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Questionable suitability of Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya as a valid source for Wikipedia articles
editThe very first reference in this article is taken from a book Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste System and the Bearing of the Sects toward Each Other and toward Other Religious Systems by a Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya . Content from this book needs cautious use .
A discussion on the validity of using this questionable book has already taken place on Talk:Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya .
I am repeating here one comment I have posted in the course of my discussion dated 26th November :
"A careful reading of this book is revealing ,......a Hindu Pandit - a scholar of Hindu Scripture ,.......ostensibly credited with writing an authoritative book on Hindu castes......profoundly relies ( although self admittedly) on content from (a) Evangelical Christian missionary's (b) British colonial officials and (c) here-say on sources he self admittedly will not reveal , to fill his book . The book is majorly bereft of Hindu Scriptural sources . And when they appear , a jumble of source and his own opinion . Other places he showers abuse on various sections and sects - his opinion not scriptural sourcing . 26 November 2011 (UTC)"
Sourcing
editThere is a long-standing consensus that we do not use Raj era sources and there is also no consensus for using infoboxes, which are often problematic in caste articles. Hence my recent revert. - Sitush (talk) 16:05, 15 March 2018 (UTC)