Which of the following is an offshoot of the Chaitanya tradition originating in Nadia in Bengal and followed by both Hindus and Muslims?
Baul
Ekasarana Dharma was founded by Srimanta Sankardeva in Assam, not in Nadia, so it does not fit.
Sahajiya was an esoteric tantric offshoot associated with Vaishnavism but is not primarily identified as a shared Hindu-Muslim folk tradition of Nadia.
Gaudiya Vaishnavism is the devotional tradition founded directly by Chaitanya himself, centred on Nadia, but it is a Hindu devotional school rather than a movement shared equally by Hindus and Muslims.
The Baul tradition arose in Nadia in Bengal as a syncretic mystic movement blending Vaishnava bhakti with Sufi ideas, and its practitioners have historically included both Hindus and Muslims, making it the correct offshoot described here.
Hence, the answer is the Baul tradition.
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