• Sk Salam Rahaman
• Shristi Roy

This paper explores how the city gives a rich narrative landscape in which it transcends its conventional spatial role, coming forth as a complex, multifaceted character interwoven with historical consciousness and cultural memory in the detective novel Badshahi Angti by Satyajit Ray. The city in any detective fiction has an impact on the formation and development of the plot. The detective and the city in detective fiction in which the story is contextualized act parallelly in the narrative. The paper focuses on the role of the city as a living archive that keeps, transforms, and reinterprets collective historical experiences through the relationships between physical geography, historical memory, and storytelling. The analysis will also delve deep into the multilayered identity of the city, and how architectural fragments, historical traces, and cultural inscriptions become narrative aspects in Badshahi Angti. The objective of this paper is to depict how Indian Detective fiction, especially the Feluda series written by Satyajit Ray ensures the preservation of historical and cultural aspects of a city.

Cultural memory, Badshahi Angti, Feluda, historical memory, Indian detective fiction, city.

""HISTORICAL ARCHIVES: A STUDY OF CITY, MEMORY, AND HISTORY IN BADSHAHI ANGTI "", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 12, page no.c744-c747, December-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412285.pdf

""HISTORICAL ARCHIVES: A STUDY OF CITY, MEMORY, AND HISTORY IN BADSHAHI ANGTI "", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 12, page no. ppc744-c747, December-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412285.pdf