Aim & Scope
The Siddhanta Journal of World Knowledge Systems publishes research, translation and criticism on classical knowledge traditions — their texts, their methods of reasoning, and their place in contemporary education.
Aim and objectives
- To publish source-based scholarship on Bhāratīya-Jñāna-Paramparā and the wider field of world knowledge systems, held to the ordinary disciplines of research: a clear question, an honest method, and sources cited by edition and verse.
- To make primary texts available in annotated translation to readers who cannot reach them in the original.
- To record and 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, so that respect for a tradition never stands in for evidence about it.
Intended audience
- Researchers and faculty in Indology, Sanskrit, philosophy, history of science and allied disciplines
- Scholars trained in the traditional pāṭhaśālā and gurukula systems
- Doctoral and postgraduate students working on primary texts
- Teachers and curriculum designers introducing knowledge-systems content into school and university programmes
- Translators, editors and manuscript scholars
- General readers with a serious interest in the field
Languages
The journal publishes in English. Sanskrit and regional-language material is quoted in the original script or in IAST transliteration, and every substantial quotation carries a translation. See the Sanskrit / IAST guidelines.
Subject and scope areas
- Darśana and philosophical reasoning
- Vyākaraṇa, Nyāya and the methods of textual analysis
- Jyotiṣa, gaṇita and the exact sciences
- Āyurveda and the life sciences
- Sthāpatya, śilpa and the applied arts
- Dharmaśāstra, polity and social organisation
- Kāvya, alaṅkāra and literary theory
- Manuscript studies, editions and translation
- Transmission, pedagogy and curriculum
- Comparative and cross-cultural knowledge systems
Publication frequency
Two issues a year. See Publication Information for the full schedule.
Open access
Every article is free to read from the day it is published, and there is no charge to authors. See Open Access and Copyright.
What falls outside the scope
The journal does not publish devotional writing, polemic, or work whose argument rests on authority alone. Claims that a classical source anticipates a modern scientific result are welcome as a subject of study, but must be argued from the text and assessed against the evidence like any other claim.