Talk:Indian family name

Plural
The plurals in "adopting their patronyms as family names" were dropped. Does it mean all Tamils share one patronym or some sort of collective system? --Menchi 19:10, Aug 10, 2003 (UTC)


 * Umm, no, I dropped it so that it is gramatically consistent with the rest of the sentence. -- Arvindn 04:08, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * I've added another -s after "them...acquire surname". Does it sound grammatical now? Feel free to improve it further. --Menchi 04:12, Aug 11, 2003 (UTC)

Cast surnames
Could we have some example caste-derived surnames, and some subcaste-derived ones? It'd be helpful to also point out the differences between caste- and subcaste-derived surnames, if there's any. --Menchi 19:30, Aug 10, 2003 (UTC)

Hindu only?
I don't mean to offend, but this article covers only Hindu names, or caste-based family names--there are enough Muslims with Gandhi and Raja in their name to make this issue be not only about Hindus as a religious community. Or am I confused? &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 00:17, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

PS
I don't believe it is only "a number" of Sikhs that are named "Singh"...I am tempted to put an notice on this article.  &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 00:17, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Merge with Indian name
All the names by category culture category articles have the format {region name[s]} and none specifically mention 'family' in them specifically. To retain that consistency, it might be worth considering merging this into Indian name rather than vice versa. Shyamal 11:58, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair point. I had a look around and didn't see a concensus - but I didn't check the categories.  I suggested merging Indian name into this one because it has less information so that's an easier merge.  But we can always move the merged article to Indian name if that makes more sense.  Actually I think Indian names is a better title - what do you think? -- Muntfish 12:29, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I fully agree. Shyamal 03:21, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


 * second.. uh third that. --n00b

Creating Indian names
I plan to create a new page with the title Indian names and merge the contents from Indian name and Indian family name into the new page, and when the page is eveolved, we can keep redirects at the Indian family name and Indian name pages. Doctor Bruno 07:52, 26 November 2005 (UTC)