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Indian emigrant, since birth. I have spent most of my life in Netherlands, and not-insignificant time in Iran and Turkmenistan.^[1] I edit on topics concerning S. Asian History (sp. Northwestern India, Bengal, and Northeastern India) and Turkmenistan. Rarely, Dutch politics. A newfound interest is Polish Jewish relations.

I do not own any other account over any other internet-platform and anybody who claims otherwise is impersonating me.^[2]

Thanks!

Articles I have created or rewrote or taken to GA

S. Asia

• Ancient polities:

• Karkota Dynasty
• Utpala Dynasty
• Nezak Huns
• Hindu Shahi
• Rai dynasty
• Religion of the Indus Valley Civilization

• Individual Rulers:
  • Sikandar Shah Miri - Iconoclast par excellence or maybe not?
  • Prince Tsangma - An important but understudied figure in Bhutanese history.
• Temples, mosques, and ...
  • Multan Sun Temple
  • Gyanvapi Mosque
• Social classes:
  • Baidya
  • Bhonsle
• Battles:
  • Battle of Talikota
  • Battle of the Ten Kings
• Texts:
  • Puya Meithaba and Puya (Meitei texts) — My memory keeps getting in the way of your history...
  • Maharashtra Purana
• Scholars
  • Audrey Truschke
  • Chitralekha Zutshi
  • Aniruddha Ray
  • Vishwa Adluri.
  • Saiba Varma
• Theism:
  • Asikni (goddess) — A Puranic deity. Rewrote the GA!
• Unclassifiable:
  • Sabarna Roy Choudhury.

Pakistan

• Articles for all Provincial Elections in Balochistan predating 2008 — 1970, 1976, 1988, 1990, 1993, and 1997.
• Minority-community MLAs in Balochistan: Mehrumal Jagwani, Saleem Khursheed Khokhar, Bashir Masih, Faridoon Abadan, and Arjun Das Bugti.
• The following members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan: Akshay Kumar Das, Bhabesh Chandra Nandi, Harendra Kumar Sur, Jnanendra Chandra Majumdar, Avtar Narain Gujral, Ganga Saran, Abdus Sattar Abdur Rahman, Asad Ullah Jan Khan, B. L. Rallia Ram, Seth Sukhdev, Mumtaz Hasan Kizilbash, and Nawab Mohammad Khan Jogezai.

Afghanistan

• Gajinder Singh Safri and Jai Singh Fani — two among the four Sikh legilslators in the history of the modern nation-state.
• Niranjan Das

India

• Gaurishankar Bhattacharyya
• Those in Kashmir who defied the common sense and complicates our understanding of the dispute: Hriday Nath Wanchoo and Rughonath Vaishnavi
• An indirect acquaintance: Gautam Bhatia
• Ryul Tso
• Sengol

Turkmenistan

• Epic of Nation, Parable for Subjects: Ruhnama.
• Two referendums in Turkmenistan that took place in 1991 and 1994.
• Cinema of Turkmenistan.
• Darvaza gas crater
• Yangykala Canyon
• Dayahatyn
• Astana-Baba
• Ismamut Ata
• Aksaray (Turkmenistan)
• Malik Baba
• Khivabad
• Kaushut
• Ak Ishan
• Murche
• Kow Ata
• Bagyr
• Gyzylaýak
• Zynhary (village)
• Ashyk Aydyn Pir
• Butentau
• Shirvan Kala
• Bedirkent
• Izmukshir
• Gerkez
• Makhtumkala
• Tasharvat
• Ogurja Ada
• Guwlymayak
• Boyadag Mud Volcano
• Dehistan/Mishrian
• Parau (Turkmenistan)
• Magtymguly (city)
• Darganata
• Dev-Kesken

Poland

Misc

• Vernix caseosa - Do not know what spurred me.
• Glaciers of Bhutan - In reminiscence of a younger self.

Reviews or reassessments of Good Article (GA)

• Magtymguly Pyragy
• Tuqaq
• Turkoman (ethnonym)
• Merv
• Sharada Peeth
• Vellar River
• Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019
• Pravarasena II
• Anuradhapura Kingdom
• Battle of Vijithapura
• Rudra Mahalaya Temple

To Do

• Amanullah Khan (1)
• Nausharo, Sheri Khan Tarakai, Shortugai
• An article on the information economy of Turkmenistan
• Rewrite First-order logic to a GA.
• Rewrite Nagarparkar Jain Temples.

• Expand Sherman–Takeda theorem.
  • Maximum spacing estimation
• Rewrite Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia.
  • R. C. Majumdar.
• Create an article on Ethnic Cleansing in Punjab
• Rewrite Serfdom in Tibet controversy.
• Rewrite Second East Turkestan Republic
• Develop The Story of Civilization.
• Rewrite Western Satraps.
• Rewrite Hunza (princely state)

• Add photographs.

• Ronald Grigor Suny
• Yarkent Khanate
• Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
• Babrra massacre
• Paro Taktsang
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - Ahem.
• Leftist Scholars from Pakistan and Progressive Writers' Movement
  • Sibte Hassan
  • Syed Ali Abbas Jalalpuri
  • Hamza Alvi
  • Faheem Hussain
  • Lal Khan
  • Nadeem F. Paracha
  • Ibn-e-Insha
  • Tooba Syed
• Redraft all articles about leftist parties in Pakistan.

News archives

• https://library.princeton.edu/collections/microforms/newspapers/countries/pakistan - DAWN (Fetch via CRL)