Maithili Literature’s Seeker-Worshipper Shri Gajendra Thakur

Detailed description

Yoganand Jha links literary creation with the recovery of endangered vocabulary, oral narratives and neglected writing. His main example is Gajendra Thakur’s work on devotional poet Ramji Chaudhary: publication and interpretation allow an overlooked corpus to re-enter circulation. Discussions of Shit-Basant and older words extend the argument. He presents research, republication and the digital archive as connected forms of preservation that can guide future scholars.

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. 315–326 ↗

SHA-256: 8ec2f848e09d3b8db138698f45980d1b4a09700e9b75c4c651143fb51300b1f1

Paired Maithili edition: PREETI_KARAN_SETU_BANHAL.pdf ↗