Oral Histories from Sindhi Libraries in India: Infrastructures around Sindhi Literature
My previous work on Sindhi literature in post-Partition involves PG Sindhi Library, Sindhi Halchal Archive, and Sindhi Sanchaya. Posts dealing…
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The Evidence of the Small: Digital Historical Forensics and What Big Data Cannot See in Wartime Chinese Propaganda
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities)…
De-Silencing History: From Private Papers to Public Data in the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Project
This is a post by Zhaleh Nayebossadrian | Sapienza University of Rome Introduction: The Digital Turn in Persian Persian Studies,…
OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Studies in Digital Humanities (DH) constantly illustrate that the discipline cannot be confined…
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Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here),…
Sindhi Sanchaya: A Repository of Data about Sindhi Books
In my previous post, I wrote about the Sindhi Halchal Archive: a passion project that extends the work of the…
Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library
In my previous post, I wrote about potentialities: I spoke about what might be doable for the Sindhi presence within…
From Bonn to Berlin: The Journey of Tibetan Digital Archives (CrossAsia Series Part 3)
Image taken from DTAB CrossAsia In the third and final part of the series, we present one of CrossAsia’s database…
M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond
Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge,…
PG Sindhi Library: Revisiting the Archive after 18 Months
Archives and archive building hold great potential within the theory and praxis of digital humanities in India. Sindhi, a minor…