1st Edition
Exploring Digital Humanities in India Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities
Introduction
Maya Dodd and Nidhi Kalra
PART I: Digital Histories
1. Digital Infrastructures and Technoutopian Fantasies: The Colonial Roots of Technology Aid in the Global South
Dhanashree Thorat
2. A Question of Digital Humanities in India
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
3. Historians and their Public
Rochelle Pinto
4. Mapping Change: The Possibilities for the Spatial Humanities in India
Karan Kumar and Rahul Chopra
PART II: Digital Institutions and Pedagogies
5. Museum Collections in India and the Digital Space
Joyoti Roy
6. Processes of Pluralisation: Digital Databases and Art Writing in India
Sneha Ragavan
7. Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogy, Publishing and Practices
Nirmala Menon and Shanmugapriya T
8. Digital Humanities, or What You Will: Bringing DH to Indian Classrooms
Souvik Mukherjee
9. Decolonising Design: Making Critically in India
Padmini Ray Murray
PART III: Subaltern Digital Humanities
10. Ethics and Feminist Archiving in the Digital Age: An Interview with CS Lakshmi
Nidhi Kalra and Manasi Nene
11. Designing LGBT Archive Frameworks
Niruj Mohan Ramanujam
12. Fieldwork with the Digital
Surajit Sarkar
PART IV: Digital Practices
13. Digital Humanities Practices and Cultural Heritage: Indian Video Games
Xenia Zeiler
14. Notes from a Newsroom: Interrogating the Transformation of Hindustan Times in a "Digital" Space
Dhrubo Jyoti and Vidya Subramanian
15. Did Digital Kill The Radio Star? The Changing Landscape of the Audio Industry with the Advent of New Digital Media
Mae Mariyam Thomas
Biography
Maya Dodd received her PhD from Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature. Subsequently, she received postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University, USA, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She also taught in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University and in English departments at Stanford and the University of Florida. Currently, she is Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning and Engagement and is a part of the Department of Humanities and Languages, and she teaches Literary and Cultural Studies at FLAME University, India. Her research interests include Indian law and cultural studies, and her teaching is focused on the digital classroom and archiving practices in South Asian cultural studies.
Nidhi Kalra is a doctoral candidate working on affect and conflict at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay and is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at FLAME University, Pune, India. She has taught at the English Department in Savitribai Phule Pune University and Gargi College in the University of Delhi, India. Nidhi received her MPhil in English Literature from the University of Delhi, for which she worked on problematising Holocaust memoirs. Her research interests include memory studies, trauma studies, oral history, digital humanities and children’s/young adult literature.
