Talk:Lakshadweepa

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Note: WP India Project Banner with Nagaland workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under Category:Lakshadweep or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate, please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article --  Amartyabag   TALK2ME  10:54, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Merge
I disagree with a merge, since Lakshadweep is obviously about India, and this encompasses islands belonging to three countries. --Golbez (talk) 06:07, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

There is no proof that the name Lakshadweepa ever encompassed the three group of islands stated in the article. There is no proof for the main topic of this article. So I have redirected the article to Lakshadweep. It is related to the history of Lakshadweep only and the name Lakshadweepa can only be seen from history as a term used to refer to the present day Lakshadweep in India. The proof that it was used to refer to Lakshadweep is that at present even the term Lakshadweepa is used to refer to the Lakshadweep (Laccadive islands) by many authors and many common people in India. It is the "opinion" of some authors that Lakshadweepa might have included the Maldives as well as Chargoes archipelago due to the fact that the meaning of the term is "one hundred thousand isles". However, it doesn't mean that a kingdom named Lakshadweepa ever existed. We see the term "Mahiladvipa", "Mahindadvipa" or such kind of names being used to refer to the Maldives from much before. There may be some Indian kings or Maldivian kings who claimed the whole three archipelagoes, but that's a whole different story. However, the three never existed as one as far as history goes. There is no proof for it and no need of a separate article when it is as such with respect to Wikipedia guidelines. Leone (talk) 02:21, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Suvadives
The Suvadives is geographically part of the Maldives. It was merely a short-lived political break-away and therefore there is no need to mention it in this sense, as being part of Lakshadweepa --Maurice45 (talk) 15:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)