South Asian Digital Humanities

<p>The digital cultural record has a powerful role to play in both new and future strategies of creating new homes within the digital milieu. For example, the development and establishment of new digital archives around South Asian studies not only allows us to create new archives of the past but also to remember and commemorate the past differently. New maps transform how we understand space and place. And new digital comfort zones facilitate connections for those whose family and loved ones are only accessible online. Such interventions are essential to the recuperation of the integrity and soul of a people who have lived through and continue to shoulder the fraught and painful legacies of the British Empire and the communal bloodshed wrought by its demise. </p><p>Building on the important history of digital humanities scholarship in South Asia and its diasporas that precedes this work, this book contends that South Asian studies is further positioned to offer a new genealogy of digital humanities, demonstrated through this assemblage of essays that reveal how the digital continues to shape notions of home, belonging, nation, identity, memory, and diaspora through a variety of humanistic methodologies and digital techniques. </p><p><em>South Asian Digital Humanities</em> thus demonstrates that postcolonial digital humanities has great possibility for creating some of the most important social justice scholarship in South Asian studies of the past century. It offers these essays as innovative interventions that complicate the digital cultural record while lodging a 'homelanding' for South Asians within it, positioning digital humanities as a method through which South Asian studies can strategically participate in the ongoing struggle for representation within digital knowledge production.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>South Asian Review</i>.</p> <p>Preface</p><p>Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak</p><p>Foreword: From Subaltern Studies to South Asian Digital Humanities</p><p>Radhika Gajjala</p><p>1. South Asian Digital Humanities Then and Now</p><p>Roopika Risam & Rahul K. Gairola</p><p>2. Digital Humanities on the Ground: Post-Access Politics and the Second Wave of Digital Humanities</p><p>Nishant Shah</p><p>3. Emulation as Mimicry: Reading the Salman Rushdie Digital Archive</p><p>Porter Olsen </p><p>4. Inside and Outside the Literary Marketplace: The Digital Products of Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie</p><p>Tawnya Azar</p><p>5. Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Digital Graphic Narratives From India</p><p>Jana Fedtke </p><p>6. Acoustic Traces of Poetry in South Asia</p><p>A. Sean Pue </p><p>7. Beyond the Archive Gap: The Kiplings and the Famines of British Colonial India</p><p>Amardeep Singh </p><p>8. Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure: The Sedimented and Linked Networks of the Telegraph and Submarine Fiber Optic Internet</p><p>Dhanashree Thorat</p><p>Afterword: The Vision and the Work into the 21st Century</p><p>Sukanta Chaudhuri</p>