Talk:List of state and union territory capitals in India

Dates
The dates mentioned in the list are inconsistent/incorrect. Some mention dates before independence, some after. If dates before independence are to be preferred, the following are incorrect:
 * 1) Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Port Blair has been the capital at least since 1875 when A&N was established as a Chief Commissioner's province.
 * 2) Delhi: Delhi has been a Chief Commissioner's Province since 1911/1912.
 * 3) Jammu & Kashmir: Srinagar and Jammu were the capitals long before 1948.  I do not know the correct date, but I have with me a book written in 1942 which mention those capitals.
 * 4) Madhya Pradesh: This is not an error. Nagpur was the capital of CP & Berar from 1903 onwards and probably should be mentioned in the Former Capital column.
 * 5) Tamil Nadu: Chennai (Madras) was the capital of the Madras Presidency from 1640 to 1947.

We need to be consistent and use all post-independence dates or use the correct pre-independence dates.

Also, see my comment of the classification of the NCT of Delhi at Talk:States and territories of India. --Manojb 05:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The Capital od Andhra Pradesh before 1956, Kurnool is not correct. Kurnool is the Capital of Andhra State only. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.245.25.48 (talk) 19:24, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Needs serious work.
This list needs serious work to remain a WP:FL. The list has data which undergone many changes and seems very less informative now. The list gives out very less information apart some city names. -- gp pande  «talk»  14:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Requested move
Move Parsecboy (talk) 16:12, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

List of Indian state and union territory capitals → List of state and union territory capitals in India — The new title is less ambiguous — =Nichalp   «Talk»=  13:08, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

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 * Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with  or  , then sign your comment with  . Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.


 * Support: Indian can be ambiguous in page titles, for example, List of Indian chiefs is really about American Indian chiefs. Comparatively, India clearly is relatively less ambiguous: confusion may arise whether it is British India, Mughal India, Republic of India or India of which period is in the context. However, by default, it means Republic of India, which is a country today.--GDibyendu (talk) 13:40, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * support: I'm the one who brought this issue to light on Nichalp's talk page, when I got a chuckle out of the name... it threw me for a loop because I didn't realize Native American's had formalized state and territory capitals... then I realized that I read the title from my US-centric bias.  The new title is explicit in what is being listed.--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 16:15, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support: Ambiguity of the term Indian calls for the change, -- KnowledgeHegemony talk 17:26, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support:Yup, even we Indians need to get out of our sub-continental centric minds. Indians is very generalized word and more it can refer to Native Americans. Indians is also the term used in countries like Fiji and other Caribbean nations where sizable population is of Indian origin. -of India or -in India is less ambiguous. -- GP Pande  07:48, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Any additional comments:


 * WP:IIJ needs to be updated after the move as all Indian locations link to the page.
 * [[Image:Yes check.svg|18px]] Y Done Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 21:01, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The link on WP:FL also needs to be updated
 * [[Image:Yes check.svg|18px]] Y Done Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:39, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The FLC discussion needs to be moved too. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  13:17, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Table messed up
Can someone who watches this page please fix the table. It doesn't look good for a Featured list to have an error causing the table to display incorrectly. Thanks, Matthewedwards : Chat  01:32, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed by reverting a new user's edits (the info added wasn't relevant anyway). Dabomb87 (talk) 01:53, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting to that so quickly. Matthewedwards : Chat  02:33, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 June 2014
The number of total states is 29 now. Andhra Pradesh has been split into two states, Telangana and a residual Andhra Pradesh w.e.f 2 June 2014. source: http://www.egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2014/158365.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India

Also, this page can be deleted as it is a duplicate of following page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India

Keshavkaushikindia (talk) 05:59, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

✅ - I have updated the number, but this page cannot be deleted as it contains information about the capitals, which is not in States and union territories of India - Arjayay (talk) 08:13, 4 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Correct, this page specifically not only includes capitals, but focuses on them, giving to three different types of capitals. This is one of many lists of specific information on Indian states and union territories, all the ones listed in the box at the right of the article, from Template:Lists of states and territories of India. —Largo Plazo (talk) 14:02, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Judiciary captials
I had a hard time trying to find any government source mentioning these. Tried a few of given sources, but they seem to support the lead and the notes, rather than the main list. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 18:04, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Request for semi protection
It seems some new users are vandalising the page.so requesting semi protection


 * Padlock-dash2.svg Not done: requests for increases to the page protection level should be made at Requests for page protection.  JTP (talk • contribs) 14:37, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 6 August 2019
Change "It is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 29 states and 7 union territories" to "It is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 9 union territories" AshishRoy1985 (talk) 21:54, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes it needs to be updated Me.sudhanshu121 (talk) 15:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes it needs to be updated Me.sudhanshu121 (talk) 15:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Melmann 15:03, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

28 state and 9 territory now ...in India Amandeepsinghania7677 (talk) 14:06, 11 August 2019 (UTC)