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Conversations on Digital Humanities: Contentions and Contingencies in the Indian Context book cover

1st Edition

Conversations on Digital Humanities Contentions and Contingencies in the Indian Context

Edited By Sunanda Kar, Avishek Ray Copyright 2026
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together the essential debates concerning the emergent area of Digital Humanities in India. Through the interviews, the book attempts to identify the differences and convergences between DH practice in and that of Global North. The book can be seen as a compendium for exploring multifarious layers of the ‘digital’ and its relationship with humanities, academia and beyond which... Read more

Introduction

1. From Manuscripts to Metadata: Digitizing Tagore and the Future of Textual Scholarship

Sukanta Chaudhuri

2. Digital Tools and Literary Landscapes: Mapping Partition

Johannes Burgers

3. Postcolonial Digital Humanities: Challenging Canons, Amplifying Voices

Roopika Risam

4. Beyond the Academy: Community-Driven Digital Humanities in India

Maya Dodd

5. Making and Meaning: Rethinking Digital Humanities Beyond Western Frameworks

Padmini Ray Murray

6. Beyond the Anglo-Centric Lens: Digital Humanities and South Asian Linguistic Landscapes

Alexander Sean Pue

7. Digital Humanities as a Critical Intervention: Beyond Digitization

Nishant Shah

8. Digital Affordances and Epistemic Shifts in Research

Venkat Ratandeep Suri

9. Reimagining Digital Humanities and Textuality in South Asia: Diasporic Reflections 

Rahul K Gairola

 

10. Digital Temporalities: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of DH in India

Dibyaduti Roy

 

Biography

Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (2022), co-author of Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India (2024) and Temporal Spaces in Calcutta: Digital Networks in the Wake of the Pandemic (2026), editor of Decolonial Travel: Vernacular Mobilities in India (2025), and co-editor of Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (2020). In 2021, his academic excellence was recognized with the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. 

Sunanda Kar, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology Silchar, is nearing the completion of her doctoral studies. Her research delves into the intersections of literature, new media studies, and digital humanities. Sunanda has contributed scholarly articles to renowned journals such as South Asian Popular Culture and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. 

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