Submission of Article

General Information

SINHAS provides a forum for publication of original research on Nepali history and society. Detailed studies from any discipline are invited. Work that casts new light on familiar topics and that explores hitherto understudied topics is especially welcome. In addition to research-based articles, there will be two occasional series in the journal: i) For a Scholarship of Nepal is a forum for critical reflection on the state of Nepal scholarship. Such essays may be oriented by discipline, topic, region, or period. ii) Literature Reviews: Multi-volume reviews of recent work on a particular topic. While reviews will be in English, books in any language may be reviewed. Proposals for essays in either of these categories or for the commentary section should be addressed to the editors.

Articles in English or Nepali are accepted. To discuss submission in any other language of Nepal contact the editors. Translation: On occasion articles already published in another language are published in English or Nepali translation. Proposals for such translations should be sent to the editors.

All papers must have a substantive focus on Nepal, but comparative work is welcome. Commentary on SINHAS articles may be published in the form of Letters to the Editors. Concise commentary that will add to readers' understanding of the topic is most likely to be published.

Send articles for submission

Notes:

• Articles may also be submitted electronically as word file attached to email. Prior to such submission, please make an inquiry to one of the editors.
  
• The U.S. address is for editorial correspondence only, including submission of manuscripts from outside South Asia. Subscription requests, advertising inquiries, and books to be listed must be sent to the publisher. Correspondence in these categories received in the USA will be returned to the sender for redirection.
  

After Sending

SINHAS strives to provide timely peer review, and in most cases does so. While the average initial response is provided within 8 weeks, this process has occasionally taken up to 6 months or more. If you feel review is slow, contact us. But also bear in mind that the speed of external review is not entirely in our hands, and that the reviewing and all other work of SINHAS' editors is entirely voluntary.

In most cases, after initial review, SINHAS will either accept an article contingent upon specified revisions, or decline to publish it. Occasionally an author will be asked to make revisions before a final determination of suitability is made. Authors of articles accepted for publication will receive further formatting details together with reviewers' comments. Authors published in the journal will receive a copy of the issue in which their article appears and twenty offprints. SINHAS is published twice a year. Each issue is approximately 200 pages. Depending on the length of articles, this allows publication of between twelve and twenty articles per year. The speed with which articles are published depends upon the volume of submissions.

Book Review in SINHAS

To have your publication reviewed in SINHAS send one copy to Martin Chautari (attn.: Editors, SINHAS) in Kathmandu by registered bookpost. Please note that books must be sent to Kathmandu. Sent books may or may not be reviewed in the journal. Books become part of the Martin Chautari library.

Editorial team of SINHAS

• Pratyoush Onta
  Centre for Social Research and Development and Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Mark Liechty
  University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
• Seira Tamang
  Centre for Social Research and Development and Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Tatsuro Fujikura
  Kyoto University, Japan