Vision
To strengthen historical scholarship and public understanding of South Asia's economic and political past through rigorous, accessible, and interdisciplinary research.
About Us
The Economic & Political History Review (EPHR) is an independent scholarly journal dedicated to historically grounded research on South Asia's economic and political transformations.
About Us
The Economic & Political History Review (EPHR) is an independent scholarly journal dedicated to fostering historical research on the economic and political trajectories of South Asia, with particular attention to India's place within the region's interconnected past.
It is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and open-access journal that creates space for critical inquiry into economic history, political history, intellectual history, and the history of ideas. EPHR brings together established academics, early-career researchers, and independent scholars to advance historically grounded scholarship.
The journal encourages research across trade, labour, governance, constitutional developments, political ideologies, state formation, development, and broader socio-economic transformations.
Vision and Mission
Mission
To create a scholarly platform that promotes critical historical inquiry, encourages diverse methodological approaches, supports emerging researchers, and connects academic research with wider public discourse.
Our Core Activities
Research Publishing
Publishing peer-reviewed scholarship across commentary, research notes, historiographical essays, methods, special articles, and literary interventions.
Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Encouraging collaboration across history, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, and related disciplines to deepen historical understanding.
Public Historical Engagement
Making rigorous historical research accessible through open access publishing, regional archives, oral histories, and wider public dialogue.
The Team
Editor-in-Chief
Gurjap Singh
Editor-in-Chief
The London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
Assistant Editors
Mehak Bajaj
Assistant Editor
The London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
Anupam Debashis Roy
Assistant Editor
University of Oxford, UK
Deep Priya Pabbi
Assistant Editor
Punjabi University Patiala, India
Mridula Nair
Assistant Editor
University of Cambridge, UK
George Hoffmann
Assistant Editor
Harvard University, USA