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Gaonkar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dilip P. Gaonkar (born 1945), American academic and writer; Gopal Gaonkar (born 1938), American academic; Harish Gaonkar (born 1946), Indian lepidopterist; Mala Gaonkar, American businesswoman; Meghana Gaonkar, Indian actress; Sannappa Parameshwar Gaonkar (1885–1972), Indian ...
Kshatriyas of Goa historically belonged to different clans, and they were collectively referred to as Chardo prior to the Portuguese rule in Goa.. Historian and Journalist B.D. Satoskar has cited Shenoi Goembab Konkani Author and Grammerian had said that "The Konkani word Chardo comes from the Sanskrit word Chatur-Rathi & the Prakrit word Chau-radi literally means The one who rides a chariot ...
Nayak words contains prestigious meaningful terms Justice, Honesty, Fairness, Rightness, Hero, Country, Honour, Courage, Brave. In Telugu regions it refers to the Kapu (caste),Golla (caste), Velama (caste),and the Kamma (caste). Southern India splitand ruled under different Kings and Queens under Nayaks.
It is easy to track family history and the caste they belonged to using a surname. In Odisha and West Bengal, surnames denote the caste they belong. There are also several local surnames like Das, Patnaik, Mohanty, Jena etc. In Kerala, surnames denote the caste they belong.
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This articles contains a list Scheduled Caste communities and their population according to the 2011 Census of India in the state of Gujarat. [1] They constitutes the population of 40,74,447 or 6.74% of total population of the state. The Government of Gujarat recognises 35 castes under the category. [2]
Sikhs have a given name and one or both of a surname and a Khalsa name. The surname may be a family name (based on the name of the ancestral village) or a caste name. Different castes still exist today in some aspects of Punjabi culture; similarly to the Hindu caste system, this system is based on employment [citation needed] (ex. jatt signifies the farming caste).
Shenoy is a surname from coastal Karnataka and Goa in India. [1] It is found among Hindus of the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community following Smartha Sampradaya of Kavale Matha or Madhva Sampradaya of either Gokarna Matha or Kashi Matha. [2] Some Brahmin Christian families of South Canara have reverted to their pre-conversion surnames like Shenoy. [3]