![]() 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. 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.
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