Deletion of Karan (caste)

Comment: Unsourced = fails  = mandatory deletion
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: this is a complete mess. The nominator has removed a redirect to insert a poor prior version of the article which they immediately put up for discussion here. I suspect the rationale is actually that the article has been a bone of contention for years and they would rather have nothing than have it redirected to what they consider to be the wrong target. They do have a point of sorts: there is an open merge discussion at Talk:Karan_Kayastha#Proposed_merge_with_Karan_(caste) but an anon https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karan_%28caste%29&type=revision&diff=807491136&oldid=798052729 unilaterally redirected it in October 2017. Basically, the anon usurped process by boldly redirecting an article whose history is very obviously contentious, and then the nominator here has usurped process by reinstating an old version of what, prima facie, would have been a candidate for 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Redirect (WP:RFD)