Mapping Colonial Influences on the Development of Indian Children’s Literature: A Critical Overview

Author(s)	Ms. PREETHY MARY GEORGE
Country	India
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.
Keywords	Indian Children’s Literature; Colonial Education; Anglicisation; Missionary Pedagogy; Print Culture; Nationalism; Colonial Epistemology; Juvenile literature; Cultural resistance
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On	2026-01-04
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i01.65471
Short DOI	https://doi.org/hbhsgf

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