Abstract
This article explores how the binary of the righteous/rational/dependable/ intelligent parent (or more specifically, the father) and the disobedient/unreasonable/undisciplined child in dire need of guidance came to be overturned in the Bengali fairy tale collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This reversal was an effect of the countercultural expressions of anticolonial nationalism.
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