Between Tradition and Transition: Gender and Domestic Space in the Byomkesh Bakshi Narratives

Author(s)	Dr Dolon Sarkar
Country	India
Abstract	Colonial domesticity is a site for both discursive and material apparatus by colonial and nationalist imagination. Colonial historiography assumes the long absence of civilized domesticity in pre-colonial India. Some critics claim that the concept of domesticity is a colonial creation but it emerges as a global phenomenon in twentieth century as it is neither a creation of the nationalist nor the colonialist. Under the influence of modernity Bengali domesticity emerges as a cultural logic of late colonialism. This study attempts to understand the contradictory and heterodox transformations brought about by the influence of European modernity. It also explores how Bengali modernity negotiated and assimilated European ideals, as reflected in the Byomkesh Bakshi stories. It records how the stories expose the modern domesticity as new colonial logic become a contradiction on the rise of nationalism. This paper considers colonial domesticity not as a rupture with the past but as a reconstructive negotiation of cultural continuity.
Keywords	Colonial Modernity, Domesticity, Gender, Negotiating Tradition and Modernity and Byomkesh Bakshi Stories
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-23
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.70961

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