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 |