Journal of Indian Social Transformation
Historical and Contemporary Studies
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal on India — its society, environment, economy, education, history, texts and heritage, in any period, from the earliest evidence to the present day.
We are particularly interested in work that begins with a question about India today and looks for its answer in the historical record. Why vegetarian diet is so widespread here, and what in the evidence actually accounts for it; why a district's water is governed the way it is; why one community sends its daughters to school and its neighbour does not.
Free to publish in, free to read
There is no article processing charge, no submission fee, no page charge and no fee of any kind at any stage. This is a fixed commitment, not an introductory offer. Everything the journal publishes is free to read from the day it appears, with no subscription, no paywall and no registration.
Editorial work is unpaid — for the Editorial Board, for reviewers, and for the publishers. Nobody earns anything from this journal, and it carries no advertising.
What we publish
Research on India in any period. Work at either end of time on its own is welcome: a piece of textual scholarship, an excavation report, a study of present-day policy. It does not have to reach across the centuries to belong here.
The one test is whether a paper has a before and an after. Twenty years apart or two thousand, it makes no difference. What falls outside is the static snapshot that asks no question about change.
Where the journal stands today
- First issue
- In preparation
- Editorial Board
- Being constituted
- ISSN
- Not yet applied for — see below
- Charges to authors
- None, at any stage
An online journal cannot be given an ISSN before its first issue exists: the ISSN National Centre of India assigns one only after seeing a published issue containing a substantial number of articles. We therefore say plainly that we have none, and we make no claim to indexing anywhere.