***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors.***

Scholars with interests in the South Asian area are invited to submit articles, review articles and book reviews. Expression of all shades of opinion is welcomed but responsibility for those opinions rests with the author. All manuscripts should be typed in double-space with footnotes, not endnotes. Manuscripts should be emailed as an attachment preferably in Word to the Editor, Prof. Ian Copland: Ian.Copland@arts.monash.edu.au. A detailed style sheet is available on request from the Editor.

Correspondence regarding all editorial matters other than reviews should be sent to Prof. Ian Copland, Editor, email address as above, or to Prof. Ian Copland, Editor, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.

BOOK REVIEWS, REVIEW ARTICLES and correspondence relating to them should be sent to Dr Irfan Ahmad, School of Political & Social Enquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, P.O. Box 197, Caulfield East, VIC. 3145, Australia.

Footnotes. Citations should follow the form: author initials or given name, author surname, title of the work (in quotation marks if an article, italicised if a book), editor(s) name(s) if applicable, title of edited volume (if applicable), italicised, then publications details (in brackets) in the following order (the place of publication, the publisher, the date of publication), and finally the page details, which should be written as follows: p.29 or pp.29–36 as appropriate. (Do not leave a space between the p. or pp. and the number.) In citing a number of separate pages from the same source write: pp.18, 20–1, 48–50, 115–25 (NOT pp.20–21, 115–125).

To summarise, a book reference should look like this:
            Eric Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India (Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1959), p.2.

A reference to an essay in an edited volume should look like this:
            Tanika Sarkar, ‘Communal Riots in Bengal', in Mushirul Hasan (ed.), Communal and Pan-Islamic Trends in Colonial India (New Delhi: Manohar Publications, rev. ed., 1985), pp.302–19.

Where a book has more than one editor, the correct abbreviation is (eds), i.e. no full stop after eds

A reference to a journal article should look like this:
            Ira Klein, ‘Death in India, 1871–1921', in Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.XXXII, no.4 (Aug. 1975), pp.639–59.

And a newspaper reference should look like this:
            The Hindu (22 May 1998), p.3.

If the next reference is from the same book or article and is on the same page, it should look like this:
            Ibid.

Or if on a different page/s
            Ibid., pp.11–19.

An internet reference should look like this:
            K.N. Panniker, ‘Secularism Challenged', Dawn (Internet edition), 29 Nov. 2001, p.3 [http://Dawn.com, accessed 3 Jan. 2002].

Note that the volume number is written with a capital V, and in Roman numerals if that is the style of the journal. Where journals use Arabic, that style should be followed, as in Vol.26. Where the specific issue of the journal has a number, it should be included but with the n in lower case.

In all cases where brackets are used, a comma should follow after the second bracket but should not precede the first bracket, as in South Asia, n.s., Vol.XXIV, no.1 (June 2001), pp.1–16.

References to unpublished sources in archives will vary somewhat depending on the type of source and the bibliographical conventions observed by the archive; however all archival references should include the name of the archive in abbreviated form.

Reprints. Corresponding authors can receive 25 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink®; a link will be sent to you by the publisher. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

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