Talk:Job Charnock

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Article contains a lot of opinion, and not a lot of fact.156.34.34.217 —Preceding comment was added at 13:06, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

This article seems badly biased, without many actual facts. Can someone clean this article up, making it less opinion and more facts? --Pompadours chinabox (talk) 18:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I've changed the tone and tidied up the page a bit. Unable to add more facts though.Pre1mjr (talk) 14:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

The mausoleum section bleats on about and "old style calendar". The Calendar Act of 1750 changed the UK to the Gregorian Calendar,s tarting in 1752. It is common practice in the study of history not to back convert Julian dates to Gregorian. It is understood quoted dates prior to 1752 are Julian.220.244.87.108 (talk) 23:06, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Sati

article contains statement that Sati was reinstated after 1857 and the Indian Mutiny. Whereas it is true that banning sati was a factor for the native soldiery to revolt, the British never lifted the restriction. This statement also contradicts Sati "On 4 December 1829, the practice was formally banned in the Bengal Presidency lands, by the then governor, Lord William Bentinck. The ban was challenged in the courts, and the matter went to the Privy Council in London, but was upheld in 1832. Other company territories also banned it shortly after. Although the original ban in Bengal was fairly uncompromising, later in the century British laws include provisions that provided mitigation for murder when "the person whose death is caused, being above the age of 18 years, suffers death or takes the risk of death with his own consent". Sati remained legal in some princely states for a time after it had been abolished in lands under British control. The last such state to permit it, Jaipur, banned the practice in 1846." Indian Penal Code 1860 explicity bans Sati. Bengalibaboo (talk) 16:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Please provide a verifiable reference for last sentence. A google book will do. Thanks. --GDibyendu (talk) 17:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Indian Penal Code is available on many websites. also on indiacode.nic.in. Googlebooks are not necessarily Reliable Source. A good reference book on Indian Penal Code is "Ratanlal & Dhirajlal", now in its 18th edn. The old editions may be in Public Domain. Bengalibaboo (talk) 08:24, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Establishment of English Trade in Bengal (1600-1700)

I have added this section which basically summarizes the incidents leading to the settlement of Job Charnock at Sutanuti in 1690. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syz2 (talk • contribs) 05:11, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

You added a long separate section which duplicated coverage in the rest of the article without bothering to integrate it into the existing text, and it was basically unsourced and opinionated. I've taken it out for now. We'll have to compare it with the existing text step by step and see if and how this material can be integrated chronologically into the existing text. There's a lot there so it may take some time. Lachrie (talk) 19:30, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Job Charnock

Born - 10 August 1630 died - 10 January 1693 202.78.234.144 (talk) 17:52, 15 August 2022 (UTC)