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
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….
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….
