Talk:James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
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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)
self-confidence, I would imagine. I would also guess that he was born in Dalhousie Castle, but who knows. In terms of the prose, it's copied from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. So that explains that. john k 23:59, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Yes, I think that's all right; I've made the changes. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:56, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Adraeus
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)
[edit] Coverage of his time in India needs to be totally rewritten
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.
[edit] Vandalism Alert
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)
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