hyderabad-karnataka

Social Movements in Hyderabad Deccan

In continuation to our work with Bidar Heritage Centre (BHC)- archives, we began our work on- “Social Movements in Hyderabad Deccan” with initial focus on Hyderabad Karnataka (1940-80s) with our project team, collaborators and resource people.

Mapping Open Natural Ecosystems in Bidar - Kalyana Karnataka Karwaan

The Bidar district, part of the Deccan Plateau, hosts many patches of ONEs. The Second edition of Kalyana Karnataka Karwaan had us mapping various components of ONE's in three regions within Bidar district on Open Street Map as a way to understand the diverse ecologies of Hyderabad-Karnataka.

“The Crown of Jaffar Miya’s Badshah’s”

Field notes by- Harshawardhan & Abhishek 💡Context belongs to work

In-Conversation: On observing weather variations and climate shifts

While scientific or academic discourses and understandings of ‘Climate Change’ abound, these everyday observations that arise in conversation allow for a deeper engagement with local experiences of climate change.

Zindhaaa

Mein Aur Mera Poorana Shaher

Bidar Heritage Center: An upcoming archive and learning museum in 2025

People's Archive of Bidar is a long term engagement initiated in 2017 to archive ordinary histories of communities and their practices based in Hyderabad-Karnataka region.

A lesson in Lambani Embroidery

Through the process of co-creation with Ambika Ji, we learned about what was being stitched onto the fabrics—the histories, values, and lived realities of their makers.

'Shaddi Kaleyuvudu' as a way to engage with women farmers

What role do non-landowning farm workers play in identifying, articulating, or devising responses to changing agrarian or climatic conditions? What role do such gendered and caste-based situated knowledge practices play in shaping Bidar’s response to agrarian and climate change?

Kalyana Karnataka Karawaan

Information about growing cities in Kalyana Karnataka, agricultural, forest and industrial changes are underrepresented on OpenStreetMap, a Wikipedia for maps. This event is for new and experienced mappers interested to discover cities and landscape of Kalyana Karnataka.

Beginning to map the Bidar Fort's vastness - Moats, Palaces, Settlements

We began the complex process of mapping the Bidar Fort area on OpenStreetMap. The structures within the fort are built over time, some have undergone heavy alterations by different sultans, which makes it hard to determine their timeline. So for now, we've documented the fortification boundaries