Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Archives, oral history, translation, and the digital humanities
This subject equips students with cross-disciplinary research methods for humanities scholarship in the Indian context: working ethically with archives, conducting oral history, practising comparative and translation studies, and applying digital humanities tools to South Asian literary and historical material.
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Archives, Access, and Ethics
The politics of the colonial and postcolonial Indian archive, and the ethical obligations of researchers working with sensitive historical and literary material.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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Oral History: Method, Memory, and the Interview
Techniques and ethical frameworks for conducting oral history research, with attention to memory, trauma, and community consent in the Indian context.
5 concepts · 3 sources · 3 exercises
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Digital Humanities: Text, Data, and South Asian Sources
Digital tools and methods for literary and historical research on South Asian material, from text encoding to computational analysis, and their limits.
5 concepts · 3 sources · 3 exercises
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Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
Methods for comparative reading across Indian languages and the theoretical and practical challenges of literary translation.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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Global Public History and Memory Studies
How societies worldwide construct, contest, and institutionalise historical memory through museums, memorials, oral history, and truth commissions, compared with Indian practice.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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World Digital Humanities and Computational Methods
The global development of digital humanities methods—text encoding, distant reading, network analysis, GIS—and their adoption in Indian humanities research.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 2 exercises
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World Literature, Translation Theory, and Cross-Cultural Research Ethics
Theories of world literature and translation, and the research-ethical questions that arise when scholars work across languages, communities, and cultural boundaries.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises