Adventures in Academia

[shadowsinfire]

One tends to expect a certain degree of competence from published books, particularly collections of academic articles. But no.

Today in my reading I came across Women in Indian Politics (Sinha, Niroj ed., Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi, 200). The article I was particularly interested in here was "Women's Participation in National Freedom

Comments

[dawnduskdancer]

I had a similar problem with an article on Puyehue Volcano - in this case I think the problem was the language barrier, but I really wonder how the article made it past peer review and editing and into publication without the spelling, grammar, and sentence structure getting fixed.

[shadowsinfire]

The problem is that after all that you have to weigh how much you can trust anything the paper said. In this case, probably not much.