Talk:Varshney

message: Can anybody help me to understand wether Varshney's are the baniya and comes under which catagery (general, ST/Sc, BC or any other)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.241.111.12 (talk) 08:50, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Varshney's are the baniya or What...?? 

message: If anyone reading this can explain the connection with Vrishni, please see Talk:Vrishni#Vrishni and Varshney and comment there. - Fayenatic (talk) 12:19, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Vrishni]] 

message: Jai Narain Varshney, a prominent social activist, educationist and political leader of Varshney community was born on 13th March 1911 and expired on 7th February, 1983. He earned his MSc degree from Allahabad University in 1934 and probably was the first Science Post Graduate among Varshneys though there were scores of advocates and Arts Post Graduates in the community during that period. He had come in contact with revolutionary figures like Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Rajguru, Sukhdev etc. while in High School in 1927 when he was just 16 years old. Later while in the Allahabad University he was  inspired by national leaders like Madan Mohan Malviya, Moti Lal Nehru, Purushottam Das Tandon and Jawahar Lal Nehru. 
After completing his University education, he started Varnish and Paints business at Aligarh, but had no real inclination towards it. His real interest was national freedom movement. He was Aligarh City Congress Secretary for three years when national freedom movement was at its peak in early forties. For making fiery speeches during Quit India Movement against British colonialists, he was arrested on 9th August, 1942.  Case No. D 22 U/S 38 I.D.R. was instituted against him and was tried in the Court of S.G.D. Ahmad, I.C.S. Magistrate First Class at Aligarh. He was sentenced to seven months R.I. on 08.10.42 and was released on 17.04.43, but detained u/s 129 D.I.R. He was finally released on 26.10.43 by order of the D.M. 
He had deep interest in promotion of education. He remained Manager and Chief Minister of DAV Inter College, Aligarh for 12 years. Remained the first Founding Secretary and Manager for 5 years for Bahjoyee Inter College and lastly he helped founding Shri Varshney Degree College at Aligarh in 1949. He is counted among the five prominent Varshney leaders of that time; the other four were Ishwar Das Varshney (the father of glass industry in India), Mishri Lal Advocate,kanhaiya lal gupta and Banke Lal Gupta who instituted the first degree college of the Varshney community. 
It is pertinent to mention that there were few colleges of modern education in India that time and literacy rate was very low. Communities were starting their own colleges by seeking donation from each one who was willing to give. This may also be mentioned that today Shri Varshney Degree College is one of the most reputed colleges affiliated to Baba Ambedkar University (earlier known as Agra University). 
VeeCeeVee (talk) 18:13, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed this from the article for now. Please check the notability requirements at WP:BIO and the need for "reliable sources" before adding it again. If the college has such a high reputation, it should be possible to find independent evidence of this and then create an article for it.  - Fayenatic (talk) 17:47, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shri Varshney College, Aligarh 

message: The content you are adding is either unsourced or pooly sourced:
Fake references
* "first recorded in the Mahābhārata" -- fake reference, Mahabharata does not say their name is derived from "Varshneya"
* "Royalty-turned-Businessmen ...": the source cited (Paul R. Brass) does not state anything like this
* "...were substantial landowners": the source cited (William Crook) does not support this
* "cultural anthropology... Mathura": the source cited (Fredrick Pargiter, p. 98) does not even mention Varshneys
Vrishni Kul Katha is a caste-affiliated publication full of mythical pseudo-history, and not considered even remotely reliable by Wikipedia's standards. The rest of the content added by you is unsourced. utcursch | talk 04:15, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources