Comments on: Documents of 1857

By: Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:28:58 +0000

[...] in on a scathing review of a collection of primary documents on the Indian uprising of 1857 in Documents of 1857 but finds, and reproduces for us, a useful list of archives where primary sources can be [...]

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:19:13 +0000

I read the review and thought, “Ouch.” :) Still though, if the book is as awful, inaccurate, and flimsy as argued, then the review was well deserved.

“Worse still, the translations are often deliberately misleading.”

This makes me cringe. I used to be a translator, and I was asked by the head of the religious institute to translate a seminal body of work into English. There were two/three chapters that had already been translated, and when I read them, they were totally off the base, not even close to what was being said in Italian. Dis/misinformation is evil.

By: lapata

lapata — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:12:16 +0000

From the review:

“I saw the book advertised, and then read a review in The Tribune. I immediately requested a friend to bring it for me from India. Now I feel ashamed that I put her to all the trouble. It cost her 750 rupees, but it is not even worth the price of the paper it is printed on.”

CM Naim, still showing us how it’s done.