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Volume-II, Issue-I, September, 2025 |
Received: 22.08.2025 | Accepted: 20.09.2025 | ||
Published Online: 30.09.2025 | Page No: | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.01W.203 | |||
‘ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি’ (১৯০৭): রূপকথা ও শাশ্বত, আখ্যান কৌশলের আধুনিক বুনন সমরজিৎ শর্মা, গবেষক, ভারতীয় তুলনামূলক সাহিত্য বিভাগ, আসাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের, শিলচর, অসম, ভারত |
'Thakurmar
Jhuli' (1907): The Timelessness of Fairy Tales and the Modern Weaving of
Narrative Techniques Samarjit Sharma, Research Scholar, Dept. of Indian Comparative Literature, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
'Thakurmar
Jhuli' is a popular collection of fairy tales in Bengali children's
literature. The compiler of this book is Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar.
Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar had collected the fairy tales from various rural
areas of the then greater Mymensingh district. Although the tales were
collected, they became entertaining for children due to Dakshinaranjan's
writing style. Rabindranath Tagore, in the preface of Thakurmar Jhuli,
mentioned that there was an urgent need to revive Bengali folklore, as at that
time, the only literature available to readers was European fairy tales and
their translations. He expressed the necessity for an indigenous or native
folklore that would remind the people of Bengal of their rich oral traditions.
This would serve as a method of fighting against British cultural imperialism.
In
the introduction to Thakurmar Jhuli, Dakshinaranjan described his memories of
hearing fairy tales from his mother and aunt. Dakshinaranjan's aunt, Rajlaxmi
Devi, had assigned him the responsibility of touring villages in their
zamindari. He would travel and listen to Bengali folktales and fairy tales
narrated by the elders of the villages. Most of these folk stories were
collected from the Mymensingh district area of Bangladesh. He recorded these
tales with a phonograph, which he carried, and absorbed the style by repeatedly
listening to the recordings. However, he initially could not find a publisher
and set up a press for self-publishing the first book, which would be a
compilation of stories created from the recorded tales. At that time, Dinesh
Chandra Sen, impressed by the manuscript, arranged for its publication through
the renowned publisher Bhattacharya and Sons. Within a week, three thousand
copies were sold. Several illustrations for the collection were also drawn by
the author. These drawings were converted into lithographs for printing. | ||
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