South Asian History and Culture

Aims & Scope

South Asian History and Culture (SAHC) is a multidisciplinary journal that provides an integrated perspective on the field of South Asian studies.

The journal brings together research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, and provides scholars with a platform covering, but not restricted to, their particular fields of interest and specialization.

Such an approach is critical to the field, for the development of more informed and broader perspectives, and of more overarching theoretical conceptions.

SAHC brings together established areas of study (eg. nationalism, communalism, gender, language and literature) and more recent frameworks (e.g. minority rights, sexuality studies, terrorism).

A focus is also to make more mainstream the more recently developed disciplines in the field of South Asian studies, which have to date remained specialized fields, for instance research on film, media, photography, sport, medicine and the environment.

To this purpose, we commission special issues to be guest edited.

A significant concern for this journal is to focus across the region known as South Asia, and not simply on India, as most ‘South Asia’ forums inevitably do.

We are conscious of this gap in South Asian studies and work to bring into focus more scholarship on and from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other parts of South Asia.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.90

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.239

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	19081

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	57

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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 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.

• Advaita Vedānta in early modern history

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Christopher

• Urban transformations: brokers, collaborative governance and community building in Karachi’s periphery

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Nausheen H.

• The Indian Supreme Court and the quest for a ‘rational’ Hinduism

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Ronojoy

• Speaking from Siva's temple: Banaras scholar households and the Brahman ‘ecumene’ of Mughal India

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Rosalind

• Enclaves, insecurity and violence in Karachi

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Sobia Ahmad

• The eternal return and overcoming ‘Cape Fear’: science, sensation, Superman and Hindu nationalism in recent Hindi cinema

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Anustup

• On the political use of disgust in Gujarat

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Parvis

• Amidst the winds of change: the Hindu minority in Bangladesh

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Meghna

• Television at large

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Aswin, Shanti

• Special political zone: urban planning, spatial segregation and the infrastructure of violence in Ahmedabad¹

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Arvind

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