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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Ganesh Chandru Gaonkar is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly from Sanvordem in the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. [2] [3] [4] He is also elected as Protem Speaker of 8th Goa Legislative Assembly.
Prabhakar Pandurang Gaonkar (4 April 1964 – 14 September 2012) was an Indian politician from Goa. He was a former member of the Goa Legislative Assembly , representing the Sanguem Assembly constituency from 1999 to 2002.
The name of the caste, in the Odia language, literally means "gathered in," highlighting their origins as a group that gathered together with other outcasts. The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Lists (Modification) Order of 1956 refers to them as Sounti, while the 1931 Mayurbhanj Census mentions them as Saunti.
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).
Ganguly (Bengali: গাঙ্গুলী), also known as Ganguli, Ganguly, Gangulee, Gangoly or Gangopadhyay is a native Bengali surname that is used by Kulin Brahmin group of the Bengali Brahmin caste. The traditional Bengali version of this surname is Gangopadhyay(a) or Gônggopaddhae.