User:Sitush/Indic publications of dubious merit

Books

 * - a Gyan book, reported by . NB: this is a four-volume set, and there are various ISBNs
 * - compare Babur at December 2010 with this, published in 2011.
 * Anything by James Tod
 * J. M. Wikeley's Panjab Musalmans. Wikeley was a professional soldier who wrote a handbook intended for use by other soldiers. That book consists almost entirely of plagiarism and what would now be considered to be copyright violations. His plagiarism was of pseudo-academics etc from earlier times, such as H. A. Rose. Although much used here on Wikipedia, he is not commonly cited by any modern academics etc. The use of him on Wikipedia is, in my experience, only ever done when it "puffs" a certain group of people. The publisher was a non-notable printing Lahore business whose name is commonly mis-spelled as "Painting House".
 * Encyclopaedia Indica - see this
 * - eg: compare p. 5 with, which is identical but not acknowleged as such.
 * is an exact copy of the earlier
 * . The section The Great India-China Game on page 21 is an exact replica of an article by Mohan Guruswamy . The other sections are also possibly plagiarised. In fact, the author "Anna Orton" may be a fake name. I can't find any information about such a "well-known political analyst and columnist". -- Kautilya3 (talk) 00:28, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - seems to have copied from Wikipedia without attribution. See discussion here.

Websites

 * Jatland - an open wiki

Publishers

 * Gyan/ISHA - see User:Sitush/Common
 * iUniverse - a vanity press