Studies in People’s History
Asian History
Studies in People’s History journal would embrace all aspects of History under the broadest of definitions, but always bearing in mind their relationship with society at large. The journal is peer-reviewed and would aspire to a detailed level of research and theoretical discussion. Papers on the history of classes, and other social groups and gender history, and the National Movement would be especially welcome.
The journal will cover all periods of Indian history (i.e., the entire past of present-day South Asian nations plus Afghanistan), but would also include papers on other countries, especially such as may be concerned with world-wide movements that also affected India (e.g., language shifts: technology transfers, feudalism, capitalism, colonialism, genesis of modern ideas) or with comparative history (in e.g., spheres of political structures, forms of thought, trends in art). The journal could include surveys of work done on particular fields, reports or commentaries on textual sources including inscriptions, and archival documents.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editors at?aligarhhistorianssociety2010@gmail.com;?shireen.moosvi@gmail.com;?profirfanhabib@gmail.com of books for review may please be sent to Professor Shireen Moosvi, Co-editor,?Studies in People’s History, Zahra Cottage, 4/80 J, Kabir Colony, Aligarh 202002, India.
Manuscripts should only be submitted with the consent of all contributing authors. The individual responsible for submitting the manuscript should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the manuscript are listed as authors.
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Studies in People’s History is an established journal, in print and on–line, issued twice a year (June and December). All contributions are peer–reviewed and subject to copy–editing. It invites or accepts papers on all aspects of History, with insistence on adequate level of detailed research and reasoned analysis. Its focus is on Indian history, in the larger sense of the history of all South Asian countries. But it welcomes papers related to the history of other countries as well, since it deems this crucial for comparative studies and the appreciation of varying applications of the historical method. Moreover, it treats history in all its aspects, extending from the study of technology, economic conditions, social structures, to political history, ideological trends, and women’s history, as well as different aspects of culture and art. Archaeology is treated as part of History, and so too Numismatics and Historical Geography. The journal also publishes surveys of work done in particular fields of history as well as reports on textual and other historical sources. Further, it keeps its doors open to debates on particular historical themes or theories. Up to half of its issues have been devoted to specific historical themes. The journal has also a strong review section.
Special effort is made to publish papers quickly once they are accepted.
| Irfan Habib | Professor Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India |
| Shireen Moosvi | formerly Professor at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India |
| A K Bagchi | Professor Emeritus, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, India |
| Faisal Devji | St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK |
| Richard M Eaton | University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA |
| Suraiya Faroghi | Professor of History, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey |
| Iqtidar Alam Khan | formerly Professor at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India |
| Xinru Liu | Professor Emeritus, College of New Jersey, USA |
| Aditya Mukherjee | formerly Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Prabhat Patnaik | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| M N Pearson | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Y Subbarayalu | Pondicherry University, Puducherry |
| Romila Thapar | Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Eugenia Vanina | Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
| M Witzel | Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
Notes for Contributors
1. Articles and any other textual matter for publication in the Studies in People’s History (henceforth called ‘the journal’) should be sent electronically in MS Word format, to ahs@ndf.vsnl.net.in or profirfanhabib@gmail.com. In cases where diacritical marks are used, the font and a PDF copy should also be e-mailed. Reviews of books shall normally be solicited by the editors, but should be sent in the same manner by the reviewers.
2. Articles should be accompanied by Abstracts (not exceeding 100 words) and Key-words (not exceeding 5).
3. The journal will normally follow British (as against American) literary usage and spellings.
4. The use of ‘s’ is to be preferred over ‘z’, in such verbs as ‘civilise’, ‘recognise’, and such nouns as ‘civilisation’, ‘organisation’. Consistency in the spelling system within each article (even where variants are permitted in English usage) is desirable.
5. Contributors should number all notes consecutively and place them at the end. In print the notes would appear page-to-page.
6. Authors are advised to follow the ‘conventional’ system of reference, in which all references are relegated to footnotes. Full publication details (for which see paragraph 8 below) are to be given at the initial occurrence of citation. In articles concerned with archaeology, historical linguistics, cliometrics, etc., the ‘scientific’ method of reference, if found convenient, may be followed. (Here the surname of the author, and year of publication, with page number are given within parenthesis in the main text, while author’s full name and title of the work with other publication details are given at the end of the article in an alphabetically arranged bibliography, based on the authors’ surnames, and then the years of publication.)
7. Well established academic journals should be normally cited by their recognized abbreviations such as EI, JASB, JRAS, IHR, PIHC, etc. The annual volumes of the Proceedings of Indian History Congress (PIHC), provide a helpful list of such abbreviations.
8. In publication details, the full name of author, and the title of the publication (in italics, if a book; in roman within single inverted commas, if a paper) must be provided, along with place and year of publication. Publisher’s name, except in special cases, such as in references to old lithographed editions, need not be provided.
Illustrations:
Scientific Style
Citations
In-text citations: (Jarrige 2000)
In-text citations with page numbers: (Castleden 1993: 72–73)
In-text citations with two or more works by the same author: (Jansen 1989: 189; 1993: 119)
In-text citations with two or more authors (chronological order): (Jansen 1989; Castleden 1993)
References listed at the end of the articles:
Books: Castelden, R. Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete, London, 1993.
Edited books: Fausboll, V., ed., The Jataka Together with Its Commentary, London, 1877–96. Translated books: Ghosh, Ishan Chandra, transl. Jataka, Kolkata, 2001.
Chapter in an edited book: Jarrige, C. ‘The mature Indus phase at Nausharo’, in M. Taddei and G. de Marco, eds, South Asian Archaeology 1997, Rome, 2000, pp. 237–58.
Journal article: Jansen, M. ‘Water Supply and Sewage Disposal at Mohenjo-Daro’, World Archaeology, 21(2), 1989, pp. 178–92.
Conventional Style
References in footnotes:
First instance:
Books: Utsa Patnaik, The Long Transition: Essays on Political Economy, New Delhi, 1999, p. 63.
Utsa Patnaik, , New Delhi, 1999, p. 63.
Edited books: Jahang?r, Tuzuk-i Jahang?r?, ed. Syed Ahmad, Aligarh, 1864, p. 15.
Jahang?r, , ed. Syed Ahmad, Aligarh, 1864, p. 15.
Translated books: Minhaj Siraj, Tabaqat-i-Na?ir?, tr., Major H. G. Raverty, Calcutta, 1885, reprint: 1995, Vol. I, pp. 559–60.
Minhaj Siraj, , tr., Major H. G. Raverty, Calcutta, 1885, reprint: 1995, Vol. I, pp. 559–60.
Translated works (With different title) Francisco Pelsaert, ‘Remonstrantie’, c.1626, tr. W.H. Moreland and P. Geyl, Jahangir’s India, Cambridge, 1925. Reprint, Delhi, 1972.
Francisco Pelsaert, ‘Remonstrantie’, .1626, tr. W.H. Moreland and P. Geyl, , Cambridge, 1925. Reprint, Delhi, 1972.
Journal articles: ‘Some Aspects of Indian Village Society in Northern India during the Early 18th Century’, IHR 1(1) (1974), p. 58.
‘Some Aspects of Indian Village Society in Northern India during the Early 18th Century’, 1(1) (1974), p. 58.
Chapter in an edited book: David McCutchion, ‘Hindu-Muslim Artistic Continuities’, in The Islamic Heritage of Bengal, ed. George Michell, Paris, 1984, pp. 213–30.
David McCutchion, ‘Hindu-Muslim Artistic Continuities’, in ed. George Michell, Paris, 1984, pp. 213–30.
Official documents and Unpublished works: Revenue Department, Miscellaneous, G.O. 2013, dated 6 June 1899, p. 6, Revenue department, Miscellaneous G.O. No. 2677 dated 20 July 1899, pp. 4–5.
Jagj?vandas, Muntakhabu’t Tawar?kh, MS, British Lib., Add. 26,253, ff 21a-22b. [Note: MS = Manuscript; ff. = folios]
Revenue Department, Miscellaneous, G.O. 2013, dated 6 June 1899, p. 6, Revenue department, Miscellaneous G.O. No. 2677 dated 20 July 1899, pp. 4–5. Jagj?vandas, , MS, British Lib., Add. 26,253, ff 21a-22b. [Note: MS = Manuscript; ff. = folios]
Second instance onwards:
Ibid., p. 12 (in case the work cited in the preceding footnote is being referred to) Ludden, op. cit., p. 25. (in case only one work of the author is cited in the article) Ludden, Peasant History of South India. (In case two or more works of the author are cited in the article)
9. In the footnotes, indications like ‘Ibid.’, ‘op.cit.’, should be employed to avoid repetition of detailed references.
Note: Where ‘op.cit.’ is used, the title of the work referred to should be omitted after the author’s (sur)name. In case references are being made to more than one title from the pen of the same author, the abbreviation ‘op.cit.’ should not be employed; the shortened title of the work cited is to be given instead.
Where ‘op.cit.’ is used, the title of the work referred to should be omitted after the author’s (sur)name. In case references are being made to more than one title from the pen of the same author, the abbreviation ‘op.cit.’ should not be employed; the shortened title of the work cited is to be given instead.
10. Transliteration should be according to a uniform system throughout an article. The Epigraphia Indica system for Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tamil and other Indian languages is recommended. In case a contributor wishes to follow the conventional system of Sanskrit/ Prakrit transliteration (thus reading ‘?’ instead of ‘sh’ and ‘c’ instead of ‘ch’), this should be followed uniformly in the contributed article, and not sporadically. For Arabic and Persian the system followed in F. Steingass’s Persian-English Dictionary is recommended. Modern personal and place names should have their usual spellings in English, without diacritical marks.
11. The name ‘India’ should normally be used, in all pre-1947 contexts, for the territories now comprised in the Indian Union, Bangladesh and Pakistan, the expressions ‘North India’, ‘South India’, etc., to be used accordingly. ‘South Asia’ should be used for pre-1947 times only when Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives or any of these countries is also included in the territory being considered. In post-1947 contexts ‘India' should stand for the Indian Union only.
12. Contributors are advised to use the abbreviations ‘bc’ and ‘ad’ rather than ‘bce’ and ‘ce’ for years of the Christian/ Common Era.
13. Should contributors use long quotations (which, in any case, must occur only in very exceptional cases), they should obtain permission from the authors/copyright owners. This would apply also to illustrations, diagrams or maps, if they are reproduced from copyright material. We recognise that words reproduced from another text, without quotation marks and explicit acknowledgement, amounts to plagiarism and must be avoided.
Books for Review
Copies of books for review may please be sent to Professor Shireen Moosvi, Co-editor, Studies in People’s History, Zahra Cottage, 4/80 J, Kabir Colony, Aligarh-202002.