Talk:Jagdish Chandra Bose

Please discuss here Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles#J, Alren 15:59, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Spellings

The first name should be spelt correctly in the title as "Jagadish" and not "Jagdish"

"Sir"

Could this "Sir" title prefix be properly wikified, please? Perhaps Sir#Formal styling?, or Knight#Becoming a knight, or Knight#Honorific orders, or British_honours_system#Indian_Orders? TIA.

Jerome Potts 06:32, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

uh... done. Order of the British Empire. Jerome Potts 06:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I changed two occurrences of 'Sir Bose' to 'Sir Jagadish'. In some English dialects the (improper) use of 'Sir Bose' would convey a slight insult, which I presume was not intended. Even though this occurs within a quotation, unless there is good reason to stick strictly to the original it seems rather more genteel to use the correct form of address. Davy p 00:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me that a quotation, assuming it is accurate, should be left alone. After all, the convention on the proper usage of "Sir", as documented in Sir#Formal styling, is also subject to evolving; perhaps the quoted gentleman had his own idea on how that title should be used. Jerome Potts 19:51, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Reassessment of Bose

I believe IEEE published a major reassessment of Bose with the conclusion that his work defintiely was prior to that of Marconi. I will try to get that reference. Meanwhile, here is something related: http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html DaveBorman 19:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's another reference: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/279/5350/476 DaveBorman 19:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Changes in infobox; please don't revert without discussion

I have made a few changes in the infobox consistent with Wikipedia:Don't overuse flags. Also moved the available image inside the infobox. These changes make this article consistent with other articles e.g. featured article on Rabindranath Tagore. These edits were reverted without any explanation once. So, I request anyone, not agreeing with the changes, to please discuss concerns here.

Please read "Don't Overuse flags" once more . And also from that - "Do not rewrite history

Flags should not be used to misrepresent the nationality of a historical figure, event, object, ... " -Bharatveer 08:36, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

First of all, if your concern is only about flags, then please change the flags only, why are you moving the image down? Isn't the image better placed inside the infobox, right at the beginning of article? For almost all featured biography articles, the best available image has been used inside the infobox. Secondly, Bose was legally a citizen of British India. He was born as a British Indian and he died as such. Claiming him either Indian or Bangladeshi is indeed an attempt to rewrite history. So, I am changing back nationality and image positioning. However, this time I'm not using any flags. Arman Aziz 09:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Bharatveer (talk · contribs) continues to add "Indian" (linking to Republic of India's article) as Bose's nationality. Actually, unless one went back in time and changed history, Republic of India exists only after 1947. Before which, it was "British India", and citizens of the place were called "British Indian"s, which was also printed on their passports.

Of course, if Bharatveer wants to link to "India" (the republic), I will be happy to claim that Bose was a "Bangladeshi" national too, under whatever logic BV has. Otherwise, I'd like to see why a person having "British India"n passport, living in "British India" can't be termed as such. --Ragib 16:54, 18 August 2007 (UTC)