Digital Humanities offers a several promising opportunities in India. Firstly, it is a great methodological intervention, as an integration of computational tools in Humanities and Social Sciences research. Secondly, it opens up an opportunity to ask different kinds of questions and employ requisite computational tools to answer them. Traditionally, several disciplines in Social Sciences demark their territory in terms of theory and method. But however, the available of digital tools redefined this notion and pushed scholars to think go beyond their disciplinary understanding. Moreover, in any research, the availability of data plays an important role. Lack of data always delimits ones understanding on several issues. With the help of Digital Humanities, one can build a strong digital archives and make data available to all otherwise it is limited to few. It is more or less a kind of web archives where several documents or resources in analogue mode made available through digitalizing them.
In Indian case, it has lot of advantages as most of the historical records largely still exists in Institutional setup and needs to be digitalized. For an example, some archival institutes in Indian started digitalizing historical newspapers and magazines which were in circulation in pre independence. This will help not only historians but also people from other disciplines who wants to analyze the material for their research. Apart from digital archives, the DH as methodological tool helps one to collect large amount of data and analyze them.
Winter Institute in Digital Humanities 