Gajendra Thakur and the Discipline of Maithili Criticism

Detailed description

Jha reviews Maithili Samikshashastra as a guide to evaluating genres rather than praising personalities. He discusses distinctions between short narrative forms, the demands of ghazal metre, other poetic forms, translation and children’s literature. The review emphasizes judging craft and meaning without imposing the critic’s ideology, and presents the book as useful to writers, teachers, students and researchers.

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. 262–277 ↗

SHA-256: 5dab29b70848c88fde7f163faa6857f45bbb9d145b5e81c05aeca4354c213b94

Paired Maithili edition: SETUSHAM.pdf ↗