Madar pir' song, a territorial people execution in northern Bangladesh and a few pieces of West Bengal, India, is a composite exhibition including acting, moving, singing and recitation. This traditional and indegineous performance represent the cultural heritage of Bangladesh.
Folk musical theatre in Bangladesh is a very popular pastime and forms an integral part of many religious, cultural, and social gatherings. It was a symbol of good luck. The belief and practices of the Bangal folk Sufi/Baul, some other older and ancient genres of folk music captured and ushered in the perceptions of tolerance and unity among the members of communities. The notion of equality that unites humankind is metaphorically presented in this song. The Bangla service of Voice of America (VoA) in the early 50s started its Bangla transmission from Washington with it as its theme song – a fact that most of us are unaware of. One of the oldest Bangla folk music genres is known as Madar Pir Song, practiced in north Bengal parts of the country, which has got the most significant essence of this universal value. The performer mainly pays tribute to Madar Pir.
In Folk theatre, gender transformations are usually part of two way structures wherein the on-stage transformation of a male actor into a female character parallels these transformations within the play itself. Unlike Shakespeare wherein only females assume the disguise of males, in Svangs gender transformations take place in both directions—males disguising themselves into females and females transforming themselves into males.
Cross-dressing:
Crossdressers are not transgender, though there are some crossdressers who are also transgender. A crossdresser is a man who dresses as a woman or vice versa. If a male-identifying person wants to continue being male, enjoy cross-dressing, and has no gender dysphoria surrounding his identity, then he is a cross-dressing male. A transgender woman is a person who was assigned male at birth but who exists as a woman. So transgender women are women because they know that they are women inside. But a cross-dressing man is just a man who enjoys cross-dressing, and that’s fine as long as he’s comfortable in his own skin.
Who was Madar Pir?
Hazrat Sayed Badiuddin Ahmed Zinda Shah Madar was a Sufi saint who founded the Madariyya Silsila.He was also known by the title Qutb-ul-Madar.
He hailed originally from Syria and was born in Aleppo in a Syed Hussaini family. His teacher was Bayazid Tayfur al-Bistami. After making a pilgrimage to Medina, he journeyed to India to spread the Islamic faith. He converted many Hindus to Islam in India. Here he founded the Madariyya order. His tomb is at Makanpur.
The Madariyya are members of a Sufi order (tariqa) popular in North India, especially in Uttar Pradesh, the Mewat region, Bihar, Gujarat, and West Bengal, as well as in Nepal and Bangladesh. Known for its syncretic aspects and focus on internal dhikr, it was initiated by the Sufi saint 'Sayed Badiuddin Zinda Shah Madar' (d. 1434 CE), called "Qutb-ul-Madar", and is centered on his shrine (dargah) at Makanpur, Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. He came to India in the eighth century A.D.in Gujrat at Khambaat first time and he came to India last time in the thirteenth century along with the saint Ashraf Jahangir Semnani.
Originating from the Tayfuriya order, as his Pir, spiritual teacher was Bayazid Tayfur al-Bistami, Madariya reached its zenith in the late Mughal period between the 15th to 17th century and gave rise to new orders as Madar's disciples spread through the northern plains of India, into Bengal. As with most Sufi orders, its name Madariya has been created by adding a Nisba to the name of its founder Madar, leading to Madariya, sometimes spelled as Madariyya, though it is also referred to as Tabaqatiya.
