
Shodh Historical Perspectives Journal
Peer Reviewed | HPJ | Open Access
Shodh Historical Perspectives Journal (HPJ) is an English-language, quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal for research on past societies, institutions, cultures, ideas and lived experience.
HPJ welcomes political, social, economic, cultural, intellectual, environmental, public, oral, local, regional, global and transnational history, as well as historiography, memory studies, archival research and digital history.
HPJ is published by Shodh Publishing.
About the Journal
Shodh Historical Perspectives Journal (HPJ) is a quarterly, online-only, peer-reviewed journal for rigorous research on past societies, institutions, cultures, ideas and lived experience.
HPJ publishes original research articles, historiographical and review essays, archival and documentary studies, oral-history and memory studies, digital-history and historical-data papers, research notes, source notes and short communications.
Manuscripts should present a clear historical question, work critically with primary sources, document provenance and archival references accurately, engage relevant historiography, acknowledge uncertainty and silences in the record, and explain the wider significance of the interpretation. Articles are freely available under CC BY 4.0, with no submission fee or article processing charge.
HPJ is published by Shodh Publishing.
Journal Particulars
Journal title
Shodh Historical Perspectives Journal (HPJ)
Abbreviation
Hist. Perspect. J.
Starting year
2026
Publication format
Online only
Publication frequency
Quarterly (four issues per year)
Language
English
Subject
History
Publisher
Shodh Publishing
Publisher address
Piri Bazar, District Lakhisarai, Bihar 811112, India
Official email
info@shodhpublishing.com
Current Issue
First issue in preparation
HPJ has not yet published its first issue.