Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Lalon Phakir are exponents associated with which folk music form from Eastern India? please answer ASAP
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BAULSs are a group of Hindu/Muslim religious singers—minstrels, the Hindus among them subscribing to Vasihnavite philosophy and the Muslims to Sufi tenets. The Hindu bauls only wear saffron clothes as mark of their "sadhu" status with a long kurta like upper wear. The Muslim bauls wear plain white dress. There are men and women bauls and they often have ‘live in’ arrangements. But strangely they are not supposed to have any children and have to adapt orphans/abandoned children, whom they have to bring up as bauls. Twice a week, they go to villages to collect food (mostly rice and vegetables).
They own nothing but their simple musical instruments, the single string Ektara: an instrument with one string linked to a skin at the bottom of a bowl and Kartal: a pair of small cymbal. With these they move around villages and sympathetic cities singing simple melodies rooted in the folk music of Bengal. The main traditions of the Bauls are Bhavaiyya, Fakiri, Jhumur and Dehototto, similar to gharanas in Hindustani music.
Invariably Baul chants are in the form of a dialogue. Their credo is the belief that God is found not in the afterlife, but in the present moment, in the body of the man or woman who seeks the Truth. They ask their audience philosophical questions and then essay forth the answers for the queries.