South Asian Digital History
A curated collection of web content exploring the history of the digital in South Asia and the digitization of South Asian cultural and historical artifacts.
A curated, open-source collection of web resources exploring two intertwined threads: the history of digital technologies in South Asia, and the digitisation of South Asian cultural and historical artefacts. The collection is maintained as an “awesome list” on GitHub.
This project grows out of a persistent interest in how the digital has been adopted, adapted, and resisted across the subcontinent- and how archival and cultural materials are being made accessible (or not) through digitisation efforts. Related work includes the Wikipedia Editathon for Dalit History Month, which addressed similar gaps in who gets to write marginalised histories, and Mapping the History of Cinema, which digitised a different strand of South Asian cultural heritage. The collection serves as a living bibliography for researchers working at the intersection of digital humanities and South Asian studies.