Talk:James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie

message: I've just made a few minor grammatical and stylistic corrections to the first part of the article (whose rathe purple prose could do with a thorough bleaching), but there's one point at which I was stymied.  He's supposed to have "aggravated the crisis by his overbearing self-consciousness", but this doesn't really make sense.  My problem is that I don't know what the writer meant to write instead of "self-consciousness" — arrogance? self-centredness? selfishness? or what?
Oh, and was he born at or in Dalhousie Castle? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:37, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few minor grammatical and stylistic corrections 

message: Regardless of your grammatical preferences, it's a title, and it has a hyphen. GGoC is the exception, not the rule. Try reading about the subject before making pronouncements on it. You could start here: Governor-General. Proteus (Talk) 12:05, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: The quality of this page is very low.  There is too much one-sided defense of Dalhousie and his conduct during the Indian Mutiny. The accounts of his wars of expansion in India are all biased. Those wars were controversial even at the time. the accounts presented on the page read like a pro-war political manefesto. Dalhousie led the Company in India to Financial ruin through his wars of expansion and then nearly lost everything because of his conduct during the mutiny. I can think of few (if any) people who would agree with the page that he was some sort of far-sighted great leader vindicated by history.
: That is your opinion to which you are entitled. However, the history books present a different story, largely echoed here. Wikipedia is not set up to rewrite history according to the contempory nationalist movements in various countries, nor should it be a vehicle for history judged by 21st century yardsticks rather than those of the time. It is to those historians we must look to get a grasp of how the individual is judged. Not by us, today. David Lauder 18:24, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  History is nothing but the opinion of people of that time. I agree that we should not judge history through the prism of a later period. However, in this case, the references used are only British and no counter opinions (of the people from the same period in India or elsewhere) are offered. This makes the piece totally biased.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.147.164 (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coverage of his time in India needs to be totally rewritten 

message: User 82.110.219.204 has made edits to this article (→Second Anglo-Sikh War) which may be vandalism.  A knowledgeable editor should review the history to determine if those changes are factually correct. NThurston 20:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism Alert

message: The infobox says "chut" for political party.  Tempting to delete it on the assumption it is editing cruft, but perhaps someone who knows can fix it, if it is wrong.  --KenWalker | Talk 16:36, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. --KenWalker | Talk 07:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Political party

message: I have added groups of information in a series of changes over the last few days.  Hopefully this will help with the neutrality dispute of some of the sections I have worked on (primarily governor general, first anglo-sikh war, and second burmese war sections).  
Also added a section on domestic reforms under his rule.  
I attempted to substantiate claims as best as possible with specific citations from a variety of academic sources. If anything is unclear with regards to this, please let me know and I will fix it.   As discussed above, the 1911 EB has a nuber of issues regarding date/bias, however remains an important source of information.  I have left the 1911 information for the most part, but have supplemented it with a wide range of sources (from American, British, and Indian scholars). Hopefully this will give the article a more holistic, less biased viewpoint.
The sentence in the governor general section regarding writing back to England about calm in India seems a bit unnecessary and needs citation, but I have left it in the article.
In addition, the introduction seemed to have some inflammatory information.  I have reworded this to better suit a neutral viewpoint, or at least to better reflect the debate surrounding the significance of Dalhousie's reign in India.  The only change in content to this section I made reflected the statment that earlier British administrators were more culturally open-minded and that Dalhousie personally garned in an era of european closed-mindedness. If anything, dalhousie himself was the opposite (especially in comparison to the TB Macaulay-influenced 1830's).  The SarDesai source I have referrenced has quite a bit of information regarding this for those concerned.
:Not many sources to choose from, but Cobden's account of the annexation of "Upper Burma" remains the one-and-only source on that chapter of history --and so must be cited somewhere (somehow) in the encyclopedia entry.
:# The facts of the event were obscured by conflicts between colonial administrators reporting to the admirals of the navy, rather than the company or civil authorities. The nature of the dispute was mis-represented to Parliament, and Parliament played a role in further "suppressing" the facts released to the public, but most of the facts were established by comparative reading of these conflicting accounts in what was originally an anonymous pamphlet, How Wars are Got Up In India; this account by Richard Cobden remains almost the sole contemporaneous account of who actually made the decision to invade and annex Burma.
:Looks like the full text is now available for free as a digitized book: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UT4dAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22How+wars+are+got+up+in+India%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=dQm9uo9xJr&sig=HKv6itU1VpFV1ul9q2TfY2a0CBo&hl=en&ei=N7eiSpeGDY2j4Qa0vJnRAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.179.174 (talk) 19:24, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Major additions 5/2009

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message: The article makes much of Dalhousie's projects in India - his education system, railways, and so on. But where did the money come from for these  services and infrastructure schemes? Surely Dalhousie did not provide for all this out of his own pocket? If Dalhousie increased the taxation of Indians, or borrowed money for his projects, the article should say so.2A02:C7E:1C8D:3800:FC74:D7F8:AD0C:4CD5 (talk) 10:53, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where did the money come from for Dalhousie's projects in India?