Digital Humanities and South Asian Studies

Disclaimer



Transformative aspects of access to information with respect to South Asian Studies are being constantly dissected in many inter-disciplinary subjects that are taught in various universities in the North American Setting. Usually words like Globalization are used loosely to indicate how the information streams have merged and often diverged to temporarily create surging interests to the way how not only the science is packaged, how the art is described and how the humanities are re-formed to provide greater access to those who can afford the technological minimum. South Asian Studies field is not an exception to these general trends and we should examine these trends in Digital Humanities in light of the current technological development that on one hand brought many parts of the world closer together while the other parts of the world still remain somewhat isolated from the processes that are grouped under the commonly used term-the globalized knowledge creation.


Here I want to bring to our attention so of the sites that might be of interest to this discussion. Some of the clips that I would play here are from the popular music scene. These are meant to illustrate some issues that revolve around critical attribution of identity and stereotypical imagination of the "other" a la Sartre. The purpose of these illustrations is not to discuss the theories of Weberian disenchantment and dichotomies between the traditions and reforms, but to state the obvious. The processes that we are planning to name a sort of cultural globalization are real forces that move people, nations to imagine the others from their own perspectives and ideological positions. The totality of these perspectives and ideotypes is simply unending and as the person of South Asian origin various worlds like the Central Asian, Slavic and Eastern European and finally the North American setting has made me a better information professional. I will end this monologue by using a Turkish proverb- Bir Lisan, Bir Insan.



Diversity in South Asia: An Example











More Serious Stuff...



The Digital South Asia Library


The Digital South Asia Library provides dictionaries, gazetteers, photographs, prints, drawings, maps, statistics, bibliographies, indexes, books..(About the DSAL)



Libraries with Major South Asia Collections



The Virtual Library South Asia, Heidelberg, Germany


"Welcome to Savifa,
the information gateway for South Asia Studies,
which offers you a comprehensive access to professionally selected and annotated internet resources as well as other scientific information."



The Digital Humanities as a pedagogical tool.


A Door Into Hindi



The Hindi at Boulder-Colorado



Learning Tamil Online






Singapore National Library




What is Digital Humanities? Any thoughts while we watch some clips?





The alliance of digital humanities organizations



Textual Analysis



UCLA and Hypercities



Institute for digital research, UCLA



NEH Sponsorship




India, Russia and the CIS: Musical Inter-textuality













DJ Slon & Angel-A - Джимми, Джимми - MyVideo







And others: Beatles and 1960s




















Cultural Borrowings: as a common space for intersectional dialogue, conflict and discussion as a background to Globalization
























Brasil e India

















India and the United States through Bollywood and Hollywood