It has pioneered its own distribution channels and spawned adaptations across media platforms. Crime fiction in South Asia has been intensely translational, not just from English but also across South Asian languages. He has good knowledge over Bengali literature from where he quotes frequently. Crime fiction has also allowed women writers to imagine bold female detectives who challenge and debate gender norms, from Kamala Satthianadhan’s trailblazing Detective Janaki (1934) to Sujatha Massey’s Perveen Mistry. Byomkesh Bakshi is a thin and tall person. The chapter focuses on iconic ‘homegrown’ detectives like Byomkesh Bakshi in the 1930s, the quintessential Bengali gentleman detective engaged in the high pursuit of truth, the debonair detectives Faridi and Imraan created by Indo-Pakistani writer Ibne Safi in the 1950s–1970s, and the heroes of ‘hard-boiled’ Hindi crime fiction in the 1970s–1990s. This chapter traces its development from its colonial origins under the aegis of a local boom in print media, ‘intrusive’ colonial law and policing and the influx of European narratives combined with precolonial tropes. If youve read the story or seen the television episode, then you should have no trouble answering these questions. In the interim I conducted an online quiz on Twitter kweezzz. Detective or crime fiction has had a long and varied history in South Asia, at times inflected by local concerns, at other times transporting readers into a world of international intrigue. Byomkesh Bakshi other Bengali literary creations from our childhood.
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