Editorial Note

I am pleased to announce that the Department of History, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University, has released the first issue of its Annual Journal 'KMC History of South Asian Studies'.

The journal aims to give graduate students, and research scholars a research platform, and provide them with first hand exposure to engage with the primary and secondary sources and contribute to the ongoing debates of historical research. We also welcome research papers from scholars and college professors with the objective of widening the scope of our journal.

South Asia has been an important geographical location for historians to work on different aspects of historiographical approaches. South Asia, the home to the world’s earliest civilizations has a rich history of culture, ethnicity, politics, and literature. It is indeed important to note that the South Asian countries with varied geographical features share certain chief customs, practices, and beliefs and therefore are beautifully connected since the beginning of time. We encourage young researchers to observe South Asia from different angles of the prism. We look forward to the interdisciplinary approach taken up, to understand various topics. The journal not only focuses on South Asian History but also aims to cover the subjects of social sciences.

We had encouraged the authors to take up any topic of relevance and share with us their perspectives. All the papers submitted went through the process of peer review, where our team of academics and scholars evaluated and reviewed the papers. This journal has been one of its kind as it encouraged the young researchers to express themselves freely. It has also offered them an ample amount of guidance regardless of the topic they decide to write on as we advocate the idea of inclusivity and believe that history has no boundaries.

I am honored to announce that we have amongst us an esteemed international advisory board consisting of Dr. Arun Kumar, Dr. B. Mangalam, Dr. Ayesha Jalal, Prof. Badri Narayan, Prof. Priyankar Upadhyay, Prof. Ravikant, Prof. Vipul Singh and Prof. Jaya S. Tyagi and many more to guide the students and scholars. The board will help the students frame their research question and will provide them with valuable guidance to help deal with the sources and their interpretation and reinterpretation.

Along with the board, our editorial team of professors and students have been dedicatedly working to edit research work as per the Chicago Style Script as per the set format of the journal.

In order to make our journal more accessible and bring in entries from students nationally, we are launching our website https://journalkmc.wixsite.com/my-site/home . Here, all the updates relating with the journal will be regularly put up here.

This first issue of KMC Journal of South Asian Studies will take you on an educational ride through the narratives of the Timurid Princess Khanzada Begum, the historic Channar Revolt, the culinary practices in modern India amongst other relevant topics. The authors of these papers have explored issues with a multidisciplinary approach and have taken a keen interest in exploring the hidden aspects of history.

We are greatly indebted to our patron Prof. Dinesh Khattar, Principal, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University, for supporting us and constantly inspiring us to work with devotion in this venture.

This journal is a product of so much hard work put in by a team of dedicated students ably led by Durrain Desnavi. This is indeed a proud moment for me and our entire History Department. We look forward to releasing more such journals and for you to be a part of it as readers and writers!

Dr. Amit K. Suman

Editor-in-Chief

KMC Journal of South Asian Studies