The disciplines of sociology and social anthropology have played an important role in the emergence of the social sciences and in the intellectual lives of the countries that make up South Asia. The South Asian region has not only been merely an area of study but has also produced spaces and scholars engaged in pursuit of Sociological and Anthropological research. While there are many journals that cover the fields of sociology, anthropology and South Asian studies, Society and Culture in South Asia which is produced in association with Sage India will provide a vital space for the emergence of South Asian perspective(s) in sociology and social anthropology as well as a critical space for interdisciplinary inquiry. The context for the journal can be articulated as following:

• Sociology has invaded multiple disciplinary territories, blurring intellectual and academic boundaries. The ruptures have been used and responded to in recent scholarship in international sociology and social anthropology. In this regard, the journal offers the distinction of contemporariness. Within the larger framework of sociology of knowledge, broadly geared to investigate, peruse, and analyze contemporary forces that facilitate the construction of knowledge (plural), the journal will bring forth discourses of contemporary relevance.
• Over the last half century or so, a vast body of knowledge(s) on the region has evolved within South Asia that mostly remains within the countries of their origin. We are acutely aware of the non-existence of regular and serious forums for South Asian scholarship in social sciences to showcase the region’s own research and thinking. The journal is a timely response to this phenomenon.
• There have been peculiarities of the discipline, specific to the South Asian region, which has established close inter-relationships between sociology and social anthropology, history, cultural studies, archaeology and other related disciplines. The porousness of South Asian sociology is one of its most enduring strengths; recognizing this porousness, the journal is formulated as a forum for scholarship emerging from this context.
• Lastly, there is a growing interest in the region all over the world that differs from orientations associated with the colonial ethnographic encounter and the post-colonial hang over. We expect this journal to be a small step to meet these challenges when intellectual spaces in South Asia are undergoing transformations and close intertwining with political, social and economic challenges in the region. Our ambitions for the journal exceed the notion of area studies. We hope this journal will enable rethinking of the ways sociology and anthropology are ‘done’. We especially encourage contributors with ambitions for promoting innovations in theoretical engagement, methodologies and critical empiricism and the craft of social sciences. The journal also encourages contributors who are developing creative ways of presenting new scholarship in text and visual formats that reflect the intellectual, theoretical, empirical and linguistic diversity of the subcontinent.

This journal is co-published by the Department of Sociology, South Asian University and Sage India 

For further details pleased visit the Journal home page at Sage