Gajendra Thakur: The Bridge-Person for the Renaissance of Maithili Language and Literature

Detailed description

Jha uses bridge-building to connect Thakur’s writing, historical research, script preservation, dictionaries, translation and editorial work. He interprets literary creation as a cultural responsibility extending to young readers and future researchers. The essay’s organizing idea is continuity across tradition and technology, reinforced by an account of translation as exchange between Maithili, English and other Indian languages.

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. 298–313 ↗

SHA-256: 5dab29b70848c88fde7f163faa6857f45bbb9d145b5e81c05aeca4354c213b94

Paired Maithili edition: SETUSHAM.pdf ↗