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Mukherjee, C. (2021). Indigenising the

                  Detective Genre in Satyajit Ray’s


                  ‘Feluda’ series: A Study. Drishti: The

                  Sight, 9(2), 159.





            The paper navigates through the socio-cultural footmark that Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) etches through his detective
            fiction in nineteenth century Bengal. It locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and
            historical context. This would deal with the emergence of the genre initially as an adaptation of the West. The
            essay tries to focus on Ray’s uniqueness in his characterisation, origin, methods of detection, and nuances of
            narrative technique  that makes  him  the  stalwart  of  Bengali  Detective  Fiction  for  Children.  Ray indigenised  the
            genre and attempted to decode the unsolved mysteries through his protagonist by appropriating the cultural
            richness of Bengal.







































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