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Textual scholarship in India?

Not very surprisingly, the examples I showed of digital editions from Europe and north America led to the question: are there editions like these made in India, of Indian texts? and if there are not: why not? and can they be made?

Answering the first question: there is a ferment of activity in the area of digital texts in India. A quick Google search reveals, instantly, http://indology.info/etexts/, produced by my long-time colleague at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Dominik Wujastyk. This lists over thirty digital archives of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit texts, and much more besides. I mentioned in my talk on Wednesday 11 December the work done by Wendy Philips-Rodriguez on the Mahrabharata, following on from the work of her Cambridge supervisor, John Smith, in which she applied the same methods of phylogenetic analysis based on computer-assisted collation that I showed on Wednesday. You can see articles by her at her Academia site, I recommend her article on Chi-squares and the Phenomenon of “Change of Exemplar” in the Dyūtaparvan, also published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 380-390. You can find some discussion of her work in the recent Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahabharata Textual Criticism (Adluri and Bagchee, Anthem Press, 2018). However, as I said, her work is not based on original transcription of manuscripts (though she does check her texts against manuscripts).

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Readings for Thursday and Friday

On Thursday morning we have a reading seminar scheduled. Please read the following short articles and watch the short video:

  1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279742/
  2. https://www.nature.com/news/humanity-s-cultural-history-captured-in-5-minute-film-1.15650
  3. http://historyonics.blogspot.com/2013/12/big-data-for-dead-people-digital.html

I would also like to encourage you to read the following article before my talk on Thursday:

  1. Lara Putnam, “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast,” The American Historical Review 121, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 377–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.377. Author’s repository open access version: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21663/
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What is the future of DH in India?

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What are the Digital Humanities?

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