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Book Review There have been few accounts of the Indian activities in Antarctica and those few reports and books that have been published have not been available outside India. For that reason alone, I was delighted to see the efforts made by Jagadish Khandilkar to not only explain about Antarctica to his fellow countrymen but also to document, in English, some of the Indian Antarctic efforts. That said, there is unfortunately a great deal that is not quite correct in this new volume. The author makes a valiant attempt to cover everything from logistics to science and relies heavily on several older general accounts as well as Wikipedia. In addition, the book has clearly not been copy edited as well as might be expected for a Bloomsbury publication, leading to frequent errors in names etc.; for example, it should be Kerguelen not Kergulan, Priestley not Priestly, Drygalski not Dragalski, and Vivian not Vivien.His objectives are twofold: to explain about the importance of Antarctica through its history and some of the science, and to review the Indian contribution to Antarctic development chiefly through its logistics. As an ex-Indian Army commander, he spent some time as the Base Commander at Dashkin Gangotri and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Antarctic Science Cambridge University Press

Book Review

Antarctic Science , Volume 30 (4): 3 – Jun 11, 2018
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Cambridge University Press
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© Antarctic Science Ltd 2018 
ISSN
0954-1020
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1365-2079
DOI
10.1017/S0954102018000196
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Abstract

There have been few accounts of the Indian activities in Antarctica and those few reports and books that have been published have not been available outside India. For that reason alone, I was delighted to see the efforts made by Jagadish Khandilkar to not only explain about Antarctica to his fellow countrymen but also to document, in English, some of the Indian Antarctic efforts. That said, there is unfortunately a great deal that is not quite correct in this new volume. The author makes a valiant attempt to cover everything from logistics to science and relies heavily on several older general accounts as well as Wikipedia. In addition, the book has clearly not been copy edited as well as might be expected for a Bloomsbury publication, leading to frequent errors in names etc.; for example, it should be Kerguelen not Kergulan, Priestley not Priestly, Drygalski not Dragalski, and Vivian not Vivien.His objectives are twofold: to explain about the importance of Antarctica through its history and some of the science, and to review the Indian contribution to Antarctic development chiefly through its logistics. As an ex-Indian Army commander, he spent some time as the Base Commander at Dashkin Gangotri and

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Antarctic Science – Cambridge University Press

Published: Jun 11, 2018

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