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[edit] British Raj article

Your continued participation in removing bias from the current British Raj article is appreciated. A small group of people have overtaken this article to show British rule in India in a highly exaggerated positive light without any discussion of large scale atrocities, suppression of rights, racist policies, general looting of national wealth. See discussion at British Raj Neutrality Check DiscussionDesione (talk) 17:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks...

...for the info! Should we put something on the Stockholm group in the article? I could translate the part from the diva-portal article. --Soman (talk) 15:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pingle

Congratulations. I have a few more bits on him, which I must fish out and add to your so well documented article. By the way, the English Christian name is Hugh (not Hew): that must have been a "slip of keyboard"!--BobClive (talk) 16:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

Dear Rueben lys, Receive my hearty greetings, too, for a Happy and prosperous New Year.--BobClive (talk) 17:15, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

We must mention somewhere that Swami Satyananda Puri of Gadhar fame was not Swami Satyananda Puri or Bhavabhushan Mitra. Also we have to point out that Pingle's name has also been written as Pingley in various documents.--BobClive (talk) 11:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate images uploaded

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[edit] Hello!

Thanks for the two omissions [</ref>] in the Bagha Jatin article. Let me know what you think of the paragraphs I have added to PingleHis name has been written also PINGLEY, just as RASBEHARI/ RASH BEHARI. It will be difficult to normalise these spellings; we just have to keep on mentioning it.--BobClive (talk) 06:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Dear Rueben lys, I have always been a solitary searcher, with one-pointed eagerness to explore available data as much as possible, expecting future scholars to concentrate on a suitable superstructure. As such, my personal situation is best defined by the Bengali saying, naa gharer, naa parer: such rare occasions of recognition as you offer help me to cling to my conviction and move forward. Hearty thanks.--BobClive (talk) 16:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] YOUR QUESTION

Yes for both. No for Prafulla Sen. All the best.--BobClive (talk) 06:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Hindu-German Conspiracy

Congratulations on GA! I know HGC has been a ton of work for you; I'm so glad to see your work acknowledged. I want to start trimming for length—I'm fairly confident that I can do this wisely, especially now that you've started so many articles that are linked as main article/see also. Are you more or less done creating related articles? Maralia (talk) 16:20, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

I've tackled the Ghadar Party section first. My main goal was to cut down to the barest facts, since the rest has a proper home in the main article on Ghadar. Probably the only controversial change was my removal of Shyamji Krishna Varma from 'See also'. His article doesn't mention Ghadar, so either he's not directly relevant to that section and doesn't belong, or his relevance needs to be clarified in his article & in HGC. In any case, I rewrote quite a few sentences and reorganized the section; I think it flows better now. Let me know what you think. Maralia (talk) 06:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Shyamji's Centre in London since the beginning of the 20th century was the nursery for future activists, a cross-road for pioneering ideas directly coming from India and moving to the American centres, an inspiration to people like Taraknath Das who, after six years of field work in North America, will found with Har Dayal the Gadhar/Ghadar movement. Har Dayal did receive ideas from his stay with Shyamji and Das had a regular trans-Atlantic exchange with Shyamji, reflecting sometimes in his Free Hindustan light coming from Shyamji's Sociologist.--BobClive (talk) 07:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Flags

Hello Rueben lys. Thanks for your message and I appreciate your spirit of collaboration that I like and admire. I have opened my mind a little bit: [1], and I don't have much to offer. Please feel free and frank with me, and please remain in touch. Regards. --Bhadani (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chandra Chakravarti

Here is a passage on the despicable creature. You may find more in Arun Chandra Guha's First Spark of Revolution.

"The latent separatism between the Sikh and most of the Hindu leaders then took a regional turn: since Chatto – a Bengali – enjoyed an absolute confidence of the German authorities, since Gupta, another Bengali – represented in Washington the will of the latter, since Taraknath – again a Bengali – had been the pioneer of the political activities in the USA, the Ghadar tried to reshape its aspirations according to a new orientation capable of imposing the Sikh superiority on the movement. By interpreting this separatist spirit, there occurred even a troublesome dissidence among the Sikhs themselves : already contesting the political intentions of Dayal and Taraknath, all those who were more concerned with strictly social and religious activities, raised an objection to the financing of the political activities with money generously contributed by the Sikhs to assure their own civil protection. On the top of all that, the searching look of Hopkinson, the British spy used by the Immigration Service of Canada, succeeded in isolating a handful of Sikh supporters of the British Crown, constantly to track and to denounce the patriots’ activities. At the height of an unbearable hide-and-seek triggered by this craftsman of separatism, some patriots got fed up with Hopkinson’s pernicious play and murdered him, on 21 October 1914, at the Law Court of Vancouver.

"In India and elsewhere, the dedicated spirit and the honest devotion of a great number of Bengali revolutionaries gave to the Extremist movement its highest distinction, whereas “for their superior intellectual faculty” – notably for their advanced techniques (as Taraknath in the USA, Rasbehari Bose in the Punjab) – they were constantly solicited. At the same time, in 1916, a Bengali adventurer of a doubtful character, named Chandrakanta Chakravarti, with his cunning German accomplice, Ernst Matthias Sekunna, will oust and replace Heramba Gupta as mediator between the Ghadar and the Berlin Committee : he will not only create an artificial enterprise to divert the German funds to flourish his bank accounts and to own real estates in New York, but also of double espionage. Moreover, intoxicated by his success, Chakravarti did not mistrust possible counterespionage : having stirred the curiosity and the jealousy of the Czech revolutionaries emigrated to the USA, he left ample written proofs in his apartment at 364 West 120th Street (New York). Emmanuel Victor Voska and Ladislav Urban, associates of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850 – 1957) – future President of Czechoslovakia – discovered therein a gold mine : the watchman of the building was himself a Slovak from Moravia and an active member of a Czech revolutionary faction. Making use of a free access to the apartment where – in addition to most valuable documents scattered all over – numerous meetings between the Indian revolutionaries and the German representatives were held. Voska engaged spies to trace the Indo-German chain-work up to China: some of his interlocutors, supposed Austrian patriots, communicated lightning information to Voska, right from the content of the despatches of Von Papen (German Military Attache in Washington), Zimmermann’s answers, the expedition of arms and munitions on board the Annie Larsen and the Maverick to be delivered on the Eastern coast of India, upto the projects of the Germans to sabotage factories of American explosives etc. Transmitted on time by Masaryk, in London, this information had such a repercussion in the International Office of the Allies that – especially after having seized, through the diligence of the British navy, the first vital cargos containing arms and munitions intended to serve the revolutionary cause in India – Masaryk got, in exchange, in addition to expected credits and prestige, the recompense he deserved." (From The Intellectual Roots of India's Freedom Movement (1893-1918) : unpublished English translation of Dr Prithwindra Mukherjee's French Thesis, defended in 1986.--BobClive (talk) 17:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if this bit of information has been of any use to you.--BobClive (talk) 07:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:PVC Medal.jpg

Can you show me the source which states that the work by Indian Government is in PD? I can show you that it is copyrighted and the holder of the copyright is the Government itself.

From the copyright handbook published by the Indian Copyright Office ([2])

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so the image under question is Government work.

Who is the owner of copyright in a government work?

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So the image is copyrighted and the reason is a false reason. Σαι ( Talk) 12:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HG conspiracy, hindi language article

Hi rueben, Dunno if you're Hindi is better than mine, but I just created the [षडयंत््|Hindi language article] for the HGC, but I am not very good with spellings and language, wonder if you wanna chip in, seeing as you wrote most of the english article???Dudewheresmywallet (talk) 10:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citations on the page Samrat Hem Chander Vikramaditya or Hemu or Hemu Vikramaditya

I have all the citations, but finding difficult to put in.I tried to put one today,but got stuck up.Need your help in putting all the citations from various books/authors.I think I can prepare an index in next couple of hours on this page with a request to you to put them at the website mentioned above. Sudhir Bhargava

sudhirkbhargava@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.198.128.114 (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I have put citations for half the page already. I hope this satisfies your needs.You are requested to remove headings from the page which doubt the contents and demand verifications of the contents.I have the citations for rest of the page and they'll be put in a day or two, as it is a time consuming process.

Hope you'll take action to remove headings which create doubts about the page.

Wishes and regards,

Sudhirkbhargava@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.198.128.41 (talk) 04:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bengali Wiki

It is requiest to you please contribute Bengali Wiki. if possible.[3]Please see in Bengali Wiki of Azad Hind Fouj Gov[4] Jayantanth (talk) 09:30, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I'll see what can be done to the Bengal wiki. However may I also request to edit articles on Rabindra Nritya Natya, and Rabindra Sangeet ? I really appreciate your work on Netaji, the INA and related articles. Keep up the good work. Regards,

Gobeshock Gobochondro Gyanotirtho (talk) 05:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Parent article History of the British Raj

Hi Rueben lys, Will you mind adding new text to the parent article instead? I say this because the British Raj article is already bloated and its history section will need to be reduced. Thanks! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 14:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Historical revisionism: Colonial and Imperial revisionism

Please see: Talk:Historical revisionism (negationism)#Colonial and Imperial revisionism --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 09:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Tokyo Boys

Ok, so you are saying that they were not Japanese collaborators because you are a patriotic Indian. However, these were former Indian troops of the British Army that willingly trained to serve with the enemy. Regardless of domestic politics after the war they were collaborating with the Japanese. On the administrative side, their significance is not so crucial to the Second World War that they should be in the root directory where no article is supposed to go. Now, I am going to revert you, and we can discuss the best suitable category on the article talk, ok.--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:04, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Replied rueben_lys (talk · contribs) 15:08, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Foreign volunteer units of Nazi Germany

Regarding the clarification 'Many might not be necessarily "volunteers"', there exists the category "Category:Foreign conscript units of Nazi Germany" for those who were not necessarily "volunteers". So this clarification is redundant, no? Martintg (talk) 05:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)