The PaRChA project is a Creative Common (REL) non-profit platform that references key pamphleteer material produced by Indian student activists since the mid-1970s. The material on display—posters, manifestos, reports, press releases, letters to administration, statements, posters, wall paintings, murals, songs, slogans—is searchable and fully accessible to scholars, activists and anyone interested in Indian politics. The core idea behind PaRChA is to collect, showcase, and offer qualitative as well as quantitative evidence of the textual and visual identity of the pamphleteering genre. The 73,808 items present a connected and alternative political history of the country and beyond, as seen by a variety of ideologically minded student organizations, whether Marxist, Hindu-nationalist, anti-caste, feminist...

'Parcha' means pamphlet in Hindi. Each parcha has a unique and searchable identifier. The material was digitized, OCRized (the text was extracted) and archived here. The scanning process of pamphleteer material occurred mainly in student activists’ hostel rooms at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Further manipulation, data cleaning and uploading is progressively automated. To retrieve the original material hosted here, you can append the unique identifier or the keyword(s) of your choice at the end of this URL: www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=134781689%40N04&view_a.... Unique identifiers follow the format ID-XXXXX.