Guidelines for Paper Submission

The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for the primary list of presentations is midnight on November 30th, 2024.

Paper once submitted will be treated as a Final Submission for the 83rd Session of the Indian History Congress. Multiple submissions of a paper will lead to its rejection.

1. All authors and co-authors must be members and have paid the membership fee for the current session of the Indian History Congress (IHC)

Note: Except for the authors who became Life Members in any previous session, it is mandatory for all authors and co-authors to pay the Membership Fees (Initial/Renewal/Life, as applicable) for the current session before submitting their papers.

2. Eligibility for Paper Submission:

          (a) The author and the co-author(s) must have completed and received their Master’s degree/marksheet at the time of paper submission.
          (b) ‘Student Members’, who are due to receive their Master’s degree/marksheet, are ineligible for paper submission.

3. Ensure following criteria of submission to avoid rejection of the paper(s):

(a) A member can submit only one paper in one section and a maximum of two papers in two different sections (whether as an author or a co-author).
(b) Submission of two papers in one section or more than two papers in different sections will lead to the rejection of all papers irrespective of other author and co-author(s) of the papers.

4. Research Scholars should not acknowledge or add their supervisors as co-authors. 


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UPLOAD your paper in the word-processed format (.doc/.docx).

(a) The paper will be rejected if it is uploaded in any other format than the prescribed (do not upload the PDF version of the paper)
(b) The paper must be legible and typed in the English language in the prescribed format (do not use computer software or AI-bots to translate the .doc/.docx file from any other language into English)

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