Talk:Dharampal

Cleaned up on Sept 8, 2010

After prolonged discussion amongst scholars, associates and friends of Dharampal, this page has been updated with several missing pieces of information added and much of the text enhanced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hindswaraj (talk • contribs) 11:50, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Cleaned up on Jan 16, 2007

Fixed some formatting, fixed the categories, fixed the links. I don't know enough on the subject to make any other edits...but you can use my wikified stuff as an example of how to do it properly. --SamMichaels 14:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Multiple issues

The article has multiple issues; it might even be an AfD candidate. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 04:13, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Fowler and Fowler has given more detail on this on the East India Company talk page I've quoted it below:

Dharampal is another speedy AfD candidate. Sounds to me that he was some version of a Hindu nationalist historian masquerading as a Gandhian. Hindu nationalist historians are different from nationalist historians. Hindu nationalists, among other things, murdered Gandhi. All of Dharampal's books are published by obscure publishing houses in India. There is also all kinds of Facebook type nonsense in that article. His daughter is doing ..., his grand nephew is doing ... and so forth.

— Fowler&fowler«Talk»

Eraserhead1 (talk) 12:07, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Copyvio

Arbitrary header #1

@Diannaa: the latest additions by User:Jksuresh seem to a copyvio; can you take a look at it too? Thanks, Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 20:10, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Diannaa and Joshua, Please note that I have had a long discussion with Justiyaya a few weeks ago on the same subject where I pointed out the fact that the IP-Check-Tool of Wikipedia is throwing up the following type of matched text as IP/Copyright violations. It was therefore decided at that time that it would be incorrect to classify them as IP violations. I had at that time also informed Jusiyaya that I would come back after a few days to publish the next iteration of the text (which would only have changes corresponding to a few stylistic elements of construction of sentences, etc).

In light of this, I would request you to please apply your mind on the matter and not take down the article. I would of course gladly provide any clarifications on any of the matters that you think need any.

Meanwhile, I find that the comment "... masquerading as a Gandhian" is foul, untrue and defamatory. Several of us, respectable scientists and engineers of India who have the greatest respect for Mahatma Gandhi have also been close associates of Shri. Dharampal as young people inspired by his work on Indian history which seem to have stemmed from his deep association with Gandhi's work. There is absolutely no grounds on which he may be denigrated as a Hindu nationalist historian. I personally find it offensive.

I have provided a partial list of such reported violations below (as I had previously):

At this time, a quick glance at the copy violation tool's output (https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=&oldid=1027012907&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0) seems to indicate that the violations are classifiable into three types which I have described below. While some of the text needs rewriting, it may be noted that some of the problems may also have been an outcome of the fact that this article has been worked upon by several people, some of whom are authors of the cited works or editors of their compilations (e.g., Gita Dharampal, M.D. Srinivas, C.N. Krishnan, etc).

I will certainly come back with a more comprehensive response that takes into consideration all the violations that are indicated in the next few days’ time. I do hope that I will continue to receive your inputs to resolve all pending issues completely.

Types of violations cited by the tool

(a) commonly used phrases and clauses to describe a person. Examples:

(i) “…thinker, historian and political philosopher”,

(ii) ”… of the cultural, scientific and technological achievements of Indian society on the eve of the British conquest”

(iii) “Gandhiji’s call for Individual Satyagraha in October 1940”,

(iv) “…At the time of Partition, he was put in charge of the Congress Socialist Party centre for the rehabilitation of refugees from West Pakistan, and came in close contact with Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya and Ram Manohar Lohia, as well as with numer¬ous younger friends, such as L.C. Jain, in Delhi. He was also a founding member of the In¬dian Cooperative Union set up in 1948.”)

(b) Excerpts from Dharampal’s works that are rephrased and therefore not placed within quotation marks. Examples:

(i) “These schools were described as teaching a sophisticated curriculum, with daily school attendance by about 30% of children aged 6-15 years. Interestingly, the majority of students belonged to communities who were classed as Shudras or even lower. Further, in some areas, for instance in Kerala, Muslim girls were quite well represented.”

(ii) The British Origin of Cow-Slaughter in India (2002),[ii] besides providing historical evidence about the genesis of mass cow-slaughter under British auspices, presents extensive documentary material about one of the most significant resistance movements in India against kine-killing by the British during the years 1880-1894.[iii] By highlighting the participation of prominent Muslims in this mass protest as well as by emphasizing the crucial fact that it was the British, and not the Muslims, who were the main consumers of beef, Dharampal is able to dispel one of the deep-seated myths perpetuated to reinforce divisive colonial strategies.[iv]

(c) in respect of the list of published books. Example:

i. 1. Dharampal, Panchayat Raj as the Basis of Indian Polity: An Exploration into the Proceedings of the Constituent Assembly (with a foreword by Jayaprakash Narayan), AVARD, New Delhi, 1962; reprinted in: Dharampal, Collected Writings, Other India Press: Mapusa 2000 (reissued 2003 & 2007), vol. IV, pp. 1-95; also in Dharampal Classics Series, ed. J.K. Bajaj and M.D. Srinivas, Vol. 1, Rashtrotthana Sahitya: Bengaluru and Centre for Policy Studies: Chennai, 2021. Translations into Gujarati and Hindi in Dharampal Samagra Lekhan (11 vols.), ed. Indumati Katdare, Punarutthan Trust, Ahmedabad 2005 and 2007, respectively. Jksuresh (talk) 20:31, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

I am seeing a large paragraph copied from this webpage ; see the copyvio report. This content was also present in the version on which I did revision deletion back in June. A separate problem is that quite a bit of your addition has no sources. — Diannaa (talk) 21:17, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the inputs. I have gone through the entire copyright violation report and have the following observations to make. I wish I could send an XLS file to you that can present my arguments in a much more concise and better fashion:

1) A total of 52 violations have been reported by the tool (I might have missed one or two when I did a cut and paste onto my XL sheet)

2) They may be classified as (Type, Occurrence) pairs, as follows: Title of book, 41; To be reworked, 1; A Proper Noun!!, 2; a reference to an event, 2; a position held, 3; proper nouns and dates!, 1; stock phrase …, 1;

3) I do believe that one paragraph that is replicated needs to be rephrased; I shall do that once we agree upon the next steps

4) I will of course provide all the details of my analysis along with the raw data (of reported copyright violations) in the next message

5) I intend this message to be a sort of an executive summary and therefore want to limit its size

6) Given that out of 52 violations, only one needs to be reworked (in my opinion), I would like to understand your recommendations for the way forward Jksuresh (talk) 07:06, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

I am sorry but this response will be rather lengthy because it provides all the details and the data to support my assertions in the immediately previous message I sent you a little while ago. Here goes:

I) violations reported from website:: https://www.manushi.in/national-security/holding-a-mirror-to-nehrus-intolerance--how-criticism-of-nehrus-policy-by-freedom-fighter-sh-dharampal-led-to-imprisonment-on-charges-of-sedition-during-indo-china-war-of-1962

PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW AS (Serial Number, Text that is reportedly copied, My Response)

(1) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century  ------------- Title of book

(2) Dharampal was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi throughout his life; he received his first glimpse of Gandhiji at the age of seven, when he accompanied his father to attend the 1929 Lahore Congress. In March 1931, when Sardar Bhagat Singh and his colleagues were sentenced to death and executed by the British colonial authorities, Dharampal re­calls that many of his friends took to the streets of Lahore, shouting slogans in pro­test. Yet despite this rebellious assertion by his peers, Dharampal was drawn towards the movement led by Mahatma Gandhi: soon he started wearing khadi, a practice he followed all his life. Gandhiji’s call for Individual Satyagraha in October 1940 marked the beginning of his in­volvement in national politics and the subsequent abandonment of his B.Sc. in Physics. In August 1942, he was present as an ardent spectator at the Quit India session of the Indian National Congress in Bombay, whereupon he joined the movement and was active as an under­ground member of the AICC group run by Sucheta Kriplani until his arrest in April 1943. After 2 months in police detention, he was released, but debarred from Delhi. A year later in August 1944, being interested in village community work, he was introduced to Mirabehn (the British born disciple of Mahatma Gandhi) and joined her soon after at the Kisan Ashram, situated midway between Roorkee and Haridwar.------------- Needs to be rephrased or referred to

(3) Panchayat Raj as the Basis of Indian Polity------------- Title of book

(4) Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then------------- A Proper Noun!!

(5) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(6) The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(7) The British Origin of Cow-Slaughter in India (2002)------------- Title of book

(8) Panchayat Raj as the Basis of Indian Polity:------------- Title of book

(9) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts ------------- Title of book

(10) Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition: with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents------------- Title of book

(11) The Madras Panchayat System, Vol II: A General Assessment, Impex India, Delhi 1972;------------- Title of book

(12) The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century, Biblia Impex ------------- Title of book

(13) Some Aspects of Early Indian Society and Polity and their Relevance to the Present, Indian Association for Cultural Freedom------------- Title of book

(14) Bharatiya Chitta, Manas va Kala (Hindi)------------- Title of book

(15) Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kala------------- Title of book

(16) Centre for Policy Studies, Madras 1993------------- A Proper Noun!!

(17) Bharat ka Svadharma (Hindi), Vagdevi Prakashan, Bikaner 1994------------- Title of book

(18) Despoliation and Defaming of India: The Early Nineteenth Century British Crusade, Bharat Peetham------------- Title of book

(19) The British Origin of Cow-Slaughter in India: with some British Documents on the Anti-Kine-Killing movement 1880-1894, Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas, Mussoorie 2002------------- Title of book

(20)  Understanding Gandhi, Other India Press------------- Title of book

(21) Rediscovering India: Collection of Essays and Speeches (1956-1998), Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas [SIDH]:------------- Title of book

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II) Violations reported from website: https://web.archive.org/web/20200607061354/https://www.cisindus.org/2020/06/02/introducing-dharampal/

PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW AS (Serial Number, Text that is reportedly copied, My Response)

(1) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(2) a small town in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh------------- a description of a place

(3) October 2006 at Sevagram (Mahatma Gandhi’s------------- Proper Nouns and dates!

(4) General Secretary of the Association of Voluntary Agen­cies for Rural Development (AVARD)------------- a position held!

(5) Panchayat Raj as the Basis of Indian Polity------------- Title of book

(6) wrote an open letter to the members of the Lok Sabha asking for------------- a reference to an event!

(7) was arrested and im­prisoned in------------- a reference to an event!

(8) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(9) The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(10) The British Origin of Cow-Slaughter in India------------- Title of book

(11) General Secretary of the Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development [AVARD] of which------------- a position held!

(12) Member of the Indian Council------------- a position held!

(13) Panchayat Raj as the Basis of Indian Polity: An Exploration into the Proceedings of the Constituent Assembly ------------- Title of book

(14) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts------------- Title of book

(15) Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition: with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents------------- Title of book

(16) The Madras Panchayat System, Vol II: A General Assessment------------- Title of book

(17) The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century,------------- Title of book

(18) Some Aspects of Early Indian Society and Polity and their Relevance to the Present, Indian Association for Cultural Freedom------------- Title of book

(19) Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kala (with a Preface and Glossary) by------------- Title of book

(20) Despoliation and Defaming of India: The Early Nineteenth Century British Crusade------------- Title of book

(21) The British Origin of Cow-Slaughter in India: with some British Documents on the Anti-Kine-Killing movement 1880-1894, Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas------------- Title of book

(22) Rediscovering India: Collection of Essays and Speeches (1956-1998), Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas------------- Title of book

(23) Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi------------- Title of book

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III) Violations reported from website: indiafacts.org/remembering-dharampals-seminal-contribution

PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW AS (Serial Number, Text that is reportedly copied, My Response)

(1) of the cultural, scientific and technological achievements of Indian society on the eve of------------- stock phrase with adjectives

(2) The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(3) Dharampal, The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

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IV) Violations reported from website: indictoday.com/reviews/decolonizing-mindset-series-dharampals-indian-science-and-technology-in-the-eighteenth-century

PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW AS (Serial Number, Text that is reportedly copied, My Response)

(1) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(2) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

(3) Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century------------- Title of book

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(V) Violations reported from website: bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/views/civil-disobedience-before-mahatma-gandhi/articleshow/45948993.cms

PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW AS (Serial Number, Text that is reportedly copied, My Response)

(1) Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition (1971)------------- Title of book

(2) Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition (197------------- Title of book Jksuresh (talk) 07:21, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Arbitrary header #2

Just two rondom excerpts:

• "However, disillusioned by the futility of this idealistic experiment" - see here.
• "despite this rebellious assertion by his peers, Dharampal was drawn towards the movement led by Mahatma Gandhi" - here.

Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 11:35, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for these inputs. Here are my responses:

1) Gita Dharampal is one of the two contributors to this content, and I the other. Although this is not by any means a justification, the first violation you have given above has probably been a result of Gita borrowing from her own words in the book (she is the editor of the book which you have cited)

2) Regarding the second, there is no defense. Yes, indeed it seems copied with some modification

3) Given your two notes above, I have thought about this seriously and now realize that a few more such copyright issues are likely to crop up in the rest of the text in further iterations of oversight from Wikipedia's side, especially where Gita has written the text. It would be embarrassing for me to have you point out more copy-paste violations, etc.

4) Let me be graceful at this point and abandon this thread of contention. I will come back at a future date when and if I can rewrite the entire text in a manner that Wikipedia deems acceptable.

5) Do let me know if that is acceptable. If there is anything at all that you may want to share with me to help me re: this exercise, please do. Jksuresh (talk) 18:11, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Just a reminder: in my message this morning (item I/ (2) in the message), the first violation above has already been acknowledged. That said, what I have said in the most recent message holds still. Thanks. Jksuresh (talk) 18:18, 25 July 2021 (UTC)