CFP: Subaltern Voices: Knowledge, Resistance, Identity and Social Transformation

KHOWANG COLLEGE JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES An Annual Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Multilingual Research Journal To be published by Research and Development Cell, Khowang College Dibrugarh, Assam-785676

About the Journal

• Submission deadline: 15th December 2026
• Tentative Publication Date: May, 2027 (with ISSN)
• The APC for an accepted manuscript is ₹1,500 per article.

The Khowang College Journal of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences invites original and unpublished research papers, scholarly articles, review articles, theoretical interventions, critical essays, book reviews, and interdisciplinary studies for a Themed Issue on “Subaltern Voices: Knowledge, Resistance, Identity and Social Transformation.” Subaltern Studies has significantly transformed the ways in which history, society, culture, identity, and power are understood. By drawing attention to communities and voices historically positioned outside dominant structures of power, the field challenges elite-centred narratives and foregrounds the agency, knowledge, experiences, and resistance of marginalised groups. This Themed Issue particularly encourages interdisciplinary approaches and critical scholarly engagement with the diverse dimensions of subalternity in the Indian context.

Thematic Areas

• Subaltern Studies: Its Origins, Evolution and Contemporary Trends
• Subaltern Historiography and the Critique of Elite Nationalism
• People’s Histories, Colonialism, Peasant Movements, Resistance and CounterHistories
• Caste, Class, Social Exclusion, Inequality and Marginalisation Citizenship, Democracy, Power, Political Participation and Representation
• Indigenous Communities, Cultural Practices, Oral Traditions and Ethnography
• Knowledge Hierarchies, Inclusive Education and Epistemic Justice
• Gendered Marginalisation, Intersectionality and Women’s Agency
• Subaltern Epistemologies, Knowledge, Power and Intellectual Justice
• Poverty, Industrial Labour, Agrarian Labour, Informal Economy and Structural Inequality
• Representation, Voice, Visibility and the Politics of Communication
• Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Land Rights and Environmental Justice
• Human Rights, Constitutional Protections, Social Justice and Access to Justice
• Subaltern Literature and Cultural Resistance: Narratives, Memory and Identity
• Subaltern Voices of Northeast India
• Subalternity in the Age of Globalisation and Technological Transformation
• Any other topics related to the central theme of the Themed Issue

Submission Guidelines

Authors submitting manuscripts to the Khowang College Journal of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences are requested to follow the guidelines given below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the prescribed format may be returned to the authors for necessary corrections before further editorial consideration.

Research articles should normally be between 3,000 and 8,000 words in length.

The wordcount limits for different types of articles are as follows:

• Original Research Article: 3,000–8,000 words
• Review Article: 2,500–6,000 words
• Case Report/Case Study: 1,500–2,000 words
• Short Report: 750–1,500 words
• Book Review: 500–1,500 words

The word count includes the main text, notes, tables, and figures but excludes the reference list.

Authors may organize their manuscripts according to the requirements of their research.

A research article may generally include the following sections:

• 1. Title,
• 2. Author(s) and Affiliation(s),
• 3. Abstract,
• 4. Keywords,
• 5. Introduction (including Literature Review and Methodology),
• 6. Results and Discussion,
• 7. Conclusion,
• 8. Acknowledgements (where applicable), and
• 9. References.

The abstract should be concise yet comprehensive and should accurately reflect the content of the article. It should be between 250 and 300 words and must be self-contained. The abstract should be written as a single paragraph, be grammatically correct, and clearly communicate the purpose, approach, major findings, and significance of the study.

• The abstract should be followed by at least five keywords or key phrases. Keywords should be arranged in alphabetical order and separated by commas. Papers written in Assamese and Hindi, the abstract and Keywords must be written in English only.
• Research articles should include an appropriate and sufficiently thorough literature review. Arguments, interpretations, theoretical positions, and research methodologies should be supported by relevant scholarly sources.
• The main text should generally be prepared using “Microsoft Word” in Garamond font (or Banikanta/Noto Sans Devanagari, where applicable), 12-point font size. Manuscripts should be single-spaced and fully justified. First-level headings should be numbered using Roman numerals. For Assamese and Hindi manuscripts, authors may use “PageMaker” with Geetanjali/Preeti font, 14-point font size, and 22-point leading, where applicable.
• Equations should be created using Microsoft Word’s Equation Editor or “MathType” and should be numbered consecutively.
• Figures should preferably be presented in black, white, or shades of grey. They may include photographs, illustrations, black-and-white graphs, flowcharts, and line-art figures. Figure captions should be placed below the figures. External borders should not be placed around figures. Figures should be referred to in the text using the abbreviation “Fig.”, e.g., Fig. 1.
• Tables must be created using the Microsoft Word Table function and should not be submitted as images. Table titles should appear above the tables and should be numbered using Roman numerals, e.g., Table I, Table II, Table III.
• All material quoted or paraphrased from another source must be appropriately acknowledged through in-text citations following the APA (American Psychological Association) style. In-text citations should generally include the author’s surname and year of publication. Every source cited in the manuscript should appear in the reference list.
• References should follow APA style consistently. Authors should carefully verify the accuracy and completeness of all bibliographical information before submission. The reference list should be placed at the end of the manuscript.
• Submitted manuscripts may be screened using appropriate plagiarism-detection software before peer review or at any stage of the editorial evaluation process. Authors bear full responsibility for the originality of their work and for the proper attribution of sources.
• Authors may acknowledge financial or institutional support received for the research. Where applicable, funding information should clearly identify the funding agency and grant number.
• Authors are requested to follow the Authors’ Guidelines and the prescribed manuscript template of the journal.
• The APC is applicable only after the manuscript has been accepted for publication following the journal’s editorial and peer-review process.
• Authors must grant copyright to the Khowang College Journal of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences as a condition of publication.

Send the complete manuscript to research@khowangcollege.edu.in -Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts and all required documents electronically to the above email address, mentioning “Themed Issue: Subaltern Voices” in the subject line.