South Asia Research
South Asia Studies
South Asia Research is an international, multidisciplinary forum which covers the history, politics, law, economics, sociology, visual culture, languages and literature of all countries in South Asia. We publish both work of a more theoretical nature as well as detailed empirical studies by emerging and established scholars from around the world.
Founded in 1980 by young activist researchers at SOAS, University of London, the Journal now attracts a huge number of submissions and follows a rigorous double blind peer review process. Over the years, the editorial team has sought to maintain the Journal’s original focus on promoting the work of young scholars, the next generation of South Asia Area Studies specialists, now a global community with a strong diasporic presence. In the context of decolonisation and the decentring of knowledge, South Asia Research has recognised the need for promoting New Area Studies as a truly interdisciplinary arena not constrained by national boundaries. The Journal has consistently committed itself to empowering the (g)local rather than privileging global neo-colonial forces. Over the years, it has also cultivated new clusters of regional expertise and specific, newly intersecting forms of interdisciplinary scholarship. Consequently, detailed empirical studies have gained prominence, and the Journal increasingly features complex issues of socio-economic and political relevance. Activist engagement with often deeply contested new themes in the study of contemporary South Asia also motivates our collective education-centric efforts to find a viable balance between Social Sciences and Arts subjects.
The Journal constantly updates its operating procedures and has built an expansive profile, growing from two issues per year to three parts, with more pages and a lively Book Reviews section. Run by a truly interdisciplinary team of Editors and Assistant Editors, it is supported by an Editorial Committee and an International Advisory Board.
Electronic Access:
South Asia Research is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sar
Submit your manuscripts to the Deputy Editor in charge of submissions, Dr. Anubhav Pradhan, at submissions_sar@iitbhilai.ac.in.
South Asia Research is a peer-reviewed international, multidisciplinary forum which covers the history, politics, law, economics, sociology, visual culture, languages and literature of the countries in South Asia. It includes works of theory, review and synthesis as well as detailed empirical studies by both research students and established scholars from around the world.
| D Parthasarathy | Nayanta School of Public Policy, Hyderabad, India |
| Anubhav Pradhan | Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai, Durg, India |
| Diotima Chattoraj | Migration and Health Studies, James Cook University, Singapore |
| Md. Sadequle Islam | Bangladesh Studies, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
| Kalindi Kokal (Reviews Editor) | Law & Society. Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune, India |
| Gaurav J Pathania | Sociology, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA |
| Anirudh Tagat | Economics, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India |
| Zahoor A Wani | Political Science/Afghanistan, LPU, Phagwara, India |
| Muneeb Yousuf | International Relations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India |
| Neha Adsul | Health Policy, George Institute for Global Health, Mumbai, India |
| Ambika Aiyadurai | Anthropology/Wildlife Studies, IITGN, Gandhinagar, India |
| Nafay Choudhury | Law, Socio-Legal Studies Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, UK |
| Goutam Karmakar | Literature and Culture, NIT Durgapur, Durgapur, India |
| Manav Khaire | Housing Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India |
| Muhammad Asim Khan | Department of English Linguistics and Allied Studies, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan |
| Vineeth Mathoor | History, Changanacherry, Kerala, India |
| Haripriya Narasimhan | Liberal Arts, Anthropology, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India |
| Saidalavi P C | Sociology, Shiv Nadar University (IoE), Delhi, India |
| Arshid Hussain Peer | Economics/Management, Bennett University, Noida, India |
| Niranjana Prasad | Cambridge Econometrics, Brussels, Belgium |
| Lloyd Price | Modern South Asian History, Independent Scholar, Geoje-Si, South Korea |
| Sham Qayyum | Law, Policy and Leadership, SOAS, London, UK |
| Shubha Ranganathan | Medical Anthropology, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India |
| Amit Ranjan | International Relations/Pakistan Studies, NUS, Singapore |
| Serena C Rattu | Public History, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK |
| Rajnish Saryal | Political Science, Panjab University RC Ludhiana, Chandigarh, India |
| Annapurna Sinha | Communication, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Arun Som | Sociology of Law, Independent Scholar, Muzaffarnagar, India |
| Federica Sona | Law/Minorities in the West, Max-Planck-Institute, Halle, Germany |
| Soni Wadhwa | Liberal Arts, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Rudrani D. Chaudhuri | Queer Studies, IIT Bhilai, Durg, India |
| Deepanwita Dey | Trauma Studies, IIT Bhilai, Durg, India |
| Qaiser Abbas | Energy Economics/Development, Ghazi University, DG Khan, Pakistan |
| Santhosh Abraham | Humanities/Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, India |
| Chudamani Basnet | Department of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi, India |
| Uttam Deb | Agricultural Economics, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR, USA |
| Ayan Guha | School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK |
| Eswarappa Kasi | Tribal Studies, IGNTU, Amarkantak, MP, India |
| Prashant Kidambi | History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK |
| Nida Kirmani | Urban Studies, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Shashikantha Koudur | Humanities/Social Sciences, NITK Surathkal, Karnataka, India |
| Hawon Ku | South Asian Art History, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Rama K.R. Kummitha | Entrepreneurship, Essex University, Southend, UK |
| Abhijit Mazumdar | Park University, USA |
| Shobna Nijhawan | Languages and Literatures, York University, Toronto, Canada |
| Avinash Paliwal | International Relations, South Asia Institute, SOAS, London, UK |
| Iromi Perera | Urban Studies, Colombo Urban Lab, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Saba Pirzadeh | Environmental Humanities, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Praveen Rai | Electoral Politics, CSDS, Delhi, India |
| Shilpi Rajpal | Social History of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Devapriya Sanyal | Department of English, St Joseph’s University, Bangalore |
| Annika Schmeding | Anthropology of Religion, NIOD Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Kanika Sharma | Law and Gender, SOAS, London, UK |
| Gopika Solanki | Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
| Pradip Swarnakar | Environmental Sociology, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India |
| Bina Agarwal | Development Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Waheeda Amien | Law, Religion and Gender, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Domenico Amirante | Law, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy |
| Padma Anagol | History, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK |
| Raziuddin Aquil | History, University of Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Fardaus Ara | Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh |
| Ishita Banerjee-Dube | History, El Colegio de México, Mexico |
| Rohit De | History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| Faisal Devji | History, St Antony’s, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| K J Gardner | Anthropology/Bangladesh, LSE, London, UK |
| Charu Gupta | Medieval and Early Modern History, University of Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Farhat Hasan | Medieval and Early Modern History, University of Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Livia Holden | Legal Anthropology, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France |
| Ridwanul Hoque | Law, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Hiroko Ito | Global Ethics, National Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan |
| Ashutosh Kumar | Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India |
| Chris Ogden | Global Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Ashok Pankaj | Development Studies, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Susmita Roye | English/Foreign Languages, Delaware State University, Dover, USA |
| Tanika Sarkar | School of Social Sciences, JNU, Delhi, India |
| Sudha Shastri | Literary Studies, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India |
| Gauri Viswanathan | Comparative Literature, University of Columbia, New York, USA |
| Jeanne S Zaino | Political Science, Iona University, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
Notes for Authors
Submission of mss: Contributions are invited for South Asia Research. Articles should be between 5–7000 words. An electronic version as a Microsoft Word Document is preferred. Alternatively, four paper copies of the manuscript should be submitted. The manuscript should be typed in double-spacing on both side of A4 paper and must include an abstract of 100–150 words on a separate sheet. The submitting author should nominate two members of the editorial board to shepherd their review process.
Submission of manuscript and review process: Articles should be typewritten, double-spaced, in a word document format, and should be between 5000-7000 words. The manuscript should include an abstract of 100–150 words. At the bottom of the abstract, please also submit 3-5 keywords for your article. Each manuscript is reviewed initially by the Editor and is then assessed in a blinded peer review process by at least two referees, whose names are routinely withheld from the author unless a reviewer requests a preference for his/her identity to be revealed. Decisions on manuscripts will be taken as rapidly as possible, but may take several months.
Submit contributions to: Dr Werner Menski, Professor of South Asian Laws, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG, UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 7898 4674 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4559 E-mail: wm4@soas.ac.uk Web: http://www.soas.ac.uk
Covering letter: please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal.
Format of mss: each manuscript should contain:
(i) title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/E-mail details plus short biographical note should be supplied on a separate sheet.
(ii) abstract of 100–150 words
(iii) up to 10 key words
(iv) main text and word count – suggested target is 5–7000 words. Text to be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of headings and subheadings and quotations exceeding 40 words displayed, indented, in the text.
(v) end notes, if necessary, should be signalled by superscript numbers in the main text and listed at the end of the text before the references.
(vi) references in both the text and end notes should be cited in the text as author (date: page), or, for a series of references, (Black & Williams, 1999; Downey & Jones, 2001). Use ‘et al.’ in the text for more than two authors, and give all names in the References list. The letters a, b, c, etc. should be used for different works by the same author in the same year: (Brown, 1999a, b).
(vii) an alphabetical; references section should follow the text (and end notes if any), formatted as follows:
Book
Surname, X.X. & Surname, Y. (year) Title with Initial Caps: Subtitle with Initial Cap: Place: Publisher.
Article in book
Surname, X.X. (year) Title of Chapter. In X. Surname & Y. Surname (Eds), Title of Book (pp. xxx – xxx). Place: Publisher.
Journal article
Surname, X.X. (year) Title of Article, Name of Journal, vol.no.(issue no.): xx – xxx [page range].
Paper
Surname, X.X. (year, month) Title of paper. Paper presented at Name of Conference, City of presentation.
Website
Surname, X. (year, month, date) Title of Article. Name of Journal vol. no.(issue no.) URL (consulted month, year), from http://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xx/xxxx/xxxx
We prefer to give first names of the authors in the References but initials only are acceptable if consistent.
Table: table should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed ‘Figures’ and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e., not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet. They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 205 mm x 142 mm. Illustrations on disk should be supplied as TIF or EPS files at high resolution. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are also acceptable. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet. Further details are available on the journal website or from Journal Production, SAGE Publications.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copy- right holders for reproducing any illustrations, table, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Permission letters must be supplied to SAGE Publications.
Style: use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she.
Spelling: either US or UK spelling is acceptable (retain original quotes and references).
Punctuation: use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Present dates in the form 1 May 1998. Use points in abbreviations in initials of name, Latin abbreviations, reference abbreviations, the United States when used as an adjective and for labels to conceal the identities of study participants. Do not use points with contractions or acronyms (e.g., APA, NY, USA, Dr, PhD) or measurement abbreviations.
Disks: on a acceptance of your manuscript for publication, you will be asked to supply another diskette (IBM-compatible or Mac) of the final version.
Copyright: before publication authors are requested to assign copyright to SAGE Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published preferably at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.
Proof and complimentary journals: authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to SAGE. Authors will receive a complimentary copy of the journal each.