How surnames are assigned to indians?
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If you want to know how Indians assign surnames there is no one answer. \n\n1. It is generally a caste name like Iyer - Tamil brahmin, Rao- Kannada / Telugu brahmin; Sharma - Typically norht Indian brahmin, Chettiar - a trader commuity from Tamilnadu, Nair - a warrior / farming caste of Kerala, Yadav - Yadav caste\n\n2. Passed down from generations: like Chaturvedi - some anscestor of the person mastered all the four vedas, but the surname is passed down\n\n3. Some trace their surnames to their Gothras or ancient sages who were their forefathers. Eg., Bharadwaj - bloodline of Sage Bharadwaj etc.\n\n4. Yet some other trace to their place of origin of theri forefathers or thier villages: Mangeshkar - a native of Mangesh village\n\n5. A more recent trend in South India is to do away with their traditional surnames and keep their father's / husband's name as surname or just as initials. This is in fact fuelled after the persecution of the forward castes like Iyers by the Dravidian political parties, that they want donot want to reveal their caste through surnames. this was followed by other communities also\nHence, if the name is Ramakrishnan Lakshmanan. Ramakrsihnan is the given name and LAkshmanan is the person's father's name.\n\nThe above is only a summary of the logic behind Indian surnames
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There last names were given to them by the whites. Most are given ndn names from a elder in the family. Such as named after a family member or some significant thing  that was seen  or done at the time.
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surnames, actually stem from the a person's title for royalty, and for other people it would come form their occupations, ex. Bob the Smith, of John the Taylor, and their family would be associated by the father.  over time it just caught on and surnames would evolve and transformed into what they are today
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Here is a good list of Jewish surnames and what biblical name that are derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_surnames\n\nI also find it interesting, doesn't mean that I'm racist either. Jewish history and culture are fascinating and teach us valuable lessons.
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In Europe, Jewish families didn´t either have family names at all or the family name was the name of the father.\nAt the beginning of the 19 th century, Jews had to choose family names in many european countries. But names from which you could "see" that the person is jewish, that means names which sound jewish, were not allowed because the Jewish people should be assimilated. So, the choosed for example German, French or Russian names.
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Given name = first name\nFamily name = last name
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caste is just another word for the different levels in a community.. it either means that or just the different types of communities that exist.. No caste system does not apply only to east Indians... most Hindus have it... i wouldn't say Indians cause there are other religions here like Islam and Christianity who dont have castes though they may have several segregation's.
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If you're asking how many have indian heritage it is 13, but none have Indian Nationality.  None were even born in India, most of the 13 were born in Guyana or West Indies.\n\nThe 13 are:\nAI Kallicharran\nRB Kanhai\nS Shivnarine\nMR Pydanna\nS Chanderpaul\nR Dhanraj\nD Ramnarine\nD Ganga\nMV Nagamootoo\nRR Sarwan\nRR Ramdass\nS Chattergoon\nD Mohammed
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eastern indian\nor\namerican indian\nim half american,but related to the sioux tribe eastern tribe monican.\nnot looking though really
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http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html\n\nI think this is what you mean!\nHope so!
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Name or category: PARR \n \nStatistics about this name  Frequency 1881 1998 Change \nFrequency 7479 9460 +1981 \nRank Order 574 616 -42 \nOccurrences per million names 277 254 -23 \n \n\nEthnicity of forenames  Ethnicity of forenames PARR \nNumber of occurrences as forename   \nClosest similar surname (phononym) PARE \nBritish or unknown 99.43 \n---English or unknown 98.34 \n---Irish 0.48 \n---Scottish 0.21 \n---Welsh 0.40 \nJewish 0.01 \nBalkan 0.01 \nFrench 0.02 \nGerman or Dutch 0.02 \nGreek or Greek Cypriot 0.04 \nHispanic 0.06 \nHungarian 0.01 \nItalian 0.06 \nNordic 0.01 \nPolish or Czech 0.05 \nRussian 0.01 \nBlack African 0.08 \nNorth African 0.02 \nTurkish or Turkish Cypriot 0.01 \nOther Muslim 0.09 \nIndian 0.05 \n---Hindi 0.08 \n---Sikh 0.01 \n---Other South Asian 0.00 \nEast Asian 0.00
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Caucasian is another way of saying someone is white. If you're Indian (from India), you're not white - you're Indian. Even if you were born here you wouldn't be Caucasian. You can't change your skin color (unless you're Michael Jackson)...
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decide for yourself and these are the provisions.........\nregarding INDIAN citizenship\n\n\n3. Citizenship by birth.- (1) Except as provided in sub-section (2), every person born in India,-\n\n(a)    on or after the 26th day of January,1950, but before the 1st day of July, 1987;\n\n(b)   on or after the 1st day of July, 1987, but before the commencement of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003 and either of whose parents is a citizen of India at the time of his birth;\n\n(c)    on or after the commencement of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, where-\n\n(i)                  both of his parents are citizens of India; or\n\n(ii)                one of whose parents is a citizen of India and the other is not an illegal migrant at the time of his birth,\n\n \n\nshall be a citizen of India by birth.\n\n \n\n(2)        A person shall not be a citizen of India by virtue of this section if at the time of his birth-\n\n \n\n(a)    either his father or mother possesses such immunity from suits and legal process as is accorded to an envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to the President of India and he or she, as the case may be, is not a citizen of India; or\n\n(b)   his father or mother is an enemy alien and the birth occurs in a place then under occupation by the enemy.\n\n \n\n \n\n4. Citizenship by descent.- (1) A person born outside India shall be a citizen of India by descent,-\n\n \n\n(a)                on or after the 26th day of January, 1950, but before the 10th day of  December, 1992, if his father is a citizen of India at the time of his birth; or\n\n(b)               on or after the 10th day of December,1992, if either of his parents is a citizen of India at the time of his birth:\n\n \n\nProvided that if the father of a person referred to in clause (a) was a citizen of India by descent only, that person shall not be a citizen of India by virtue of this section unless-\n\n \n\n(a)    his birth is registered at an Indian consulate within one year of its occurrence or the commencement of this Act, whichever is later, or, with the permission of the Central Government, after the expiry of the said period; or\n\n(b)   his father is, at the time of his birth, in service under a Government in India:\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nProvided further that if either of the parents of a person referred to in clause (b) was a citizen of India by descent only, that person shall not be a citizen of India by virtue of this section unless-\n\n \n\n(a)                      his birth is registered at an Indian consulate within one year of its occurrence or on or after the 10th day of December, 1992, whichever is later, or, with the permission of the Central Government, after the expiry of the said period; or\n\n(b)                     either of his parents is, at the time of his birth, in service under a Government of India:\n\n \n\nProvided also that on or after the commencement of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, a person shall not be a citizen of India by virtue of this section, unless his birth is registered at an Indian consulate in such form and in such manner, as may be prescribed,-\n\n \n\n(i)         within one year of its occurrence or the commencement of the citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, whichever is later; or \n\n \n\n(ii)        with the permission of the Central Government, after the expiry of the said period:\n\n \n\nProvided also that no such birth shall be registered unless the parents of such person declare, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, that the minor does not hold the passport of another country.\n\n(1A)     A minor who is a citizen of India by virtue of his section and is also a citizen of any other country shall cease to be a citizen of India if he does not renounce the citizenship or nationality of another country within six months of attaining full age.\n\n(2)        If the Central Government so directs, a birth shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have been registered wi
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Uh what do you mean by "indian men"  as in Native American, or men from India?
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We call ourselves Native becuase the Creator put us here, not anywhere else.  The whole Bering Straight thing is BS.  We are smart enough to know where we are from-its no mystery to us.\n\nIf your descendants are Native to Europe, then youre European.  Asia, then Asian.  You people came from somewhere and it wasn't here, so do some research.  if you just dont know, fine, call yourself Native American and see how that works out for you.  I bet you'll find it dosent work out too good.  Most Indians I know prefer to go by our first names anyway.
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You cant. Your asking to mix a European name with a completely diffrent culture. Its just not possible. Your name is heather, the Indian equivalent is Heather.
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Please visit :\nhttp://www.indiaexpress.com/specials/babynames/\nYou'll get the complete range of Indian nemes - each with their origin, plus meanings !\nHappy hunting !