Introduction

Abstract

In 2016, IIT Indore did a two-week Digital Humanities (DH) course titled “Digital Humanities: Tools, Texts and Theory.” These were, in our minds, very clear and neatly classifiable categories and we taught them as such for the researchers who joined us from different institutions around the country. Today, after many lectures, workshops, and projects that the two of us, as well as our fellow researchers in DH, have navigated, the affordances of DH are not as neatly differentiated as they were in our minds back then. What this means is that knowledge infrastructures intersect in real and meaningful ways with all three: Tools, Theory, and Texts. It is even more pertinent that a text is often as much of infrastructure as a tool, and both come embedded with theoretical assumptions. And all of that in effect means that knowledge infrastructures for us are a porous, unstable package of multiple situatedness of geography, institutional affiliation, and other unique circumstances. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Maya Dodd and Nirmala Menon.