Gonu Jha and Other Maithili Picture Stories

Detailed description

Jha examines individual tales, their appeal to children and their representation of Mithila across caste and regional boundaries. He distinguishes the imaginative force of legend from historical verification, praises the simple language and visual presentation, and notes a specific weakness in the lion illustration. The review combines cultural appreciation with observations about how the pictures work.

This is a signed contribution in the volume’s Preeti Thakur and her creative/archival work 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. 93–98 ↗

SHA-256: 8ec2f848e09d3b8db138698f45980d1b4a09700e9b75c4c651143fb51300b1f1

Paired Maithili edition: PREETI_KARAN_SETU_BANHAL.pdf ↗