By Nivedita Sen
This seminal paintings examines the concurrence of formative years uprising and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including grownup texts), a pertinent but unexplored region, making it a primary of its style. it's a research of the voice of kid protagonists throughout children’s and grownup literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the associations of kin, the schooling procedure, and the nationalist circulation within the ninenteenth and 20th centuries.
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In these pages the author has endeavoured to paint that species of noisy, frolicsome, mischievous children which is now almost extinct, wishing to preserve a sort of remembrance of days long past. (Preface, ix) Sinclair’s preface wistfully evokes the naturally naughty temperament of the child, essentializing children in the past as diverse and individualistic in their nature. Simultaneously, she is derisive of her immediate context, in which children are ‘manufactured’ as clones of one another.
Those components in the liberal arts curriculums introduced by the British that encouraged free thinking propagated knowledge about subversive ideologies and movements and trained scholars and intellectuals in the making to question established systems around them that had earlier been taken for granted. In the twentieth century, Victorian institutions that hindered freedom and threatened the identity of individuals have come under scrutiny in Western treatises. Michel Foucault’s pathbreaking study of the prison, designed by the Utilitarian philosopher Bentham, is a scathing critique of schooling systems that are based on the regimentation and surveillance of the Panopticon (see Chapter 1).
Meanwhile, a lot of novel work was happening in the field of children’s textbooks. The School Book Society, started through the efforts of David Hare, worked on textbook-centred projects that provided very dry and uninteresting reading. The unillustrated articles in its pioneering children’s magazine Digdarshan were mainly on science, history and child counselling (see Khagendranath Mitra, Shatabdir Shishusahitya (A Century of Children’s Literature) 4). A Sanskritized Bengali, authorized by its Brahminical origin and standing, continued to be the hallmark of children’s textbooks as well as whatever little was produced by way of children’s reading for pleasure.
