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On the Idara archives' efforts to preserve Deccan literary, artistic, and historical cultures.

Southasiasphere episode 08: Updates and analysis from around the region.

Preserving film in transition.

Journalist and historian Shrabani Basu talks about filling the gaps in the history of colonial India's relationship with Britain.

Excavating Burma’s rich intellectual past, carefully preserved by private collectors, can contribute to the ongoing debate on the country’s controversial march towards neoliberalism.

Reconstructing the life of flamboyant 19th-century singer Gauhar Jaan involved an immersion in her loves, her passions, her demons and her music.

Pakistan’s public archives are failing the country’s people and history, and private archives can only do so much.

If palm leaf inscriptions can be saved from rodents, insects, the forces of nature and deliberate destruction, they can paint vivid pictures of the history of the Syrian Christians in Kerala.

Archaic conservation methods are themselves hastening the deterioration of fragile archival material in India.

A series of articles on the state of archiving in Southasia.