Indian Journal of Neighbourhood Studies

The Indian Journal of Neighbourhood Studies is founded on the premise that India’s neighbourhood is not simply a strategic periphery, but a constitutive space shaping its political imagination, developmental trajectories, and global engagements.

The journal seeks to move beyond state-centric and security-driven frameworks that have traditionally dominated the study of the region. Instead, it foregrounds neighbourhoods as dynamic, contested, and lived spaces, where formal diplomacy intersects with informal networks, local histories, ecological systems, and everyday negotiations of power and identity.

IJNS aims to serve as a forum for scholarship that is analytically rigorous, empirically grounded, and conceptually innovative. It particularly encourages contributions that challenge established orthodoxies, recover marginal perspectives, and bring diverse methodological approaches into conversation.

As an innovative feature of the journal, the Infographics and Oral Histories initiative will bring together data-driven visualisation and lived experience to illuminate India’s neighbourhood in ways that conventional scholarship cannot. As an e-journal, IJNS will also make use of multimedia, including audio and video embeds or links.

At the same time, the journal remains attentive to policy relevance, seeking to bridge the gap between academic research and practitioner insights. It aspires to cultivate a scholarly community that is both India-anchored and globally engaged, contributing to wider debates in international relations, regional studies, and global political thought.