Research Projects

JPN Centre of Excellence in the Humanities supports research projects that examine intersections of technology and the humanities. The following projects in the broad areas of Digital Humanities and Environmental Humanities are currently funded by the centre. The Principal investigators for these projects are researchers from institutes and universities across the country. Additionally, the centre faculty have also received external grants for projects in the same areas.  Learn more about JPN funded projects and centre projects below.

JPN Funded Projects in 2024

Youth, Fluidity and Cyber Religiosity: Reproduction of Sacred Spaces and Social Boundaries through Digital Means

This project analyses the new patterns of social boundary making and reproduction of the ‘sacred’ spaces …

Two Decades of Anthropocene Research: A Scientometric Analysis

Of different research areas, Anthropocene is an emerging area of study which defines Earth’s most recent geological time period as being human- influenced...

The Interface of Science, Society and Politics in Waste
Management of Darjeeling Himalayas

The Interface of Science, Society and Politics in the Waste Management of Darjeeling
Himalayas consider waste…

Producing Ontologies of Relationships from Indian Nuptial documents longitudinally (PORINOY): A Case Study of Bengali/Bangla Wedding Invitations

It is designed to examine, digitize, and contribute to one perennial area in the cultural study of South Asia

Planning the Bela: Reflections on Riverine Planning in modern Delhi

A 44 km stretch demarcated by generations of master planners into rural and urban segments…

Open Access Interactive Storytelling Project on the Manasamangal Kavya

This project seeks to design an interactive storytelling game – mingling local folklore and climate disasters..

Making themselves Visible: Women, Market and Ecofeminism in  rural Assam

The study aims to broadly understand the relation between women and environment…

Linguistic Complexity and Cognitive Load in Natural Language Processing: A Physio-Behavioural Approach

The research focuses on exploring how varying linguistic complexity levels influence cognitive

Digitizing the Socio-Cultural & Ecological History of the Kolis, Bhandup Gaon, Mumbai

The proposed project aims to map and digitize the socio-cultural & ecological history …

Digitised Preservation and Archival of Endangered Angika and its Folk Art and Literature: Conserving Cultural Heritage of Bihar

Recognising the urgency of preserving Angika’s cultural heritage..

Digital Labour Platforms and Future of Work: A Study of Gig Worker’s ‘Insecurity, Inequality, and Precarity

The project aims to understand and examine gig worker’s situation in regards to insecurity, inequality, and precarity..

Developing an Alternative Access to Cultural Heritage: A Digital Archive  of Naga Oral Heritage

The project seeks to  establish a new method for documenting the oral artistic and cultural expressions of the Nagas…

Computational Methods for Identifying and Categorizing Linguistic Bias Manifestations in Textual Data

This project aims to develop a comprehensive linguistic bias analysis tool that integrates traditional humanities research…

Assessing the Influence of Tribal Cultural Landscapes on Forest Cover in Hoshangabad Forest Division, Madhya Pradesh

The project aims to explore the dynamic relationship between tribal cultural practices..

Ancient Indian Board Games: Preservation, Documentation and Cultural Impact

Indian board-games (and indeed other indoor games) form a significant part of our culture..

Access to Water: As A Human Rights Concept

In India, nearly 820 million people are experiencing high to extreme water stress

Do Canals Have Histories?: Environmental Heritage Between Memory and Forgetting in the Eastern Periphery of Kolkata’

This project has its roots in a historic location at the eastern periphery of Kolkata, India…

‘Contamination’: A Digital Archive of Bhopal. The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster in History!

While the facts and impact of the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal are well documented, the impacts of water contamination.

From Uncertainty to Action: Recalibrating Digital Humanities Methods and Tools for Non-standard British Colonial South India Data

The research aims to recalibrate digital humanities methods and tools …

Atho Kadai Stories: Tracing Burmese Street Food Culture in Chennai

The project aims to digitally document the narratives of food, city, and people from different ethnic origins within the city of Chennai

JPN Funded Projects in 2023

Are we ready for the adverse effects of climate migration? A study on climate change-induced internal migration in India for 2040

This study will use historic population distribution and spatial predictors (socio economic, geographic, and climatic impacts) to predict the state of future internal migrants in India….

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Critical Thinking and Writing Lab at IIT Indore

Writing centers have become common in private universities such as Ashoka University, Shiv Nadar University and among others. The public-funded universities /Institutes in India are yet to open doors to developing writing pedagogy or help …

Magadhi Culture and the Endangered Indigene of India: A Project of Archiving, Dissemination, and Pedagogy

This project aims to publish, digitize, and preserve the ancient rural balladry performed in Magadhi language. Our core objective is to provide a new perspective of subaltern ….

Archiving Ethically: Establishing Protocols for Community Archiving in A
Digital Era

For the creation of ethical standards in digital archives, we aim at displaying the role communities play in creating and keeping memories alive, and to acknowledge that archiving requires technical standards to also respond …

Assessing the Environmental Literacy in Rural Madhya Pradesh

The project aims to assess the environmental literacy in adjoining villages of IIT Indore by identifying the potential hotspots. The existing environmental literacy is expected to be assessed through door-to-door surveys and personal interviews….

A Digital Archive of Great Nicobar Island 

The project aims to consider serious concerns about the impact that will be caused along the ecological, cultural, and geological dimensions in a time of serious concerns of global warming, rising sea levels, the rights of the indigenous communities and importance of forest …

Dialectics of Prakṛti and Samskṛti: An Ecosophical Study of the Select Ancient
Indian Texts 

The proposed project aims to study the eco-ethical practices of primeval Hindu civilisation laid down in varied Sanskrit liturgical texts. The proposed project would study the select classical Indian texts,namely, Aitareya and Brhadaranyaka Upaniṣads, ….

Socio economic-    environmental vulnerability due to climate change-induced disasters: A tehsil-level assessment for Madhya Pradesh

In Madhya Pradesh, frequent climate-induced disasters take the shape of droughts, floods,heat waves, and rainstorms. Madhya Pradesh is ranked fourth in terms of its susceptibility to . …

Digitizing Madhubani: Archiving the Socio-cultural History of Bihar

This archival study endeavours to digitize and preserve the narratives infused within the Madhubani or Mithila paintings of Bihar. Through the digitized preservation of this aesthetically suffused ancient art form, the project seeks to create…

Sindhi Sanchaya: Building a Comprehensive and Interactive Database of a Partitioned
Literature 

As a minor language in India and as a partitioned language and literary tradition, Sindhi needs greater presence on the Internet. Sindhi Sanchaya is envisioned as a comprehensive and interactive online database of Sindhi literature ….

Centre Projects

Digital Twins: negotiating identity and translocated heritage in the global age

It addresses the urgent transnational challenges of heritage exchange in the digital era. The project unites humanities, digital heritage, and social science experts to grapple with the compound predicaments facing museums and curators worldwide…

This study aims to assess the economic loss and damage caused by the forest fires on the Non-Timber Forest Produces (NTFPs). NTFPs play an important role in the livelihood of poor forest-dependent people as the forests are the source of employment and income for these …

The 8th schedule of the constitution, India has 22 official languages and more than 11 scripts with new ones being added. In all of these major languages, there is a robust production and consumption of literature….

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