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The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS)<\/h1>\n

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About the Journal<\/h3>\n

The\u00a0Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society<\/i>\u00a0is a double-peer-refereed quarterly Journal of international acclaim with universities and other scholarly institutions throughout America, Europe, India, Australia and the Far East subscribing to us. We publish four times a year and our remit is extensive, covering the entire length and breadth of Asia from earliest historical times up until the 1980s and, as we publish material from a variety of disciplines \u2013 history, art history, linguistics and religious studies \u2013 we can provide a well-tailored platform for the publication of research that itself takes a multi-disciplinary approach.<\/p>\n

The Journal awards three prizes on a bi-annual basis for exceptional articles: the Barwis Holliday Award for an article on an East Asian topic, the Staunton Prize for an article by a new scholar, and the Boyce Award for articles on an Asian religion.<\/p>\n

To be alerted when new content becomes available for the Journal, please sign up for electronic table-of-content alerts in the Journal homepage here<\/span><\/a>. You can also read a freely accessible sample article from the Journal here: Jurisdictional Politics in Canton and the First English Translation of the Qing Penal Code<\/i>\u00a0(1810)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Editorial Boards<\/h3>\n

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\n<\/strong>Professor <\/strong>Daud Ali<\/strong>
\nThe Department of South Asia Studies
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania
\n820 Williams Hall
\n255 South 36th Street
\nPhiladelphia, PA 19104-6305
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International Editorial Board<\/h4>\n

Professor Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago, USA
\nProfessor Seema Alavi, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
\nProfessor Jere Bacharach, University of Washington , USA
\nProfessor Timothy Barrett, SOAS, University of London, UK
\nProfessor Edhem Eldem, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University, Turkey
\nProfessor Carl Ernst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
\nProfessor Richard Gombrich, University of Oxford, UK
\nProfessor Andrew Gordon,\u00a0Harvard University, USA
\nProfessor Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford, UK
\nProfessor Sepp Linhart, University of Vienna, Austria
\nProfessor Rana Mitter, University of Oxford, UK
\nProfessor Tariq Rahman, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
\nProfessor Anthony Reid, UCLA, USA
\nProfessor Richard G. Salomon, University of Washington, USA
\nProfessor Oktor Skjaervo, Harvard University, USA
\nProfessor Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania, USA
\nProfessor Roel Stercx, University of Cambridge, UK
\nProfessor Wang Gungwu, National University, Singapore
\nProfessor Muhammad Q. Zaman, Princeton University, USA[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Editor Emerita<\/h4>\n

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Journal Editorial Board<\/h4>\n

appointed until end December in the year shown<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr Andrea Acri (2026)
\nProfessor Blain Auer (2025)
\nDr Thomas P. Barrett (2028)
\nDr Evrim Binbas (2027)
\nDr Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (2028)
\nDr Arthur Dudney (2027)
\nProfessor R Michael Feener (2027)
\nProfessor Finbar Barry Flood (2026)
\nProfessor Peter Frankopan (2028)
\nDr Aparna Kapadia (2028)
\nDr Mahmood Kooria (2028)
\nDr Lars Laamann (2027)
\nProfessor Timothy May (2025)
\nProfessor F C R Robinson (2025)
\nDr Taylor Sherman (2026)
\nDr Weipin Tsai (2026)
\nProfessor Nancy Um (2026)
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Submissions and Proposals<\/h3>\n

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Authors who wish to submit articles for consideration by the JRAS editorial team should do so through ScholarOne at Cambridge University\u2019s Cambridge Core (you may need to create an account first). Please click on the link below.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/mc.manuscriptcentral.com\/jras<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

All non-European characters should be rendered in Unicode. The editorial team is committed to appraising all submissions as quickly as possible. The Harvard system should not be used. References should be formatted as footnotes, and not endnotes, thus:-<\/p>\n

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  1. G. H. Luce, Phases of pre-Pagan Burma: Languages and History <\/i>(Oxford, 1985), i, pp. 171-178.<\/li>\n
  2. C. E. Bosworth, \u201cGhaznevid Military Organisation\u201d, Der Islam, <\/i>XXXVI (1960), pp. 40-50.<\/li>\n
  3. M. Sharon, \u201cThe Ayyubid walls of Jerusalem\u201d, in Studies in Memory of Gaston Wiet, <\/i>(ed.) M. Rosen-Ayalon (Jerusalem, 1977), pp. 179-195.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Transliterations should be consistent within any given article. Illustrations are welcomed if they contribute to the academic thrust of a paper but authors should be aware that colour publication is possible online only, not in print publication which will be in black and white.<\/p>\n

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    The Journal has a soft limit of 15,000 words for articles. Any submission longer than this must be agreed ahead of time with the editor.<\/p>\n

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    The JRAS typically publishes one or two Special Issues per year. If you are interested in making a proposal please fill in and return this form<\/span><\/a> to Evelyn Dodds at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

    The annual volume, including any Special Issues, must stay within the Journal\u2019s page budget. If a Special Issue is larger than the average issue allowance then the other issues in the same volume year will need to accommodate for this fact (by being smaller). Special issues are generally in the range of 160\u2013220 printed journal pages, and must not exceed 220 pages. This is about 75,000 words, with a maximum of 95,000 words, taking into account the use of tables and figures.<\/p>\n

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    JRAS Guidelines<\/h3>\n

    This version of guidelines was issued by the JRAS Editorial Office in November 2021.[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion style=”classic” color=”white” gap=”3″ active_section=”0″][vc_tta_section title=”1. Manuscript preparation for accepted articles” tab_id=”1759065315150-84ef3596-5b6b”][vc_column_text css=””]Construction of manuscript files<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    It is important that authors do not copy and paste references or bibliographic material from online sources as this often results in the importation of metadata. Please retype your entries.<\/p>\n

    General layout <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n