Talk:Porus

Semi-protected edit request on 18 April 2024

Change 'in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent' to 'in the Punjab region of modern day Pakistan'.

The request is simply due to the fact that Porus' entire kingdom was in the doab between the Jehlum and Chenab rivers which completely lie in modern day Pakistan. If one were to even look at Alexander's conquest of the subcontinent, ( one can check the Wiki page on this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_campaign_of_Alexander_the_Great ) his entire route was through modern day Pakistan only. It seems quite disingenuous if the Wikipedia page for Porus does not contain a single mention of which modern day country his empire spanned (especially when this is the norm across Wikipedia). 82.33.137.137 (talk) 08:36, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. M.Bitton (talk) 00:33, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Incomplete article

Hello Wikipedia users,

I'm really not sure why Pakistan isn't mentioned on this page at all. Any attempts at even mentioning Pakistan are repeatedly removed.

There are countless sources mentioning how a great deal of Porus's land is in modern day Pakistan, this shouldn't be such a politicised article. It's intellectual dishonestly to omit such a key detail from this article.

Does anyone else have any suggestions? I do believe that changing "in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent." to "In the Punjab region of Pakistan and India" would be much more accurate. The Indian Subcontinent is a massive region and only a miniscule part of it is relevant to porus anyway.

I want to hear other people's thoughts before changing it myself and having it removed...then engaging in a futile edit war

EstablishmentOfKnowledge (talk) 23:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I have made the change, it has been well over a week and no one has had any objection. EstablishmentOfKnowledge (talk) 15:44, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 August 2025

Grammar mistakes found! Please edit. Sandeep8302 (talk) 17:12, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. jolielover♥talk 17:23, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Porus as an Indian King?

The article says Porus was an Indian King, however his kingdom was mostly located in what is now Pakistan. Perhaps wording could be changed to something like "Porus was a king in the Indian Subcontinent" to better represent the facts. Raja.Nadir.Jan.Kiani (talk) 12:27, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

The facts are that modern nationalist argy-bargy between India and Pakistan doesn't affect what "Indian" meant in the fourth-century BC. Namely, Ἰνδοί means lit. 'people of the Indus River'. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:30, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

then "Indian" should redirect to the ancient meaning of India which was the Indus Valley region. It is also strange that an archaic term referring to the people of Indus Valley is being used to describe this king, is this practice also applied to historical figures from outside the Subcontinent? Raja.Nadir.Jan.Kiani (talk) 12:29, 2 June 2026 (UTC)