Archives and Archiving in the 21st Century

Radhika Seshan (Savitribai Phule Pune University, India)

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Routledge India
09 August 2024

Archives intersect with our lives in many ways. We have archives of our own, documenting family memories and histories. Then, there are larger archives that document different aspects of the past — memories, identities, location, time, and space.

This volume explores changing notions of the archive in different areas, to trace the ways in which the archives continue to be used in history. It examines how history, the historian, and the archive interact in many ways to look at the past and record it. The chapters in this volume discuss an array of diverse and important themes regarding the making and usage of archives which include reconstructing pre-modern economic history from the Dutch archives; the role of India Office Records in the British Library; reading the Rungia Gosavi Affair in 1857 from colonial archives; and Uday Shankar’s Kalpana as archive besides the usage of archives to study nationalism, historiography and literature, water and Chola history, Mysorean invasions in Kerala, and cyberspace. The chapters also explore how archives impact and shape our investigations.

First of its kind, this important work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of archival studies, research methodology, archaeology, Indian history, ancient history, medieval history, modern India, anthropology, and history in general.

Edited by: Radhika Seshan (Savitribai Phule Pune University India)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781032455969
ISBN 10: 1032455969
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 09 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Radhika Seshan retired as Professor and Head of the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly the University of Pune). She is now Visiting Faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune. Within the broad area of medieval Indian history, her research focuses on trade, especially in textiles, and maritime networks. Her most recent publication is a monograph, Empires of the Sea: A Brief Human History of the Indian Ocean World (2023). Her other works include Wage Earners in India 1500–1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context, jointly edited with Jan Lucassen (2021), and Connecting the Indian Ocean World – Across Sea and Land, and Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land, jointly edited with Ryuto Shimada (Routledge, 2023).