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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Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital…
Editor’s Digest March 2026: South Asian Studies (Part 1)
Each Editor’s Digest at The Digital Orientalist serves as a window into a team’s work and reflections over a given…
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…
Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts
In my previous post, I discussed how using Voyant reveals the infrastructural bias of DH tools when confronted with an…
Sinhala Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection: Collaborative Practice and Cultural Heritage
Over the last few years, a collaborative project has been developing between the Sinhala Buddhist organisations the International Centre for…
Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a…
Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic…
Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Digital Humanities in South Asia often begins with negotiating invisibility, the invisibility…
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An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since…