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Attribution

You can consider adding your name to the lists Wikipedia:Wikipedians/India and Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians, though it is not mandatory to register yourself. You can definitely ask any help to me. However, if my response is delayed due to heavy workload, you can ask User:Bhadani in his talk page. He's a friendly administrator.

For changing attribution to your earlier edits, see Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit. Happy editing! -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 06:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

old archive pages

Hello - your lists of old contributions should be created within your user space. That means the page names need to begin with "User:ImpuMozhi/". I've moved them to User:ImpuMozhi/old archive 1 and so on. You'll probably want to fix your links to them. By the way, you might prefer to link contributions like so: [1] instead of copying the contributions page into plain text. CDC (talk) 23:23, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Battle of Khanwa

I don't remember the old article too well, but the new one is still rough and needs lots of copyediting. Unfortunately, I can't do it. I am grotesquely over-extended on Wikipedia (trying to edit articles related to Islam, Bollywood, Hawaii, Tonga, and Victorian fashion). I dunno if Autumnleaf has time or inclination to do this (she's working on Bollywood articles) but she is a darn good copyeditor. You might ask her. She lives in New Delhi, so might know more about the historical details than I do. Zora 00:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry to have hurt your feelings. I'm well-known for having my bluntness and lack of tact -- alas!

OK, the first thing that strikes the eye is this locution -- "victories in which gave". Delete the "in". There are a number of other such small problems. Also, some paras are too long. Long paras (particularly in online reading) give readers MEGO (my eyes glaze over).

My experience with Distributed Proofreaders is that the more you have to correct, the more apt you are to miss something. Once you've missed it, it's hard to SEE the problem, because you're seeing what you intended, not what is actually on the page. That's why Distributed Proofreaders now has four rounds of proofreading <g>. Other eyes always help. Sorry I don't have time to be those eyes. Zora 00:25, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

United Provinces

Hi! I'm not so happy about your recent, unilateral move of United Provinces to United Provinces (Low Countries), and subsequent redirect of United Provences to United Provinces (disambiguation). Apart from the fact that you should have discussed this move first: as you will see at "What links here", by far most of the links to United Provinces are related to the former Dutch state. Are you going to fix all those links? Markussep 12:27, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Please fix up all the links Mr ImpuMozhi, if you have the time. Thanks. --Bhadani 14:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Just to say hello

I saw some of your edits - I learnt about you after seeing your edits to North India, and saw some of your other edits from the day you started with this user ID. Your edits are nice and value-addition to wikipedia. However, all editors, including me, should understand that while doing value-addition, one should avoid massive deletion and changes. It is always a good idea to discuss such changes on the article's talk page. I am sure to inter-act with you more. Have a nice time here. --Bhadani 14:36, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Vijayanagara Empire

Hi, impressive work in adding the category Vijayanagara Empire to all relevant articles. I noticed because I had some 6 relevant articles on my watchlist. I have a suggestion though, pl. use edit summaries such as category added or cat added, as it makes life easy for those engaged in RC patrol. Have a great day!! --Gurubrahma 05:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, just noticed that you are a Telugu speaker - I mistakenly assumed you to be a Tamil speaker. Collaborating on Vijayanagara empire should be much easier then. There are a whole lot of articles on the kings of Vijayanagara Empire on the telugu wikipedia, te.wikipedia.org - using which I created Template:Vijayanagara empire, Allasani Peddana etc. However, I'm not able to configure telugu font on my comp (as it is a shared comp on which I do not have the admin rights), I'm only able to work off and on. If you have time and able to read the telugu font, you may want to create articles for all the kings in the template by translating it from telugu. User:TBC (who doesn't seem to be from India) has been working on some of the articles through sources other than telugu wikipedia - we can complement and supplement his efforts. --Gurubrahma 05:42, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, I am not from India, and I do not use telugu wikipedia as my source for information on the Vijayanagar Empire. Most of my articles were based on translations or articles on famous Hindu texts as well as European accounts (mostly Portugal who began to colonize near the Empire's territoy). Even so I would be glad if you would help to support my efforts on articles about the Vijayanagar Empire. --TBC 09:07, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Mohini

Thanks for the message. I am not an administrator. Perhaps you can write in tje discussion section why you want to delete it before deleting the article.

Thanks.

Raj2004 11:15, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

The Rajput Issue

I read some of your comments about the Rajput article and thought that it might be helpful if we can discuss it a bit further. Actually I think that most of the part we are mixing up the two different identities "Rajput" and "Kshytria". One is a lineage-based identity and other is a religious one. What you have described as roles of a Rajput are essentially the roles of a "Kshytria" and Rajputs were not the only Kshytria caste of India.

Actually in my point of view, if in the history the Muslim Rajputs were not considered as Rajputs, then there is no case to be made and if they did then there is no need of a debate as well. According to my research, the Muslim Rajputs were considered as legitimate Rajputs by the Indian society and this has never been questioned at any level uptil maybe 70's. I consulted Sir Denzil Ibbetson's work on the tribes and castes of NWFP and Punjab and there it is clearly stated that the change of religion does not change one's caste in India. My point is that had there been any conflict of Muslims not being Rajputs, it was not possible for him to write it so clearly in his work. Furthermore there must be an abundance of evidence regarding Muslims not being Rajputs since I do not know of any Rajput family who gave up their Rajput title after conversion to Islam and any conflict to that must have been noted in history at some point. Furthermore we have quite a lot of Hindu Rajputs in Pakistan and I never heard anyone saying or mentioning that we, the Muslim Rajputs, are not legitimate Rajputs.

No folklore, no tradition, no history book ever talks bout Muslim Rajputs not being the legitimate Rajputs. Before partition there were Hindu and Muslim Rajputs living together and had there been any such issue, it is impossible that it could not have been recorded. In British India, there was quota for Muslim Rajputs in British Army. All these historical evidences suggest that the identity of Muslim Rajputs have never been challenged or disputed all along history and there is no reason why it should be now. I am writing all this not because I am a Rajput myself but just for the sake of reaching a conclusion about a conflict that shouldn't have been arisen to begin with.

خرم Khurram 19:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Dominion of India

Hello, good work on Dominion of India, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Dominion of India? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 05:38, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Image copyrights

Hello ImpuMozhi,

Thank you for improving the articles on Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. But I'm afraid I removed the images from them, because they're copyright.

In general, we cannot use photos taken from other websites, unless we have the permission of the photographer or photo agency. That's why all images have to have not only a source (which you supplied, thank you) but also a copyright tag explaining why we're allowed to use it. If an image doesn't have a source and a copyright tag, it is liable to be deleted any time after a seven-day waiting period.

Thank you for taking the trouble to find the images. The articles do look much better with them, but unfortunately it's illegal to use copyright images, and as one of the top sites on the web we're likely to get sued if we do.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 12:42, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, ImpuMozhi. I'm sorry to cause offence. I think I didn't explain properly what I was doing.

Firstly, I didn't ignore your first message — I did everything before you sent your first message, and I received both your messages at the same time just now.

As to what I did: I haven't listed the images for deletion — I've just marked them as not having a copyright tag. All images have to have a source and a copyright tag, even if they're public domain images. If they don't, they can be deleted, but there is a seven day gap before this happens, so that you have time to supply the correct tag.

By marking them as having no tag, I'm not saying that the images are copyright. It's just a note that someone needs to decide whether they are public domain or fair use (which we can use) or copyright (which we can't use unless we have permission), and put the appropriate tag on it. I deliberately didn't mark them as copyright because I suspected that some of those Hindu goddesses might be old enough that they are no longer copyright. But in that case, they still need a copyright tag saying that they're not copyright.

You asked how to know the copyright status of images. This is in fact a very complicated question. WP:IUP and WP:ICT give lots of details. But in general:

1. Most images are copyright, and we can't use them.
2. If you take a photo yourself, you can licence it as public domain, or under the GFDL, and then Wikipedia can use it.
3. An image is public domain if the photographer or artist died more than 70 years ago. In this case you can tag it with {{PD-old-70}}.
4. Some images can be used as fair use in relevant articles. One category would be movie posters in an article about that movie ({{Movie poster}}). Another would be low-resolution promotional photos for celebrities ({{Promophoto}}). It's always difficult to decide whether an image is fair use. Most images of celebrities aren't fair use (see Wikipedia:Publicity photos). Any image which a photo agency can still make money from is probably not fair use. It doesn't matter whether the celebrity wants publicity: what matters is whether the photographer wants money for the photo.

I hope that helps, and I'm sorry if I caused offence before. The important thing is that every image has to have a tag saying why we're allowed to use it.

Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the crosstalk. If you're in doubt, you can also ask here. Also of interest would be this discussion. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 11:01, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Dakshayani

Currently the page is in ruins. The amount of cleaning that is needed is very high. That paragraph that I removed should not be in the article. It was a quote, maybe Wikiquotes is a better place to put that. If you think that the information in the quote however, is relevant then paraphrase it. The standard of english within the quote is too much for anybody who does not know the subject well. Becaues of the terrible state that Dakshayani is in, a lot of good writing may also be deleted in the near future. A few wikipedians are considering to rewrite since there are so many controversies on the article. Sorry if you added that. It was also almost felt as if it was randomly inserted in the page. DaGizza ^{Chat (c)} 00:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Are you conversant with Tamil also?

Hi, saw your thank you note in Tamil. You've indicated that you're a native speaker of Telugu. But, still your name sounds like Tamil, and my Telugu friends tell that it doesn't sound like Telugu at all. Is there any interesting reason about it? :-) -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 03:27, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, you seem to have had an interesting life, living in so many diffeent places. :-) -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 05:55, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Girik & DaGizza

Hi Impu, sorry about my misunderstanding of the Dakshayani article. However there is one small problem. If you see Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism's spelling guidelines, they recommend Gowri to be spelt as Gauri (and the reason is there also).

If you have a good knowledge and Indian and Hindu names then you probably have heard of Giri (meaning mountain). It is a variation on that name, in Sanskrit it is Girika and roughly means the mountain one or one who lives on the mountain, which refers to Lord Shiva. I have many other nicknames similar to DaGizza such as Sir Gizzo, Giz, Gaz, all of them based on my name and started by my friends in school. I decided to make my user account one of these nicknames and just chose DaGizza! DaGizza ^{Chat (c)} 04:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Hindi "purge" of Persian words

Hi ImpuMozhi,

I reverted your recent deletion in the Hindi article, but thought I should explain myself so you don't think I'm on some kind of POV rant.

Hindi doesn't just draw on Sanscrit vocabulary, there has also been a concerted effort to remove Persian vocabulary. Of course, much of the Persian element is so entrenched that it hasn't been removed, but in learned registers there has been a huge shift. That needs to be said. I think the word 'purge' accurately captures the process and motivations, and it isn't intended as an accusation. There are many languages that have gone through this process. Ataturk's language reforms for Turkish involved a similar purge of Persian vocabulary, and the Académie française is engaging in a concerted effort to purge French of English vocabulary. Perhaps "concerted effort to remove" might strike you as having less POV connotations, but the word "purge" isn't a value judgement. kwami 02:21, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Arjuna

Hi ImpuMozhi, thanks for the reminder. I've found confirmatory references to the meaning of Arjuna, and will modify that article now. Thanks. Imc.

Rajputani

Why did you remove Maharani Gayatri devi's name? Also did you ever get a chance to read my response to the mesg you left on my talk page late november?

Shivraj Singh 18:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding caste etc, blatant lies are not tolerable. Rani Drugavati was a rajput princes who married a Gond named Dalpat. Maharani Gayatri is a rajput. Do not believe it if you read something else regarding her. There is lot of junk out there on the internet just like this wikipedia. I know her personally. Please add these names to the rajputani page. Would you like to expand on Hadi rani? There were two famous ones actually, wife of Amar Singh Rathore and the wife of Chundawat who defended the pass against Aurangzeb's commander. Shivraj Singh 20:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Tehri

Hi, just saw your message; all of us make similar mistakes. Anyways, it has been undone by User:Tom Radulovich long before I could get on to the scene. Should you find yourself in such a situation again, WP:Move#Undoing_a_move should prove helpful. If you feel that the contents of Tehri and Tehri Garhwal should be in one single article, you can propose a merge. Also, see WP:MM. btw, it was interesting to see the origins of your name on User talk:Sundar. --Gurubrahma 05:00, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

If it doesn't work or if you are not sure, you can use the three pages routine, using A, B and C - however, since only admins can delete pages, they should be contacted. Leave a message on Radulovich's talkpage or he may mark you as a vandal!! ;)--Gurubrahma 05:23, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Rajput

I know, ImpuMozhi.You seem to overestimate my authority, I can only block people in accordance with Wikipedia:Blocking policy, e.g. for violation of WP:3RR, or for clear disruption. I cannot leave the article protected because there are bigots: It would remain protected forever, which is clearly not what we want. But I didn't "chicken out". Page protection is a tool to buy time in case of disputes. This requires two sides prepared to have a good faith argument. As I realized that this is not a true content dispute, but rather a case of bigot trolls not ready to follow any sort of discourse, I have unprotected the article. It is now a matter of watching it, and reverting bad faith and uncollaborative edits. Wikipedia articles can only thrive if good faith editors outnumber bad faith ones. I have asked other people to watch the article. I will also revert such edits. As far as I am concerned, the version with the {{fact}} tags is our baseline, and the article is to be improved from there, step by step, by adding information or references. Any edits who remove sourced statements, or "fact" or "npov" tags are to be reverted on sight. If an editor reverts back more than three times in 24h, we will block him. I really hope consistent application of these basic principles will lead to a better article, but we need editors such as you, willing to watch it and to work on it. regards dab (ᛏ) 09:23, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

ps, I do think your involvement in the article is very valuable. Please stick around, it is important to have somebody reasonable representing the Hindu pov; the fundamentalists may just succeed in unduly pushing observers' sympathies to the other side. So please keep up the informed and polite interventions. regards, dab (ᛏ) 18:26, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

you misunderstand. Rajput is still on my watchlist; progress will be slow, but I am sure we can do it. See Wikipedia:Dispute resolution for the paths open to you to look for solutions other than patient insistence. All of them are time-consuming, that's just the way it is; good articles on disputed topics don't come cheap on Wikipedia, but they can be done. I do think Islam and Atheism are fair examples of intensely disputed topics; have a look around talk pages there to get an idea of their history. dab (ᛏ) 08:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

re, your split of the references section, I don't understand why Saran, Sarda and Sharma are "references" while Kasturi and Harlan are merely "suggested reading", since the latter are actually referred to in the article text? dab (ᛏ) 20:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

My friend,

I would like to say that I am sorry about the comments that you passed about mine being inclined to every white man's idea. I, for one, do neither know the ethnicity of user Dbachmann nor do I have any interest in it. I base my my conclusions upon the knowledge that I am able to acquire and absorb so far. I never meant that Muslims and Rajputs have the same soul because they are furious people. What I described is a clear standing of Islam as a religion that every child is born on the pure faith and it is only later when the people around him name him Christian, Jew or Hindu for that sake. There is much common between Islam and Hinduism and Christianity and Judism and I say so because I have seen the commonalities. I am not an expert on the comparison of religions but there is quite a large evidence where you see the similarity between the basic principles and ideas of all the religions and many researchers have done remarkable work to trace when things started to get different. This is why I have never said anything bad about Ram Chandar Ji or Krishan Ji because I, in my own judgement, feel that they might be the prophets of Islam and for that command my deepest respect. You may laugh on me for that but this is what I feel and what I have concluded so far.

Baba Jee Guru Nanak once said after mediation, "Neither anyone is Hindu and nor anyone is Muslim". I think in that phrase he pointed out what I have explained above. As far as Rajput article is concerned, although I am proud of my ancestors as much as anyone can be I have no problem denouncing myself and my ancestors as Rajputs only if I come across a neutral historical evidence proving that fact. So far all that I have read confirms that caste was a social structure not a religious one and religion has never been a factor determining one's caste. If you ask me, I think whatever my ancestors did was their deed and I would prefer making a great name of myself rather than only praising them.

خرم Khurram 16:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

My dear ImpuMohzi,

Thank you so very much for your kind words my friend. I really truly appreciate it. If you ask me, I think your presence on the talk:Rajput page is very much needed since many of us have a tendency to flow into the hype and hymn. I sure would be hounoured calling you a friend and am looking forward to it.

Once again thank you very much my friend.

خرم Khurram 19:25, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I am, and will continue to keep a close eye on Rajput, but as of now, Wisesabre has been the only editor to revert 4 times in 24 hours. I will continue to watch over Rajput, but to be honest it looks like the article is going to have to be protected again. FireFox 15:19, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Bundi

Hi ImpuMozhi

I see you made some quite big changes to the Bundi aricle, particularly to its history section. While changes and improvements are always very welcome, it's always a good idea to explain on the article's talk page when making big changes. Thanks! --BillC 08:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you're quite right... my apologies! Text was mostly moved around. For some reason, I thought I had seen that most of the history section had gone. On the subject of the Bundi article, are you aware of any public domain images that could be used? All the ones I was able to find were copyrighted. Regards, --BillC 17:32, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Rajmata Ahilya Devi Holkar

Replied in my talk page. Thanks. --Ragib 01:42, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

RfC / Bhakti

thank you -- I think it will not be necessary to support me on the "RfC", at least not unless they format it properly (see the "delist notice"), as it is, it's just a rant by an anon. Regarding "Islam=Bhakti", I am aware that the identification will be controversial, and I was not suggesting inserting it in an article anywhere. The idea is that "devotion" translates exactly to "submission to a deity" (I think it will be impossible to claim being "devoted" to God while not also "submitting" to the will of God, i.e. recognizing God's superiority; hence my identification of the concepts). While Islam means simply "submission", it is of course intended to refer to God. The "peace" word, salam is from the same root. This is just idle philosophizing, and not related to any article, and I won't insist on the point. best regards, dab (ᛏ) 08:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

They have sort of hacked together Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Dbachmann (2) now, so you are free to compose an "outside view" there. regards, dab (ᛏ) 17:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Chivalry!

Dear Impumozhi -- I saw your comments on cmcdevit's talk page. It's sweet of you to stand up for this gori. However, I assure you that I've been called much much worse. Sissodia wouldn't be calling me "dear gori" if he could see me -- I'm old and crippled. He should be be calling me auntie or granny and showing respect :) Happy holidays to you, if you're where people observe the winter holidays. Zora 05:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Kannada

Hi, Would you be interested in contributing to the Kannada Wikipedia? Regards, --Pamri • Talk 07:11, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the positive response. The very first thing to do is to read the Kannada support page and setup your system for Kannada viewing/input, if you haven't done already. Feel free to ask for any assistance. Your typing/spelling skill is less important, since those could be corrected. Some suggestions: Use Baraha Direct rather than Baraha and set the encoding to utf-8. The kgp_kbd layout (Nudi) in Baraha direct is faster to type than the Itrans layout. That done, you can start editing. You can probably choose something you have created, like Kingdom of Mysore and translate it to Kannada. Hope that helps. --Pamri • Talk 07:58, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Do this: File->export->text (utf-8) file. Then copy-paste the text. If you are unsure, just paste it at User:Pamri/test and ping me. Since you can view Kannada, you don't need to setup your system. As suggested above, use Baraha Direct rather than the Baraha editor and set the encoding to utf-8. Then you can directly type into the kn wikipedia, rather than doing conversion. --Pamri • Talk 03:42, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Invitation to join anti-Extremist task force

Dear Impu,

I've established a new association called Anti Extremist Task Force, to counter extremist propoganda on wikipedia (like the one we are witnessing on Rajput page). I invite you to join this association. Please go to WP:AETF

Regards

AMbroodEY

thankyou

dear Impumozhi, thanks for cheering me up. I assure you that I am fine, and enjoying myself. If I got really annoyed, I would just take a break, I am still not married to Wikipedia :) best regards, dab (ᛏ) 10:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Aravind Parvatikar

The third one seems to be more appropriate. I dont claim that I have made extensive contributions towards them. However those are the articles that I have touched. Off late, I used to create articles without categorizing them or adding the sub to expand it. However Now whenever I see something like that I do it and unforunately I have done it for bios related to kannadigas or people of karnataka... I think the sub-heading my contributions could have mid led you that I have contributed hugely towards it... I think I need to change that.

Bye and wish you a happy new year. --Aravind Parvatikar 08:22, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey Thank you for that... I know kannada Wikipedia... I thought of translating many of the articles but since long I have been facing this tech issue of fonts...some time they apprear good and some time they seem to be rectangle.. I tried all the stuff they had mentioned.. changing to unicode...and..et al... Hope this will get resolved soon.

--Aravind Parvatikar 08:56, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Indian princely states

Thanks for the message, and the offer to collaborate. I have been working in a rather unsystematic mannner to document the administrative transformations of British and independent India as accurately as possible. I have found good early 20th century sources on princely states and their administrative organization, but have found fewer reliable sources on the rather large changes in the administration of the princely states of the 1930's. Any contributions you are willing to make to this informal project would be welcome indeed! Tom Radulovich 22:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Wishes

Thanks for the wishes, Bhadani. I wish you and your family too, a very happy new year. --Bhadani 15:44, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Kn

Hi, You need to create a login seperately for each wikimedia project. You can create the same id on kn, though. I will try to dig up some references and then join you on this issue at kn. --Pamri • Talk 06:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Why, thank you for the welcome.

asnatu 18:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for link

Shivraj Singh certainly does have a dab hand with writing articles, doesn't he?

I looked on ABEbooks and it seems that I can buy both works by Tod very cheaply, if I don't mind waiting for shipping from India. I'm broke now, but when I get some money, I think I'll order both books. I'm a sucker for books.

OR, I can strongly suggest that Distributed Proofreaders process both volumes and make them available for free. We'll see. Zora 02:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Purananuru

Hi. The Tamil spelling is right. The word is a conjugation (புறம் + நானூறு) meaning external + four hundred i.e. an anthology of 400 poems talking about external/public life. Thanks. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 07:39, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

The above explanation is the popularly held view. However, your interpretation sounds interesting. When one says external/public, it is to distinguish this work from the other work "akanaanuuru", which talks about internal/private life. AFIK, the former talks about public mores and the latter about love-life. May be, by extension, puRapporuL (concepts in public life), might involve greater use of sense/knowledge. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 04:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your appreciation. But, I'm afraid I'm not that good to deserve that. My age is 25. If this should comfort you, there are quite a few young people in Tamil wikipedia with good interest in languages. By the way AFIK stands for "as far as I know." Sorry for using non-standard abbreviations. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 05:08, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Malayalam Template

Hi! After much delay I've replied to your comment on my talk page. Apologies for the delay, but I completely missed your message. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 23:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Re:Political integration of India

Hi ImpuMozhi! Thank you for your kind words and your advice/suggestions. I too, have much respect for your work. The only issues I have with some is not POV, but factual contrast. I've replied in detail on the peer review and talkpage.

I do feel this article is my baby, my best work, but it belongs to every Wikipedian. I think the comparative quality of this article prior to peer review was lesser by 50% (no good maps, images, proper organization...). Without other editors like Deeptrivia, Radulovich, Sundar and Miljoshi, it would be 35-40% of its present self.

I hope you can check this over in the weekend. I personally feel this article will be ready for FA nomination by upcoming Monday/Tuesday. I will need your help and advice to push it across the finisline.

Rama's Arrow 15:28, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Indian princely states

Hi! I noticed that you have an interest in Indian princely states.We are trying to eliminate the missing articles at Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics/India. Would you be having any information on the topics on that page to fill them up? Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:32, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

He he he :) We Indian editors had a go this afternoon at filling all the articles that needed to be stubbed. We managed to fill all the red links! Since you're the expert, I need you to have a look at Nandgaon and Kadur. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Shivaji article

Hi Impu,

I'vebeen working on Shivaji. Its kinda ridiculously detailed but much of it is in bad English. Could you help me in rewording the article.? अमेय आर्यन DaBroodey 13:35, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

All luckies for the exam and a happy sankrant tah ya! अमेय आर्यन DaBroodey 15:57, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Actually, I saw your message to Sundarjee, and wanted to talk to you. So we are on the same wavelength. Have a nice year ahead. Thanks. --Bhadani 16:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

1911

Hello there! 1911 is available here (If you haven't got it already from Google or wiki :-) ). Well, regarding Kuruntwad, yes, that is how it is mentioned in 1911. And because our aim was to fill in the missing 1911 articles, I thought it was appropriate to retain that name at this point in time - with all other possible versions redirected to it. Having said that, you are most welcome to expand it (and if you do, you may remove the {{MEA-Expand}} tag afterwards). In the process, however, if you feel that the name that is currently in practice is more appropriate (e.g. in the case of Rajshahi and Rampur Boalia, where the former is the name in use today), you may move/redirect the article to that name. --rgds. ΜιĿːtalk 16:29, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, herz what I understand: someone has already created "red-links" named after each and every entry in the 1911 encycopaedia, and then interested editors go and create stubs for each of those, based on text taken from the online encyclopaedia. Am I right? It would help if you could take a minute to explain things.

Yup you are right. EB 1911 is in Public Domain.

Is it the case that you got a work-group of Indian editors to do this work in an agreed, distributed manner? Are ALL the India-related stubs made? If not, I would like to be included. In all events, it would be nice if I could be included in any existing "India-group" anyway.

Right again. I put it up on the Indian noticeboard and it seemed like a nice project to collaborate on. Here's the version at the time I pinged you.

Yes, a b'crat is a step above an admin. Nothing glamorous, just gets to promote/fail and admin and undertake user renames. =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Pongal greets

Thanks for your Pongal greets. Same thing to you and all members there. The other attributes to me do not go with what I am and what I am doing now. Any how thanks very much for the praises. I am only spending my old days to part with my knowledge, which I find now is obsolete. Cannot help because of technology developments.

I was born and brought up Mysore and Bangalore. Studied Maths also in Kannada. Know kannada fairly well. But cannot type. Do not know how? Can you help? Any help from my side, am always available for you. Busy continuously for some time on Engineering Wiki. Thinking of Wikiped to do some more. Thinking how to do.

--Dore chakravarty 03:49, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Baraha

Thanks very nuch for the instructions. You know that I am not a computer man. Just picked up. Shall try a little later and let you know how I fare. Really you have taken a lot of trouble to write instructions for me. Thanks once again.

--Dore chakravarty 06:18, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

User data

Thanks. Shall try. Try my family web site http://dores.freeservers.com for more details. I am Mandyam and not Hebbar. This is only incidental.

--Dore chakravarty 07:09, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

New rock Star

I think you may want to see the NRS's reply to my Q on Maratha Origins on my talk page... as fer my nick... the meanings not that serious actually... Brood actually means a clan or a team on the multiplayer game Starcraft. When i used tah play it i ran a clan called "Am's Brood" (Am being anglicised version of my name Amey) which later became "ambrood". The name kinda stuck and have been using it as my handle since ages. While the ending "ey" is affectionate Cockney touch to my nick! अमेय आर्यन DaBroodey 12:09, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much. Please remove my family web site after noting down the same on your computer if necessary. There is one trust 'Nallan Chakravarty trust' in Bangalore. Please find the email address of any one in that trust and let me know. Thanks once again.

--Dore chakravarty 18:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Timeline

well, I think both the timeline and the template are a fair attempt at giving a rough idea of things. Maybe it needs to be pointed out with greater emphasis that everything about the History of India prior to the Islamic invasion is impossible to date more accurately than to a couple of centuries. In that sense, almost all dates prior to 1100 or so are either "legendary" or "academic guesses". Still, there is a rough scholarly consensus on the timeline, and as far as I can judge, the timeline does a pretty good job. Of course "IVC 3300 - 1700" is far too precise. it could as well be "2600 - 1900", but hat's beside the point: It is impossible to give exact dates for beginnings and endings of eras, even if we do have historical sources. dab (ᛏ) 00:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Wishes

Thanks for your wishes. :-) -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 09:06, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Dadasaheb Phalke awards

Hi, creation of single line stubs does not help the project in any way. Given the nature in which most editors take pride in the articles they start, they would never touch an already started article. Also, we got L. V. Prasad and Chemmeen featured on main page as DYK entries as they were new articles and thus, created some press for the project. It is no longer possible now because all the articles have been created and none would be expanded in the foreseeable future. --Gurubrahma 17:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Baraha

Downloaded. Making rials with it. Saw the samples column. Shall try to do some trials and let you know. Meanwhile a request for small information about my problem in engineering wiki. I am getting Rollback againt all my contributions and hence cannot edit at all. Why can this be?? Have to still refer to my seniors in this.

--Dore chakravarty 21:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Re:Maratha origins

Impu,

I'm sorry NRS used unkind language about you. Actually for me origin is a non-issue. I could hardly care less if Marathas were Scythians or Indo-Aryans or Dravidians or whatever. Well various hitorias (Todd,Sarkar) assign them Scythian origins, but since there has been no genetic research in this matterthe evidence is inconclusive.

अमेय आर्यन DaBroodey 17:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Impu,

I've researched into this. Most sources affirm that Marathas are of Indo-Aryan stock. Ofcourse you cant really classify origins as pure and impure since theres little distinction amongst Dravidians and Indo-Aryans. However some sources testify that Marathas are Indo-Scythic race (most notably MS Encarta). Sakas did indeed rule area in around Maharashtra at some point. One source states Marathas to be brachycephalic Turanoid race which i take to be sakas.

अमेय आर्यन DaBroodey 05:26, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Indophobic troll

Impu,

This guy User:Siddiqui seems to have pathological hatred for India. He's subtly deleting references to India in wiki articles. I donot have time to go through his contribs. Keep an eye on him. BTW Many encyclopedias i refrred to state that Marathas are Scythians. Could you suggest me any verifiable source?

अमेय आर्यन DaBroodey 19:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Baraha

I was born in Nagenahalli near Mysore. This is incidental. How to change the tool bar at the top to english? Any other directions?

--Dore chakravarty 09:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Dadasaheb Phalke awardees

Hi ImpuMozhi, I guess you understand why I was upset about the single-line stubs. If you had a look at Talk:WikiProject Indian cinema, this could have been averted. I am always encouraging when people create good articles - while I was planning to translate all articles on Vijayanagara Empire from Telugu encyclopedia, I stopped mid-way precisely because TBC and you were doing such a good job of it. In fact, I had awarded TBC the best newcomer barnstar (you are due for one any time soon ;)). Bhadani typically creates stubs for those articles where there has ben an explicit agreement on the project page to create such stubs. As the project is young, I want it to take off well - and the way to do it is by having DYK features atleast for them. I hoped that these would become standards for enforcing them on actors' pages (I become angry whenever I see the foolish fancruft or silly vandalism on pages such as Chiranjeevi and Venkatesh). Here is a suggestion - Durga Khote seems to be shaping up well; I'd also work on it to see that it gets featured on DYK early next week (I am one of the admins who update it regularly). You can also work on articles like V. Shantaram on whom lot of info is available. I guess you are already working on Bhalji Pendharkar. Can I request you to get the other articles speedy deleted under the WP:CSD clause of "author requests deletion"? You can do that by inserting {{db|g7}} for each of the articles where you are the only contributor. Please do so when I am also online so that I can delete them speedily - I hope that this would help in getting collaboration of others either in starting full-length articles on subjects which have not been created and in expanding & copy-editing articles already created. TIA, --Gurubrahma 14:01, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

No, it is not me who is deleting them. The admisn here seem to be super efficient ;-). The only problem is that they should also look at the content - because all these are valid stubs and "author request deletion" is to be complied with only if the article was created as an error. Technically, they are not in error and hence I said that I'd delete them. But no, some admins seem to be trigger happy and want to complete their quota. Any ways, thanks a ton for complying with my request and sorry for putting you through this. --Gurubrahma 18:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

IndicText Image

Hi! I've replied to your message on my talk page. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 01:16, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Durga Khote, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Congrats!!

I award the Epic Barnstar to ImpuMozhi for his excellent work in categorising articles related to Indian princely states. --Gurubrahma 06:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I listed it on Template talk:Did you know and nixie did the rest. Typically, it is either me or her who update the DYK. I modified your text for conformance with WP:MoS, split it into sections so that it looks longer (putting a structure helps other editors in looking at those sections where their expertise lies) and removed some words which may be construed as POV (such as diffident). You did a fine job and hence, it was very easy for me to do the rest. Next time you create an article, try to see that it is organised into sections, and is around 500+ words in length, has references & cats, and do list an interesting fact from the same on Template talk:Did you know; within 5 days, it should make it to the Main Page in the DYK column. If you are interested, you may want to work on creating articles for telugu actresses such as Savitri and Bhanumati - lot of new users create them, but they are deleted as they are copyvios from websites such as TeluguCinema.com. And, btw, pl. accept this barnstar for your superb work - you can move it to your userpage if you like it. ;) --Gurubrahma 06:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Troll

Looks like Gurubrahma is taking care of him. I'll be on and off here in the next week. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 12:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

FAC

Hi ImpuMozhi, I wanted to let you know that Political integration of India is now FAC. I hope you will have some time to consider the work and give it an up or down vote. I'm not soliciting your support, but requesting your participation. Thanks! Rama's Arrow 04:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Mysore-Princely state

There is no mention of Dewans of Mysore such as Sir Mirza Ismail and N Madhav Rao as I found. I think there is a Road in Bangalore by his (Madhav Rao's)name now. Can you please check and let me know. No hurry. I used to see them doing good service to citizens in my younger days at Bangalore. Madhav Rao's one son son was my class mate who became Chief Secretary. The other elder one was for some time Corporation Commissioner. This is only for your information.

--Dore chakravarty 18:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Bangalore-Tata Silk Farn

There is a local, now residential area in Bangalore known as Tata Silk Farm. This area originally belonged to Tatas as I understand. Do not see any mention under Tatas on this charity. Can you throw some light on this please?

--Dore chakravarty 18:24, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Dushyasana

Hi. Could you comment at Talk:Dushyasana on the naming of this article please. Thanks. Imc 10:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

I hereby award you this Barnstar for your tireless contributions to Wikipedia. Keep up the good work! Siva1979 14:53, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

You certainly deserve this award and keep up the good work! Finally, I like to wish you best of luck for your exams. I hope you do well! Siva1979^{Talk to me} 15:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Rama sita.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Rama sita.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

SoothingR 08:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Copyright issues weren't my reason for nominating this article. I nominated that article because it is orphaned (ie not used in any articles).SoothingR 06:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah yes, thanks for that. I've withdrawn the IFD-notification. Also, remember that when you're tagging images, {{wikipedia-screenshot}} should never be used whenever you migrate an image over from another wikimedia-project. Use the same license as on that page, which is {{gfdl}} in this case.SoothingR 07:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:PII

Hi ImpuMozhi - I wanted to make sure you understand, away from the scene of heat, that I do not consider your critique of the article as a personal attack, nor do I desire to make such an attack on you. There are some genuine issues I have with the way you have gone about this - your criticism is mainly 95%POV, 3% flawed facts and 2% some good points. There are some genuine concerns I have of how you came to do a 180-degree turn on your attitudes. I do not accept any dramatic statements.

I wish you had raised these points in a way that communicated your desire to improve the article positively. You used words that were very arrogant, negative and insulting to communicate your criticism. Your intense negativity and insulting manner, intended or otherwise, is a poor effort at criticism.

This is an encyclopedia, and not a battlefield. I will not "fight" you, so to say. The points of valid criticism I will work to incorporate - I know there are corrections to make. But a vast majority of your critique, I most impersonally state is baseless and highly flawed itself. Rama's Arrow 20:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

PII - my take

Hi, I feel that you have done the right thing in the issue above, but I also suggest that you should temper your language. FWIW, you may want to have a look at this. From a perusal of your talkpage, it appears that you are taking some exams, so, all the best, do well!! --Gurubrahma 07:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

The copy vio

Your claim of copy vio is fairly weak, as any given list of facts can not be copyrighted. Facts by them selves can not be copyrighted. The part you deleted included a long list, which is likely not copyrighted. You also have not put up a copy vio tag, which is standard in such cases. --OrbitOne 00:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

No. I assumed it was vandalism (blanking) and I used a rollback feature which reverts back to the previous editors version. This is what I am supposed to do when I think a page has been vandalized.

Good, you used the copy vio tag. I wont touch the article this time, but the article wont be sheilded from a debate about what is copy vio and what isnt on that page. --OrbitOne 01:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Copy vio should only be used in cases wheere -you- own the material or know who does PLUS know they haven't given permission for wiki to use the material. --OrbitOne 01:26, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Where, exactly, is the copyright violation? You didn't provide a source URL from where the information is supposedly copied from. The copyvio template provides a place to state that information. Please state it or remove the template. Thanks. --BWD ^(talk) 03:22, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I responded on my talk page. --BWD ^(talk) 04:11, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

thanks

thank you so much for your appreciation ImpoMozhi. I am indeed tempted to keep your barnstar on my userpage (maybe with slight refactoring; I was intending to keep it image-free at some point, but why not let it grow again :) I would be glad to see Rajput make some real progress now, but to align all the forks will be at least a day's work at this point, I am afraid. Maybe, if the talkpage will look less like a mudwrestling arena now, you'll be prepared to give it a try? I am confident you will be more than capable to live up to the arbcom's admonitions. regards, dab (ᛏ) 15:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Hi

Hi - yes that's fine. I objected to an anon amending the sentences becoz they were appropriately cited, but I don't have a problem with your amendments. Rama's Arrow 16:58, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Rajput Origins

Very well written and you are right, there is no single origin to Rajputs since it is a Jati and not a single race. Again, I loved the way you put.

Gorkhali 01:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Holi greetings

Hi, I am wishing you a happy Holi, the unique Hindu celebration of color and brotherhood among all members of the humanity. The festival falls on 15th March 2006. I have collected A Gift Pack of Quotations for you contained in the sections Do things Differently & Something More , which are part of the on-going discussion pertaining to my nomination of Idleguy for adminship. You are aware of the tradition that if you throw colored water on flames of burning Holika, you enable a Prahlad to emerge from the flames!!! I again convey Holi greetings to you and your family!!! --Bhadani 16:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

IdleguyRFA

Hi - you forgot to sign your vote and message. Rama's Arrow 01:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Sardar Patel PR

Hi ImpuMozhi - Sardar Patel is in peer review. I hope you will have some time to check it out. Rama's Arrow 16:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

DYK

GOI issues a citation for every PVC? All sites freely copy that citation. So stop being irritating. +10 000 thundering typhoons 07:39, 7 March 2006 (UTC)+

You had put copyvio on a nursery rhyme of north india and then removed it from the article so are the two not connected?

+10 000 thundering typhoons 08:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)+

You are better suited for gult en. or whatever your lingua franca is. You are wrecking pages with a deliberate venegance without requisite research. PVC is issued WITH a GOI citation and every website on the planet uses that citation. But you overlooked it. Why? Same illogical behavior on Jhansi ki rani. Chauhan's poem is like a nursery rhyme in Hindi heartland of India. Are there any copyright issues with Baba-Blacksheep? Tulsidas's ramayana in its entirety cannot be published but a few relevant ones should definetely be present on tulsidas article. Same thing you did with MC chaturvedi. Pushp ki chaha is known by heart by everyone who has hindi as there subject in school. Your behavior is not cool. Learn to become co-operative and have a dicussion oriented disposition rather then unilateralism. If you are from India your aim should be to improve India related articles rather then put a hole through them to sink'em.

+10 000 thundering typhoons 12:06, 7 March 2006 (UTC)+

Re:Lothal

Hi - thanks for bringing this to my attention. Yes, I will add the info, assertions of this research paper right away. Rama's Arrow 13:43, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi - I'm in process of adding the assertions - (1) not a dock and (2) not a big town - where appropriate. But lemme clarify that this man's research in 1968 did not alter the ASI view in 1985 nor a worldwide consensus. Plus, its not appropriate to assert comparative assessment, becoz we don't know what it took 4,400 years ago to do anything - there is a rising theory that the first settlers of America came from Europe by small boats! Thus we shouldn't make any assumptions ourselves about the importance of Leshnik's view. Rama's Arrow 14:10, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks ImpuMozhi and sorry for any sins == From Vishal Prakash Dudhane

brother ImpuMozhi very thanks for answering my message. I was very happy when you Edited my work post on Maratha clans system. Thanks a lott for your help. Iwill always remember it.I think i have missunderstood you . I am very sorry for my mistake. As a good frein you should forgive me. I now will tell you about me some few words I am a businessman age 30 . Have grate pride , faith in my Maratha origin. I am Maratha and not happy with present condition , status of our caste. I belive that we Maratha are became very lazy and careless about our grate history, origin , past and most important our future.I am trying my best to change this bad time . We all should do a very hard work to change the sitution. I am not student of history but i do belive that as a good Maratha i have right to talk on Maratha history and infact it is my duty to do so.I want to make clear some fundamental thing in good intention. 1) That i have no bad feeling , hate in my mind and heart for any caste , person , nation or any entity in this our world. I respect every person and caste in India and the whole world.

2) If i have used any bad language , words or shown disrespect , i appologise for it and ask their forgiveness. I have good respect for all pepole , caste , comunnities , nations, religions.

3) My intention, effort was only to show the truth , facts and not to humiliate any caste , person , religion , nation , civilisation.If in exctiment i have done any wrong or sins then i appologise all the respected entities.

4) My inttntion , work is only to defend my Maratha caste and revial , show the true side of our Maratha caste and not to humiliate any one. I belive that as a true Maratha i , Vishal Prakash Dudhane have all the rights to defend , advocate and defence my Maratha caste.

  Thanks ImpuMozhi and may god bless you in your good work .
 I assure you that i shall be putting usefull information and our good relations will continue forever.

Thanks for work on sari

Thanks for contributing the picture and editing. The more sari pictures the better! Pillage your female relatives' wardrobes and take pictures of their best saris! Sigh ... I'd spend thousands of dollars on saris if I had the money. Zora 06:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Axis of insanity

Would it make you feel better if I said that I thought Bush and his minions were just as bad as the RSS, and that the thought that the Bushistas have their hands on nuclear weapons scares me? I don't think anyone should have nuclear weapons. Zora 20:23, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Rama Sita image appears to be copyrighted

The image of Rama and Sita at Image:Rama_sita.jpg, which you uploaded on November 30, 2005, appears to be an image from an Amar Chitra Katha comic book; it's probably copyrighted, and not distributed under the GFDL, as tagged. I've marked it as a possibly unfree image. If you have any further details about the image's copyright status, can you add it to the unfree images page? Thanks. Anirvan 22:35, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Your username

Just our of curiousity, what are the origins for your username? Gizza^{Chat ©} 03:16, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Me too - whenever you want to disclose, please tell me also. Again, Holi hai. --Bhadani 15:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you my dear - you have a lovely user name. It is not a fiasco at all - but now an open secret. --Bhadani 16:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

ImpuMozhi garu (jee in Hindi) namaskar. I know few words of Telgu. --Bhadani 16:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Great! It was jsut a coincidence. --Bhadani 16:19, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that ImpuMorrhi! Btw, a couple of users are attacking you at Talk:Rajput. Gizza^{Chat ©} 07:11, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:Category:History of India

Hi ImpuMozhi - I just wanna let you know that I've finished a clean-up of the main History of India category. There have been extensive sub-sections created, so in most cases, historical articles should be linked to the sub-section and not the main category page. On the category page itself are only articles that pertain directly to India. Btw, thanks for your help on Lothal. Rama's Arrow 06:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

The underlying concern is that the category will become very large, as it previously was. Rama's Arrow 06:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi ImpuMozhi - You raise credible points. I had decided to revamp the cats and might have gotten carried away, but:

Maybe Category:Demographic history of India is a little unnecessary?

Quite necessary - history of "Demographics" is an important perspective in historical analysis. We can unite Hindu, Sikh, Islamic India - seemed a little odd to have "regions" grouped and religions left randomly - plus cultural histories and topics on human habits - sex, diet, communities etc. - should be properly defined. Without this cat, all these were clustered around in articles and sub-cats, so I decided to put them in together.

So also Category:Empires and kingdoms of India, when we already have Category:Historical empires of India? The latter can be renamed.

Historical empires" does not cover smaller kingdoms. Even if you rename, there should be a basic distinction between kingdoms, empires. Now this grand category allows one to re-classify kingdoms, empires as well.

Can we not do without Category:Regional History of India? There is surely nothing here that cannot fall into the ancient/medieval/states categories, and we also have Category:Historical Indian regions and Category:History of Indian states.

I didn't create this one - was already a problem as "Historical Indian regions" existed. Also it seemed strange that states and cities were excluded from "regions." So I brought the geographically-specialized histories under the already existing, grand cat. Also, another logical point is that the states and cities only came into being in the mid-19th century and after 1947. It was odd to give them a history distinct from historical regions.

So you basically have Indian history classified in terms of "Demographics," "Geographical regions" and "Political entities." That was basically my logic. However, lemme know if there are any errors to be addressed. Rama's Arrow 00:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Also, when I first analyzed the problems with the over-stuff cat, I saw that there were many articles and sub-cats with special topics left in the basic "India" category. There were ways to group them, and luckily most of them could be jointly classified. I used the principle that a basic "India" cat should contain only basic India articles - obviously its ok for any special article that can't be grouped under a sub-cat. Rama's Arrow 00:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi - I understand your point about about POV-type articles, but that has nothing to do with the category as it is. When you talk of the unsuitability of "History of Yadavs," your point is more of whether there should be an article like that and not about the Demographic category. Categories are derived from the type of articles on Wikipedia. Now take the case of "Demographics" - I created the cat only when I saw that "Sikh history" and "Islamic India" were hanging around, plus that "Hindu history" was not linked at all. One might argue that these are not "India"-concerned, but obviously its untrue. Thus a separate category distinctive of the type of articles they are, is called for to make that connection with sub-India subjects.

Now about sociological subjects, you are right. I would agree if you want to rename the category "Sociological history of India," - it will cover religions and ethnic groups to a large extent. But I don't agree as far as the need for the cat in the first place. I think it is a good asset for the overall cat. Rama's Arrow 14:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Categories

Why are you removing categories from rajput pages? History of rajasthan and other cats are perfectly fine. Do not delete them. Removing references is vandalism. You do it next and you will be reported. =Bhannu 12:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

LOL, look who is talking. Guy who cleaned out Category:Rajputs and Category:Rajput clans. Both of which were in turn sub-categorised by me and others into proper categories, please check. ImpuMozhi 12:32, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Can I forget you ever - never, never, never: do you remeber: "whenever you want to disclose, please tell me also. Again, Holi hai". hahhaa --Bhadani 14:26, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Explain

Explain to me why we have idiots come on Wiki and talk about things which they have no clue over. And to make it worse they have no etiquette or limits to go after someone's family. Its honestly disgusting and makes me wonder if we are not dealing with teenagers. Did you write the article on Rajmata Scindia? BTW love what you are doing with the Rajput article.

Gorkhali 15:42, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Kangra

You mentioned "I'm wondering if you are related to the Lambagraon family, since Dhwaj SJBR's daughter was wed there", actually its Prince General Dhwaj Narsingh Rana and yes she is my late grandmother (Princess Durga Kumari Devi). She was married to my late grandfather Colonel Shiv Raj Singh Katoch. He was the son of Kunwar Balak Singh Katoch, who in turn was the son of Wazir Ishwari Singh Katoch, the younger cousin of Maharaja Sansar Chand of Kangra. Wazir Ishwari Singh's daughter (Kunwar Balak Singh's Sister, Colonel Shiv Raj Singh's Paternal aunt) was Maharani Lilavati of Nabha the second wife of Maharaja Devinder Singh of Nabha. Presently the third Prince of Nabha's wife is Rajakumari Usha Rajaya Laxmi Devi also from the Rana family. The patiala house gets a bit complicated since their are mutiple relationships, one being my mother Bua (paternal aunt) was married to the maternal uncle of late Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, then his youndeg son Rajkumar Brajinder Singh was married to the granddaughter of Maharaja Jung Bahadur, and the Princess of Bijawar state in MP is Mahraja Bhupinder Singh's grand daughter, she is married to my cousin retd General (Indian army) Narinder B. Singh, he is the grandson of Maharana Hark Jung (youngest son of Maharaja Jung Bahadur). It gets a bit confusing but I am sure we will discuss things further. Your thoughts on my relationship with Raja mata Scindia are correct. My father's lineage is the Chauhans of Chamba in HP.

SJBR stands for Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, and the Sumsheres (my cousins) murdered many of the sons of Jung Bahadur and tried to kill my Great Grandfather but those who survived escaped to India in 1885. The Maharana of Udaipur gave Dhwaj Narsingh refuge because the Ranas of Nepal and Udaipur are the same family. My Narisngh cousins are still in Udaipur at the Nepal House.

It is of keen interest to me everything that goes on in the article since it directly has to do with my Grandmother's family (ie Maharana Pratap, Bappa Rawal etc etc etc). No one seems to understand that, however, I know you do.

I encourage you to keep working on the Rajput article. I got banned from the article but will be glad to assist you and others with the article once my schedule frees up. I like what you are doing, many people do not understand Rajputs, we are a hot headed and too egoistic, but I try to keep a level head. I just want to have an article where Rajputs are represented fairly and truthfully and not on the assumptions so many people make, especially when Rajputs llive and breathe even today.

I am very glad you pointed out the Rajputs are not a race, something that I argued till I was blue in the face with the Pakistani group, however they also began to become very insulting referring to my family as "Pensioners", thus I realised I was not going to be dealing with a civil minded group and left the scene for a while only to see it sink into more chaos.

It has improved a lot, and I am really gald that you are on board. I will try and discuss things with 10,000 typhoons, I think he is a Rajput since he also defended me and I don't know him. He took the issue to heart which shows that something good can come of my being insulted by the foolish Hawkraj.

Please do keep in touch, I have enjoyed seeing your interest in Princely families and will love to work with you in the future on more articles. It is important that you keep working on the Rajput article, I personally request that you stick with it.

At present I am preparing for an exam and also organising a medical relief mission for Tehri Garhwal, India and Nepal. After this I will have some free time.

Yours Truly,

Dr. (Kunwar) Sumerendra Vir Singh Chauhan Gorkhali 04:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Usha Rajya Laxmi Devi

Thank you for your kind words. I guess now you can understand why I am so frustrated with the Rajput article. In the beginning everyone wanted to argue with me, including admins, but no one for once thought that I may be the real deal who happened to find my way on to Wiki. Even now, Dab, Zora and no one realises why I keep saying that if you want to confirm who I am just contact Dr. Joseph T O'Connell at the University of Toronto. To top it off Zora began using a book written Malvika Kasturi, who happens to be a prof in the same department at University of Toronto, it was as if they simply ignored me. Now one bothered to sit down and understand who I was and how I might know a bit better about what and who Rajputs are, that is why I refuse to add anything to the article until my ban is removed.

I believe the Dalai Lama once said that "Tibetan History should only be taught by Tibetans", there is a lot to learn from those words. In many ways I see a domination of Indian topics by non-Indians, and it bothers me. I will repeat that I was very pleased to see you arrive since the Pakistani side had no clue of what they were talking about and were very disrespectful towards the royal families of India, and yet were given a free hand to say whatever they wished.

Yes, you are right, Usha Masi is the name, but I believe I mentioned that "Presently the third Prince of Nabha's wife is Rajakumari Usha Rajaya Laxmi Devi also from the Rana family.", and I talked to her last month since my mother is going to India soon. And yes, Jaisalmer's queen is her sister.

If you have any questions please feel free to write to me.

Sumer Gorkhali 15:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Called Mom

I was laughing and a bit embarassed, I just called my mother to confirm and she scolded me, and it turns out you were right and I was mistaken. It is Uma, I call her Rani Massi so sometimes I can't recall their first names correctly, just like I call retd Gen Narendra Bir Singh by his nickname Gyanji and Supreme court Chief Justice P. B. Singh of Nepal as Ramji and Maiya Sahib Chandra Kumari Rana I call Hameli Bhanji. Thats the problem that happens when you have huge families and nicknames, I won't tell you mine since I hate it.

Actually the argument started with the Pakistani side on the matter you so eloquently explained. The Pakistanis kept stating that Rajput was a race based on blood, but I was arguing that it is a Jati/subCaste and can be lost or relinquished.

Nothing makes me more happy than to see you on the team, it is good to know their are very well educated Indians like yourself among us. You deserve a star.

Gorkhali 21:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Rajput

Dear ImpuMozhi, I have some concerns and perhaps you could fix them up since I am banned from the article.

In the demographics: "In Pakistan, and to a lesser extent also in India, there are many Muslim Rajputs (Siddiqui 2004) descended from Hindus who converted to Islam, who do not normally intermarry with Hindus or Sikhs of any caste, but who may intermarry with Muslims of any caste although they usually tend to marry other Muslim Rajputs."

This is misleading and inaccurate. Since Muslim Rajputs are not accepted by Hindu or Sikh Rajputs, the question of intermarriage does not even arise. Furthermore, Muslims who claim to be Rajputs do not intermarry normally with other Muslims.

Please remove this at your convenience. Actually the Demographic part needs a bit of work all together. It seems as if it trying to justify the existence and validity of Muslim Rajputs when the article is only about Rajputs and Muslim Rajputs have a seperate article and link to this page. I know you understand my concern. Thank you.

Regards Sumer Gorkhali 00:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt reply, my god you are fast.

Gorkhali 01:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Chikkaveera Rajendra

Chikkaveera Rajendra is on AfD. Can you please add a few lines to the article. Tintin (talk) 09:57, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Tintin (talk) 14:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info ImpuMozhi, I will add that info to the article. AreJay 17:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Again

Typhoon is not going to be easy to control, perhaps you can reason with him. However, now the Pakistani side has come back and are adamant about having Muslim Rajputs represented in Rajput article. I thought that having a link to a seperate page was better since they can express their point of view their, but I feel this article will get no where. It just constantly like a tug of war. Please see if you can reason with the Pakistani side. Gorkhali 22:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

History of Kodagu

Hi. I suspect that you already know this, but a considerable amount of the new article you created already exists in the Kodagu article. The overlap needs to be tidied up; do you have plans to do this? Imc 11:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Gaddi

Nope, they are not Rajputs, neither are the Tharu from Nepal. The problem with Indian history is that everyone tries to muscle their way into some glory point of history. Thank you so much for changing the demographics.

I understand that it is important to mention the Muslim Rajputs but I do not want that to become the focus of the article since they have their own page and we are dealing with what is going on in India and the traditional view of Rajputs. The mention of Muslims being Rajput was so rare during my South Asian Studies days in the University that it was never a question of debate. If I real Muslim Rajput had shown up, the arguements and debates would have found some fruit and we could have moved towards completion of this article much sooner. However what we have here is a Pakistani side who just wants to argue for the sake of arguing, with no citing of references, nothing. So its quite frustrating. However, I like what you are doing with the article. For all non-traditional Rajputs, perhaps we should put up a susection with the idea that these people claim to be but are not accpeted in the mainstream, thus representing both sides of view. Reards Gorkhali 16:47, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

A Note from Vishal Prakash Dudhane :-

Brother Impumozi Hello and I have a request for you . In the article at Maratha Clans System i have added my work on Rajput history and Rajput clan system . Will you please give it your edotorial hand and make it readable for all Wikipedia visitiors . Because off my work at shop i can't give much time to enternet and do the edit . Will you please do this job for me ??? This work is very important and fundamental and ground level. I had put it on Rajput article but the crowed their is hulligons. They don't want the true informatishion to be come in to light.

You're welcome

You deserved it since you are working hard with an honest heart, and not allowing the Rajput name to be hijacked by Pakistanis who want to take away its Indian beauty. History should remain impartial and secular because what we are trying to represent is the truth. I also appreciate how you take my comments into consideration.

I was reading the talk page and you made a comment that since Rajput is not a patriarchal lineage then Jahangir would be a Msulim Rajput. However no where is history is he ever referred to as such, and if that were the case then Patiala family and Nabha family would no longer call themselves Jat, but instead Rajput (Maharaja Bhupinder Singh was staunch on claiming a Rajput status but that is a story for another time). Mughals were proud about being Mughals, they feared and respected Rajputs but they were brave and able fighters in their own right. Labelling of them as Muslim Rajputs, in my opinion, would first of all put you on shaky ground but would also not be fair to the Mughals who were glorious in their own way.

However, I do agree that Mughal dress and customs changed with Akbar and there was adoption oif Rajput dress and mannerisms in the Mughal court after Akbar the Great.

We should mention however that not all Rajput families sent their daughters to the Mughals and that is why the Maharana of Mewar is so respected by all Rajputs.

And finally my dear friend, who is Wiliiam Cutbush? He made a good point, except for the language part I think he was a bit confused, but he is right that in Pakistan, they don't want anything Indian unless its bollywood.

I'm gald you liked your "Rajput" Star, I chose it because of the armor, can't help it.

Gorkhali 16:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Only if

Thank you for all your kind comments. I only wish that we had met sooner, we could have done a lot more for this article. The feelings between us are mutual. Gorkhali 01:12, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

To India

For your information.I will be out to India (Chennai) from NZ between 30th April and end July. Hope to meet you.

--Dore chakravarty 01:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Gwalior Residency

Thanks for the query. Both the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Imperial Gazetteer of India agree that the states of Raghugarh, Khaniadhana, Paron, Garha, Umri, Bhadaura were under the authority of Gwalior Residency, but not part of Gwalior state. Gwalior had a number of jagirs as well, some "guaranteed" by the British, others not. According to this map, Rampur and Benares were transferred to the authority of Gwalior Residency in 1936; by Indian Independence, almost none of the princely states were under the authority of the provinces; this map shows the changes over all of British India from 1934 to 1947. Cheers, Tom Radulovich 03:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't know for certain why many princely states were taken from under the authority of the provinces and overseen directly by agents of the Governor General, but my guess would be that as the provinces were given greater and greater home rule, culminating with the Government of India Act of 1935, that both the princely states and the crown might want a direct relationship to one another, rather than one mediated by the provincial governments. Tom Radulovich 05:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I checked the British National Archives last night to see if I could find some evidence of how these agencies and residencies were organized in the 1930's. Within the India Office Records, Crown Representative's Records for Indian States Residencies are organized by agency/residency, and the index lists the "Gwalior, Rampur and Benares Agency", with documents for Gwalior Residency as a sub-set. There are a number of documents, such as "File 22/36 Proposed inclusion of the Benares State in the Gwalior Residency. - ref. IOR/R/2/762/180 - date: 1936" and "File 83/36 Handing over Notes on Rampur and Benares States by Messrs. Gibson, Panna Lal etc. - ref. IOR/R/2/763/188 - date: 1936" which confirm that Benares and Rampur were transferred to the Gwalior Resident's authority. As to why the princely states were organized as they were, I don't know; it would be an interesting research subject, indeed. Tom Radulovich 17:01, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I wanted to confirm the information for my own assurance; the UK archives can be searched at this site. Unfortunately, few if any of the documents can be viewed online, but the titles of the documents may be helpful in your research. Tom Radulovich 20:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Everything is cleared

I think someone hacked my system and was able to use my IP address (what is an IP address anyways?). However, I am not blocked now, thank god, and thank you for your prompt rpely. Regards Gorkhali 16:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

interesting. This means that "William Cutbush" used the same IP range as Gorkhali. This is too much of a coincidence. It would seem extremely stupid of Gorkhali to complain about it if it was his sockpuppet, so this seems to mean that it is rather someone in his immediate vicinity. dab (ᛏ) 17:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I talked with my service provider today to find out if someone has hacked my computer since I am not very knowledgable about firewalls and IP addresses etc. Considering I live near a huge Indo-Pakistani community (about 15 min drive from my place) I wouldn't be surprised if it were in my vicinity. Gorkhali 20:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

IP address is the unique server that your account is allocated. Of all the things one can hack, it's a little dubious that it would be to do it to contribute to this page with? I dont think Dab means vicinity as in locality...it means someone living with you. But then you knew that Gorkh when you tried to evade the question with misinterpretation ; ) --Raja 12:49, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Rajput and invasions etc.

Feel free to refactor and copyedit it. You should take the opportunity to actually make some progress with the worst socks banned for now. I agree that the invasion article should not just repeat the bio articles. I suggest you make it a redirect to the history article, but make sure to retain links to the relevant biographical articles. dab (ᛏ) 17:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

why? the article isn't protected, do it yourself, I won't call you an edit-warrior for reverting me. But I would sit down and check out if all information is present in other articles, just to be sure. dab (ᛏ) 18:10, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Visit India

Thanks for the message. Shall see how best to arrange.

--Dore chakravarty 20:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Visit India

Thanks very much. Shall do as suggested.

--Dore chakravarty 21:17, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey ImpuMozhi

Bro, I've read it and dont agree with it. I think your version of the article was the best yet. But I dont agree with the Siddiqui 2004 source re Jehangir point and would ask it to be removed since I have never seen or heard of such an example. It's one view which is alien to me and all the people I have ever consulted. Otherwise, I have sent a message request to Bhola to try and work with you if possible as I have great faith in your integrity. Bro, I just want a respectful mention of us in the article and dont want it to a "rajputs RSS club' article that many other 'editors' want it to be no matter what their affiliations or suspect doctorates. You have my support my friend and I have put my views on the page. Again, thanks loads for sticking with the article and helping keep neutrality alive!--Raja 12:44, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

A respectful mention is an entire page dedicated to Muslim Rajputs which they are not satisfied with. Gorkhali 15:11, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

ImpuMozhi bro, the Rajput talk page had my comments deleted by yet another puppet. I have reprinted it for you info, but be aware of now such behaviour. I wonder how many other socks will be used by the Dr's and his friends,lol. Either way, they didnt want a positive working relationship to ensue. Goodluck.--Raja 18:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Why doesn't Raja just come out and accuse me. Obviously he has no regards for the fact that I have refrained from editing the Rajput article as per Arbcom's decision. Yet they keep on insulting me. That is fine, I am just glad Impumozhi is working on the article, and I can see the article has a chance of becoming something great as long as he sticks with it. And to date, Raja/Supersaiyan, you have only thrown POVs without citing sources, that is what had been one of the sources of the problems besides the Shivraj group. You are not innocent either. I recall how you and your group went on insulting myself and the royals of India by referring to us as Pensioners, and still you don't quit taking pot shots at me. Gorkhali 19:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

On my part, I will say that neither William Cutbush nor Dr.Chauhan have been disruptive or abusive; it is not they who have prevented a "positive working relationship" and we should not not paint everyone on one side with the same brush. If Shivraj & socks corrospond to Bhola, Dr. Chauhan is up there with Khurram. Rather than indulge in futile recrimination, the more reasonable (and civil) sections on each side should try and work this out calmly. I am sure it can be done. Best regards, ImpuMozhi 23:38, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Agreed ImpuMozhi. But I dont remember Khurram sahib using socks or his IP address being used by multiple users...The pensioner point was a sourced article which I actually provided proof for which claimed Rajasthani Rajputs were on a tributary status with the Raj as a politically motivated strategm, so when we were called all sorts, I felt that it was a bit rich coming from 'pensioners'. But hey, thats history now and the debate has movd on somewhat.Either way, your request is accepted whole heartedly my friend and thank you for your response.--Raja 01:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Dear ImpuMozhi,

Thank you for your kind words. I am glad that you are working on the Rajput page as I have full faith that you won't let it go astray. As you can see the type of disrespect shown towards Indian Rajputs on this site, you can understand my frustration. Thank you again for you cordial response. BTW I figured out the IP address incident, not that means anything anymore, but it seems the Pakistani side has a lot more muscle in Wikipedia than Indians do so there is no point discussing it. This group wishes to lump me in with Shivraj just because I am Indian and Hindu.

His comment: “The pensioner point was a sourced article which I actually provided proof for which…” I have yet to see them cite sources, and the argument of whether or not Rajputs were pensioners had nothing to do with the article. Instead in the archives, it is clear how they used it as an insult in terms of the privy purses which were awarded to the families after having their kingdoms become part of the Indian union. The lack of respect shown and the tone and attitude reflect very clearly on what the situation is here. It puzzles me however, that Rajput being a Hindu concept is so sought after by supposedly devout Muslims.

Again, thank you for your kind and sincere thoughts. My support is with you always.

Sincerely,

Dr. (Kr.) S. V.S. Chauhan.Gorkhali 02:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)