Talk:Nain Singh

The Great Trigonometrical Society
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The Society was created by Colonel William Lambten in Chennai on April 10, 1802.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jay (talk • contribs) 21:49, 7 July 2004


 * There is nothing — and never was anything — called the Great Trigonometrical Society. There was, and still is, The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, a part of the Survey of India, instituted in Calcutta in the 1760s, one of the first central services to be created by the East India Company in the wake of its conquest of Bengal.


 * Bibliography and source:
 * Reginald Henry Phillimore, Historical Records of the Survey of India, 5 volumes (Dehra Dun: Survey of India, 1945-1968)


 * The name Lambten needs to corrected to LAMBTON.
 * Transnat —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 14:32, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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Large parts of this page were copied from http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/pundit.html with permission. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Telso (talk • contribs) 06:22, 9 July 2004

Requested move 22 September 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. Unopposed request. Number  5  7  14:34, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Nain Singh Rawat → Nain Singh – I believe "Nain Singh" is the COMMONNAME here - all sources I can find from when he was alive (admittedly mostly British sources rather than Indian) and the majority of modern scholarly sources I've reviewed call him "Nain Singh" rather than "Nain Singh Rawat." My understanding is that Rawat is a caste or clan name rather than a family name. See discussions at Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020_September_5 and Special:Permalink/978831190. Since the opposite move was made a while back in 2008 (see ), I'm bringing this to RM instead of moving it unilaterally. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:38, 22 September 2020 (UTC)


 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Nain shingh ravai
mohrram ali 2A02:CB80:4282:822E:997:1601:E9C:2D31 (talk) 09:05, 13 February 2024 (UTC)