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Ashoka's policy of Dhamma
Hey there, i'm looking, if there's someone willing to help cleaning up article Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ashoka's policy of Dhama. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anupmehra (talk • contribs) 19:55, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

A war waged with Gandhi caps
dear friends i have recently joined this project i am here with giving you the link of this caption this is regarding indian history khilafat movement kindly look into this

Photo of indian assembly parliament members dated 1937
i hope this may help us we may add the link to this photgraph of the members who are in the photo Image:Umar_alisha_members_of_legislative_assembly_dated_1937-03-05.JPG Pingali 15:38, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/10/14/stories/2002101401180300.htm

regards

Pingali 11:05, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Workgroup-level quality statistics
Please read. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 08:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Ahom history
Found this article through the cross-namespace links and thinking it quite a good start I wikified and organized it the best I could, being that Indian history is not my forte. I'm just bringing it to your attention so it can be reviewed and expanded beyond the Ahom-Mughal conflict, or whatever you want to make of it. Dracontes 14:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
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Maps
I'm interested in making free svg maps. Please drop me a note on my talk page if you need any. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  09:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello there, I am replying to nearly-a-decade old post, but I am hoping for the best that your "interest" has not faded with time! I would like to have some of your help. -Anand2202 (talk) 09:58, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Category:Indus Valley sites
This pak as been untagging indus valley with the indian tag on it. Could use some help on this. seems to be behind it. He takes the tag off harappa civilization and other indic historic sites as well.--D-Boy 21:41, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Chola kings
Can someone please look at the stray little stub Rajarajan that's been created recently. Am I right in guessing that name should redirect to an existing article like Rajaraja Chola I?? --Mereda 17:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

A little help, please?
Can someone have a look at the latest entry at Taj Mahal (disambiguation), please? Is Veena a vandalism entry? It looks odd to me. --Nemonoman 05:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've fixed it. Thanks Parthi talk/contribs 05:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Please dont steal Pakistani history
before 1947 there WAS NO pakistan OR india. it is the creation of British. Serious note. Dont make a joke out of this. I will take this matter further.

Mistaken Definition of Ancient India

We have all seen the term Ancient India before. On first thought you would think it applies to the Ancient History of India. Well, you are wrong. This term applies to the Ancient History of South Asia.

For decades, Indian historians have written the history books according to their own liking. And because of Pakistanis being ashamed of their non-Islamic past, their jobs had been made so much easier. To understand what has happened in the region, you have to be open minded. Everything written here is backed up with facts, logic and common sense. The logic applied to this argument makes sense.

Before India became an English colony sometime in 1800's or perhaps earlier, there was no such thing as India that we see today. The subcontinent was very much divided into many parts ruled by various dynasties. After independence in 1947, many of the states in the subcontinent were united into two single countries. The Republic of India and Pakistan. The Republic of India was not supposed to claim the name 'India'. This was a political agreement broken in 1947 which has lead to a lot of confusion in modern times. India, just like Pakistan was born in 1947. Prior to this, the region which is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, was known as British India. When the region was partitioned, Republic of India claimed the title of 'parent state' of British India, as they received the larger land mass for their country. Along with this title they also claimed the History of the region which was British India in ancient times.

This region was only ever united when Britain invaded. Prior to that, the region was scattered with dynasties. Logically, it doesn't make sense that India can claim the history of people and land which never belonged to them. The old argument of 'Pakistan not existing prior to 1947, therefore there is no such thing as Ancient Pakistan' is flawed. The same logic can be applied to India. There was no such thing as a country, India prior to 1947, and prior to the 1800s; the South Asian subcontinent was never united in anyway. So the current definition of Ancient India is flawed. Ancient Indian history is the history of Republic of India in Ancient times. This doesn't include any region outside of their own borders.

Therefore, grouping the history of the entire South Asian subcontinent, which has never been united prior to the 1800s and passing it on to a country which came into existence in 1947, doesn't make sense. Indian Historians have ignored these arguments and pretended that India has existed for 1000s of years.

Let's talk about Indus Valley for example. The region in question is now located in Pakistan. The people of the region have always been living there. However the history of the region is claimed by India, who is in absolutely no way related to the Pakistani people, neither have they ever had claim over the land which is now Pakistan. Indus Valley settlements are located all over Southern Asia. These include, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, northwest India, and of course Pakistan. However, the Main IVC cities, aswell as the majority are in Pakistan. The main ones being, Harappa and Mohenjodaro. The Indus Valley history should be called Ancient Pakistani. Any history which took place in what is now Pakistani should be known as Ancient Pakistani history. This includes the Kushun empire aswell.

The Pakistani identity is being stolen because Historians hide the fact that South Asia has never been united prior to 1800s.

It is incorrect to even label IVC as Ancient South Asian history. South Asia is home to 1.6 billion people, which is way too broad to describe the people of Indus valley, which is now Pakistan. Sure this is no harm in mentioning the settlements outside of Pakistan (India, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir), however one has to remember that Pakistan is the home of it.

User:Unre4L


 * Wikipedia is not a soapbox and we aren't required to listen to fringe blogs. Baka man  03:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Um...pakistan didn't exist before 1947. This is not a joke.--D-Boy 09:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * India didnt exist before the 1850s Thats not a joke either mate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Unre4L (talk • contribs) 22:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

May I suggest a few message boards or blogs where this discussion will be better appreciated, User:Unre4L? deeptrivia (talk) 22:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Republic of India and Pakistan both didn't exist before 1947. True. However, historians and other scholars (not just Indian, includes Western) don't use the term "Ancient South Asia." They stuck with "Ancient India." Blame them not us. GizzaChat  &#169; 23:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * This has been discussed so many times before...  Noble eagle  [TALK] [C] 05:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Unre4L is a member of the forum that he quotes...in fact he is responsible for more than 50% of the output of that forum...so this evidence of his may as well be OR. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Here's another point Unre4L. The Indus civilisation, even when considering the modern post-1947 borders, isn't completely in Pakistan. See Image:IVC_Map.png. Lothal, for example is in the Republic of India. GizzaChat  &#169; 08:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That's beside the point. Harappa is in Pakistan, and we won't tag Harappa as "Ancient South Asian" but Banawali as "Ancient India". The 1947 border is irrelevant for articles on the Bronze Age. see the mergefrom on this page. It would be best to create a sub-project "WP IVC" and use a template specific to that. dab (𒁳) 14:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

True after independence the Republic of India claimed exclusive rights over the usage of name 'India' which was previously used to denote British India.But there was no 'British Pakistan' or anything like that prior to the partition.Parts of present-day Pakistan too were considered to be and officially referred and marked in maps as 'British India'.In fact, your argument seems absurd. Does not the river 'Indus' which gave India its name run through Pakistan! As far as Indus sites are concerned,there are sites such as Lothal,Ropar and Kalibangan in India which are as important as Harappa and Mohenjodaro.Please dont make a political issue of this.The stuff in Wikipedia might please some, it may not please others.However, articles are based on facts and not on opinions -Ravichandar84 15:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Category:Indian history stubs
This category has become very large. I think we should focus on expanding/merging these stubs. Do we need a subproject for that? deeptrivia (talk) 06:59, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Make an indian military stub. there's project for it.--D-Boy 11:46, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Oops.. didn't quite get what you're saying. deeptrivia (talk) 18:20, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * WikiProject Military history/Indian military history task force--D-Boy 05:58, 25 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The question is, what do we do with the hundreds of Indian history stubs. A large number of them are not related to military history. deeptrivia (talk) 09:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I can help with clean-up and copy-editing of any merged stubs. It would be good if we can save as much content as possible, and not undo hard effort. I watch this page infrequently, so shoot me a message on my talk page if my services can help. You can also email me, and sometimes catch me on IRC Wikipedia. Nina Odell 13:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I found Serfoji II in the 'pages to be expanded' list and have added additional information.Is there any task or editing work remaining to be done with the page or shall I strike off 'Serfoji II' from the pages to be expanded list. Regards -Ravichandar84 15:04, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello, The civilizations in the Indus valley are as Indian as they come. Tomorrow if pakistan breaks up into a further two staes, and one calls itslf talibanistan (or whatever they wish)..then will the 'new people' lay claim to it as well? Absurd man!! It is an Indian civilization, regardless of the fact that the northern part of what was India is now called pakistan.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rabbanikov (talk • contribs) 13:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Tipu Sultan spelling
On the talk page of the Wikipedia article Tipu Sultan I have been having a conversation with Kanchanamala about the spelling of Tipu Sultan. He has changed all the references within the article to 'Tippu'. I would be interested to hear comments from other members of WikiProject Indian History. Thank you  Mick gold 09:14, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Pakistani history
Please see Talk:History of India and present your opinions as to whether India has any ownership over the history of the regions around the Indus.  Noble eagle  [TALK] [C] 03:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * All that's happening there is simple trolling. Same (hilarious) arguments are being presented over and over again. The best thing is to ignore it, and just revert any vandalism. deeptrivia (talk) 06:56, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

We are presenting arguments which make sense, and please dont tell people to ignore the arguments. How can India lay claim over a region which never belonged to India, and isnt even inside your borders?  Unre4L  ﺍﹸﻧﺮﮮﺍﻝ  UT 23:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * How can the Islamic republic of Pakistan lay claim to a proto-Hindu civilization that is considered "kaffir" ?  Baka man  21:20, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Taj Mahal RFC

 * I've filed an RFC relating to the Taj Mahal at Talk:Taj Mahal. Your comments would be most welcome. Joopercoopers 18:27, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of all references to BB Lal, Jane Mcintosh and SP Gupta in IVC articles
User:Fowler&fowler is deleting each and every reference to these three archaeologists in Indus Valley Civilization -related articles, seemingly for "political" reasons. Input on the talk page of the IVC article would be appreciated. Talk:Indus_Valley_Civilization --RF 16:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism of Main Project Page
Friends this profile has been involved in altering the contents of the Indian History Main Project Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Saurav_Basu2007&action=edit

As a result of which the participants list got deformed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_history&diff=116251684&oldid=115011791

As I could not understand the head or tail of the changes that have been made instead I undid the revisio n made by this individual. -Ravichandar84 02:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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FROM UAE DUBAI. ziauae@gmail.com Comments will be welcomed by email.

It is realy useful to have a conversation about india, indian history is whateve, the future is not going towards good. all the region what was a golden bird before 1700 is now looking as a war zone for the people of india with no benifits. It is realy unwanted. no body like to put his house in flames at the time when he is living there, but here it is being done by so called educated rulers just for nothing, so please get the truth other wise it will get you.

Governor-General
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Sorry for mistake
I was trying to put my name into the participant section and it copied by username bio. onto it. sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.160.134.156 (talk) 10:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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Operation bluestar bias debate
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Gathering sources for a paper
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History of Mumbai
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Seven ways to greet a neighbor
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List of Indian monarchs
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A Proposal
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General Points

 * Restructure the front page so that it more closely resembles that of WikiProject Military History. This design is easy to navigate, and getting to specific areas of the WikiProject is made quicker and less difficult.


 * Forge closer ties with some of its "daughter" projects. WikiProject History should serve as a focal point for history-related article improvement drives and discussions, and should be a community of editors supportive of smaller, fairly inactive region-specific history projects.


 * Expand the A-Class review process. This should be a major function of WikiProject History (conducting A-Class reviews for smaller, "daughter" projects).
 * Work on expanding the number of History Good and Featured articles.


 * Host task forces devoted to improving recently-created articles. Some editors should work with WikiProject Deletion Sorting to save as many quality history-related AfDs as reasonably possible.


 * WikiProject History should be less of a "front-lines" WikiProject, like the Military History one, but more of a coordinating effort. An enhanced A-Class review process and forging relations with "daughter" projects would help to achieve this goal.

Membership and Leadership

 * All current WikiProject History members would be members of the new, revitalized project. WikiProject Military History members, as well as members of all region-specific history projects, would be automatically inducted into the project, although these users could opt out at any time.


 * All members of the WikiProject should have an equal say in WikiProject affairs.
 * However, a group of five coordinators should be elected by all editors that are part of the abovementioned categories to make the WikiProject "flow" smoothly. These coordinators would serve for twelve months each, and would be elected in February of each year.
 * Each coordinator would have a specific task, or "department".
 * Chief Coordinator. This coordinator would serve as a guide to other coordinators and members of the project.
 * Assessment and Review Coordinator. This coordinator would sort reviews, with the help of two delegates that s/he could appoint.
 * Membership Coordinator. This coordinator would deal with membership issues, and would direct and judge "contests" on the project.
 * Resources Coordinator. This coordinator would assist members in need.
 * Content Coordinator. This coordinator would work on improving articles in need, and would direct efforts and drives related to this.

Role on the Encyclopedia
WikiProject History should be a visible, important part of the encyclopedia, as it should work to coordinate other projects and direct various task forces and drives on the website. Newcomers interested in history should be assisted and guided by the Resources Coordinator and other helpful editors.

WikiProject History should work together with other projects to achieve some of the goals of the encyclopedia as a whole.

Thank you for reading this, and for commenting, if you are interested.  DCI  talk 23:17, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Portal:History
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WikiWomen's History Month
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Ancient Civilizations Textbook
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Bahirji Naik
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Nomination of Bicholim conflict for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bicholim conflict is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Bicholim conflict until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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I'm placing this notice here because this is a case where I hope I'm wrong about the article. I wanted to do everything possible to see that this article is vetted by editors with a better knowledge of Indian history and access to better resources.-- Shelf Skewed  Talk  17:20, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Chach Nama
If you're interested in the history of India circa 600 AD (covered most extensively in the Chach Nama, a list of articles pertaining to the subject and their many needs can be found at User:DCI2026/Chach Nama table. It would be optimal if we could come together to improve Wikipedia's coverage of a little-known but important historical topic.   dci  &#124;  TALK   18:15, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * And one more thing - I've decided to start a "task force" regarding the Chach Nama; I will be using the WikiProject Indian history name. If there is any objection to this, I will gladly change it.   dci  &#124;  TALK   00:11, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Category:Days of the year in India
As this Category is supported by WikiProject Indian history, Please pour your comments on merging those articles --Neechalkaran (talk) 01:10, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Historical illustration lacking source information: Expert help needed
Hello all,

this historical illustration showing the capture of Lucknow does not have any information about its origin attached and hence might soon be deleted at Commons. I've done some research, but all I was able to find out is that it's probably not from this book (didn't examine the whole book, but since the caption is in a different font and the general style of the artwork is different it seems unlikely to be the original source). The illustration is very likely to be old enough to be in the public domain, but we need at least some evidence for that in order to keep it at Commons. Hence, any hint would be highly appreciated. I'll try to remember to monitor this page, but I highly recommend to leave your comments at the deletion request at Commons in order to keep the discussion at one place. Thanks a lot for your attention, --El Grafo (talk) 12:31, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

K. N. Srinivasan AfD
Hi, I'm Supernerd11, and I was just letting you know that I nominated K. N. Srinivasan for deletion. Feel free to share your thoughts here. Cheers! Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 04:59, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

WW2 Belligerents order
Here on WW2 article, India is shown as a separate country(not part of British empire), all though the link leads to British India, but India was crown colony of British and was part of British empire, so should not be India there shown as part of British Empire? India was not dominion like Canada or Australia, and British joined in WW2 with out consulting with Indian leaders.Ovsek (talk) 13:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Indian History at Wikimania 2014
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Indian history articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 20:08, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Asaf Khan
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help with this page. It has previously been proposed for deletion because Asaf Khan I doesn't have an article and Asaf Khan II and Asaf Khan III don't have any incoming links. I was looking to create a stub on each of the three but couldn't get enough information. It seems a shame if it ends up deleted. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 13:10, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I see no tension at the moment. If you could even cite a source which proves that these people existed, like a genealogy which only mentions their names, then I think that is enough for now.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  17:36, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Query - Seeking Clarification from 'Senior' wikipedians
Recently I have got a copy of Imperial Gazetteer of India published 130 years ago during British colonial era. It is a valuable source of Information on various aspects of India's history. I am planning on its use as a source for creating new/adding to existing articles on Indian History. But when I went through this project page (Conventions and Policies), I got confused whether the document in my possession is a primary or secondary or tertiary source!? Is it ok for me to go ahead with my plans? -Anand2202 (talk) 13:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * According to, any British Raj source is a primary source and probably unreliable due to the biases of the time. But I notice that there are plenty of articles that refer to Gazetteers. They should all be replaced eventually. - Kautilya3 (talk) 13:38, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Review of new edit to Indo-Aryan peoples requested
It would be helpful to have other views on the edit at - see also the talk page for some context. Thanks. Doug Weller (talk) 19:20, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Is there a time period to consider here?
Is there a concrete time period for "history of India" to consider? For example, I'm trying to figure out how should the categories in Category:Decades in India and Category:Centuries in India be considered and how many belong to the task force. I'm presuming most of those older ones would fall into the history taskforce here (perhaps stop at 2015 and not include the 2020s I guess). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:04, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Prithviraj Chauhan
Most of the sources used for the page on Prithviraj Chauhan are from old and biased sources and I believe that Prithviraj Chauhan was an important figure for medieval India and should be given some importance.

Looking for feedback on a tool on Visual Editor to add open license text from other sources
Hi all

I'm designing a tool for Visual Editor to make it easy for people to add open license text from other sources, there are a huge number of open license sources compatible with Wikipedia including around 9000 journals. I can see a very large opportunity to easily create a high volume of good quality articles quickly. I have done a small project with open license text from UNESCO as a proof of concept, any thoughts, feedback or endorsements (on the Meta page) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Help with lists of state leaders by year
I have been working on and off on the list of state leaders by year articles. The listings of countries in South Asia is especially lacking in some years. I have worked a lot on the most is probably List of state leaders in 1759. However even it is no where near complete. I begin to do this in 2010 and thought that the lists were moving away from being so Euro-centric. However I seem to be about the only person who has made any actual expansion of the lists in those six years. List of state leaders in 1723 lacks a listing of even the Mughal Emperor, but lists 137 sub-units of the Holy Roman Empire. List of state leaders in 1734 only lists China, Japan, Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom and Hyderabad State for Asia, and I only added Hyderabad State today. Before that South Asia was totally ignored on the list. I can't make these lists good on my own, I need help in building them, so can people please help building them.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:06, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Help needed to assess Barrackpore Mutiny
I have recently created an article on Barrackpore Mutiny of 1824. Grateful if somebody could review and let me know feedback on its talk page. PS. The article's importance has been rated as low and quality scale has been assessed C in WikiProject India (possibly by some Non-Indian Military History administrators). Any help to improve the ratings will be appreciated. Avskbhatta (talk) 22:58, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

What is Serampur Raj?
Xx236 (talk) 11:55, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism at Non-cooperation movement
The article Non-cooperation movement seems to have been hit by a lot of vandalism in the past few months, much of which was never caught/reverted. I've tried to clean up what seems to me to be bad edits, but I'm don't know much about this topic, so I'm limited to how much I can correct. Help? Thanks, Aristophanes 68   (talk)  00:42, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Testing
Is this wikiproject still active? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Capankajsmilyo&project=en.wikipedia.org count])  11:25, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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Legendary kings of Magadha is a mess, possibly needs to go to AfD
It starts with "The Magadha Empire was established very likely by King Jarasandha, who was a son of Brihadratha,". But Magadha doesn't mention Jarasanda. The second paragraph of the lead says " Bimbisara, also known as King Shrenik, ruled this kingdom from 617-565 BC" but Bimbisara says "544 – c. 492 BCE" - very different years. The second sentence says " Aryabhata (565–535 CE)" while Aryabhata has different dates. Then there are several tables of legendary kings with impossible dates and a citation needed tag from January 2012. Doug Weller talk 10:28, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Template:Infobox_folk_song
You are welcome to discuss the newly created Infobox folk song and its future here. --Tamtam90 (talk) 06:22, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Veer-class corvette merge - reversal
Editors may wish to comment on this proposal on the article's talk page Lyndaship (talk) 07:55, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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File:MAHOBA, U.P. - allha.preview.jpg
Is this Alha or Udal of Mahoba? The captions of the two articles seem to contradict each other. Pandakekok9 (talk) 08:18, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Rajput origin
Can some expert look at Rajput wiki page, specifically Rajput Origin section of the page which has been edited heavily in recent months with one sided view. Thanks in advance. Sajaypal007 (talk) 15:00, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Dear All, Please see Talk:Rajput. This topic has been discussed multiple times in multiple sections with this user over several months and many editors have explained all points to him one by one. All edits are supported by multiple very high quality academic sources and no existing edits were removed. Please see the multiple  discussions with this user on Talk:Rajput and all of us have explained to him. Another user had also opened an RFC to prevent further disruptions and that was closed. The edits are not one sided. They were added to balance the existing WP:PUFFERY and existing one sided edits made by editors promoting the caste, in fact, the page was protected by admin due to "caste boosterism" after some editors tried to remove the edits the above user is complaining about. Please see []. Also, this user as well as others(some of who have been warned by  and admins and others have been banned) has been involved in disruptive WP:PUFFERY edits by the removal of "unpleasant" content from the Rajput page. Please check history of Rajput page and the talk page. CC: , ,   ,   , is there no end to this?  Thanking you , Sincerely LukeEmily (talk) 16:59, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Plz report at WP:AE. The admins will take care of them.Heba Aisha (talk) 17:02, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , I agree with on this one. Thanks, Мастер Шторм (talk) 05:10, 2 November 2020 (UTC)


 * , Мастер Шторм, sorry for the late reply. OK. I will. Should I wait for another disruptive edit since I am a little late?LukeEmily (talk) 16:10, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes...wait for him to create disruption then use all diff. To show his gaming behavior. Heba Aisha (talk) 16:11, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Vijayanagara Empire
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Amara Sullia Rebellion
This article could use some more eyes; I made a first pass at trying to clean it up a bit, but it could use a lot more work. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:30, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Merge Requests
You are invited to join the discussion about whether individual rulers of Turk Shahis and Nezak Huns deserve individual pages. Relevant links are:
 * Discussion on Ghar Ilchi
 * Discussion on Bo Fuzhun
 * Discussion on Tegin Shah
 * Discussion on Barha Tegin

Thanks, TrangaBellam (talk) 13:28, 15 January 2022 (UTC)


 * A relevant meta-discussion is in progress at this thread. TrangaBellam (talk) 13:28, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Hakra Ware Culture
Hi everyone, I am currently working on the 'Hakra Ware culture' article and have seen multiple conflicting sources for the chronology of this culture and would appreciate any input on verifying the information on this page. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sram337 (talk • contribs) 01:59, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Talk Page Discussion Notification
There is a discussion at Talk:Madhava of Sangamagrama that this Project may be interested in. --20:53, 26 September 2022 (UTC) A Rose  Wolf  20:53, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

FAR notice for Political integration of India
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Template:Infobox Indian state or territory has an RFC
Template: Infobox Indian state or territory has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Tojoroy20 (talk) 21:24, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Talk:Khalji_dynasty
I'd like some experts to have a look at this section--thanks. Drmies (talk) 17:29, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Mughal War of Succession (1658–1659)
I am currently in the prosess to creating this article: Mughal War of Succession (1658–1659). Can other editors help me? SKAG123 (talk) 22:23, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Pillai of Pallichal and Pallichal Pillai
I came across these two while processing the backlog at WP:Unreferenced articles. Are these articles duplicates? I can't tell. Would someone here be up for clarifying the difference if there is one or merging if there isn't? Thank you. Turtlecrown (talk) 20:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Devapāla's Conflict with Tibet
There is a AfD Discussion on Articles for deletion/Devapāla's Conflict with Tibet that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Based Kashmiri (talk) 16:40, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Devapāla's Campaigns against Pratiharas
There is a AfD Discussion on Articles for deletion/Devapāla's Campaigns against Pratiharas that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Based Kashmiri (talk) 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Inviting for AFD discussion
There is an AFD discussion going on at Articles for deletion/Maratha–Nizam wars which may be the interest to the members of this WikiProject. Based Kashmiri (talk) 05:15, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Your advice, please
 P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 01:30, 13 June 2024 (UTC)