This book showcases innovations in digital humanities (DH) across efforts in India. It examines DH projects that have spanned private and public efforts institutionally sanctioned lab-work and crowd-sourced programmes of public significance and show how collectively they demonstrate the potential paths of DH in India.
The essays in the volume highlight the two fundamental challenges for the digital humanities (DH) acts of curation of new scales and the creation of platforms that can assist in the collation and analysis of these digital archives and changes in learning behaviour. They examine the transformation of the university, and the opening up of new relationships between knowledge and audience in concomitant spaces of scholarship such as libraries, archives, and museums. The volume brings to the fore citizen efforts across the globe to document, record and preserve as well as create new avenues of study and forge networks of scholarship that look very different from traditional academia. It also foregrounds the challenges of location and addresses the question of how DH should be taught in India and of building digital infrastructures.
A go-to guide for DH efforts in the Global South, this book will be an essential text for courses on digital humanities, library and information sciences, and online learning.
This book showcases innovations in digital humanities (DH) across efforts in India. It examines DH projects that have spanned private and public efforts institutionally sanctioned lab-work and crowd-sourced programmes of public significance and show how collectively they demonstrate the potential paths of DH in India.
PART I- DIGITAL PEDAGOGY
1. Peoples Archive of Rural India: The
Material in the Digital
2. Building Digital Humanities Curricula in
Technology-Emphasized Indian eClassrooms
3. Digital Archiving on the
Intersections of Academia and Activism
4. The Archive as a Crucible:
Experiments With Pedagogy Through an Archive
5. Visualizing the Cultural
History of South Asia PART II- TOOLS
6. Digital Assessment of Conventional
Lexical Analysis of the Urdu Marsiya With Sketch Engine Software
7.
Dictionary of Colloquial Terminologies: An Open Database Research Platform
for Archaeology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities
8.
Mapping Indias Linguistic Diversity and Exclusion in the Indian Census
9.
Digital Methods in the Collection, Management, Reuse, Sharing, and
Circulation of Indian Heritage Data
10. The Promise and Perils of Bot-based
Public History PART III- COMMUNITY PROJECTS
11. Khidki Collective:
Reflections on Academic Method Beyond the University
12. Participatory
Engagement and Methods in Digital Humanities
13. Archiving India through Food
A Personal History of On Eating
14. Digital Fever: Reflections of a Queer
Archive
15. Jewish Calcutta, recalled: Lessons From Building a Digital Public
Memory Resource
16. Unveiling Digital Narratives: Understanding
(In)visibility and Resistance of Adivasi Women From Jharkhand
Maya Dodd currently serves as the Director of the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research at FLAME University, Pune, India. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequent post-doctoral fellowships at Princeton University and JNU, India. She teaches digital cultures in the Department of Humanities and has pioneered teaching Digital Humanities (DH) in the liberal arts at the undergraduate level, and also supervises doctoral students for DH study in India. Through the Ownership of Public History in India grant from the British Academy, she has been exploring tools for cultural archiving via techniques from DH. She serves as an editor for the Routledge series on Digital Humanities in Asia. In collaboration, she is currently developing a new project on digitizing Punes Architectural History from 1920 to 1980. She serves on the global advisory board of the University of Rochesters Humanities in the World program and on the editorial boards of the journal, Public Humanities published by Cambridge University Press and the Edinburgh University Press IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities. She is a founding director of the India based section-8 non-profit firm, Milli Archives Foundation. Since 2018, she has served to build digital humanities scholarship via the DHARTI collective, an ADHO constituent member since 2023.
Nirmala Menon is Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Discipline of English, IIT Indore, and Chair of the newly established Jaya Prakash Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities (jpnnationalcentre.com). She leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. Menon is the author of Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitans: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality (Peter Lang Publishing, Germany, 2014) and Remapping the Postcolonial Canon: Remap, Reimagine, Retranslate (Palgrave Macmillan, UK 2017). She is the coeditor of the first multilingual volume of e-literature published from India, Menon, N., T, S., Joseph, J. and Sutton, D., 2023. Indian Electronic Literature Anthology: Volume I. Indore, India: Indian Institute of Technology Knowledge Sharing in Publishing. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.57004/book1) and also Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive Publications 2023, 11(3), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications11030041. Menon is the project lead for KSHIP (Knowledge Sharing in Publishing), an IIT Indore digital humanities project in multilingual open access scholarly publishing in India. She is widely published in numerous international journals and speaks, writes, and publishes about postcolonial studies, digital humanities, and scholarly publishing.
