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My primary focuses include:

  • Central and South Asian Islamic history, particularly in terms of rendering existing and new articles into NPOV
  • Improving sourcing and academic accuracy of Indian articles on castes and social groups; the subject is woefully prone to puffery and pseudo-history
  • Military history, particularly translating articles on conflicts not generally covered in English-language publications
  • Militancy and paramilitary organisations, to include sectarian and revolutionary groups
  • Folk music topics, particularly bagpipes and improving and organising coverage of highly localised musical traditions

Awards

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 3px solid gray;" |For your tireless contributions and constant monitoring on the article Kalwar (caste), I hereby award you this barnstar.Kailasher (talk) 06:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The Articles for Creation barnstar

style="vertical-align: center; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for having the dedication and patience to put up with a newbie Wikipedian like me. I am extremely grateful for your assistance, advice and research to help me get my article accepted. Nathan121212 (talk) 14:25, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Rosetta Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For translating so many articles from Russian, I'd like to give you this ;-) Pattont/c 20:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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|To show appreciation of your many additions to the currently labeled List of members of the United States Congress killed or wounded in office‎, I present you with the Senate gavel... just don't tell the senate I gave it to you.

Now get back in there and make it even better!

--Found5dollar (talk) 15:01, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Photographer's Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For creating and adding this excellent image of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Webleypocket.jpg Khyber Pass Copy Webley Pocket Revolver], adding a much needed visual boost and information addition to the Webley Revolver and Khyber Pass Copy articles Commander Zulu (talk) 06:03, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Helping Hand Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For responding to my plea for help at WP:Requests for feedback more enthusiastically that I could have dreamed of, and responding to forty-seven requests in ten days! --Physics is all gnomes (talk) 20:48, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The India Star

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For the Indian bagpipe instrument articles. keep up your great work. AshLin (talk) 13:32, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Cleanup Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your incredible clean up work on Indian caste related articles. —SpacemanSpiff 05:57, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

{{award2|image=Goldenwiki 2.png|size=100px|topic=Golden Wiki Award|text=You are among the top 5% of most active Wikipedians this past month! 66.87.7.126 (talk) 23:29, 5 April 2012 (UTC)}}

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | for work above and beyond the call of duty on India related articles. SH 15:46, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Special Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For bringing public domain resources to notice of the Project. AshLin (talk) 12:52, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

{{WPJ-Barnsensu|1=This Barnsensu is awarded to User:MatthewVanitas for spearheading the effort to create the Ainu Task Force for WikiProject Japan. Good work! Boneyard90 (talk) 21:48, 15 June 2012 (UTC)}}

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The Content Review Medal

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Congratulations, MatthewVanitas! You're receiving the The Articles for Creation Barnstar because you got more than 175 points during the recent AFC Backlog elimination drive in June 2014! Thank you for you contributions to Wikipedia at-large and helping to keep the backlog down. We hope you continue reviewing submissions and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! (t) Josve05a (c) 23:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

To-Do

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Mine

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  • [http://www.panorama.ru/works/patr/bp/1eng.html Russian nationalist groups], Panorama.ru
  • [http://www.broadleft.org/natliber.htm Movements for National, Ethnic Liberation or Regional Autonomy] Leftist Parties of the World
  • [http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/index.html Liberation Movements, Terrorist Organizations, Substance Cartels, and Other Para-State Entities]
  • [http://usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/press/state/archive/april/sd3_5-1.htm 1995 Patterns of Global Terrorism] U.S. Department of State
  • [http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/assets/pdf/pogt/part4_chronology.pdf Chronology of Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961–2005]
  • [http://books.google.com/booksid=YEGw8S3ovaoC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=Mawlawi+Afzal&source=bl&ots=Eyn2zKR52Q&sig=2RjfbdEp6lBe8Y_VGETVlRYT0qQ&hl=en&ei=WU29SomsB6bl8Abpv4mxAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=Mawlawi%20Afzal&f=false Afghan Salafi mini-states]
  • [http://www.schudak.de/timelines/carolineislands1898-1919.html], Carolines articles
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=hMGx8RlVX2sC&pg=PA30&dq=Tritton+Trench-Crosser&client=firefox-a&cd=4#v=snippet&q=Tritton%20&f=false Trench Crosser] and early tanks
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=BgLwOk79T1gC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=%22scottish+republican+army%22&source=bl&ots=RyNaXSV-1U&sig=4W3KK1Zd5SGJ4u6klmhmmfLYSTA&hl=en&ei=LjoeTPTvL4WonQeFgKHnAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDcQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=%22scottish%20republican%20army%22&f=false Law, power, and justice in England and Wales By Ian K. McKenzie]
  • [http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/46deb05557.pdf UNHCR report ], religious minorities
  • [http://www.seasite.niu.edu/easttimor/occupation.htm], lists of East Timor militias
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=iDg9oAkwsXAC&pg=PA375&dq=muslim+tuvalu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8zQPT9edL8vFsQLjroHdAw&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=muslim%20tuvalu&f=false] Muslim populations in the Pacific Islands.
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=tRFPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA74&dq=%22sado+khan%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SBqLT7f9AsPN0AHx2fn5CQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22sado%20khan%22&f=false The Panjab chiefs: historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi divisions of the Panjab], by Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1905)
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=qIPHHBMNkrkC&pg=PA283&lpg=PA283&dq=yakumogoto&source=bl&ots=JS1ofHx_gF&sig=--Hz-5eCCeHvkAlMkugKoUtSiUo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P_YCUPX4MK-N0QHat_W0Bw&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=yakumogoto&f=false Early modern Japanese instruments]
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=WBMIAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=vansh+caste&source=bl&ots=y514gHckwV&sig=ymjr62a44R_UMO6BEyN7PqM-4-M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cbQFUItchNfrAdGYnd0I&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=vansh%20caste&f=false Appendix D], Indian ghosts
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=n-cDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT33&lpg=PT33&dq=british+advisors+afghanistan+killed&source=bl&ots=4yAGMQgWu1&sig=aN0My2uVhFa3vZc2Qc2dLEVEqr4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0Sw-UPqQKejm0QGP1YCACw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=british%20advisors%20afghanistan%20killed&f=false] Russian atrocities in Turkistan
  • [http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0691074542 Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York]
  • {{cite book|author=Ruth M. Stone|title=The Garland Handbook of African Music|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XEeTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA462|date=2 April 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-90001-4|pages=462–}}

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  • {{cite book|author=Kumar Cheda Singh Varma|title=Kshatriyas and would-be Kshatriyas: a consideration of the claims of certain Hindu castes to rank with the Rájputs, the descendants of the ancient Kshatriyas|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SFUoAAAAYAAJ|year=1904|publisher=printed at the Pioneer Press}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Milton Singer|author2=Bernard S. Cohn|title=Structure and Change in Indian Society|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_g-_r-9Oa_sC&pg=PA203|accessdate=28 September 2012|date=31 July 2007|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-0-202-36138-3|pages=203–}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Meadows Taylor|author2=Great Britain. India Office|title=The people of India: A series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India, and reproduced by order of the secretary of state for India in council|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EBMFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT28|year=1868|publisher=India museum|pages=1–}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Mia Carter |author2=Barbara Harlow |title=Archives of Empire: From the East India Company to the Suez Canal |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=13pyxO8o4moC&pg=PA400|year=2003 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822331643 |pages=400–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Smita Tewari Jassal|title=Daughters of the earth: women and land in Uttar Pradesh|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=T6gnJmoLRZQC&pg=PA52|year=2001|publisher=Technical Publications|isbn=978-81-7304-375-8|}}
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=eQk8AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA12&dq=habibzai+afghanistan&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YjSLT6jEB6GZiAK6gZ3mAg&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=habibzai%20&f=false A short sketch, historical and traditional, of the Musalman races found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, their genealogical sub-division and septs, together with an ethnological and ethnographical account.] Anṡārī ʻAlī Sher ʻAlī (1901)
  • {{cite book|author=Jeffrey Cox|title=Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=z9c3AcIDCKkC&pg=PA144|date=3 April 2002|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4318-1|pages=144–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Ian Peddie|title=Popular Music and Human Rights: World Music|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7cMg4tdBvhYC&pg=PA82|date=31 August 2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-6853-4|pages=82–}}
  • Bohra cites - {{cite book|author=Douglas E. Haynes|title=Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ij4-7F4Pip4C&pg=PA74|date=30 October 1991|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06725-7|pages=74–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Prachi Deshpande|title=Creative Pasts: Historical Memory And Identity in Western India, 1700-1960|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=U5FdJnnDhSwC&pg=PA134|year=2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-12486-7|pages=134–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Shri Krishan|title=Political Mobilization and Identity in Western India, 1934-47|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Pn5m7KFhgVEC&pg=PA189|date=1 May 2005|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-0-7619-3342-7|pages=189–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Johannes Quack|title=Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TNbxUwhS5RUC&pg=PA157|date=22 November 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-981260-8|pages=157–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Véronique Bénéï|title=Schooling Passions: Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-LJYHdCOZNcC&pg=PT186|year=2008|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-5905-2|pages=186–}}
  • {{cite book|author=R. M. Betham|title=Maráthas and Dekhani Musalmáns|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6mATx3PBupsC&pg=PA48|year=1908|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-1204-4|pages=48–}}

=Mine for pics=

  • {{cite book|author=Ole Olufsen|title=The emir of Bokhara and his country: journeys and studies in Bokhara (with a chapter on my voyage on the Amu Darya to Khiva)|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rlbGWH30tykC&pg=PA439|accessdate=16 April 2012|year=1911|publisher=Nordisk forlag|pages=439–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Joseph Deniker|title=The races of man: an outline of anthropology and ethnography|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=S9YKAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA39|accessdate=17 April 2012|year=1900|publisher=W. Scott, ltd.|pages=39–}}
  • {{cite book|author=Edward Reeves|title=Brown men and women: or, The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=pSBXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA197|accessdate=26 May 2012|year=1898|publisher=Swan Sonnenschein & Co.}}

==India pics==

  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=tHsoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA402&dq=kurava+caste&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YaKJT9nJO6Xs0gGRu6HyCQ&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=kurava%20caste&f=false Travancore State Manual], 1906
  • [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL2006965M/The_Cochin_State_manual Cochin State Manual], 1911
  • The people of India: A series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India, and reproduced by order of the secretary of state for India in council. [http://books.google.com/books?id=EBMFAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+people+of+India:+A+series+of+photographic+illustrations&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false Vol 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=bxUFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=kisan+caste&hl=en#v=onepage&q=kisan%20caste&f=false Vol 3]
  • (WPINDIA debate on license tags: Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics/Archive_4#Public_Domain_Images)
  • (WPINDIA debate on Press Information bureau: Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics/Archive_20#Images_from_Press_Information_Bureau)
  • Solvyns engravings: [http://www.ignca.nic.in/asp/showbig.asp?projid=rar7], [http://www.laits.utexas.edu/solvyns-project/sikhs.html]
  • [http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/10/photograph-of-two-men-and-two-women-of.html Old Indian Photos.in]
  • [http://www.laits.utexas.edu/solvyns-project/HardgrSlawek.html Musical Instruments of North India]
  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=ctBAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=rajput+maharajas+de-recognized&source=bl&ots=JjB_P0xqsw&sig=ADMlE0iP0c-P1gCe75fGuatIAy4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YaEFUPPIAYja6wGk4qXpCA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=rajput%20maharajas%20de-recognized&f=false Rajput figures]

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Useful tools

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Appendices

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