Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar (15 April 1877 – 30 March 1957) was an Indian writer in Bengali of fairy tales and children's literature.

[1] Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar was born in the village of Ulail, near Savar in Dhaka district.

Dakhshinaranjan recounts the memories of listening to fairytales told by his mother as well as his aunt, in his introduction to Thakurmar Jhuli.

[3] Rabindranath Tagore notes in his introduction to Thakurmar Jhuli, that there was a dire need for folk literature of Bengal to be revived because the only such works available to the reading public of the time were European fairytales and their translations.

He expressed the need for a swadeshi or indigenous folk literature that would remind the people of Bengal of their rich oral traditions.