Re: Rajputs II
when someone converts to islam, he is encouraged to keep his last name. why? because the last name indicates his history, the history of his people.
islam does not say eradicate your tribal and cultural history. all islam says is don't feel proud in the fact that you're a pathan and therefore better than a rajput, or vice versa.
take an arab from one of the middle east country. ask him to recite his name. he will present to you a name that is atleast a page long. that name goes back to his great great great great X20 grandfather, who was probably not a Muslim. Yet, the Arab chooses to keep his long name.
when you take this whole i'm a this and i'm only going to marry this, or i'm this and i'm better than you then you mess everything up. know who you are, and part of knowing who you are is your nationality, your cultural background, as far as you can take it.