Preface & Editor's Note: Volume 7 Special Issue 1

Praghna Research Prize 2026 Edition

Dr R Srinivasan

ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES - Volume 7 Special Issue 1, July 2026

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Preface & Editor's Note: Volume 7 Special Issue 1

Praghna Research Prize 2026 Edition

Author: Dr R Srinivasan

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Abstract:

Preface

Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies (EJSSS) and its parent institution Praghna Centre for Research were founded in 2020 and 2021 respectively. The journal is an OA peer reviewed platform for publishing scholarly works in social sciences and strategic studies. Praghna undertakes capacity building programs for undergraduate and postgraduate students and research scholars through research methodology and research writing workshops and orientation programs.

Pragya means the highest and purest form of wisdom, intelligence and understanding. The name and therefore the Centre for Research aim to facilitate greater understanding in various fields of knowledge through research. The way we have spelt it, PRAGHNA, is also an acronym for the subjects that the Centre will deal with:

P – Polity & Governance R – Regionalism A – Area & Country Studies G – Geopolitics & International Relations H – History & Human Rights N- Nature & Environmental Studies A – Allied subjects

Keywords: Praghna Research Prize 2026, Special Edition, IKS, Political Science, Maritime Studies, Sociology

DOI: 10.47362/EJSSS.2026

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What does Praghna do?

Publications

Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies (ISSN online: 2582-9645), an online OA and peer reviewed journal. It is a member journal of Crossref, indexed J-Gate and ROAD.

Praghna and EJSSS have also published 08 books in the field of IR and Strategic Studies. The titles and brief descriptions can be viewed at https://www.praghna.org/publications/books-monographs

Research Writing Program

Praghna accepts graduate, postgraduate students and research scholars as interns for up to three months. During this period, they will be trained on research methodology and research article/paper writing techniques.

Interns are expected to produce a Book Review, Article or Research Paper which will be published online by the Centre. Mentoring/guidance from accomplished members of the Centre also would be available. The program entails a small fee.

Queries in this regard can be mailed to draspraghna@gmail.com

Webinars

Praghna organizes and conducts webinars in collaboration with institutions. Our intention is to promote scholarly discourses by students and early career academics. Details of the webinars conducted can be viewed at www.praghna.org, including the links to their recordings hosted on its YouTube channel.

Research Methodology Workshops

Capacity Building for research is a key objective for Praghna. We conduct workshops that focus on practical outputs on each type of research publication. Institutions may also collaborate with us for hosting these workshops for their faculty members and students/interns.

Key Milestones

Praghna and EJSSS have conducted 15 national and international webinars on contemporary themes in collaboration with New Vision University (Tbilisi, Georgia), Pondicherry University (UGC Centre for Maritime Studies), Madras University, BITS Pilani-Goa, and VIT-AP School of Law, as well as independently
Twenty five Research Methodology Workshops were conducted for Masters Level students of IR and Research Interns at universities and leading Think.
Praghna has a standing MoU with Chennai Centre for China Studies for conducting Research Methodology Workshops for their interns.
Praghna also has a standing MoU with Defence Research and Studies through which a Research Writing Program is being conducted. The students attending this program have till now published 40 research papers, 01 Book Review and 43 research articles (under 2500 words) in the past 48 months. These works have been published online through EJSSS and DRaS.
EJSSS journal hosts 26 Issues of which eight are Special Issues on specific themes.
220 papers and book reviews published by EJSSS have been downloaded over 10000 times till now and cited over 221 times, as per Google Scholar

Praghna strongly believes in promoting a knowledge based society through excellence in research.

Praghna Annual Research Awards: 2026

Praghna Centre for Research is a not-for-profit educational institute. It is committed to promoting scientific temper through original research among students and emerging scholars. In order to foster the spirit of inquiry and to promote substantial research in social sciences/strategic studies among students, Praghna has instituted research prizes for best research papers by students/research scholars and a book prize for eminent authors in strategic/security studies. Papers and books are invited in March every year. These are assessed by a jury comprising of eminent scholars from diverse fields. The prizes are awarded on the occasion of our anniversary on 07 June every year.

Founded in June 2021, this year Praghna marked its 5^th anniversary on 07 June 2026. To commemorate the occasion, Seven awards were announced as a humble endeavor to promote research namely:

V. Rajamanickam Prize: For research paper in political science or historical studies

Kalavathy Rajamanickam Prize: For research paper in socio-cultural studies

Group Captain Arun Bhatnagar Prize: For research paper in defense studies

Shri. Radhe Shyam Gupta Prize: For the best book in Defence/Strategic Studies

Lakshmi Venkatraman Prize: For a research paper in Women and Community Development

Commodore RS Vasan Prize: For a research paper in Maritime Studies

Pangal Dinesh Nayak Prize: For a research paper in Colonial History

As a mark of our appreciation for their enthusiasm to participate in this event, three undergraduate students were also given Undergraduate Appreciation.

Criteria for awards

The study must be relevant to Indian context
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary studies are especially encouraged
The work must be original and previously unpublished
The author must be a student of graduate/postgraduate studies program or a research scholar pursuing PhD/Post Doc

Award Details

The Award carries a cash prize of INR 2000 with a certificate for the first three research paper prizes and INR 3000 for the book prize. Accepted papers were subjected to blind review by a panel of five experts and books were assessed by two eminent professors. Papers/books

accepted in review were also judged by the panel of reviewers. Awards were announced and handed to selected authors on the anniversary of Praghna Centre for Research on 07 June 2026.

Five Papers accepted in review are now being published by Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies (ISSN online: 2582-9645) as per editorial & reviewer recommendations.

About this Issue

The present Volume 7 Special Issue I July 2026 is our 27^th publication. It hosts five research papers pertaining to international relations, strategic and security studies and culture, education and social studies with India as the central focus.

We are happy to note that our authors are researcher scholars, and postgraduate/undergraduate students from amongst established academic institutions.

Editor’s Note

Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies (EJSSS) is an OA and Peer Reviewed journal. We are committed to publishing research content after following editorial review by a subject editor and a blind review by a qualified reviewer of all the submissions. We especially encourage young and emerging scholars across the world to publish their works through EJSSS.

We are delighted in say that our journal is indexed by Google Scholar and J-Gate, one of the most respected indexing & abstracting agencies in the world of journal publication. We are already a member of Crossref.

We have no Article Submission Fee. However, we have a nominal Article Processing Fee the details of which are available in our Author Guidelines Page.

Scholars and researchers interested in contributing to the journal are welcome to mail the Managing Editor at submission.ejss@gmail.com with their abstracts.

Copyrights and Plagiarism Policy

EJSSS believes in and practices Open Access policy. The copyright of the works published in our journal belongs to the contributing authors. They are welcome to use, reuse, distribute, modify or update their content published in this journal in any platform in any manner deemed appropriate towards dissemination of knowledge and further research. We only request that appropriate first publication credit be given to Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies (ISSN Online: 2582-9645). Since all publications in our journal carry doi, giving such credit to us would be in keeping with our own policy of Open Access.

We are a not-for-profit journal and take reasonable efforts to have the works published by us checked for plagiarism. The responsibility and ownership of the content therefore rests with the authors. As publishers, we accept no liability for copyright related issues in our publications. We emphasize upon the authors to make every endeavor to provide original and earlier unpublished content and giving appropriate citations for resources consulted in producing their work.

Coimbatore, India Dr R Srinivasan 31 July 2026 Editor-in-Chief

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CONTENTS

Articles

1. Beyond Caste: Determinants of Urban Voting Behaviour in Mumbai 07-35

Depalaxmi Pillai

https://doi.org/10.47362/EJSSS.2026.SP7101

2. India’s Long-Range Anti-Ship Hypersonic Missile (LR-AShM) and 36-60

Naval Warfare: Sea Denial Strategy against PLAN’s Carrier

Operations in the IOR

Bill Christopher Arputharaj

https://doi.org/10.47362/EJSSS.2026.SP7102