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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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