The Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA)

The Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA) is a digital project that is under development, to create a freely accessible online platform for exploring scholarship on bhakti traditions. At BHAVA’s core will be an expertly curated and cataloged database of research on South Asian devotional traditions that supports research and teaching about South Asian history, literature, philosophy, language, and culture. We have been developing BHAVA incrementally over the past several years.  This page will be updated as work progresses.

Grants received and outcomes

• Carnegie Whitney Grant (American Library Association, 2019)

  1. Creation of the Authority File of the BHAVA archive’s Faceted Classification System
  2. Development of WordPress plugin for Zotero Libraries API retrieval
  3. Development of the host website for the BHAVA project
  4. Collaboration with DHLabs, a Digital Humanities initiative at the University of South Florida

• DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant (College of Arts & Letters, 2018)

  1. Creation of static image mockups for the BHAVA search interface
  2. Discussion of potential benefits and challenges of interface features
  3. Walkthrough of proposed BHAVA user interface (for illustration only)