Hi! I’m Divij, and I’m an ESRC-funded first-year PhD Student at Lancaster University. I completed my Master’s at Lancaster University, specialising in Digital Humanities.

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My PhD explores sedentary games in the long twentieth century in Maharashtra, focusing on how play responds to power. Through the use of various Digital Humanities techniques like Historical GIS, 3D Visualisation, and Corpus Linguistics, this project will recover, digitise, and curate sedentary games that existed, emerged, changed, and in some cases disappeared during the long twentieth century. Alongside this, I will also be using similar DH-forward methods like distant reading to trace the legacies of colonialism that exist in modern board games.

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I have my own game studio, Upar Ek Studio, based in India. I develop and design games for a living, which dovetails perfectly into my research! I’m also a huge fan of pub quizzes – nothing quite like the rush after getting a high-difficulty, low-stakes answer, right?

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I welcome all submissions related to Game Studies, Colonial History, and more broadly, South Asian History.

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