Gajendra Thakur: Preserver of Mithila’s Heritage

Detailed description

Mishra sets manuscript digitization against the practical difficulties of conservation: reluctant owners, limited cooperation and the declining ability to read older scripts. His account of a conservation initiative stresses the trust needed to work with custodians. He values Gajendra Thakur’s preservation work while calling for script training and sustained scholarly attention. A preserved image alone cannot ensure that a manuscript’s contents remain accessible to future readers.

This is a signed contribution in the volume’s Gajendra Thakur, Videha and the wider literary-digital project strand. The page preserves the contributor’s attribution, the normalized chapter identity, the English-edition locator, and the paired Maithili/English repository manifestations so that the critical argument can be read in its book context rather than as an isolated quotation.

Source edition and provenance

Repository locator: ENGLISH_PREETI_KARAN_SETU_BANHAL.pdf · PDF pp. 250–259 ↗

SHA-256: 8ec2f848e09d3b8db138698f45980d1b4a09700e9b75c4c651143fb51300b1f1

Paired Maithili edition: PREETI_KARAN_SETU_BANHAL.pdf ↗