JOURNAL OF KARNATAKA STUDIES
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Kannada University, Hampi, one of the premier institutions of research in India,
proposes to address a long felt, unspelt academic need by launching a bi-annual
Cultural Studies journal in English entitled Journal of Karnataka Studies:
lack of access to available
research on the varied aspects of studies on Kannada and Karnataka as well as a
fruitful interaction among scholars in the field has often been noticed by the
engaged academic community as an embarrassing lacuna. Journal of Karnataka
Studies hopes to be a forum for Kannada and Karnataka Studies so as to encourage
and enrich interactive research and scholarship among scholars and students of
Kannada/Karnataka Studies working in Kannada, English and the other languages;
the Journal wishes to orchestrate the variety of notes into a polyphony
by addressing issues and debates relating to Kannada/Karnataka-its economy,
polity, natural resources, environment, media, nationalism, history, language,
culture and other similar issues.
Journal of Karnataka Studies has as its target not only the single-minded but sometimes artificially segregated research community but also the serious student, the interested lay person, the conscientious policy maker, the resident and non-resident Kannadiga and such others. It provides access to the wide range of scholarship, discussions of methodology, documents and other aids to research. It wishes to make available the results of research on Karnataka to scholars working on similar issues elsewhere in India and abroad so as to promote comparative/co-operative work.
Journal of Karnataka Studies will carry research articles in each issue. In addition, it would have a section devoted to varieties of documentation: reprints and/or translations of major writings from the past, excerpts from crucial policy documents and debates in the media or other forums, articles from Kannada journals, etc. Another section of Journal will review important studies on Karnataka, works in regional studies and methodology. Commissioned essays on contemporary events, preoccupations and debates will feature as a separate section. An exclusive section to highlight the conceptual and theoretical achievements of writings in Kannada will make a specific effort towards developing an autonomous and relevant research methodology for Kannada/Karnataka studies. Each issue of the Journal will bring to focus, among other things, a specific theme, the first issue of the Journal is centered primarily around the theme of Kannada Identity.
This Journal is published by Kannada University, Hampi, an institution
devoted exclusively to the promotion of advanced research and scholarship on
Kannada and Karnataka as well as to developing requisite resources in Kannada
for research in all the areas of human endeavour including the sciences.
Subscriptions: Regular
institutional rate is Rs.250, 25 pounds and 40 dollars. Individuals may
subscribe at a one-year rate of Rs.120,
12 pounds and 20 dollars. Orders of the subscription should be sent to the
Director, Prasaranga, Kannada University, Hampi, Vidyaranya, Bellary District,
Karnataka, India- 583 276 either by cash, demand draft, money order and
bankers cheque.