[Vision2020] Citing Primary Sources via Secondary Sources

[nickgier at roadrunner.com]

Hi Jeff,

This is response is no response.  Would you care to distinguish between what 
Andreas did and what I've done for 18 years in my Gandhi research?

Nick


---- Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote: 
> At 10:27 AM 9/17/2008, you wrote:
> >Greetings:
> >
> >"I've not followed the exchange between Andreas and Jeff in complete 
> >detail ..."
> 
> 
> That more or less covers my response.
> 
> 
> >I'm preparing for a keynote address that I will give on Gandhi's 
> >birthday on Oct. 2 at San Diego State University.  When I first 
> >started doing my Gandhi research in the early 1990s, it was very 
> >difficult to get the primary sources, even through interlibrary 
> >loan.  Until I went on sabbatical to India, I relied on secondary 
> >sources, especially very fine anthologies of passages arranged by 
> >subject and fully documented.
> >
> >When I finally got to India, I was able to sit down and check out 
> >references and read for context in Gandhi's Collected Works (100 
> >volumes!) and the journals Young India and Harijan.  Very few Gandhi 
> >scholars read every page of these huge volumes. That is why we have 
> >bibliographers.
> >
> >Gandhi kept meticulous records of everything that happened in his 
> >ashrams, and most of that does not make for very edifying 
> >reading.  The Collected Works have a very good index, so that was 
> >very handy to find the passages that I needed for a particular topic.
> >
> >As soon as finish this post, I will go downstairs to my reading 
> >couch and re-read the fabulous anthologies that take me right to the 
> >passages that I want to review, and perhaps I'll find some new good 
> >ones.  The Collected Works are now on line, but they are even more 
> >clumsy to use than the actual books themselves.  For crucial 
> >passages I will double check the original references again on line.
> >
> >I believe this is what Andreas did, and if I'm right, then I'm just 
> >as guilty of plagiarism as he is.  I wouldn't be invited to San 
> >Diego if that is what my colleagues think I did.
> >
> >Nick Gier
> >
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