ABSTRACT
In a broader, cultural sense, Maijbhandari songs (māij'bhāṇḍārī gān or gīti) are the centrepiece of the Maijbhandari tradition. For many years, these songs, rather than scholarly treatises and expositions, have popularised Maijbhandar as a major spiritual centre in Chittagong and beyond. Their circulation and appeal is not limited to any particular section of the populace, but spans over the urban and rural, upper and lower, educated and uneducated ranges of East Bengali society.
