How do literary histories change when translation pathways are designed across Indian languages rather than routed primarily through English?
05 / Research
The archive is also a research question.
SHABD India studies the conditions under which literature becomes discoverable, translatable, computationally legible and ethically accessible across languages.
Questions
What the infrastructure lets us ask.
What metadata, typography and search practices make multilingual archives genuinely usable across scripts?
How can digitisation preserve provenance, rights and community knowledge rather than flattening texts into interchangeable content?
Outputs & updates
Evidence as it becomes ready.
The 22 × 22 corpus model
Selection, translation and review as a networked scholarly workflow.
Version-level permissions
A practical model for text, translation, audio and metadata rights.
The story as object
Reading UX, contextual records and transparent incompleteness.