Conversations on Digital Humanities

Contentions and Contingencies in the Indian Context
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-38434-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book brings together the essential debates concerning the emergent area of Digital Humanities (DH) in India. Through the interviews, the book attempts to identify the differences and convergences between DH practice in India 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, thereby giving rise to many complications and contentions within DH in India. Conversations on DH depict the chequered and amorphous nature of DH practice in India—as an academic discipline, as a methodology, as community projects, and as an appendage to the existing discipline of literary studies, toward charting the features of DH as an emerging discourse. For example, some scholars understand DH as a ‘method’, while others regard it as a discipline. Similarly, while some view DH in India as a derivative of DH in the Global South, others consider it distinct from DH in the Global North. This book brings together these different, yet diverse and distinct notions in form of conversations, to provide not a uniform understanding of DH, but a comprehensive view of the paradigm of what can be tentatively understood as ‘Indian DH’. As editors, we ensure that this book captures the pluralities around the concerns of DH, which are determined not by us, but by scholars and practitioners who have been steering the area of DH.

This volume will be of interest to those making their initial entry into the area of DH—particularly, students of literary studies, cultural studies, and media and communication studies. The volume brings together diverse voices concerning not only DH practice but also practices concerning the broader discourse of the digital and digitality; alongside, the volume will allow readers to engage with the evolving landscape of DH with respect to the Indian context.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kar, Sunanda

Ray, Avishek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bestandsaufbau, Bestandsentwicklung, Erwerbung
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Systematiken, Katalogisierung, Klassifikation, Bibliographisches Arbeiten
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften EDV Systeme, Internet und elektronische Ressourcen in Bibliotheken
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 teaches in the Department of Social Sciences and Languages at the Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai. Her research delves into the intersections of literature, new media, and digital cultures. She has published in South Asian Popular Culture (Routledge) and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State University Press).