MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Audience: Historians, students of history, and other academics interested in South Asian studies seeking a brief insight into the content and value of the premier historical journal publishing work on the region.

Context: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies is one of the only journals that contains mostly history (as opposed to literature or anthropology) research on South Asia. Published since 1971, the journal has evolved over the past 48 years. However, many historians are unaware of how the journal's approach to history has changed over time.

Purpose: To provide historians and students of history with insight into the changes in the historical schools of thought and methodological approaches seen in the articles published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies over time through a comparative review of four articles.

Document type: Historiographical paper written for academic (not layperson) audiences who are relatively unfamiliar with the aforementioned journal and the papers reviewed in the document.

Design/format: The review will begin with a brief account of the journal's history and mission statement and a preview of the review's thesis. The body of the work will describe and compare four articles from different decades since the journal was first published. The review will conclude with an assessment of the changes in the journal over time.

Citation style: Chicago style with footnotes and a reference list

S, glad this fits with your history major requirements. In some ways, your work is helpful to those who might wish to submit to this journal, a purpose you can be more direct about.

In your introduction, you can also provide a "bio" of the journal: founding, years in existence, free or publishing company owned, and typical review process.

Looking forward to this.

Mb