Indian Economic and Social History Review


The Indian Economic and Social History Review is an academic journal of Indian social and economic history. It is one of the leading journals of South Asian history, if not the best. It is owned by Indian Economic and Social History Association, a registered society of Delhi. The journal is run by a two-tiered structure of an editorial board that is led by one or more Managing Editors. It is published by SAGE Publications. The founding editor-in-chief was Tapan Raychaudhuri, who was succeeded by Dharma Kumar. After Dharma Kumar relinquished its editorship on account of illness in early 1990s, Sanjay Subrahmanyam took over and was soon followed by Sunil Kumar who became a Managing Editor alongwith G. Balachandran. Sunil Kumar was the person behind the journal until he died suddenly in January 2021 when he was replaced by Pankaj Jha. Currently it has seven editors including Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Whitney Cox. Pankaj Jha Tirthankar Roy, and Jyoti Balachandran are its current Managing Editors.. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

Abstracting and indexing

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