Gajendra Thakur’s Contribution to the Preservation of Mithila’s Panji

Detailed description

Das separates Panji’s value as a historical source from the hierarchy and misuse associated with its social administration. He credits the joint editors of the published records and recounts practical conservation efforts frustrated by mistrust, declining livelihoods and deteriorating manuscripts. He calls for further preservation and publication while considering how migration and changing marriage practices alter the records’ former function.

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_SETUSHAM.pdf · PDF pp. 139–159 ↗

SHA-256: 5dab29b70848c88fde7f163faa6857f45bbb9d145b5e81c05aeca4354c213b94

Paired Maithili edition: SETUSHAM.pdf ↗