Contemporary Voice of Dalit
Social Problems
Contemporary Voice of Dalit is an exclusive, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal on Dalit studies. It is published tri-annually in January, May, and September. Its online first version is available in advance, much prior to its print version.
Contemporary Voice of Dalit started its journey as Voice of Dalit in 2008 in India. Over the years, it has emerged as a leading international journal on Dalit studies. Drawing contributions from the best of scholars in the field from across the world, this journal has an Editorial Board with representatives from around the globe.
The journal aims to promote a better understanding of society through deeper insights into questions of human rights and social justice, thus encouraging constructive engagement of scholars with questions of nation-building and development, with special reference to the Dalit population.
All papers submitted to Contemporary Voice of Dalit are subject to the double-blind peer review process under the monitoring of the members of a carefully appointed Editorial Board. The members of the Editorial Board, having diverse disciplinary backgrounds, are drawn from leading universities from across the world. In the process, their scholarship and the global representation are kept in mind.
Decisions on manuscripts are taken as rapidly as possible. We try to communicate our decision about an article to the concerned author within six to eight weeks of submission.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://peerreview.sagepub.com/vod
Contemporary Voice of Dalit is a leading multi-disciplinary journal in the field of Dalit studies. It focuses on the publication of original research articles on issues related to Dalit, which are accepted only after a strict, double-blind peer review process. Emphasis is placed on both theoretical and empirical studies developed from different disciplinary angles. Book reviews and review articles are also the regular features of the journal. Periodically, commentaries on important topical issues also find a place in this journal. Authors are encouraged to offer new theoretical and scholarly approaches to Dalit writings. In particular, Dalit scholars are urged to make their special contributions.
We strive to cater to the interests of a broad readership. This includes researchers, academics, activists, administrators and students. Keeping this in mind, authors are requested to make their submissions.
| Debi Chatterjee | Former Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India |
| Victor Babu | Professor and Former Head, Department of History, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India |
| Sekhar Bandyopadhyay | Emeritus Professor of History, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Director, New Zealand India Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Buddhadeb Chaudhuri | Ambedkar Professor (Retd) and Coordinator (Retd) of the Human Rights Programme, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India |
| Mitsuya Dake | Director, Professor, Center for the Studies of South Asia, Ryukoku University, Japan |
| Prasenjit Debbarman | Former Director, Cultural Research Institute, Kolkata, India |
| Tirthankar Ghosh | Former Associate Scientist (Senior), Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India |
| Hugo Gorringe | Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Eva-Maria Hardtmann | Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Knut A. Jacobsen | Professor, AHKR, History of Religions, University of Bergen, Norway |
| Mesbah Kamal | Professor, Department of History University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Badri Narayan | Professor, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Ashok Pankaj | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Ronki Ram | Shaheed Bhagat Singh Professor of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India |
| Sumita Sen | Professor (Retired), Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India |
| Stephen Taylor | Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, UK |
Submission Guidelines Contemporary Voice of Dalit
Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be submitted at: voicedalit@gmail.com addressing the ‘Editor’or ‘Managing Editor’, VOD.
Articles should be written in MS Word, Times New Roman font, and should be submitted only in soft copy.
Publication Ethics
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
Guidelines
- Manuscripts should normally not exceed 6,000 words and should be submitted in duplicate with the cover page bearing only the title of the article, author/s’ names, designations, official addresses, phone/fax numbers, and email addresses. In case there are two or more authors, then the corresponding author’s name and address details should be clearly specified on the first page of the article. Author/s’ name should not appear on any other page. Commentaries on contemporary issues should not exceed 3,000 words.
- All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and 4–6 keywords.
- Authors will be provided with a copyright form once the contribution is accepted for publication. The submission will be considered as final only after the filled-in and signed copyright form is received. In case there are two or more authors, the corresponding author needs to sign the copyright form.
- Use British spellings in all cases rather than American spellings (hence, ‘programme’ not ‘program’, ‘labour’ not ‘labor’, and ‘centre’ and not ‘center’).
- Use ‘z’ spellings instead of ‘s’ spellings. This means that words ending with ‘-ise’, ‘isation’, etc., will be spelt with ‘z’ (e.g., ‘recognize’, ‘organize’, ‘civilize’).
- Use single quotes throughout. Double quotes only to be used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed.
- Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below.
- Notes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the article. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.
- Use ‘twentieth century’, ‘1980s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements, use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent, not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
- Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimized, but used consistently.
- Tables and figures to be indicated by numbers separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). Present each table and figure on a separate sheet of paper, gathering them together at the end of the article. All Figures and Tables should be cited in the text. Sources for figures and tables should be mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions.
- All photographs and scanned images should have a resolution of minimum 300 dpi and 1,500 pixels and their format should be TIFF or JPEG. Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs/images. Even for photographs/images available in the public domain, it should be clearly ascertained whether or not their reproduction requires permission for purposes of publishing (which is a profit-making endeavor). All photographs/scanned images should be provided separately.
- A consolidated listing of all books, articles, essays, theses and documents referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) should be provided at the end of the article. Guidelines specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) must be followed.
- Arrangement of references: Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work. In each reference, authors’ names are inverted (last name first) for all authors (first, second or subsequent ones); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use et al. after the sixth author’s name.
a) Chronological listing: If more than one work by the same author(s) is cited, they should be listed in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.
b) Sentence case: In references, sentence case (only the first word and any proper noun are capitalized – e.g., ‘The software industry in India’) is to be followed for the titles of papers, books, articles, etc.
c) Title case: In references, Journal titles are put in title case (first letter of all words except articles and conjunctions are capitalized – e.g., Journal of Business Ethics).
d) Italicize: Book and Journal titles are to be italicized.
- Citations and References should adhere to the guidelines below (based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition). Some examples are given below.
In-text citations:
One work by one author: (Kessler, 2003, p. 50) or ‘Kessler (2003) found that among the epidemiological samples..’.
One work by two authors: (Joreskog & Sorborn, 2007, pp. 50–66) or Joreskog and Sorborn (2007) found that..
One work by three or more authors: (Basu, Banerji & Chatterjee, 2007) [first instance]; Basu et al. (2007) [Second instance onwards].
Groups or organizations or universities: (University of Pittsburgh, 2007) or University of Pittsburgh (2007).
Authors with same surname: Include the initials in all the in-text citations even if the year of publication differs, e.g., (I. Light, 2006; M.A. Light, 2008).
Works with no identified author or anonymous author: Cite the first few words of the reference entry (title) and then the year, e.g., (‘Study finds’, 2007); (Anonymous, 1998).
If abbreviations are provided, then the style to be followed is: (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2003) in the first citation and (NIMH, 2003) in subsequent citations.
Two or more works by same author: (Gogel, 1990, 2006, in press)
Two or more works with different authors: (Gogel, 1996; Miller, 1999)
Secondary sources: Allport's diary (as cited in Nicholson, 2003).
References:
Books:
Patnaik, Utsa (2007). The republic of hunger. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective.
Edited Books:
Amanor, Kojo S., & Moyo, S. (Eds) (2008). Land and sustainable development in Africa. London and New York: Zed Books.
Translated books:
Amin, S. (1976). Unequal development (trans. B. Pearce). London and New York: Monthly Review Press.
Book chapters:
Chachra, S. (2011). The national question in India. In S. Moyo and P. Yeros (Eds), Reclaiming the nation. (pp. 67–78). London and New York: Pluto Press.
Journal articles:
Foster, J.B. (2010). The financialization of accumulation. Monthly Review, 62(5), 1−17. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225 [Doi number optional]
Newsletter article, no author:
Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang intiative conference. (2006, November/December). OOJDP News @ a Glance. Retrieved from http://www.ncrjs.gov/html
Newspaper article:
Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.
In-press article:
Briscoe, R. (in press). Egocentric spatial representation in action and perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Retrieved from http://cogprints.org/5780/1/ECSRAP.F07.pdf
Non-English reference book, title translated into English:
Real Academia Espanola. (2001). Diccionario de la lengua espanola [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (22nd ed.). Madrid, Spain: Author.
Special issue or section in a journal:
Haney, C., & Wiener, R.L. (Eds) (2004). Capital punishment in the United States [Special Issue]. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 10(4), 1−17.
14. Book reviews must have details like name of author/editor and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, number of pages and price. Book details should be mentioned as follows:
Rajat Kathuria and Mansi Kedia Jaju, A Study of India’s Investment Environment, Major FDI Inflows and Suggestions for Taiwan’s Businessmen. New Delhi: Academic Foundation and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), 2013, Rs 795, 151 pp.,ISBN 9789332700840.