Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The manuscript is original, has not been published previously and is not under consideration elsewhere.
The submission fits the HPJ aims and scope and states its historical question and contribution clearly.
A separate title page and an anonymized manuscript have been prepared for double-blind review.
Primary sources, editions, dates, names, translations, repositories and archival references are identified accurately.
Permissions, ethics, oral-history consent, community agreements, privacy, embargoes and culturally sensitive materials are addressed where applicable.
Funding, competing interests, author contributions, research-material availability and material AI-tool use are disclosed.

Author Guidelines

Authors should read the aims and scope before submission. Manuscripts must be original, clearly written and not under review elsewhere.

Article types

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

Historical argument and sources

State the historical question, period, place and contribution clearly. Distinguish primary from secondary sources, explain the basis for source selection, assess provenance and limitations, and situate interpretations in relevant historiography. Quotations, dates, names, archival references and translations must be accurate.

Archives, oral history and communities

Identify repositories, collections, fonds, series, file numbers and access dates where available. Report restrictions and permissions. Oral-history and community-based research requires appropriate ethics review and informed consent, careful attention to power and vulnerability, and respect for agreements on attribution, anonymity, embargo and future use.

Images, maps and translations

Provide captions, creators, dates, repositories, shelf marks or identifiers and rights statements. Authors are responsible for permissions. Identify the edition and translator of translated sources; when translations are the author's own, say so and preserve the historical meaning and register.

Data and declarations

Include statements on data availability, funding, competing interests, author contributions and material use of generative AI. Explain transcription, coding, database construction and digital methods sufficiently for assessment.

Review files

Provide a separate title page and anonymized manuscript for double-blind review.

Submission status

Online submissions are temporarily closed while HPJ completes its editorial setup.

Articles

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Privacy Statement

Shodh Historical Perspectives Journal (HPJ) respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, interviewees, communities and registered users. The journal collects only the information needed to manage submissions, peer review, publication, security and the scholarly record.

Oral histories, archives and sensitive records

Authors must protect personal information and comply with consent, closure, embargo and repository conditions. Sensitive records involving living people, vulnerable communities, sacred knowledge, contested ownership or traumatic histories require careful anonymization, contextualization and lawful authority for publication.

Sharing and retention

HPJ does not sell personal information. Limited data may be processed by services needed for hosting, DOI registration, indexing, preservation, email and security. Editorial records may be retained to document decisions and protect research integrity.