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Preeti × GajendraTHE VIDEHA LITERARY ATLAS
MAITHILI · LITERATURE · MEMORYVIDEHA / LITERARY ATLAS

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Two writers. A shared literary world.

Preeti Thakur&Gajendra Thakur

From picture stories to palm-leaf records.
From writing to the digital archive.

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Two bodies of work.
A language in common.

01 / THE WRITERS

Distinct voices.
A language in common.

01 / PREETI THAKUR
Preeti Thakur, in a photograph from the Videha archive
Videha Mithila Ratna (editorial heritage gallery) ↗

Preeti Thakur

Children’s literature · Translation · Preservation

Maithili picture stories and translated children’s books form a major strand of her work. Videha also credits her with compiling, scanning and cataloguing palm-leaf Panji records.

Writing
Gonu Jha and Other Maithili Picture Stories
Translation
Little and Big · My Heart’s Wish
Archives
Original Tirhuta palm-leaf Panji records
Explore her children’s books external ↗
02 / GAJENDRA THAKUR
Gajendra Thakur, photographed by Umeshberma in 2009
Umeshberma · CC BY 3.0 ↗

Gajendra Thakur

Writing · Research · Editing

His work spans short fiction, novels, poetry, drama and criticism, alongside language, scripts and literary history. As Videha’s editor, he also works in digital publishing and archives.

Literature
Galp-Guchchha · Sankarshan · Sahasrabarhani
Research
A Parallel History of Mithila & Maithili Literature
Editing
Videha, the Maithili fortnightly e-journal
Explore the collected works external ↗

Sources: Videha Books · Gajendra Thakur Samagra

A READER’S COMPASS

Where shall we begin?

For the curious reader

Pictures, stories, imagination.

Enter children’s literature through Preeti Thakur’s picture stories and translations.

  1. 01Gonu Jha and Other Maithili Picture StoriesPreeti Thakur
  2. 02Little and BigPreeti Thakur
  3. 03Maithili Picture StoriesPreeti Thakur

02 / SELECTED WORKS

The world of writing

Books, translations and archives. Open a title to read its original resource.

36 selected works; the companion Reading Room covers 59 catalogue entries, including collected editions and digital resources. These are different units, not a complete count of published books. English criticism →

All entries below were checked against the source catalogues on 13 September 2026 unless an item says otherwise.

What is counted?36 atlas selections · 59 Reading Room catalogue entries · 16 Preeti children’s works · 37 Gajendra children’s/graphic novels · 46 Gajendra translation entriesThese categories overlap and are not a total-books count.

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Novel2026

Gajendra Thakur

Sahasrashirsha

Videha · Digital edition

Recorded edition: 2026 · first/revised status not separately recorded

Thirty-four kallol-based bilingual readings foregrounding folk memory, oral performance, caste/kinship, flood, agrarian life and Mithila’s many-voiced collective body.

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CITE · #SIX-SAHASRASHIRSHA
Novel2026

Gajendra Thakur

Sahasrabadhani

Videha · Digital edition

Recorded edition: 2026 · first/revised status not separately recorded

Source-span bilingual discussions from the supplied DOC/PDF pair, treating family memory, social history, geography and changing arrangements conservatively.

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CITE · #SIX-SAHASRABADHANI

This is a selected bibliography. Years describe editions, not necessarily first publication; all displayed years use 0–9. Preeti Thakur’s four children’s originals are original Maithili works authored by her; the twelve translated picture-books are English-to-Maithili translations by her. Select a work’s Cite anchor, then use the fixed bottom Reading Tools bar’s Cite control for a ready-made citation. Full Videha catalogue ↗

THE WORK OF PRESERVATION

Keep the words.
Reach the reader.

Preeti’s Panji compilation and Gajendra’s Braille edition bring preservation and access into the same literary world.

24years between the first and latest selected timeline milestones · 2002–2026
11,000

Original Tirhuta palm-leaf records

Listed by Videha as compiled, scanned and catalogued by Preeti Thakur. Volumes I–XXII · 2007.

Open the source Drive copy ↗Combined Archive.org PDF · 840 MB · large file ↗
Volume and part structure

Videha documents the archive as Volumes I–XXII. Google Play separately describes the digital edition as available in 10 parts; that is the official/store-based partial digital access. The Archive.org link is a community-available combined 840 MB PDF; check the file size before opening on mobile data. The verified listings do not state an exact volume-to-part mapping, so this atlas does not guess one.

Open a verified Google Play part (6/10) ↗

03 / A LITERARY CHRONOLOGY

On the pages of time.

Selected milestones in publishing and preservation.

Selected, documented milestones—not an annual activity record. Gaps between dates do not imply a pause in writing or publication.

Timeline sources checked:

  1. 2002
    PREETI

    Little and Big

    The first edition of the Maithili picture-book translation, revised in 2022.

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  2. 2004
    VIDEHA

    Bhalasarik Gachh

    Gajendra Thakur’s blog began on 5 July: a milestone in Videha’s digital history.

    View source ↗
  3. 2007
    PREETI

    The Panji archive

    Compilation, scanning and cataloguing of original Tirhuta palm-leaf records.

    View source ↗
  4. 2008
    PREETI / VIDEHA

    Picture stories and a journal

    Gonu Jha and Other Maithili Picture Stories appeared. On 1 January, the fortnightly journal began its journey under the name Videha.

    View source ↗Picture-book listing ↗
  5. 2009
    GAJENDRA / PREETI

    Literature in many forms

    Galp-Guchchha, Sankarshan and Sahasrabarhani; Preeti Thakur’s Maithili Picture Stories.

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  6. 2012
    PREETI

    Vidyapati’s Purusha Pariksha

    A work published for children.

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  7. 2016
    PREETI

    Animals

    Maithili children’s-book translation: edition listed in the Videha catalogue.

    View source ↗
  8. 2018
    PREETI

    Book 13: 1… 2… 3…

    Maithili children’s-book translation: edition listed in the Videha catalogue.

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  9. 2019
    PREETI

    Instrumental Sounds

    Maithili children’s-book translation: edition listed in the Videha catalogue.

    View source ↗
  10. 2022
    PREETI

    Race

    Maithili children’s-book translation: edition listed in the Videha catalogue.

    View source ↗
  11. 2024
    PREETI / GAJENDRA

    New readings, new forms

    Preeti’s translation My Heart’s Wish and the graphic-novel edition of Gajendra’s Sahasrabarhani.

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  12. 2026
    VIDEHAPLATFORM / META

    A gateway to the collected works

    Literature, language resources, audio editions and research projects gathered in the digital Samagra.

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04 / BEYOND THIS PAGE

Into the world of Videha.

01 / JOURNAL

Latest issue

Maithili prose, poetry and editorials.

02 / LIBRARY

Videha Books

An extensive bibliography of writers and works.

03 / YOUNG READERS

Children’s festival

Books for children and learning resources.

04 / COLLECTED WORKS

Gajendra Samagra

Original writing, translation, audio and research.

The journal is an actively updating resource. Subscribe to new Videha issues via RSS ↗

THE READING ROOM / ENGLISH CRITICISM

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Read. Question.
Return to the work.

English critical readings of Preeti’s catalogue and every entry in Gajendra’s “00 Main Samagra”. Each page shows its sources and the scope of its assessment.

The notes examine language, images, argument and archival selection; each distinguishes direct reading from a source-based introduction.

3 complete short-book visual readings · 40 sampled text / visual readings · 13 publisher or catalogue introductions · 3 digital companions

01 / PREETI THAKUR17 books & resources

Picture stories, translations, preservation.

02 / GAJENDRA THAKUR42 Samagra entries

Fiction, philosophy, criticism and digital companions.

THREE PLACES TO BEGIN

Little and BigComparison ends in companionship →Gohi Sabhak Beech JalsamadhiThe past is built into the numbering →Decoding PanjiA record of lineage is also a record of selection →

Collected editions are assessed as catalogue entries. Direct readings, publisher-based introductions and three digital companions are clearly distinguished. Open all 59 readings ↗

EDITORIAL NOTES

Connected to the sources.

Nine originally Drive-hosted PDFs are preserved in this repository, with original links retained. The combined Panji collection also has an Archive.org route (840 MB); it has not been compared in full with every Drive volume.

The catalogue and timeline draw on Videha’s public archive. Read complete works at their original publications. English display titles are descriptive translations or transliterations; they do not imply that the linked book is available in English.

Sources checked . This selection is not an exhaustive bibliography. Copyright in works and images remains with their respective authors and rights holders.

Sources for works and chronology
Image sources and credits

Preeti Thakur: Videha Mithila Ratna, original photograph.

Gajendra Thakur: Umeshberma, 2009, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. Displayed without modification.

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