Indian Economic and Social History Review

Aims & Scope

For over 35 years, The Indian Economic and Social History Review has been a meeting ground for scholars whose concerns span diverse cultural and political themes with a bearing on social and economic history.

The Indian Economic and Social History Review is the foremost journal devoted to the study of the social and economic history of India, and South Asia more generally.

The journal publishes articles with a wider coverage, referring to other Asian countries but of interest to those working on Indian history.

Its articles cover India"s South Asian neighbours so as to provide a comparative perspective.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23814

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	23

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.159

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	30

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Disciplining and policing the 'criminals by birth', Part 1: The making of a colonial stereotype— The criminal tribes and castes of North India

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Sanjay

• Disciplining and policing the 'criminals by birth', Part 2: The development of a disciplinary system, 1871-1900

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Sanjay

• New intellectuals in seventeenth-century India

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Sheldon

• An early environmental debate: The making of the 1878 forest act

  Citation: 59

  Authors: Ramachandra

• Imperial agendas and India's forests: The early history of Indian forestry, 1800-1878

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Mahesh

• The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic— The Indian Experience

  Citation: 52

  Authors: I.D.

• Kunti's cry: Indentured women on Fiji plantations

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Brij V.

• The Role of the Gosains in the Economy of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Upper India

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Bernard S.

• The Ashraf-Ajlaf Dichotomy in Muslim Social Structure in India1

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Imtiaz

• Kings, Sects and Temples in South India, 1350-1700 A.D

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Arjun

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