Studies in Indian Sociology: is a double blind peer-reviewed journal which aims to encourage and foster discussion on advances in research which have significant and long term impact. The journal also publishes special issues to highlight new and significant themes in the discipline. The journal presents a diversity of theoretical approaches to the study of society in India. It provides a forum for divergent views on Indian society. Regular features include research articles, review articles, short comments, a 'discussion' section, book reviews and notes. The journal favours articles in which theory and data are mutually related. It welcomes a diversity of theoretical approaches and methods. The journal carries reports on research conducted both in India and abroad by professional Sociologists and Anthropologists. The journal is intended to explore the knowledge about Indian society and its social institutions and culture, its structure and dynamics of change, the study of social, economic, political and other related problems of contemporary concern in Sociology and more importantly it also contribute to our understanding of other societies as well. The journal features rigorous, original research that speaks to a general sociological audience and draws on an array of quantitative and qualitative methods. The journal features work that advances both scholarly debate and broader understandings of key social and political questions. The journal also publishes occasional special issues, organised around themes of political or theoretical significance. The journal presents path breaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. It strives to speak to the general sociology reader and is open to contributions from across the social sciences—political science, economics, history, anthropology, and statistics in addition to sociology—that seriously engage the sociological literature to forge new ways of understanding the social. Further the journal offers a substantial book review section that identifies the most salient work of both emerging and enduring scholars of social science.