The evolution of Bengali children’s literature since then has been a vibrant one, with authors experimenting with a wide range of genres – adventure, nonsense, mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy, history, and even sport. evil motifs, made way for a reconnection with Bengali oral tradition - a whole array of human and animal characters, the fantastical, the supernatural, all came together to introduce an element of entertainment in children’s literature. Thakurmar Jhuli, while still moralising in nature with its good vs. The publication of Thakurmar Jhuli, a collection of traditional Bengali folklore compiled by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder, was perhaps the pivotal moment which marked a move away from purely religious and instructive texts intended for children. While Bengali children’s literature was still emerging as a separate category 200 years ago, with the establishment of the School Books Society in Calcutta, books printed for children were primarily didactic in nature. Revisiting it after many years, I find much of its content outdated and problematic, but I can understand its wide appeal when it was first published, and for many decades after. If there is a bookshelf in any Bengali household, there is likely to be a copy of Thakurmar Jhuli.
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