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
The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
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)
The Articles for Creation barnstar
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)
The Rosetta Barnstar
For translating so many articles from Russian, I'd like to give you this ;-)Pattont/c 20:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
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)
The India Star
For the Indian bagpipe instrument articles. keep up your great work. AshLin (talk) 13:32, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
The Cleanup Barnstar
For your incredible clean up work on Indian caste related articles. —SpacemanSpiff 05:57, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Golden Wiki Award
You are among the top 5% of most active Wikipedians this past month! 66.87.7.126 (talk) 23:29, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
for work above and beyond the call of duty on India related articles. SH 15:46, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For bringing public domain resources to notice of the Project. AshLin (talk) 12:52, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
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)
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