Exploring Digital Humanities in India

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.

Introduction PART I: Digital Histories 1. Digital Infrastructures and Technoutopian Fantasies: The Colonial Roots of Technology Aid in the Global South 2. A Question of Digital Humanities in India 3. Historians and their Public 4. Mapping Change: The Possibilities for the Spatial Humanities in India PART II: Digital Institutions and Pedagogies 5. Museum Collections in India and the Digital Space 6. Processes of Pluralisation: Digital Databases and Art Writing in India 7. Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogy, Publishing and Practices 8. Digital Humanities, or What You Will: Bringing DH to Indian Classrooms 9. Decolonising Design: Making Critically in India PART III: Subaltern Digital Humanities 10. Ethics and Feminist Archiving in the Digital Age: An Interview with CS Lakshmi 11. Designing LGBT Archive Frameworks 12. Fieldwork with the Digital PART IV: Digital Practices 13. Digital Humanities Practices and Cultural Heritage: Indian Video Games 14. Notes from a Newsroom: Interrogating the Transformation of Hindustan Times in a "Digital" Space 15. Did Digital Kill The Radio Star? The Changing Landscape of the Audio Industry with the Advent of New Digital Media