Talk:Ayodhya/Archives/2020/December

Ayodhya as Awadh/Oudh: an answer from the images
In the Mughal and British period subsection of History section, the statement that Awadh and Oudh are a variant of Ayodhya is currently marked by an "According to whom?" tag.

While it's true that: nevertheless the image files already included in the subsection could help make that statement more sound, by improving their captions.
 * 1) an explicit reference to Raj-era (or later) texts would settle the issue for good, and
 * 2) "variant of" might not be the most fitting description of the relation between the two names,

The 1903 United Provinces map is displayed with caption "showing 'Ajodhia'", but more precisely the map shows the city as 'Ajodhia (Oudh)': let's also include that in the caption.

The 1785 William Hodges' painting is correctly reported as a depiction of Ayodhya, but its actual title was "A View of Part of the City of Oud": that information can be included in the caption as well.

As for a source to support the statement, I'm only able to find this 2019 interview of Marxist historian of Aligarh Muslim University, Irfan Habib: "Ayodhya, then called Awadh, was an administrative centre—during the Mughal days, the headquarters of a large province". --176.244.59.91 (talk) 18:18, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 December 2020
Please change change the name of Faizabad as Ayodhya because there is no district as faizabad now. 14.98.95.90 (talk) 12:24, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The article on Faizabad district has that name because consensus is that it is the common name in English. But you already knew that. -- Toddy1 (talk) 12:33, 3 December 2020 (UTC)