Key Points
This phase of theHamiltonStudios projectwill digitise over 20,000 artefactsnegatives, prints, and documentsfrom 1947 to 1967, a period of political upheaval in India as well as mass migration to the UK..
Its a reliable contribution to collective memory amid contestedhistories of Partition...
The project is supported by the Modern Endangered Archives Programme at UCLA Library and funded by Arcadia, a foundation dedicated to cultural preservation and open access Interns from the National Institute of Design (NID) are also assisting with the archivingjust as they did in the first phase...
The work to preserveHamiltons archives is part of a broader movement to save the memories of Partition and the years that followed.The project complements academic initiatives like Stanfords and Harvardsrespective1947 Partition Archives, as well as private collections such as the Indian Memory Project and the Delhi-based Partition Archive...
For Ajita Madhavji, Hamilton Studios may be struggling to keep its footing in a fast-paced digital landscape, but its standing firm as a guardian of history and an encyclopaedia of a bygone era...
