Diversity and Videha: The Consciousness-Based Renaissance of Modern Maithili Literature

Detailed description

Jha organizes her argument around linguistic, writerly and thematic diversity. She presents Videha’s acceptance of regional speech, younger voices and varied subjects as a challenge to narrow standards and centralized literary authority. Her account treats digital access as a bridge between rural and urban readers, generations and the diaspora, while discussing resistance to this openness as part of the debate.

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. 160–171 ↗

SHA-256: 5dab29b70848c88fde7f163faa6857f45bbb9d145b5e81c05aeca4354c213b94

Paired Maithili edition: SETUSHAM.pdf ↗