Gajendra Thakur ji’s Contribution to Maithili Literature

Detailed description

Jha offers an appreciative survey of research, dictionaries, scripts, translation, literary forms and digital archives. He places particular emphasis on the editor’s ability to identify new talent and connect dispersed readers with books and periodicals. The essay’s large output totals and priority claims belong to its tribute-oriented account and are not adopted here as a reconciled bibliography.

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. 291–297 ↗

SHA-256: 5dab29b70848c88fde7f163faa6857f45bbb9d145b5e81c05aeca4354c213b94

Paired Maithili edition: SETUSHAM.pdf ↗