About the Journal

The Siddhanta Journal of World Knowledge Systems is a peer-reviewed, open-access, bi-annual journal published by the Siddhanta Knowledge Foundation. It publishes research, translation and criticism on classical knowledge traditions — their texts, their methods of reasoning, and their place in contemporary education.

The journal exists to hold that material to the ordinary disciplines of scholarship: a clear question, an honest method, and sources cited by edition and verse. Reverence for a tradition is not a substitute for evidence about it, and the journal publishes work that can be checked.

Aim and objectives

  • To publish source-based scholarship on Bhāratīya-Jñāna-Paramparā and the wider field of world knowledge systems.
  • To make primary texts available in annotated translation.
  • To examine how these traditions are taught, and what happens to them in a modern classroom.
  • To provide an open, refereed venue in which claims about tradition can be tested rather than asserted.

Vision and mission

Vision. A body of scholarship on classical knowledge systems that any university library, anywhere, can cite without reservation.

Mission. To run a fair, prompt and fully transparent peer-review process; to keep every article free to read and free to publish; and to hold reverence and rigour together.

Read this in full under Aim & Scope.

Intended audience

Researchers and faculty in Indology, Sanskrit, philosophy and the history of science; scholars trained in the pāṭhaśālā and gurukula traditions; doctoral and postgraduate students working on primary texts; teachers and curriculum designers; translators and manuscript scholars; and general readers with a serious interest in the field.

Languages and subject areas

The journal publishes in English, with primary sources quoted in the original script or in IAST transliteration and every substantial quotation translated. Its subject areas run from darśana, vyākaraṇa and nyāya through jyotiṣa, gaṇita and āyurveda to manuscript studies, translation, pedagogy and comparative knowledge systems. The full list is under Aim & Scope.

Publication frequency

Two issues each year, in April and October. See Publication Information for the full schedule and the journal's identifiers.

Open access

Every article is free to read from the day it is published, with no embargo and no registration requirement, and there is no charge to authors at any stage. Authors retain copyright; articles are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. See Open Access and Copyright and Fees / APC.

Editorial independence

Editorial decisions are made by the editors on scholarly grounds alone. The Siddhanta Knowledge Foundation funds the journal but takes no part in the assessment of individual submissions. Where an editor has any interest in a submission, that editor is removed from the file. See Conflict of Interest.

Editorial team

The editors, the editorial board and the roles each holds are listed on the Editorial Board page.

Privacy

What personal data the journal holds, why it holds it, and how to ask for it, is set out in the Privacy Statement.

Publishing with the journal

Abstracts for the next issue are invited through the Call for Papers. Before preparing a manuscript, read the Author Guidelines and the Submission Checklist. All of the journal's published policies are indexed under Policies.