‘Andhra’ was a tribe, much as Punjabis and Maratha were.
Except that the tribal identity vanished.
Nobody is even sure when!!
Only thing we know about them, they established the ‘Satavahana’ Dynasty.
where in hell is there any tribe named Punjab? Punjab in persian means five rivers and the word was used in 16th century in “tareekh E sher shah” to describe the fertile plains area.
Neither has there been any tribe after which marhatta has been named.
Only andhra appears in the late literature and have said to establish themselves somewhere in the eastern plain area in what is possibly Orissa in India on the bay of bengal.
And for the “wise”, there is no such word as Paki. The short form is Pak not paki. Just like afghan and not afghani and so forth. The “i” in in Pakistan appears through necessity for eenglish pronounciation it doesnt appear as an equivalent in the actual urdufarsi pronounciation. And Pak means Pure.
Pakistan: land of the pure
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While Hindu names partyicularly South Indians are very long & cvonsist of parts .HERE ARE SOME funny names combination of surnames MARRYING like STU marriesPIDMAN …
lol...some names are definitely funny, as
kid I thought that my middle name was funny,
(cos if you speak it out loud, it sounds
like a cosmetic product)that's why in school
I avoided saying that to other kids when
others would tell thir full name I would
skip my middle name.
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yeah, hinDOOO's do have some pretty gross names, likes barasapathi, nisarkadatta, and mangachanla changapatnam
what the hell kinda names are those?! the last 2 sound like horrible infectious dieseases, whose adverse symptoms cause a person to hallucinate as if under the effects of LSD and dream up all sorts of vile abberrations, such as sitar playing elephants and 4-armed mutants
Better to die 1000 times in glory than live without honor-Louis VI
It’s just you. I find some indian names ugly and some gorgeous.
I agree. Indian names are beautiful just like how ancient greek names probably were. But about the pakistani ancestors part, my family is part pathan and they have names like Palwasha and Ariana. My mother’s side is pakistani of mixed persian descent and they have names like Naz, Afshan, Golnaz, Leila, Narges, Naheed, Negar etc. so not all pakistanis blindly go for arabic names.
However there are tons of pakistanis with names like Sana Mohammed. IMO they should have stuck to names that show their ethnicity because its more interesting and original that way.
Embracing islam by force or by voluntary action doesn't change the basic values...exceptions although in majority are always there.
Rana, Mallik, Chaudhary, Janjua, Khokhar..old Indian surnames still found in Pakistan. Try replacing them.
People in Indonesia still carry Sanskrit names...megawati sukarnoputri...and hundreds of them like that. It became an islamic country..but did it change its language or culture ?
Surname 'Pathania' has been choosen by some of the families in US way back in middle of eighteenth century. When I asked the geneologist, she said at the time of formation of new world....many people in US were learning more and more about eastern societies and used to pick up names they liked. Surname became the first name of a girl...named "Pathania Kingman". It was one of the others. Even the names of the places were choosen...madras...simla can be found in US. There is also a Denmark, Copenhagen and London in USA !!!
South Indian names no doubt are real tongue twisters for North Indians..so what ?
What's in a name..if you like it choose it..but stop cribbing about it.