Gajendra Thakur: Writer, Historian, and Architect of Modern Maithili Studies

Detailed description

Jha offers a biographical and bibliographical overview linking creative writing, Panji editing, lexicography, script work and digital publishing. He reads these activities as a connection between inherited scholarship and contemporary access. An appended editorial note clarifies institutional memberships and website work; the gist preserves the distinction between the contributor’s profile and editorial additions without treating biographical speculation as established fact.

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. 278–287 ↗

SHA-256: 5dab29b70848c88fde7f163faa6857f45bbb9d145b5e81c05aeca4354c213b94

Paired Maithili edition: SETUSHAM.pdf ↗