The Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society publishes the results of research involving human subjects only if fully compliant with the ethical principles set out in the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, as revised in 2008 (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/17c.pdf) and with the additional requirements, if any, of the country in which the research was carried out. Submitted manuscripts must contain a clear statement to this effect. They should specify that the free and informed consent of the subjects or their legal guardians was obtained and that the relevant institutional or national ethics review board approved the investigation.
For studies based on secondary data, the following example wording may be used:
The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.