Print History: Prachi Deshpande - Straddling Manuscript and Print

Awarded the Infosys Prize for Humanities in 2020 for “her extraordinarily nuanced and highly sophisticated treatment of South Asian historiography,” Prachi Deshpande has been straddling the overlapping and inter-dependent worlds of manuscript and print in her research. Her recently published book, Scripts of Power, explores the interplay between modes of writing and cultural history

by Murali Ranganathan