Formation of Criminal Character in Bengali Detective Literature/ বাংলা গোয়েন্দা কাহিনিতে অপরাধী চরিত্রের গঠন

Abstract

The oppression of the British increased in colonial period. After that, people’s lives become uncertain and that’s why people, mainly men, and women was getting cruel and ferocious. Gradually, the level of crime increased. Numbers of robber and Thagi gradually increased in our society. In this situation, the police system was activated in Bengal.

          On that time, young generation of Bengal, maximum young men employed as a policeman. Their job was mobile. After joining the post of Daroga, the young men took part in important role to reduce the level of crime. Later, their own life’s experiences became detective stories and novels for the readers. Bangalee got their history of crime.

          At the later time, there was imitation of foreign detective literature was noticed in our own crime fiction. But after that, some prime detective literature was written by Bengali authors.

          Not all stories or novels have criminal characters. For the sake of the plot, author creates the criminal characters in a particular design or pattern. This is the main discussion topic for the paper.