The Girl Child in the Life, Legend and Literature of Bengal: A Selection of Sibaji Banyopadhay’s Writings

Contemporary children’s literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique how they are reared, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised. This book-a compilation of translated works of the author, critic and academic, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay-focuses on gender and childhood in Bengal.

Nivedita Sen taught English literature at Hansraj College, University of Delhi. Among her published books are Family, School and Nation: The Child and Literary Constructions in Twentieth Century Bengal (Routledge, 2015) and a translation of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay’s pathbreaking work The Rakhal Gopal Dialectic: Colonialism and Children’s Literature in Bengal (2015). She has translated Bangla fiction from Tagore onward.