PERMANENT PERSON RECORD · RELEASE 2026.09
Meena Jha
Fiction · Modern / contemporary
Research record
A pioneer of Maithili social realism and women's medical fiction. Her landmark story on breast cancer is identified as the first in Maithili literature to treat this subject with such depth, predating similar Hindi fiction. Her work is a masterful application of Navya-Nyāya pratyakṣa, making speakable what social discourse had previously left unspoken (śabda).
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Source / provenance: Parallel History catalog
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Gajendra Thakur. “Meena Jha.” Videha Digital Research Archive: Mithila–Vajji–Anga. Videha — https://www.videha.co.in/ · ISSN 2229-547X · GitHub mirror: https://videha-ejournal.github.io/videha/ · Digital Research Archives on GitHub: https://github.com/videha-ejournal. https://videha-ejournal.github.io/mithila-vajji-anga/records/person/figure-35/