SINHAS Basic Factsheet

Title: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS)

Established year: 1996

Frequency: Twice a year; June (red cover) and December (blue cover) Volume size: About 220-250 pages per issue; 440-500 pages per volume Language of contents: English (mostly) and Nepali

Editorial home: Martin Chautari (MC, Kathmandu); www.martinchautari.org.np

Publisher: Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu; www.mandalabookpoint.com

Founding Editors: Pratyoush Onta (history); Mary Des Chene (historical anthropology), Mark Liechty (anthropology and history), Lazima Onta-Bhatta (anthropology)

Current Editors: Pratyoush Onta (MC; history), Mark Liechty (University of Illinois at Chicago; anthropology and history), Tatsuro Fujikura (Kyoto University; anthropology), Lokranjan Parajuli (MC; historical sociology); Seika Sato (Teikyo University; anthropology); and Sanjog Rupakheti (College of the Holy Cross; history)

Current Associate Editors: Benjamin Linder (International Institute for Asian Studies; anthropology and  cultural geography); Uma Pradhan (University College London; anthropology of education) and Swatahsiddha Sarkar (North Bengal University; sociology and Himalayan Studies)

Editor-at-Large: Seira Tamang (Martin Chautari; international relations and gender)

SINHAS webpage:
https://martinchautari.org.np/mc-book-series/journals/SINHAS

 
Table 1: Breakdown of items published through volume 27 no 2 (54 separate issues)

Genre of Published Items Total Number
1. Editorials 21
2. Articles 264 (plus 6 short intros to special theme- sections/issues)
3. Literature Reviews/Review Essays 13
4. Commentaries/Lectures 65
5. Books Reviewed 190 (started from vol 8 no 1, 2003 only)
6. Bibliographies 4
7. Interviews 2
8. Notes from the Archives 8

 

The geographical spread of contributors by nationality and/or home/institutional locations:
Nepal, India, Hong Kong/China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, US, Canada, etc.

The geographical spread of reviewers by nationality and/or home/institutional locations:
Nepal, India, Hong Kong/China, Japan, Australia, Austria, The Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, US, Canada, etc.

Disciplines represented in the contributions:
Major presence: anthropology, history, sociology, political science, geography, literature, Minor presence: international relations, economics, public health, Indology/Sanskrit Studies, musicology, law, development studies, environmental studies, etc.

Themes covered by the contents:
Please see the “complete author index” which is available at the link given above. But some of the themes covered include: politics, agriculture and land/labor relations, gender relations, urbanization, livelihoods, media and public sphere, education, religion, cultural politics and identity, public health, environment, social movements, knowledge production, civil society, foreign aid, childhood, youth, literature, middle-class, etc.

Size of each issue and volume:
The size of each issue and volume of SINHAS in terms of page numbers is shown in Table 2.

Table 2: Size of each issue and volume in terms of page numbers

SINHAS Details
Volume Issue Total pages in each issue Total pages in each volume
1 1 258 464
2 206
2 1 205 433
2 228
3 1 212 418
2 206
4 1 246 430
2 184
5 1 172 349
2 177
6 1 227 422
2 195
7 1 213 437
2 224
8 1 204 413
2 209
9 1 223 426
2 203
10 1 254 487
2 233
11 1 218 396
2 178
12 1 203 419
2 216
13 1 234 421
2 187
14 1 216 452
2 236
15 1 216 449
2 233
16 1 190 414
2 224
17 1 209 398
2 189
18 1 194 407
2 213
19 1 203 409
2 206
20 1 216 452
2 236
21 1 226 444
2 218
22 1 225 490
2 265
23 1 250 500
2 250
24 1 250 509
2 259
25 1 276 505
2 229
26 1 228 463
  2 235
27 1 238 484
  2 246
Total   11,641