Family, School and Nation

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This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts), a pertinent yet unexplored area, making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children¿s and adult literature in Bengali vis-¿is the institutions of family, the education system, and the nationalist movement in the ninenteenth and twentieth centuries.