Talk:1966 anti-cow slaughter riot

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How to tackle the discrepancy? This is an episode, which's hardly covered in any significant detail by post-colonial scholars (as Copland alludes to) and accessing old newspapers in India to dig stuff up, is a Herculean task (at-least for writing a WP article). &#x222F; WBG converse 13:29, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm unfamiliar with this committee; tracking down old Indian newspapers is next to impossible; could you try to track down the NYT source that Copland cites, though? In the absence of further evidence, we could just mention the discrepency (a priori, I would trust Copland slightly more, but not much more, with respect to minor factual detail). Vanamonde (Talk) 18:20, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have a pdf of the times in question, email for it. I think Copland may have made a mistake, because it says that the committee was expected to give a report in September (1973). buidhe 06:21, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it seems that Jairam Ramesh was correct. An Indian Express report dated July, 1976 reports that the committee (formed nine years back) was scheduled to submit an interim report. A '78 TOI report in library-archives repeats similar news. Obviously, Copland was wrong in deducing that the committee had submitted its report in 1973. &#x222F; WBG converse 07:37, 25 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Also, Copland in Pg. 430 mentions
 * Which election is Copland talking about? In the immediate beforemath and aftermath, he deals with the '67 elections but Jan Sangh managed to only get 35 seats; typo?! &#x222F; WBG converse 13:41, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * "Rebuke to the ruling party" suggests that it was the election after the emergency was lifted. I don't know how he can tell how many seats the BJS had won because it had merged into Janata. He probably tracked the pre-merger party affiliations. That is very useful info and should be added to the election page somewhere. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:55, 25 December 2019 (UTC)