Sindhi Sanchaya is intended to be an interactive database of Sindhi literature leading the community of readers, researchers, and enthusiasts to the texts online as well as offline. As a minor language in India and as a partitioned language and literary tradition, Sindhi needs greater presence on the internet.
This database in the digital space consists of information about Sindhi books published in India and elsewhere. Sindhi Sanchaya aspires to consolidate information scattered across private collections, libraries, archives, and institutions — and draw traffic to these resources for further research.
The metadata collected here can be of immense interest in generating the big picture of Sindhi literature across scripts: Perso-Arabic, Devanagari, and Roman.
Objectives
- To build a resource for an under-served language and literature on the Internet.
- To provide access to literary heritage to the Sindhi community and researchers interested in South Asian literature.
- To use the digital platform for cultural preservation and to bring together a community divided by geographical and scriptural borders.
Our Team
Dr. Soni Wadhwa
Archivist & Principal Investigator
Soni Wadhwa currently teaches Literature Studies at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. She works in digital humanities projects that support her larger research area of Sindhi Studies. Her digital projects include PG Sindhi Library and the Sindhi Halchal Archive. She has received a grant from George Mason University (USA) for her research on the making of Sindhi literature as an Indian literature. Sindhi Sanchaya is her project devoted to libraries and institutions that are home to Sindhi books.
Reema Chowdhary
Co-Principal Investigator
Reema Chowdhary is a postdoctoral scholar at IIT Indore. Her expertise includes Digital Humanities, Effective Communication, and Postcolonial Studies. She has been a recipient of the British Council Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship and a Visiting Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Karan Vanni
Technical Assistant
Karan Vanni is a student of Masters of Sindhi Literature and is involved with the Sindhi Bhashini project.
Nirmala Rajani
Technical Assistant
Nirmala Rajani has worked on the compilation of metadata for physical collections from Madhya Pradesh.
Jayesh Rajani
Technical Assistant
Jayesh Rajani has worked on the compilation of metadata for physical collections from Madhya Pradesh.
Animesh Dhara
Digital Humanities Researcher & Technical Developer
Animesh Dhara is a digital humanities researcher and developer working at the intersection of computational methods and South Asian literary studies. He built the technical infrastructure of Sindhi Sanchaya, including the OCR correction platform and predictive Devanagari text system.
Collaborate With Us
Sindhi Sanchaya collaborates with libraries, publishers, and organisations to ensure Sindhi literature is widely accessible. Get in touch at sindhisanchaya@gmail.com.
Building a Comprehensive and Interactive Database of a Partitioned Literature