Preserving Cultural Memory Through Digital Practice

My work brings together digital archiving, audiovisual documentation, capacity building, and Digital Humanities research. Across archival collections, cultural landscapes, historical texts, and community knowledge initiatives, I explore how digital methods can support the preservation, interpretation, and accessibility of cultural heritage.

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Bringing archives, cultural landscapes, and historical texts into new digital contexts.

Digital Archiving

Preserving Collections. Enabling Discovery.

Capacity Building

Building Skills. Expanding Access. Sharing Knowledge.

Text Technologies

From Historical Texts to Digital Research.

01. Digitisation & Digital Archiving

EAP1745: Archiving Santali Puthi and Patham

Supported by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme, this project focuses on preserving and digitising rare Santali manuscripts and printed books from Bangladesh (1900–1960), with over 11,000 archival images digitised for long-term preservation and research.

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Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) Papers

Supported by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (EAP1525), this project digitised 32 annual report volumes (BCCI, 1954–1963; Indian Tea Association, 1919–1934; Indian Jute Mill Association, 1906–1911), producing over 14,071 archival images.

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Victoria Memorial Hall Collection

A collaboration between SCTR, Jadavpur University, and VMH to digitise historical collections, including Cooch Behar Rajbari papers, coins, stamps, Abanindranath Tagore’s paintings, Persian manuscripts, Justice Hyde notebooks, Jayant Patel’s Kolkata photographs, legal documents, and the Krishna Collection.

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Gurbax Singh Archive

This project documented the personal collection of renowned olympian hockey player and coach Gurbax Singh, comprising approximately 5,500 files, including papers, medals, letters, blazers, and other artefacts. This is valuable for preserving India’s sporting heritage for future research, public access, and historical scholarship.

02. Capacity Building & Knowledge Equity

Funded by Wikimedia’s Knowledge Equity Fund, this capacity-building initiative (2024–2025) involved engagements across South Bengal and North Bengal to promote cultural heritage preservation among marginalised and Indigenous communities, including Santali, Sabar, Birhor, Nepali, Kurmi, Lepcha, Bhutia, and Gorkha groups. Through lectures and hands-on workshops, participants learned budget-friendly archival techniques, digitisation of rare and local materials, and the use of Wikisource to develop open-access knowledge repositories. The initiative aimed to empower communities to document, preserve, and share their cultural heritage through accessible digital tools.

03. Digital Humanities & Text Technologies

Jibanananda Das Papers

Housed at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, this project documents approximately 100 notebooks containing over 5,000 handwritten manuscript pages by Bengali poet Jibanananda Das. A digital variorum is planned for the next phase, enabling transcription, text markup, and computational analysis.

Shabdakalpa

Shabdakalpa is a digital historical dictionary developed by SCTR, Jadavpur University, documenting the evolution of Bengali word by word. During my involvement, I contributed to digital documentation, OCR-based text processing, and corpus development for historical lexicographic research and computational text analysis.

Connecting Heritage, Technology, and Public Knowledge

My experience bridges digital archives, cultural heritage, and research to preserve cultural memory and make knowledge more accessible.

Interested in collaborating? Let’s connect and explore new possibilities in Digital Humanities and heritage documentation.

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