Many Indians do not have family names. Faced with the modern necessity of a last name, Indians have resorted to various means to get last names. Some of these are so common that most people do not even realize that they have had to, in effect, discover their last names. Most of the Indian family names are derived from several sources. The caste or subcaste name is often used as a family name. These are analogous to western family names like Smith and Barber to the extent that they represent occupation. For example: Reddy (Hindu Telugu ...

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In West Bengal, especially amongst Hindus, it is common to have a first and last name as well as a Daak naam, or a nickname, which is not listed in official documents. In Maharashtra, the naming system is very similar to the first-middle-last format followed in the western world. e.g. "Sunil Manohar Gavaskar", here "Sunil" is the (first) name of the person. "Manohar" is the father's name, which is often abbreviated as an initial, and "Gavaskar" is the last or family name. Traditionally, women take their husband's name as their middle name and also adopt his family name. In Maharashtra som ...

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According to a Los Angeles Times report, the book titled The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of Christ Within You claims that the three "Indian" wise men named him Isa, or "Lord" in Sanskrit. The book also tells us Jesus practiced yoga and meditation with the great sages in India during from age 13 to 30.

In the book Beyond Psychology , Osho says: "Jesus himself had travelled to India while he was young. The Bible has no account of him between the age of thirteen to thirty; The Bible has no account of where Jesus had been. This looks strange - a small life - he lived only thirty-three years - and in those thirty-three years The Bible has accounts of only three years, the last three years."

(See also: Jesus in India, Indian Festivals, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Akshara is the Sanskrit term for what can be roughly translated as a letter in alphabet. It also refers to the basic unit of sound, that is syllable. It derives its name from the fact that the first letter of this varnamala(alphabet) is 'a' and the last is 'ksha'. Combining these two characters, one gets the term akshara which is used to denote the all letters in entire varnamala. There are two main kinds of letters in indian alphabet, vowels and consonants. Vowels are ending sounds of any syllable. Consonants are starting soun ...

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Canterbury is a town located in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,979. Canterbury is home to Ayers State Forest and Shaker State Forest. On the last Saturday in July, the town hosts the annual Canterbury Fair. Canterbury New Hampshire - History. First granted by Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth in 1727, the town was named for William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury. It was originally a fort or trading post where the Pennacook Indians came to ...

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Chandra X-ray Observatory is a satellite launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. It was named in honor of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who is known for determining the mass limit for white dwarf stars to become neutron stars. "Chandra" also means "moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit. Chandra Observatory is the third of NASA's four "Great Observatories". The first was Hubble Space Telescope; second the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, launched in 1991; and last is the Spitzer Space Telescope. Prior to successful launch, the Chandra Observat ...

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The culture of the United Kingdom is rich and varied, and has been influential on culture on a worldwide scale. It is a European country, and has many cultural links with its former colonies, particularly those that use the English language (the Anglosphere). Considerable contributions to British culture have been made over the last half-century by immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent and the West Indies. While it can be argued that a common British identity still permeates society (though this is a contested and contentious assert ...

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. The information in this article appears to be more suited for a dictionary rather than an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but Wiktionary is. Please verify that this article meets the Wiktionary criteria for inclusion. If this article can be modified to be more than a dictionary entry, please do so and remove this message. -wala is a proprietary suffix added to Indian nouns that signifies an association of a person to a place, occupation, or an event. ...

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[1] - In 1994, a players' strike wiped out the last eight weeks of the season and all post-season. Cleveland was one game out of first place in the Central Division behind Chicago when play was stopped. No official titles were awarded in 1994. Cleveland Indians (1915-present) Cleveland Naps (1905-1914) Cleveland Bronchos (1902-1904) Cleveland Blues (1901) Jacobs Field (1994-p ...

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Utensils North Indian Punjabi - Mughlai -Rajasthani Kashmiri - Benarasi - Bihari South Indian Kerala - Tamil - Andhra Karnataka East Indian Bengali - Assamese - Oriya West Indian Goa - Gujarati - Maharashtrian Malvani - Parsi Other < ...

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Mahars constitute an important social group of Maharashtra state, India, and also of the adjoining Indian state of Goa. Traditionally considered lower in the Hindu caste hierarchical system, a number of Mahars, during the 20th century, converted to Buddhism, including one of the most prominent Mahars Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. The Imperial Gazetteer of India, writing about Nagpur district, India, describes the social status of Mahars, as prevailing in early 1900s, in these words [1]: “Mahars form a sixth of the whole populati ...

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Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, first published in December 1860 in the monthly journal Cornhill Magazine in four articles. Ruskin says himself that these articles were "very violently criticized", forcing the publisher to stop the publication after four months. Subscribers sent protest letters. But Ruskin countered the attack and published the four articles in a book in May 1862. This essay is very critical of capitalist economists of the 18th and 19th century. In ...

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Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned seamen. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea (e.g. to be "sent to Davy Jones' Locker"); Davy Jones is a nickname (used primarily by sailors) for what would be the devil of the seas. Davy Jones' Locker - Origin. The earliest known reference to Davy Jones occurs in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett, published in 1751: This same Davy Jones, according to the m ...

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The Chickasaws are a Native American people of the United States, originally from present-day Mississippi, now mostly living in Oklahoma. They are related to the Choctaws, who speak a language very similar to the Chickasaw language. The Chickasaws were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forcibly removed to the Indian Territory during the era of Indian Removal. Chickasaw - History. The origin of the Chickasaws is uncertain. When Europeans first encountered them, the Chickasaws were living in villages in what ...

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Reddy is a caste (community) mainly from the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. Reddys wield significant social and economic power and they are dominant in every part of Andhra Pradesh, and have strong political hold in Rayalaseema, Telengana and coastal areas. They are generally Telugu-speaking farming community originally from the state of Andhra Pradesh, though there are considerable number of Reddys settled in the neighbouring states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Reddy - Origins. There are many t ...

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Ashok Kumar Banker (born 1964) is a novelist and short story writer born and living in Mumbai, India. He has written professionally since his early teens, and has worked as a print journalist, columnist, scriptwriter for television series and documentaries, and in advertising. Banker has published in several genres, ranging from contemporary fiction about urban life in India to multi-volume mythological epics, as well as science fiction, fantasy, and cross-genre works. His first three novels to be published were crime thrillers ...

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On 6 June 1944, Warspite took part in the Normandy Landings as part of the Eastern Task Force, firing on German positions to cover the landing at Sword Beach. She subsequently helped support the Americans on their beaches. She also helped support Gold Beach a few days later. Her guns worn out, she was soon sent to Rosyth to be regunned. On the way, she set off a magnetic mine, causing heavy damage, but made it to Rosyth safely. She received only partial repairs, enoug ...

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Similar patronymic customs exist in some parts of India and Indonesia. However, many Indians (from India) living in English-speaking countries give up on this tradition because many English speakers so consistently misunderstand the custom; therefore many Indian fathers simply follow the English-speaking custom to pass on their last name instead of their first. The patronymic system is mostly followed in southern regions of India, while those in the rest of the country still have a surname or a family name as their las ...

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Named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton who was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence when the county was created in 1826. Carrollton, the county seat, was also named for this reason. Originally the land was Creek Indian territory and the last of their Georiga territory. It was ceeded by William McIntosh, chief of the Lower Creeks or White Sticks. This cession resulted in his murder at McIntosh Reserve near present day Whitesburg by fellow Creeks from n ...

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