Yoga In Bengal :: Ida Pajunen, SOAS University of London YOGA IN BENGAL New Scholarship on Sources from the Twentieth Century Ida Josephine Pajunen MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation SOAS University of London September 2020 idapajunen@gmail.com Abstract This paper examines yoga āsana and bayam instruction from Bengal in the twentieth century. It focuses on three themes as they appear in materials prior to the 1960s. These themes are the focus on yoga for health, the inclusion of bayam in Bengali language sources and the introduction of women to yoga. Word count: 10,729