![]() ![]() ![]() Writers who started to write with the idea of children and young boys as readers in their minds were also, in a way, time travellers searching for the past glory of a precolonial India. First, this strand of Bangla literature, like a few others, took definitive shape in colonial times a period in India’s history when creative artists were trying hard to come to terms with the ignominy of the foreign rule. Lowenthal’s view can be used as an entry point for a discussion on the origin and development of Bangla children’s and young adults’ literature. ![]() For him, they often end up creating a past out of a childhood divested of responsibilities and an imagined landscape invested with elements they find missing in the present-day world. According to him, the golden age the travellers revisit bears little resemblance to any time that ever was. David Lowenthal, in his famous book The Past is a Foreign Country, makes an interesting observation about time travellers. ![]()
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