South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

Over 700,000 pages in the collection! Welcome to SAOA. South Asia Open Archives is a free open-access resource for research … More

Savitribai Phule Digital Exhibit

Google Arts and Cultural digital exhibit. Savitribai Phule: The woman who helped set up the first school for girls in … More

Zubaan – Poster Women Archive

In 2006 Zubaan began a new and fascinating project: Poster Women, a visual mapping of the women’s movement in India … More

Through Her Lens: Reframing the Domestic

Project Name: Through Her Lens: Reframing the Domestic: Exhibition Project Description: Visualising experiences of women, queer and other marginalized identities … More

Towards an internet of equals

Article: Towards an internet of equals by Tejas Harad Anti-caste activists have been quick to embrace “new media”, making innovative … More

The Delek Archives

Project: The Delek Archives: Mapping Islamophobia and Casteism in Schools Project Description: We are trying to reimagine the act of … More

Plaques of Presidency

Project Name: Plaques of Presidency: (Re)Reading History through Memorials Project Description With the advent of colonialism, the 19th century formed … More

Sahapedia

Project: Sahapedia Sahapedia is an open online resource on the arts, cultures and heritage of India. “Saha”, Sanskrit for “together … More

FemPositive

Project Name: FemPositive FemPositive strives to provide a unique positive insight into the feminist ideology, integrate marginalized women’s histories into … More

Janastu

Janastu, a non-profit organisation, has been providing Free Open source Software Solutions and support (FOSS) to small non-profits (NPOs/NGOs) … More

Challenges of Archiving

Research article: “From Shrine to Stage: A Personal Account of the Challenges of Archiving the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan” by … More

Green Hub Youth Fellowship

Green Hub The first youth and community based fellowship and video documentation centre (Digital archive), for work related to wildlife, … More

Jatan

Jatan Trust Oral history and knowledge collection is the recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information based on the personal … More

Centre for Community Knowledge

The Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK) at Ambedkar University Delhi is a university-based interdisciplinary research centre that studies living communities and … More

Oral History Association of India

The Oral History Association of India (OHAI) was founded as a professional organization in 2013 in order to provide a means … More

The Travelling Archive

The Travelling Archive is a shared space of listening to field recordings which come out of a journey through the … More

Pad.ma

Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily … More

Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology

The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) of the American Institute of Indian Studies provides resources for the study … More

Center of South Asian Studies

The Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge has a large collection of oral history and other … More

Archives at the National Center for Biological Sciences

The Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) is a space for institutional records and a collecting public … More

The Secret History of South Asian and African American Solidarity

The Secret History of South Asian and African American Solidarity South Asians and African Americans have been standing up for … More

Oral History Narmada

Oral History Narmada This website shares people’s histories of the mass resistance against the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), a mega … More

Detention Solidarity Network

Detention Solidarity Network (DetSolNet) is an online space to critically engage with the structures and experiences of detention that constitute … More

Kashmir: Memories of Colonial Unknowing

Project: Kashmir: Memories of Colonial Unknowing (by Dia Da Costa) “With India’s revocation of Article 370, Kashmiri azaadi (freedom) has … More

Internet Researchers’ Conference

Conference: Internet Researchers’ Conference, CIS India Held annually since 2016 by the Center for Internet and Society, India.

The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm

Keynote talk: Nimmi Rangaswamy (Associate Professor at the Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad) … More

Orinam

Digital Storytelling: Orinam Orinam, founded in 2003, is an all-volunteer unregistered collective of LGBTIQA+ people and allies based in Chennai, … More

#LOSHA

Raya Sarkar, List of Sexual Harassers in Academia (Facebook, October 2017)

Researchers at Work Blog Series

Blog: RAW Blog, CIS India The RAW Blog hosts writings contributed by researchers, professionals, artists, workers, and others. Themes The … More

Using N-grams to identify edit wars on Wikipedia

Presentation: Arjun Ghosh. “Using N-grams to identify edit wars on Wikipedia” International Workshop on Big Data in Culture, Design and … More

Is Hindutva Masculinity on Social Media Producing A Culture of Violence against Women and Muslims?

Article: Sujatha Subramanian, Is Hindutva Masculinity on Social Media Producing A Culture of Violence against Women and Muslims?

The Arts, Knowledge, and Critique in the Digital Age in India

Conference: The Arts, Knowledge, and Critique in the Digital Age in India: Addressing Challenges in the Digital Humanities‘ organised by … More

Point of View

Group: Point of View Point of View is a Mumbai-based non-profit platform that brings the points of view of women … More

Video Games and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books

Book: Souvik, Mukherjee. Video Games and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books The potential of video games as storytelling media … More

Indiancine.ma

Project: Indiancine.ma Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film. It is intended to serve as a shared resource … More

Blank Noise

Group: Blank Noise Blank Noise is a community of ‘Action Sheroes, Theyroes and Heroes’, individuals and citizens united to eradicate … More

The Digital Dalit: Subalternity and Cyberspace

Research Article: “Keeping the above provisos as a cautionary backdrop, it is important to note that as of date, … More

Making Culture

Project: Making Culture: Locating Digital Humanities in India by Padmini Ray Murray and Chris Hand Abstract: What is called ‘making’ in … More

Feminist Bollywood GIFs

Project: Feminist Bollywood GIFs About: This Facebook page repurposes Bollywood films, memes, and GIFs to spark feminist conversation

Mapping Digital Humanities in India

Project: Mapping Digital Humanities in India by P.P. Sneha About: This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project … More

Bichitra

Project: Bichitra: Online Tagore Variorum About: Bichitra is the biggest integrated knowledge site devoted to any author in any language to … More

1947 Partition Archive

Project: 1947 Partition Archive Mission: The 1947 Partition Archive is a non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to institutionalizing the people’s history of … More