Talk:Mavala

India: Maharashtra / History Low‑importance

	India portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject India, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India-related topics. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.IndiaWikipedia:WikiProject IndiaTemplate:WikiProject IndiaIndia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Maharashtra (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by the Indian history workgroup (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article was last assessed in May 2012.

Warning: active arbitration remedies

The contentious topics procedure applies to this article. This article is related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, which is a contentious topic. Furthermore, the following rules apply when editing this article:

You must be logged-in to an autoconfirmed or confirmed account (usually granted automatically to accounts with 10 edits and an age of 4 days)

Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page.

Why infobox military unit has been used?

When the introduction of the article makes it clear that Mavala is region based identity, why has a militaryunit infobox been used? Pratish_K (talk) 16:12, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

David Hardiman - an Unreliable Source, Page Overhaul

As far as agendas go, David Hardiman subscribes to Subaltern Historiography which in this context serves the aggrandization of a wholly unrelated 'marginalized' tribe. But that is not the chief factor incriminating his writings, more than his unfounded claims labelling anyone as Koli tribals without presenting a single contemporary evidence to back up his premises. This page needs to be overhauled along with other pages like Tanaji Malusare. The Deshmukhs of Maval are all Maratha, identifying specifically as the Maratha caste. The association with a distinct tribal Koli community is offensive to the heirs of the families David Hardiman unethically mislabels in his books, likely under douceur circulated in identity politics by Koli organizations in India. David Hardiman's claims are flimsy, offensive, and classify as modern Historical negationism as they are wholly unsupported in academia. There are no contemporary sources in his texts to remotely support Hardiman's claims and he is an author whose credibility needs to be scrutinized by experienced Wikipedia editors. This page has been distorted by sockpuppets of Premchand Mahaur from Haryana who is a notorious Koli chauvinist article vandalizer and already banned repeatedly from editting on Wikipedia. Requesting similar attention of admins on this page as provided earlier in clearing out his bilge. DeccanFlood (talk) 13:45, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]