Indian Journal of Neighbourhood Studies

The Indian Journal of Neighbourhood Studies (IJNS) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary scholarship on the multiple meanings, dimensions, and dynamics of India’s neighbourhood in contemporary regional and international affairs. It examines India’s neighbourhood as the tangible community of neighbouring states, each with its own borders, sovereignty, and national identity — and, within that framework, as a space also shaped by historical interactions, political contestations, economic flows, cultural exchanges, ecological interdependencies, and everyday practices across borders.

IJNS seeks to fill a significant gap in existing scholarship by treating neighbourhoods as analytical frameworks in their own right, rather than as derivative extensions of foreign policy analysis, area studies, or security studies. It encourages contributions that examine how neighbourhoods are imagined, negotiated, and transformed by states, institutions, and non-state actors, including borderland communities, migrant networks, and regional formations.

The journal welcomes research from within India and abroad that combines theoretical innovation with empirical depth, and deepens understanding of the forces shaping India’s neighbourhood and the country’s engagements with it. It encourages comparative and transregional perspectives, methodological pluralism, and contributions that bridge academic scholarship with practitioner insight, while remaining attentive to grounded realities across South Asia and its extended neighbourhood.

IJNS publishes original research, policy essays, neighbourhood briefs, field reports, archival and historical studies, oral histories, infographics, and book reviews that illuminate long-term structural change as well as immediate developments in India’s neighbourhood.