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Military history of India was the Indian collaboration of the week for the week starting on September 4, 2005.

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[edit] Who wrote the "Opposition:Indian National Army" piece

It's filled with baseless facts and talks about Sikhs. This is a piece on Azad Hind Fauj. I deleted the article and entered a few bits. I'll expand it considerably over the few days.

For the person who's responsible for this : What's your point ? Ok, What if Sikhs were part of the AHF. AHF was filled with Volunteers, Indian PoWs and German and Japanese Forces. Your argument is baseless and provides no sources.

I know mine (the piece I wrote) sounds a bit rusty, but give me a few days (or weeks)--Milki 17:24, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] This article

Im sorry to be so harsh but this article is a disgrace, its has nothing on WWI and WII and badly set out. I may nominate this for improvement drive CooldogCongo 11:56, 18 July 2005 (UTC)


note 8/22/05 I agree, I just did the Sepoy portion i'll do more later::

Agreed. Inaccuracies, bad grammar, and shoddy spelling abound. Can we put up a "cleanup" tag on this somehow?

[edit] Subarticles

6000 years of claimed military history can't be put into one little article. This can at best be an overview. I've sectioned it up. Anyone interested should start up separate articles for each section, and then come back to this overview and fill in a para or so as an abstract of the detailed article. 158.144.51.19 18:05, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Military Establishments

We need to ask Sunder for some help here. When we say Military history, we need to give a little stress on the current and Post Independence period. Then cone DRDO, DLRL, BEL, etc..--Davy Jones 21:29, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Note by Bhaskar

(moved from article space)

Note by Bhaskar:::Even as an Indian I found this last passage in correct in many respects and also very pro-Indian, FIRST OF ALL INDIA HAS THE 3rd largest military behind China and the United States, just trailing the latter.

Also I really hate the comments about the ISI and "Pakistan's hostilites" since its not substantiated by any fact

[edit] Kingdom of Mysore

Too lazy to add to the article, so adding it here: Hyder Ali was also instructed by French military officers & he was one of the first Indian rulers to use rockets. See http://www.wsmr.army.mil/pao/FactSheets/rkhist.htm Pamri • Talk 16:31, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I've added it to the article. utcursch | talk 06:21, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Under Aryans

Hi,

I deleted the sentence regarding the Rig Veda talking about the subjugation of local people, since there is no such mention there. And if you disagree with me, I would like the one who posted the sentence to post those verses here.

[edit] Battles Against Europeans

During the early colonial time (1500-1800) India (atleast in the South) had many victories against Europeans. Did Indians use firearms in this period or did they win with some other weapon? Zachorious 18:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan (and other Muslim Rulers) might've used Fire Arms. But most Hindu Rulers (with notable exceptions) stuck with traditional weapons--Milki 17:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Imaginative terms

Imaginative terms have no place in wikipedia and they are removed. These kind of imaginations even did not provide any kind of infomation from any sources. --Chanakyathegreat 18:04, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sino-Indian war, 1962

This section is highly POV and does not contain any sources. I'll remove it until someone fixes it. Thanks 216.99.61.249 01:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article needs a major clean up!

Kargil war was not a brief border skirmish! It lasted 50 days and captured the attention of the entire world. No doubt sikhs are brave soldiers and have proved themselves again and again despite unimaginable odds. But they represent a small fraction of the Indian armed forces. Such biased coverage is not healthy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 219.91.211.70 (talk) 10:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Spruce up sultanate era

Pictures of the arms and armour used, diagrams of tactics, a bit more detail into how armies were levied by muslim and hindu kingdoms and comparisons with other militaries across the globe of the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vloxul (talk • contribs) 05:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)