The subjects covered by the journal range from geography and economics to anthropology, sociology, philology, history, art history, archaeology, and history of religions. In terms of geographical scope, the journal has published material that covers the Himalayas within a broad definition and not limited to the geological region, but taken to include the Karakorum, Hindukush, Ladakh, southern Tibet, Kashmir, north-west India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and north-east India.
New Call for submissions (2021) :
As EBHR becomes an online and fully open-access journal with a dedicated website, apart from research articles, conference reports or book reviews, we will be developing new features (photo essays, multimodal inquiries, revisitations, translations). Read our call for submissions here for more detail.
Our general Call for papers is available here for download.
We welcome individual submissions that fall within the following categories (see the call for detailed descriptions) :
- Articles (peer-reviewed) : manuscripts should range between 8,000 and 10,000 words.
- Research Notes (peer-reviewed) : more limited in scope than conventional articles, these consist of an in-depth discussion of a particularly timely or topically relevant issue.
- Conference Reports (reviewed by editors).
- Review Essays (reviewed by editors) : scholarly reviews of recent publications or exhibitions.
- Book Reviews (editors reviewed).
- Announcements : conferences, workshops, etc.
We are also inviting Dissertation Abstracts (see the call here) for more detail :
- Dissertation Abstracts : Once a year a list a recently defended doctoral dissertations will be published with an abstract and list of keywords.