These are little snippets of text and pictures that we chanced upon during our archival work on children’s literature from this part of the world. All material is copyright free and/or published with the consent of the creator.

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“The Battle of the Ants” illustrated by Jatindrakumar Sen in Girindrasekhar Bose’s illustrated children’s book Lal-Kalo (1957). To access an e-copy, click here.
“Kari and Kopee and I” illustrated by J.E. Allen in Dhangopal Mukherji’s Kari the Elephant (1922). To access an e-copy, click here
Cover page of Ladkon ki Kahani (Stories for Boys) by Raja Shiv Prasad. Published in 1861.
Sadashiv Kashinath Chatre was a scribe in the colonial Engineering Office in Bombay and also the Superintendent of Marathi schools in the Southern Region. Chatre translated Aesop’s Fables into Marathi which was published from Bombay in 1849.
“Lads, what strange games you play!
For all your ears I pray”, anonymous poem from Shishu magazine, published in April 1926
Cover page of Jogindranath Sarkar’s rhyme book Shishu Chayanika, published 1925.