Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tripura Buranji


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. I withdraw from this discussion. (non-admin closure) TrangaBellam (talk) 18:42, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Tripura Buranji

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I am unable to locate any reliable source which discusses our subject significantly, other than a few pages over a government publication (ed: Satyadeo Poddar) mentioning it as a small book which is little known now-a-days. That Poddar's volume from 2016 does not contain any bibliographic entry in its discussions of Tripura Buranji (apart from a college magazine) is significant and highlights the total lack of scholarship on the subject.WP:GNG notes that multiple sources [with significant coverage] are generally expected for granting an entire article to any topic and thus, I am proposing a redirect to Buranji. TrangaBellam (talk) 19:16, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. TrangaBellam (talk) 19:16, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:36, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Oppose: The manuscript has been discussed by multiple scholars in the Poddar edited volume. The manuscript itself was edited and published by the Government of Assam and these independent scholars writing on Tripura history agree with the publisher.  As has been shown in the article itself, Tripura Buranji has been used as a primary source by these authors to provide the history of Tripura.  Since authors such as Sarkar and Chaudhuri have significantly covered this manuscript, as can be seen from cited references, it does not meet the criterion for deletion. Chaipau (talk) 20:16, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Not multiple but two scholars in about four pages for a single government publication. I have already noted their commentary in my nomination statement about the manuscript being hardly known and hardly studied. Also please do not misrepresent scholars to portray that the subject passes our notability tests. TrangaBellam (talk) 06:24, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I am appalled by the misrepresentations by . The two scholars he mentions are I Sarkar and B Chaudhuri.  He has not counted others already available in the reference/citation: N B Bhattacharjee, K Satchitananda, T Misra, S K Bhuyan; besides many others who are not mentioned in citations such as J B Bhattacharyya (,  etc.) Chaipau (talk) 11:43, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , please provide WP:Full citations for two source that establish WP:GNG. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:51, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Please look below. There are not just two but multiple sources that have noted the significance of this document.  I have mentioned just two (regarding historical source and travel writing),  but there are many other areas where this document is notable (Assamese lietrature, as Chaudhuri mentions) and where it provides critical inputs such as for trade (Bhattacharjee 1987) and description of medieval diplomatic protocols (Bhuyan 1938, not described here).  Chaipau (talk) 01:01, 17 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep Per sources listed on the article and also this one which provide enough coverage. --Yoonadue (talk) 03:32, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Sources laid out above confirm that subject pass GNG. Dhawangupta (talk) 11:41, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep There is enough verifiable reliable sources based on the references provided which shows it pass GNG  &#x1f432; ꯂꯨꯋꯥꯪ  ꯋꯥ ꯍꯥꯏꯐꯝ (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

General Notability
Tripura Buranji is an edited and published version of an 18th century manuscript that has been noted (1) as a primary source of extant historical events, and (2) as a remarkable example of pre-colonial travel writing in India. The book is not a popular book, but it is available in many university libraries around the world because of its academic notability.

Primary Source of historical events
Many authors have long noted the Tripura Buranji as a primary source: N N Acharya (1957), and I Sarkar (2016) A fuller account of the incidents and description is culled from this document is given in synopsis by Chaudhuri (2016), and regarding the document, he says: "Apart from being a highly valuable document of history it is also an unique piece of ancient Assamese literature written in lucid language. The small book, though little known now-a-days, is a treasure house of information vividly depicting the contemporary social, economic, cultural and political tradition prevailing in the region in the first and second decades of eighteenth century."

Travel writing
placed the Tripura Buranji to a category of Indian travel writing that included Kalidasa’s Meghadootam and Sandeshakavyas, Namdev’s Tirthayatra, and Vidyapati’s Bhuparikrama. N K Bhattacharjee singles out the Tripura Buranji in this group.

Other mentions
Beside being a source for historical events during the missions three visits, the manuscript/book also has been noted for information regarding trade involving regions other than Assam and Tripura.