Talk:Syama Prasad Mukherjee/Archive 1

Spelling and Usage
There are a number of romanizations for the Bengali words "Syama" and "Mookerjee". "Syama" and "Mookerjee" was his preferred version, that is how he spelt his name in English. But usage is data is quite different:

Google Hits (May 06):
 * Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 9760 hits
 * Shyama Prasad Mookerjee 1070 hits
 * Syama Prasad Mookerjee 713 hits
 * Syama Prasad Mukherjee 21 hits

Of course, the title should remain Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, and the redirections links are all in place, but still, thought I would point out how the data is quite disbalanced... Mukerjee 23:14, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Shyama Mukherjee was not anti RSS. If he was anti RSS, he would not have Deen Dayal Upadhyaya as BJS's GSecy. Infact many of his BJS leaders came from RSS

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I curious about the following passage "who made the BJS the chief Hindu conservative political party in the 1960s and 1970s". Wasn't BJS the dominant Hindu nationalist group already by the 1950s? As I understand it rapidly outgrew Ramrajya Parishad and the remants of Hindu Mahasabha. --Soman 07:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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Citation consistency
There seems to be a wide range of cite styles in use. For example, I've seen news items with cite news, cite web and citation, and with inconsistent use of the |publisher and |work parameters. We really should probably stick to one. - Sitush (talk) 07:38, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Undiscussed page move
I have reverted the undiscussed page move. , until you become fully conversant with WP:TITLE, you should always discuss any page move you contemplate. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 12:39, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:40, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Education
Can someone clarify or research if his 'Dr' title was conferred for any research he may have done, or of the honorary nature. It was an honorary degree, conferred in 1938 after the end of his terms as Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University. He was never into research, just educational administration. However, I could not locate any reference material in English.AnilaDebesh (talk) 12:49, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Name
On 30 December 2014, a disruptive editor called moved this page to its current title "Syama Prasad Mukherjee". He claimed that "Mookerjee is actually Mukherjee (current title is far more appropriate)". On that day, the page looked like this. Of the 16 citations present on that day, only four spelt his name as "Mukherjee". Two were news articles by Balraj Puri, another in The Tribune, and a third, a book by Y. G. Bhave, which used both the spellings. The rest of the sources, including Encyclopedia Britannica, spelt his name as "Mookerjee". That didn't stop our POV warrior from making his claims.

Today, the article lists a couple of dozen sources. I picked just the ones published by academic publishers and checked whether they have the current spelling:



❌ The sources overwhelmingly do not support this spelling.

So, I propose that the page be moved back to the original title and all the occurrences of "Mukherjee" be changed back to "Mookerjee". -- Kautilya3 (talk) 13:41, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The explanation given by Kautilya3 is quite comprehensive enough to justify the move from "Mukherjee" to "Mookerjee". To add, "Mookerjee" is also an alternative spelling of "Mukherjee" that was quite prevalent in early 20th century and even now. Syama Prasad Mookerjee's family used the spelling Mookerjee and it has been used is most of the reliable sources on the subject. I support Kautilya3's proposal to move the article back to it's original title. BengaliHindu (talk) 06:25, 3 May 2020 (UTC)