ABSTRACT
This chapter examines new cultures of memory that have been enabled as a result of the digital. It argues that Indian Memory Projects (IMP's) digitization and collation of private memory produces a whole new way of thinking about citizenship and national/community identity itself. Acts of private remembering that 'go public', so to speak, in the form of IMP's public-private archives generate a 'memory citizenship'. The visuals and voices not only become 'public', but it transforms the way we as individuals come to our 'own' family or personal history when we see these responses. People writing in with more photographs and links, information and recollections that link with our own, means that we view our grandparents' photographs and lives differently – not simply as 'my' grandparents alone but as people who shared lives, spaces and belief systems with several others. Cultural insiderness is the making of contributory history of ourselves, sharing borders, lives and belief systems with larger community of interest.
