Necessary Reunions
Remarrying Maps to Text and Reconceptualizing Histories of Early Modern Kerala
Remarkable
The project uses emerging techniques of georeferencing on maps and machine generated transcripts on Dutch East India Company maps and texts about early modern Kerala (India).
Valorisation
This project will create a gazetteer of places in early modern Kerala and a website to feature the enrichments made on maps.
Project Overview
Maps and textual sources in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives were meant to be together. In this project, Leon van Wissen, a junior researcher and Manjusha Kuruppath will apply emerging techniques of georeferencing and machine-generated transcriptions to the VOC's textual archives and maps of early modern Kerala, India.
