Cartographies of Courage : Fictional Threads, Real Lives

The educational resource on Dalit massacres is designed to support educators in using Cartographies of Courage: Fictional Threads, Real Lives as a starting point to understanding Dalit massacres in India and to offer insights into using digital tools to amplify the forgotten histories of marginalized communities in India. This guide will provide interactive resources to engage with marginalized histories of violence and to facilitate meaningful conversations, encourage critical thinking, and provide hands-on activities that connect students to digital humanities methodologies and Dalit studies. Feel free to modify the guide according to your classroom requirements but with proper citations of course!

This teaching guide or educational resource on Dalit massacres is designed to facilitate a critical, empathetic, and historically grounded understanding of Dalit massacres in India—a deeply painful yet essential chapter in the country’s democratic and social history. Caste-based violence, particularly against Dalits (formerly “untouchables”), reflects the entrenched structures of exclusion, oppression, and inequality that persist despite constitutional guarantees of equality and justice. Feel free to modify the guide according to your classroom requirements but with proper citations of course!

“Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre” at UNED-LINHD  TNA Mini Conference as part of CLS INFRA TNA Fellowship. On 24 April, 2024, 10.30-11.00am CEST

“Using Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism in Literature: Locating the Women of Kilvenmani Massacre (1968)” at UNED-LINHD Spring 2024 Seminar Series as an Exchange researcher of the CLS INFRA project of the European infrastructure DARIAH.EU. On 17 April 2024. 

“Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of the Marichjhapi Massacre” at HASTAC Scholars’ Digital Friday: A Tapestry of Digital Narratives on 12 April, 2024

“Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism in Literary Studies – A Proposal” at the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 in Beijing, China (Virtual via zoom). Also ACCEPTED for publication in Conference Proceedings of ACM Digital Library, 02 November, 2021.