Talk:Indian honorifics

This page is terrible
These don't even list the honorifics used in Hindi like polite/formal and impolite/informal form of sentences. Penpaperpencil (Talk) 18:16, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Very prominent honorifics in Indian religious history

 * "Mahatma" Gandhi
 * Sankara "Bhagavatpada"
 * Kabir "Sahib"
 * "Bhagavan" "Sri" Ramana "Maharshi"
 * "Sri" Aurobindo
 * Bhaktivedanta Swami "Prabhupada"
 * Caitanya "Mahaprabhu"
 * Swami"ji" Vivekananda
 * "Sri Sri" Ramakrishna
 * Vardhamana "Mahavira"
 * Shyamacharan Lahiri "Mahasaya"
 * Sivananda "Maharaj"
 * "Soamiji Maharaj" Shivdayal Singh

Self-applied honorifics

 * "Jehangir"
 * "Shah Jehan"
 * "Alamgir"
 * "His Royal Highness" "Sadgurudev" Hans "Ji" "Maharaj"
 * "Guru Maharaj Ji" Prem Rawat
 * "Maharishi" Mahesh Yogi
 * "Bhagwan" Rajneesh, "Osho"
 * "Swami" Sathya Sai "Baba"
 * Tamalakrsna Goswami "Srila Gurudev"
 * Kirtanananda Swami "Bhaktipada"
 * Satsvarupa Das Gosvami "Gurupada"
 * Siddhaswarupananda "Paramahamsa"

Needs Expansion
Some languages are not even covered, and not many many Honorifics are not shown, immediate insight suggested.

Wrongly de-Indian-izes one religious group
Oddly segregates Muslim honorifics into a non-"Native" list (discounting nearly a thousand years of Muslim influence on the culture of India) while labeling all non-Muslim honorifics as "Native" (though the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans were also once foreigners to the native Dravidians when they and their language invaded from the North). 174.251.242.106 (talk) 06:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree, and it's also inaccurate. For example, the honorific Khan originates in Central Asia, not the Middle East. Can this be changes to Muslim honorifics, like there is a Sikh honorifics section? Clodia Metelli (talk) 20:19, 7 February 2024 (UTC)