These folk stories were mostly collected from Mymensingh district region of Bangladesh. He travelled and listened to Bengali folktales and fairytales being narrated by the village elders. Dakshinaranjan's aunt, Rajlakkhi Debi had given him the duty of visiting the villages in their zamindari. ĭakshinaranjan recounts the memories of listening to fairytales told by his mother as well as his aunt, in his own introduction to Thakurmar Jhuli. This would be a method of contending the cultural imperialism of the British. He expressed the need for a swadeshi or indigenous folk literature that would remind the people of Bengal of their rich oral traditions. Rabindranath Tagore notes in his introduction to Thakurmar Jhuli, that there was a dire need for folk literature of Bengal to be revived because the only such works available to the reading public of the time were European fairytales and their translations.
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