About the Journal

About

ISSN 2050-487X (Online)

Founded on 15th October 2011 by Michael Heneise with the help of a small cohort of fellow South Asian postgraduates at the University of Edinburgh, The South Asianist is an international peer-reviewed, online journal that focuses on issues and topics related to the study of South Asia. Published by the Centre for South Asian Studies, it is also among the first periodicals within Edinburgh University to partner with the Library for publishing.

The South Asianist is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence, unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.

 

Aims & Scope

The South Asianist is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for researchers at all levels in the humanities and social sciences whose work contributes to South Asian studies. The journal provides a platform for young, mid-career, and senior scholars to present and discuss their work, find synergies for collaboration, and spur critical debate on the socio-economic, political, environmental, cultural and religious aspects that both define South Asia as a region and divide it into single units of analysis. At The South Asianist, we are committed to integrity, collaboration, constructive feedback and inclusivity, and to develop trusting and lasting relationships with authors and peers. We particularly welcome submissions from South Asian scholars whose work focus on understudied geographical and thematic areas.

 

Publication Frequency

The South Asianist publishes two issues per year, in Autumn and in Spring. Additionally, Special Focus issues will be published intermittantly that cover conferences coordinated or linked with Edinburgh University's Centre for South Asian Studies.

 

Journal Policies

Please see the Journal Policy page for information on preservation, copyright, licensing, open access, permissions, and privacy.

 

Indexing

The South Asianist is indexed in the following databases: