About the Journal

CSAS Critical South Asian Studies (CSAS) is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed international Open Access journal. Interdisciplinary in nature, the journal focuses on literary, media and cultural studies. The journal invites theoretical submissions from these areas to explore and understand the varied contexts that define South Asia and its people. The CSAS journal is home to scholarly debates among scholars from Asia, Americas, Africa and Europe.

Critical South Asian Studies (CSAS) journal was established in 2022 and strives to be a leading journal in this field.

Critical South Asian Studies is an Open Access publication, allowing users to freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles for any lawful purpose without requiring permission from the publisher or author.

ISSN: 2753-6734 (Print) ISSN: 2753-6742 (Online)

Abstracting and Indexing

Critical South Asian Studies is indexed and abstracted in:

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)

Research Papers in Economics (RePEc): RePEc search

Peer Review Process

Critical South Asian Studies follows a double blind peer review policy. Articles submitted to the journal are screened by the editorial team and then, if appropriate, sent to two reviewers. Finally, in the light of reviewer comments, the editorial team reaches a decision about publication. This decision is final.

Research Articles, Letters, Brief Communications, Case Studies, Reports, Analysis, Reviews, and Viewpoints are peer-reviewed. All forms of published correction may also be peer-reviewed at the discretion of the editors. Other contributions are not usually peer-reviewed.

All submitted manuscripts are read by our editorial staff. Only those papers that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent to reviewers. Those papers judged by the editors to be of insufficient general interest or otherwise inappropriate are desk rejected without external review. Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent to two or more reviewers. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice.

Reviewers are welcome to recommend a particular course of action, but they should bear in mind that the other reviewers of a particular paper may have different technical expertise and/or views, and the editors may have to make a decision based on conflicting advice. The most useful reports, therefore, provide the editors with the information on which a decision should be based. Setting out the arguments for and against publication is often more helpful to the editors than a direct recommendation one way or the other.

Our editors evaluate the strength of the arguments raised by reviewers and by the authors, and may also consider other information not available to either party. Our primary responsibilities are to our readers and to the scientific community at large, and in deciding how best to serve them, we must weigh the claims of each paper against the many others also under consideration. Reviewers' criticisms are taken seriously, particularly the technical criticisms.

Critical South Asian Studies follows the rules of publication ethics to ensure academic objectivity and rigour of the journal.

Publication Frequency

Critical South Asian Studies is published twice a year in February and August.

Code of Conduct and Publishing Ethics

Transnational Press London is committed to maintaining the publication ethics standards. We, therefore, ask that all contributors and reviewers adhere to publishing ethics. Further guidance can be found through Transnational Press London Publishing Ethics Policy which closely follows the COPE guidelines..

Open Access Policy

Critical South Asian Studies is an open-access publication, allowing users to freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles for any lawful purpose without requiring permission from the publisher or author.

Article Processing Charges

Open Access Article Processing Fee for Critical South Asian Studies is £0.

Open Access Fees are waived for this journal.