![]() Darogar Daphtar by Priyanath Mukhopadhyay The stories have been translated into various Indian languages but only one collection, The Colonel Investigates, appeared in English in 2004. The stories are as always narrated by his sidekick, in this case, a lazy journalist called Jayanta. The colonel is a naturist, butterfly collector, and orinthologist, and is said to look like Santa Claus. ![]() Niladri Sakar, a retired colonel and detective, was created by author Syed Mustafa Siraj (author of over 150 novels and 300 short stories) in stories for children. ![]() And Basu is Mitra’s grandfather-in-law.Ĭol. Also like in the stories by Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (below), Mitra and Basu are employed as police officials under the colonial government, and work in and around Calcutta. Of the detectives, Mitra and Basu adopt a hybrid form of dress including the Indian dhoti, but pleated shirts, and Derby shoes. While seen as the first ‘indigenously conceived’ detective stories, these are however also described as ‘Western Tales in Eastern Garb’. These include ‘ Neelbashna Sundari‘ (‘The Beauty in Blue’), ‘ Maya Bini‘ (‘Mysterious Lady’), and ‘ Hartoner Naola‘ (‘The Trick of the Cards’). The three appeared in twenty-eight stories written between the 1910’s and 1920s. ![]() Debendra Bijoy Mitra, Arindham Basu, and Gobindoramĭebendra Bijoy Mitra, Arindham Basu, and Gobindoram were detectives created by author Panchkari Dey (1873-1945). (There are a bunch that have appeared in detective fiction in English–those I’ll also go into, but in a separate post.) This post features another set of detectives, all from Bengali fiction. Also, as I mentioned in that post, the ones I’ve come across on my searches so far have mostly been from Bengali detective fiction, with a couple from Tamil detective fiction. Now readers can get the golden Detective Story Kiriti Omnibus (All Volumes) ebook pdf from this page given below.In the first part of this post ( here), I started taking a look at some Indian fictional detectives, the stories they appear in, and writers who wrote them, for, as I mentioned in that post, I really didn’t know much about fictional detectives from Indian stories since many of them appeared in languages I don’t know, and as a result, don’t read in. He was also editor of a children Magazine of Sabuj Sahitya. His forty five novels made film in Bengali and Hindi language. His most popular books among of them are Agatha Christie, Asti Bhagirathi Tire, Badshah, Devyani, Dasti Upanyas, Gandharba Kanya, Hira Chuni Panna, Kamalgandhar, Lalubhulu, Madhuchanda, Mayamriga, Mayur Mahal, Neeltara, Nishipadma, Tri Rahasya and Ulka etc. ![]()
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