South Asian Studies is an open access, peer-reviewed, and refereed journal published by the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. The journal is ranked in Y-category by Higher Education Commission, Islamabad and included in HJRS (https://hjrs.hec.gov.pk/index.php). All contents are freely available without charges to the user or his/her institution. The journal published under Creative Common License 4.0. The readers are allowed to search, read, download, copy, print, or link to the full texts of the articles published in South Asian Studies (http://pu.edu.pk/home/journal/9 ) without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Previous issues are also available in electronic form (http://pu.edu.pk/home/journal/9/Online-Contents.html).