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The practices and values connected to clothing and household chores show strands which set girls and boys apart within the domain of midle class childhoods in the three generations. The aspects discussed in the previous sections show children, particularly girls as occupying a place within the Bildungsmoratorium where in aspects of their everyday lives, particularly in the older generations, girls and boys remain unmingled, even in contexts where traditional practices attached to gender are not followed.
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Rabindrasangeet is a genre of music that consists of songs written by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, and developed some time in the early twentieth century. It is considered a significant cultural tradition of Bengal and continues to be practised among Bengalis.
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A publishing house in Kolkata which is known to produce books and series and magazines for children in Bengali. The publishing house is also known for its association with some particular genres, such as the detective series for children and young people (Roy 2008) and children’s comics, as well as particular writers, such as the cartoonist Naryan Debnath, known for cartoons strips and cartoon figures in Bengali such as Handa Bhoda and Bantul di Great.
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Many magazines and journals in Bengal have special editions in the months of September or October during the festive season of the Durga Puja. Publishing houses such as Deb Shahitya Kutir; similarly had such Pujoshankhya or Pujabarshiki, which were special holiday editions containing stories, novels and cartoons for children.
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Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra, is a fictional private detective created by the Bengali writer aod film Director, Satyajit Ray. The first Feluda story appeared in 1965, in the Bengali children’s magazine ‘Sandesh’ and enjoyed much popularity in the 1980. and 1990s among children and adolescents.
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Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay is a contemporary Bengali writer of fiction for children and adults. The writer’s political inclinations are to an extent known, and suggest a disenchantment with the Communist government of West Bengal. The children’s fiction by him reflects a similar disenchantment with contemporary urban culture in West Bengal and a nostalgia for values associated with rural Bengal. Often characters like ghosts and misfits in the city are heroized in his novels.
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The author of the quote is unknown. Cited in Mitra 1999, p.55.
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Ellis (2011) in ‘Snapshots’ of the Classroom: Autobiographies and the experience of elementary education in the Madras Presidency, 1882-1947 gives a vivid account of children’s experience of childhood in the Madras Presidency. Her accounts is comparable to some extent with the childhood experiences of the older cohorts in West Bengal, particularly in the predominance of values and practices related to education.
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The first youth magazine for children, Digdarshan was also published in Srirampore in 1818.
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Sen, H. (2014). Doraemon to Dance Lessons: Children, Leisure and Cultural Heritage. In: ‘Time-Out’ in the Land of Apu. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02223-5_7
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