419:. I gave this one the benefit of the doubt when it was created but if its coherence and verifiability is still so poor as to make it impossible to tell if it is a real subject after all this time then we have no choice but to delete it. It's not like we can ask the author. He hasn't been seen since creating the article. --
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which is in a sorry shape and which is where a majority of the content of this article belongs. The addition of the term "Kshatriya" to this makes it a synthesized POV piece (just go through the many Indian caste and polity related articles and you'll notice that). I'd think that this article ought
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Having been asked to review this for copyright concerns, I've found that significant content was copied directly from the 2008 source. The article is now blanked for copyright problems; if the AfD determines that an article is appropriate here, it will need to be rewritten.
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