User talk:Prshntsathe

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Koli people[edit]

Please see my note about Obama etc at Talk:Koli people and discuss your recent edit(s) there. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 08:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As I am pretty sure you were the IP editor who started adding this information recently, and since you have continued to add it after my note above, please read the warning below. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 08:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

January 2013[edit]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Koli people. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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NOTE: Hi! Admins please do have a look at User talk:Lovysinghal#I don't understand, why you have deleted my koli people post... And Prashant, I've replied to you there. -- Lovy Singhal (talk) 09:14, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Prehistoric religion[edit]

Hi Prshntsathe. Your addition of this text to several articles has been reverted:[1][2][3][4]

The earliest prehistoric religion in India that may have left its traces in Hinduism comes from mesolithic as observed in the sites such as the rock paintings of Bhimbetka rock shelters dating to a period of 30,000 BCE or older,^[1]

This is because the quote from the source you cited did not appear to support the claim. Doniger says that Hinduism "may have had roots in" prehistoric religion, and then mentions the Bhimbetka rock shelters, presumably as an example of such prehistoric religions. He does not directly state that 30,000 year-old religious practice "left its traces" in Hinduism. There is also in an inconsistency in the date of the cave paintings given by Doniger (30,000 BP, which is before the Mesolithic) and the generally accepted date described in our article (10,000 BP, in the Mesolithic). Since you didn't give a full reference to the source, I was unable to investigate further to verify whether Doniger claims a link elsewhere in the text or whether it can be considered a reliable source given the dating inconsistency.

That religious practices could persist over 20–30 thousand years is an extraordinary claim, and these require extraordinary sources. We would need to see full references to multiple, reliable sources that directly support this claim in order to include it. – Joe (talk) 06:41, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Doniger 2010, p. 66: "Much of what we now call Hinduism may have had roots in cultures that thrived in South Asia long before the creation of textual evidence that we can decipher with any confidence. Remarkable cave paintings have been preserved from Mesolithic sites dating from c. 30,000 BCE in Bhimbetka, near present-day Bhopal, in the Vindhya Mountains in the province of Madhya Pradesh."

[1] Doniger 2010, p. 66: "Much of what we now call Hinduism may have had roots in cultures that thrived in South Asia long before the creation of textual evidence that we can decipher with any confidence. Remarkable cave paintings have been preserved from Mesolithic sites dating from c. 30,000 BCE in Bhimbetka, near present-day Bhopal, in the Vindhya Mountains in the province of Madhya Pradesh."

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