical records to make the synthetic copy appear as the sole surviving authority.
Claiming you are the next Purna Das Baul or Baul Ambassador both indigenous one and only in Baul history. Claiming you are Baul, your Guru was Baul and that you actually are a lineage Baul when 100% it can be proven you are not. The indigenous intellectual property theft can be proven.
The modern template of Baul that Babu Kishan created was only for indigenous Bauls, his ancestors who were poor and marginalized, however the tricker random middle class raised people out of the blue started pretending, cosplaying they were Baul while looting, poaching this lineage songs, dress, style, dance, insturments, shadow footprinting exactly where they went and then making claims they were the legendary Baul? These were not villagers of Birbhum, they were from someone other place in India and outside of India naming themselves Western Bauls?
Reclaiming the Historical Roots of Mystic Baul: A Declaration Against Cultural FraudFor over two decades, we have documented a systematic pattern of cultural theft and historical revisionism directed against the hereditary lineage of Purna Das Baul. External performers with no legitimate initiation (diksha) have copied this family’s music, attire, instrumentation, dance, and lived biographies—shadowing their footprints to fabricate false lineages and profit from the "Guru business."
The True Lineage (Parampara)
13 Generations of Preservation: This lineage represents over thirteen generations of unbroken hereditary transmission, preserving Baul tradition through periods of war, famine, and religious persecution by orthodox authorities who burned their sacred texts and decried their Tantric roots.
The Root in Birbhum: Authentic Baul is rooted in the soil of Birbhum, West Bengal. Historically, there were no "Bauls" in Bangladesh, nor was the tradition historically synonymous with regional Fakir or Sufi sects until Purna Das Baul popularized the art form globally in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Legacy of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul: Displaced refugees who arrived in West Bengal during Partition and the 1971 war frequently imitated the style, instruments, and presence of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul—the sole Baul practitioner initiated by Bamakhepa at the Tarapith cremation grounds.
Indigenous Rights and the Mechanics of Misappropriation There is a fundamental difference between cultural appreciation and cultural misappropriation. According to United Nations standards on indigenous rights, the systematic poaching, falsification, and commercial exploitation of an indigenous group's heritage constitutes indigenous fraud and erodes the right to self-determination.
The core teachings of this lineage were historically protected through Sandhya Bhasha—an esoteric twilight language blending oral Sanskrit, Braja Bhasha, and Birbhum Bengali. Commercialization and academic reductionism have severely distorted these teachings, misinterpreting concepts like Vayu Tula and incorrectly labeling Baul as an illiterate, Buddhist Sahajiya, or purely syncretic movement.
Baul is fundamentally Atma Tattva (knowledge of the Self) and Atma Lila (the divine expression of the Soul). The upcoming three-volume trilogy stands as a formal reclamation of the authentic, pioneering, and singular historical roots of Mystic Baul.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/formal-notice-of-intellectual-property.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/roots-of-vaishnava-baul-sahaja-sahajiya.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/academia-vaishnava-sahajiya-baul.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/09/you-can-not-reclaim-what-you-do-not-own.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html
A True Pioneer of World Music and Cultural Diplomacy
Early Global Footprint: Babu Kishan was representing Indian culture across the US and Europe as far back as 1971, long before the modern diaspora arrived abroad.
Pioneering Fusion: He created the first authentic Indian Fusion and Baul Fusion music. He toured the US playing 40 concerts with Bob Dylan & the Band, jamming with The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, and Miles Davis and many others.
Bollywood Legend: He served as an assistant to his Bollywood Music Guru, R.D. Burman, for 13 years. He helped establish major record labels in Mumbai, categorized India's vast folk music catalog for industry producers, and was among the original architects who helped coin and shape "Bollywood."
He is not a self-titled Baul he is the Roots of Historical Baul and he is not a self-titled music composer, he is educated in Indian Music since birth and has been qualified both academically and through the highest Music Composers in Indian History who all signed for him and let him compose Music for them, RD Burman, Ravindra Jain, Naushad Ali, Laxmikant Pyrelal and Bapi Lahari. In Babu Kishans music compositions he has employed the top of Indian's talent as musicians.
Linguistic & Classical Mastery: A high-level oral and classical Sanskritist, he speaks and has recorded in an extraordinary range of Indian languages. He was the first artist to record the Hanuman Chalisa for modern commercial releases.
Official State Representation: For over 40 years, he served as an official Cultural Representative of India globally under the Sangeet Natak Akademi (Indian National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama) and the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations).
The Composer Behind the Legend
Beyond his work as an independent artist, (Babu Kishan tknown professionally in Bombay) and Krishnendu Das in Calcutta film and Music Industry )composed over 80% of the music for his father, Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul. Those recordings became the most critically and commercially successful albums of Purna Das Baul's career and they were copied and re-recorded with no credit by pretenian, cosplayers, called the fake it til you make it Bauls that arrived as refugees from Bangladesh. This is part of the reclamation of Baul, correcting these wrongs that haved done with the looting, poaching of Baul and who really is Baul.
You cannot replace a lifetime of primary achievement by creating a fake IMDb profile, posing as an academic, or teaching distorted fabrications about a sacred indigenous science. The historical record is permanent, verifiable, and absolute.
Archival Summary & Credentials
Titles & Honors: Pandit, Master of Indian Music, Award-Winning Music Composer & Producer.
Early Recognition: Awarded "Youngest Music and Film Director in Bengal" at age 11 (1978); widely decorated across Bengal through the 1980s; received the Bollywood Buddy Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) for his contributions to Indian Cinema.
Instrumental & Vocal Mastery: Multi-instrumentalist playing over 15 traditional and modern instruments; Master of Indian Classical, Baul, Bhajan, Kirtan, Baul-Kirtan, and East-West Fusion.
Discography & Filmography: Released over 1,000 albums, produced over 60 albums, and composed more than 150 film scores for Indian Cinema.
Saying you are the next 'Purna Das Baul' is Shadow foot printing and indigenous theft. Baul Samrat Pandit (Padma Shree) Purna Chandra Das Baul is one of the most highly awarded Singers of India he is a Baul pioneer, nobody in this world would know about Baul without Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and their eldest Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) this one and only indigenous pioneering with all the 'first and last' regarding Baul can not be claimed or replaced, Baul was complete decades ago.
Purna Das Baul was awarded a Padma Shree and many other awards historically winning awards from a list of Presidents and PM, Minister over a lifetime. He is the first and last only Legendary Baul along with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, and regarding Baul women only Braja Dasi, Radharani Dasi, and Manju Das- the wife of Purna Das Baul who is he ONLY Baul women ever to travel the world since the late 1960s to 2010 when she passed away.
Making, stealing these women's place in Baul History is 'shadow FOOT-printing' this lineage, using Legendary Women is a gross injustice and lie to this indigenous roots of Baul. Purna Das Baul is 93 years old a historical figure on all levels within India. His ancestors the ones who preserved, held, giving up their lives life and life to do seva, social work, teaching, feeding, healin the villagers of Birbhum West Bengal the birth place soil and soul of Baul (The Vaishnava Sahajiya (Gosia Chandra) Das Baul and Dasi. will be rolling in the soil if we do not tell the truth. Truth is the first tenant of Baul.
Self-titling that you are now the Baul Ambassador, when this title is a first and last only known and copied from Babu Kishan's writings by stalking all the wording that belong only to this singular Baul pioneering parampara is Shadow Footprinting & Identity Cannibalization along with Archival Squatting. A title given only to Purna Das Baul, Manju Das and KD Babu Kishan who were the only Baul representatives of India through the ICCR. Babu Kishan had all the contacts for decades. This may not mean anything to anybody, however, it is a serious insideous shadow printing & Archival Squatting
It should be know that the song (poetry) & tune for #KichhuDinMoneMone is a song from this lineage, it is the Poetry of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. It was recorded first by Purna Das Baul at one of India's first record companies Hindustan Records under Pankaj Mallick and Rai Chand Boral. It
was copied right off of Babu Kishan's youtube channel and re-recored
without permission by a female cosplaying Baul who created a fake
lineage and fake Baul Guru. I won't use any names until the books are
released, however, these people are shadow footprinting this lineage
from day one in every way. They will be exposed, you in the west think
they are authentic Baul Artists and a Baul Master, they are self-titled
Baul Masters who have poached the life out of Lineage Baul. We are
exploring legal action.
RabindraNath Tagore started the first Baul archive all based on Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and
Babu Kishan is the only Baul to 'Preserve and ARCHIVE' Baul in a big way and that was done decades ago.
1. Institutional Recognition & Historical Firsts
State Honors: Purna Das Baul was conferred the title Baul Samrat by the President of India and honored with the title Nada Brahma.
Cultural Ambassadors: Purna Das Baul, Manju Das, and KD Babu Kishan were named official Baul Ambassadors by the ICCR in the 1970s—a historic "first and last" designation.
National Heritage: Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, the last Baul Avadhut, served as the sole Baul Guru to Rabindranath Tagore and performed across India during the Independence Movement at the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru.
2. Mechanics of "Shadow-Footprinting" and Intellectual Fraud Over the past thirty years, digital platforms, university lecture circuits, and social media have enabled the systematic copying of this single family’s heritage:
Digital Scraping: Content, terminology, and oral histories first published on BabuKishan.com (1990s–2006) were plagiarized to build fraudulent social media followings and commercial workshops.
Music & Composition Piracy: KD Babu Kishan composed over 80% of the arrangements and tunes made famous by his father, Purna Das Baul. These compositions continue to be re-recorded and distributed without credit or permission.
Historical Revisionism: The groundbreaking achievements of Manju Das (the first traditional Baul woman to tour internationally), KD Babu Kishan’s 12-year monastic service with the Ramakrishna Mission, and the family's historical ties to the Gaudiya Math are now routinely co-opted by uninitiated performers.
3. Preserving the True Roots Commercial opportunists have watered down the tradition, co-opting terms and claiming ownership of sacred history—even attempting to appropriate the title of our upcoming trilogy, Historical Baul and the Roots of Baul.
Authentic Baul is not a commercial brand or an exotic costume. It is a sacred, indigenous heritage preserved through the lived sacrifices of Krishnendu Das Baul (KD Babu Kishan), the eldest lineage holder of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Purna Das Baul.
Key Revisions & Terminology Standardized
Nada Brahma: Standardized spelling for the Sanskrit concept of "Divine Sound / Sound as God."
Baul Samrat: Corrected spelling for the title "Emperor of Bauls."
ICCR: Maintained as the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Charyapada: Standardized spelling for the ancient 8th–12th century Vajrayana/Sahajiya mystical songs often debated in Bengali literary history.
Shadow-Footprinting: Preserved as your key defined term for the systematic tracking, copying, and appropriating of a family's lived history and intellectual property.
Documentation Archive: 20+ Years (2006–2026)
Primary Lineage: Lineage of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Baul Samrat Padma Shri Pandit Purna Chandra Das Baul, Manju Das, and Krishnendu Das Baul (KD Babu Kishan)
Overview
This executive summary introduces the empirical evidence documented over two decades exposing the systematic misappropriation, digital piracy, and "shadow-footprinting" of the unbroken, 13-generation hereditary Baul lineage of Birbhum, West Bengal. Ahead of the release of the upcoming three-volume historical trilogy, this documentation establishes a definitive record against indigenous cultural fraud, historical revisionism, and the unauthorized commercial exploitation of Baul heritage.
Key Findings & Evidence Categories
Digital Scraping & Intellectual Property Theft (1990s–2026):
Archived web analytics, screenshots, and digital timestamps confirm the unauthorized harvesting of proprietary content, oral histories, and specific terminology originally published on BabuKishan.com and associated archival platforms. These primary source materials were systematically co-opted to build commercial websites, social media followings, and unaccredited academic lectures.
Musical Piracy & Composition Misappropriation:
KD Babu Kishan composed and arranged over 80% of the modern repertoire made famous by his father, Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul. The documentation logs instances of uncredited re-recordings, stolen melodies, and unauthorized distribution of proprietary compositions across global streaming platforms without licensing or attribution.
Biographical Co-Optation & "Shadow-Footprinting":
Detailed comparative timelines demonstrate how non-initiated, self-appointed performers have systematically copied the lived history, travel itineraries, stage attire, and performance styles of Purna Das Baul, Manju Das (the first international female Baul ambassador), and KD Babu Kishan. Key historical milestones—including KD Babu Kishan’s 12-year monastic service with the Ramakrishna Mission and the family’s pioneering work with the ICCR—have been falsely claimed by external actors.
Distortion of Core Philosophy & Terminology:
The archive documents the rise of reductionist narratives that conflate Baul Sahaja with Buddhist Sahajiya or reduce esoteric concepts like Vayu Tula to rigid medical conditions. The documentation reaffirms that authentic Baul is an innate, ancestral transmission (Atma Tattva) protected through Sandhya Bhasha (twilight language), rather than an illiterate or syncretic commercial commodity.
Historical Significance & Lineage Authority
Purpose Upcoming Trilogy
The upcoming three-volume publication serves as a formal, legal, and historical reclamation of the authentic roots of Mystic Baul. Grounded in United Nations principles regarding the rights of indigenous peoples to protect their cultural heritage and self-determination, this project directly challenges non-indigenous fraud, provides verifiable evidence of historical priority, and restores the rightful legacy of Birbhum's premier Baul parampara.
Spectral Identity Theft: The practice of haunting and occupying another person’s historical coordinates—their awards, institutional stops, performance venues, and network—until the public mistake the ghost for the original inhabitant.
Archival Squatting / Retrospective Squatting: Systematically claiming association with historical archives, prestigious institutions, or spiritual centers that were originally established by the true lineage holders, effectively "squatting" on their historical reputation.
Identity Cannibalization: The total ingestion of a primary source’s lived experience, oral traditions, and public milestones, regurgitating them as one's own personal origin story to achieve commercial success.
Chronological Hijacking: Exploiting the passage of time and the public's short memory span to overwrite older, authentic primary sources with modern, high-volume digital content.
Ersatz Colonization: The process where non-lineage actors use synthetic, performative copies to colonize and commodify an indigenous tradition from within, replacing the original bloodline with a market-friendly substitute.
Baul is for everybody, however, the history of Baul, the very existence of Baul because this family made Baul known and popular through a long path of hard work, preserving Baul as a small marginalized indigenous group, Baul is not for shadow footprinting, self-determination, watering down and reductionism for the Guru business. They all self-titled themselves Das Baul or Baul and not one of them was, no inititiations, some had association with this family, Babu Kishan had taken in a few young borthers who were refugees one started to use the Das Baul name but has never told the real story of his life although he wrote a book, the other brother died mysteriously, they had a servant who left them and self titled himself a Das Baul and made up a fake lineage, when questioned he said, I have to feed my family. This lineage never said anything, when on of the same type of poor refugee who is being lauded today as a (lineage Baul by a cosplayer Baul) was jealous of Purna Das Baul not alone but with a group of Bauls at the an ashram in Kenuli at the Joy Dev Mela in the 1970s poisoning the wildly popular Purna Das Baul who drew millions of people, no one said anything.
However, this fakery can go on no longer, we have watched for too long while Baul has become so watered down and is at cultural genocide levels of something that this lineage has held, preserved, guarded through secrecy in a language called Sandhya Bhasha a combination of oral Sanskrit. Braja Bhasha, and veracular Birbhum Bengali. Not the dialect Babu Kishan could always hear coming from the refugee newly minted Baul of East Bengal dialect. These people had to survive, they were in the 5 millions of them landing in Calcutta to survive the ware in 1971 some earlier to suvive Partition they all followed or shadow printed Nabani Das Khyapa Baul (they were not disciples, they just copied his dance, instruments, style and they hung out at Tarapith pretending they were Baul) because Nabani was the only Baul who did sadhana at Tarapith and only Baul initiated by Bama Kepa). However, this all changed with the 1971 war that created Bangladesh with Purna Das Baul's popularity in 1940 he headed to Calcutta and after years of struggle back and forth to Birbhum in the 1960s (long history detailed in Historical Baul) and because we are constantly shadow footprinted by the fake Bauls who have made up lineages we dare not release anymore until the book.
Then Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan's) 'firsts and lasts' all of his hard work, his historical legacy creating a modern Baul template only meant for the indigenous Bauls but copied by the cosplayer Bauls not even indigenous to Birbhum, regarding Baul (Vayu Tula) not meaning "afflicted by the wind', 'not mad', 'not a wind disease', not the Ayurvedic term Vatula, and here is lies the reason Baul was always secret, mis-appropriation, mis-translation, watering down and reductionism and now the systemic shadow printing of what does not belong to or the people who are not lineage Baul and have no adhikara of Baul but trying to claim the roots of Baul and use the title of our soon to be released book (a trilogy) of 3 books on the The reclamation, reclaiming the authentic one and only pioneering Historical Roots of Mystic Baul. 100% not Buddhist and not Muslim or Fakir, Aul, Sai and Dervish. These were all co-oped by academia and self-titled Baul experts, all can be proved they are not Baul. Baul is not and never was illiterate or Buddhist Sahajaiya. Baul is atma tattva, atma lila.
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Babu Kishan in his own words in Hindi.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html
There is no such thing as a Baul Master or a Baul Artists, these are made up by people who are not even from Bengal, but are remaking the already lived lives of the firsts and last in Baul.
If you come here to read about Baul this is the official archive of Baul and it has nothing to do with any "inauthentic practitioners" or "opportunistic claimants" self-titled Baul Artists or Baul Masters?
“When people steal from our culture they end up distorting our culture, they turn it into something we do not even recognize, erasing us by replacing us.”
From the Canadian documentary, The Pretendians about the misuse of indigenous heritage to take advantage of grants gaining a false prestige on the backs of indigenous people.
Exclusivity of Narrative:
All stories, principles (tattvas) that were categorized by this lineage, and techniques shared refer only to this particular Indigenous ancestral Parampara. Exclusivity of the Baul Kirstans and songs of this lineage, the style, and stories of this singular parampara belong to this parampara or ancestral indigenous lineage.
Rejection of "Pretendian Bauls" "inauthentic practitioners" or "opportunistic claimants":
Explicitly disavowing and calling out individuals who falsely claim to be Bauls, specifically those who have self-titled themselves "Das Baul" and "Dasi." The creation of fake Baul Gurus and fake Baul lineages or paramparas. These actors have no sense of nuance or context of Baul, they find buzz words, make a youtube video and throw the buzz words out to legitimize themselves as a Baul? More often than not, they have gathered these words from our blogs or websites or from a book?
Mis-appropriation:
The statement highlights the severe issues of "poaching, cherry-picking, and false narratives" that have impacted this ancestral indigenous lineage or parampara. Baul history is complete, all the stories, first and last are complete. Baul Artists (actors) inauthentic practitioners and opportunistic claimants who now are claiming firsts in a remake of what has already been achieved by indigenous Bauls? Self-titled Baul Artists fake Baus who cunning; skillful in achieving one's ends through deceit or evasion, pernicious; having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle ways, subversive; seeking to overthrow or undermine a ancient ancestral indigenous parampara’s already achieved firsts and lasts, often gradually bit by bit and before anybody knows the goal of replacing Baul by imitation of Baul is accomplished, these people have nothing to lose, there is no consciousness it is about the Guru business.
Sole Responsibility for Self-Determination:
I emphasize that this Indigenous lineage holds the exclusive right to determine its own path and representation.
Need for Protection:
There's a clear call for safeguarding this "ancient pioneering ancestral lineage, or Guru Shishya Parampara sampradaya (sect or kula)" from "rampant misappropriation, twisting, acting out, and remaking of their lived lives claiming all their firsts and lasts regarding Baul of this one and singular parampara or ancient living lineage based on indigenous ancestry."
Calling Out Anonymization:
We specifically mention the harmful practice of removing the names and identities of this lineage while replacing them with a "no-name, generic, random Baul" and a acting out their lived lives, firsts and lasts regarding Baul by, "Pretendian Bauls" "inauthentic practitioners" or "opportunistic claimants" who steal indigenous identities to capture lucrative grants, prestige, funding, awards, songs, style and culture displaying self-created indigenous Baul identities that are fake always for a benefit and taking away opportunities of the indigenous Bauls.ntic claimants, who are running around acting. for way to long now.
Any words this lineage parampara uses or has written about over the past 6 decades belong solely to this lineage. I say no poaching, copyright, however, they do not listen and the constant poaching will be qualified. The new book will be released soon, Historical, reclamation of the Baul (Vayu Tula) Copyright, all rights reserved by KD Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul.
Baul is intrinsically linked to the "soul and soil of Birbhum," recognized as the "greatest imagination of the Divine in all Bengali." Being indigenous to Birbhum, also known as Radha-desh and Rarh-desh (the red soul and red soil), Birbhum's Rarh Kirtan, based on Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul, appeals to the body, mind, and deeply to the soul of the villagers. Baul Kirtan is believed to awaken the soul through Kundalini, leading to a "Baul Darshan" and potentially Shaktipat, overwhelming the mind and directly touching the soul.
Through Baul songs and Kirtan, a "direct connection to our soul (atma tattva)" is made, serving as their darshan to the villagers. Babu Kishan's recurring advice is to "ask your soul" when unsure, to "create a dialogue with your atma (soul)," and to "look within," as "the universe and all Devata reside on the altar of your human heart." He defines life as "a dance with your soul, a trance dance."
Baul darshan aims to awaken the deepest mystic love between the human soul and the highest soul (atma - sat, chit, ananda), embodied by the vigraha Devas residing in the human body temple—for Vaishnava Bauls, this means Radha and Krishna, paralleled with Hanuman carrying Sita and Ram in his atma.
Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was called the "Mirror of the Sky" because, like the phrase "as above, so below," Baul's mirror the divine through song and an "earth based dance" that grounds their shakti (energetic power) into the earth (soil and soul are alive, that is why Nabani Das Khyapa Baul created over 200 akhara’s doing extensive deep powerful practice to bring the soul back into the soil before he gave the land for schools and hospitals, creating balance. The Baul dance is grounding that connects their vital airs (prana shakti) and "waves of bliss" to the earth, all results of Baul Darshan. The author stresses the importance of understanding Baul as (Vayu Tula) as the first step to comprehending this "ancient one and only parampara or ancestral lineage." Ancestry is paramount in Baul; without its ancestors, Baul's roots are non-existent.
Key Baul Figures & Lineage
#NabaniDasKhyapaBaul #PurnaDasBaul #BabuKishan #KrishnenduDasBaul #lineagebaul #baullineage #NabaniDasBaul #dasbaul #NityanandaofEkachakra #ChandiDas #Joydev #GosaiVaishnavaDasBaul #NeemKaroliBaba
Core Baul Concepts & Philosophy
#Baultantra #GaudiyaVaishnavaandBaul #Baulphilosophy #VaishnavaSahajiya #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls #KrishnaKaliunity #Krishnakali #RaaiRajaLila #Baulsadhana #BaulAvadhut #BaulAvadhuta #BaulthepathoftheAvadhuta #BaulsahajaKrishnaDattatreyasahahaja #Baultantramantragopiyantra #BaulKirtan #BaultheRasaLilaMystics #BaulVayuTula #Baulwindcatchers #mirrorofthesky
Geographic & Cultural Context
#BirbhumBaul #Birbhum #EkachakraBirbhum #Tarapith #TarapithandBaul #TaraMa&Baul #Kolkata #Shantiniketan #shantiniketanbirbum #Bengal #baulofbengal #baulofbirbhum #India #IncredibleIndia #indianmusic #sangeetnatakakademi
Critique & Preservation
#Baultruth #Baulculturalappropriation #Baulrealhistory #EndangeredBaullineage #Baulendangeredlineageparampara #Baulhistory #baularchive #archivedbaul
Baul Music
#baulmusic #baulgaan #Bauldocumentary #baulsangeet #baulkirtan #ektara #gopiyantra
Related Figures & Movements
#RabindranathTagore #BaulTagore #osho #VaishnavaBaul #TantricBaul #vaishnavaaghori #Ramakrishna #BaulandRamakrishna
General & Other
#baul #historicalBaul #pioneeringBaul #baulwomen #baulsaint #legendarybaul #baulartist #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara
"Authentic Baul" #AuthenticBaul
"Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls" #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls
"Birbhum Baul" #BirbhumBaul
"Nabani Das Khyapa Baul" #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul
"Babu Kishan Baul" / "Krishnendu Das Baul" #KrishnenduDasBaul
"Baul Guru Shishya Parampara" #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara
"Baul philosophy" #Baulphilosophy
"Krishna Kali unity" #Krishnakali
"Raai Raja lila" #RaaiRajaLila
"Real Baul history" #Baulrealhistory
"Baul cultural appropriation" #baulculturalappropriation
"Endangered Baul lineage" #Baulendangeredlineageparampara
The practice of "Baul Kirtan-anga" #BaulKirtan
The "Rasa Lila Mystics" #BaultheRasaLilaMystics
"Baul Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra". #Baultantramantragopiyantra
"The path of the Avadhuta". #BaulthepathoftheAvadhuta
"Baul Sahaja is Krishna & Dattatreya Sahaja". #BaulsahajaKrishnaDattatreyasahahaja
The Windcatchers (Vayu Tula). #BaulVayuTula. #baulwindcatchers
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