ABSTRACT
The ‘digital’ has brought important changes in interdisciplinary research and knowledge production. In the humanities, the role of digital technologies has been contentious, with debate spurred by the growth of humanities computing, digital humanities (DH) and cultural analytics. Even as these fields signal shifts in scholarship, pedagogy and practice, portending a futuristic imagination of the role of technology in academia and practice, they also reflect challenges of the digital divide, and politics around the growth and sustenance of the humanities. A criticism around DH has been its Anglo-American framing. While this has been met with resistance calling for diversity and representation in the discourse, it also reflects the need to trace/contextualize local forms of practice and pedagogy in the digital. This chapter draws upon excerpts from a study on DH in India, to outline diverse contexts of humanities practice and explore the discourse around DH in the Indian context.
