Mapping Colonial Influences on the Development of Indian Children’s Literature: A Critical Overview
Abstract
This study investigates the trajectories of formation and change in Indian children’s literature during British colonial rule. Archival materials and contemporaneous texts indicate that colonial educational policy, missionary interventions, and broader imperial imperatives not only structured emerging literary forms for young readers but also catalysed modes of creative dissent within juvenile writing.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Themes in Literature Analysis
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
Publication details
- Journal / source
- International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Publication date
- 4 January 2026