Talk:Indian coinage

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I think I will make this an introductory page with links to better pages. Enlil Ninlil 09:48, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok i finally got arround to doing this, I believe the article should be a summery with likes to numismatic articles. I will creat pages on Maurian coiage, Kushan coinage later. Any thoughts? Enlil Ninlil 05:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose - The sites and references only deal with India. There's no Pakistani or Bangladeshi coinage to even consider adding a South Asian tag.Bakaman 22:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support - This article deals with coinage from all over South Asia, not just India. Bactria, the Indo-Greek Kingdom, the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, and the Indo-Hephthalites all ruled mostly Afghanistan and Pakistan. Afghanistan and western Pakistan were not part of India, so South Asia coinage is the appropriate term.IP198 02:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Bactria doesn't belong in the article anyways. The "Indo-" in the other three should be indicative of which geographical entity they refer to.Bakaman 22:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
    • The Indo-Hephthalites is also called Hunas. The important thing is that it was in Afghanistan not India. As for Indo-Parthian Kingdom are we also going to put it Persian coinage due to Parthia. The Indo-Greek Kingdom was a continuation of Bactria. Also the Indo-Sassanian(also called Kushano-Sassanians or Kushanshas) was a kingdom mostly of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Whats the problem in calling it South Asia, considering that Afghainstan and western Pakistan was not part of India? IP198 22:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
      • You still did not answer the obvious correlation between the Indo- prefix and India.Bakaman 01:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Actually the Greco-Bactrians should be in this article as they did control the are of the ganges at some time and influences later indian coinage. Enlil Ninlil 02:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Sorry mean't to put thie Indus Mr Indian nationalist. Enlil Ninlil 03:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
      • Funny how applying Indian nationalist is so natural while not describing IP198's edit pattern as Pakistani nationalist, sympathetic to Islamofascist terrorism in Kashmir, etc. South Asian is a trivial and anachronistic term in this context, as Ambroodey noted to you.Bakaman 03:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Alright we can play yer, anyway istead of annoying everyone do you have anything good to add to this article? Hindus nationalsist islamic and christian nationalist who cares they go to their gods hell. Also I dont care about pakistan or india just this article and i was needing a better name to reflect its historical references Enlil Ninlil 03:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Bakaman, I am not a Pakistani nationalist, though i am sympathetic to what you call "terrorism" in Kashmir. However that has nothing to do with this discussion. Hopefully some other people will also comment. I saw the proposal and voted. If this stays as Indian coinage then so be it, i wont lose any sleep over it. IP198 03:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
IP198, its about the time people stopped indiscriminate usage of term 'South Asia' in history realted articles. It serves little purpose than to assauge Pakistani-nationalist insecurities. User;Nadirali and User:Unre4L tried to go against the consensus and ended up raking 2 vs 100 edit wars. South Asian is primarily a geo-political term which is exculsively used in modern context (except perhaps in a few history books owing to political correctness , but then see WP:NOT. Using term 'South Asia' when all the kingdoms/regions mentioned here have been histroical parts of India (heck 90% of area mentioned IS a part of Indian Union ) only serves to confuse the uninformed. Amey Aryan DaBrood© 18:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Listen Ambroodey i never changed the title to South Asia coinage. I saw the proposal and i voted on it. Sorry for having an opinion. IP198 21:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Can we please sop this nationalist crap, i just wanted to make the title more specific and not a vague term as it is now. Enlil Ninlil 10:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)