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Recent edits to this article appear to be relying on studies by Jervoise Athelstane Baines. We almost never consider Raj era sources to be reliable. - Sitush ( talk) 10:24, 11 September 2014 (UTC) reply

This type of edit is not acceptable due to concerns regarding verifiability. We could probably straighten out the poor phrasing etc if we had reliable sources but we do not. That is why I have been reverting it. - Sitush ( talk) 08:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Shall be adding Varna classification of Mogaveeras, just like all the community pages, to show how they were discriminated by upper caste communities. Anthrop2238 ( talk) 16:56, 6 March 2023 (UTC) reply