Indian honorifics
Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in India, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships. These may take the form of prefixes, suffixes or replacements.
Honorifics
- Acharya
- Amma
- Ayya
- Baba
- Babu
- Begum
- Chhatrapati
- Chakraborty
- Shukul
- Chowdhury
- Dastur / Dastoor
- Dangoria
- Deshmukh
- Gain / Gayen
- Garu
- Guru
- Hazrat or Hadrat / Hadhrat
- Jagirdar
- Khan
- Maharaj
- Mahātmā
- Maharishi, Maharshi
- Mankari[1]
- Mir
- Mirza
- Patil
- Pandit
- Raja
- Rai (title)
- Raj
- Rishi
- Sahib
- Sardar
- Satguru, Sadguru
- Sethi, Sheth, Chettiar (suffix denoting a man's wealth)
- Sri (also Shri, Shree)
- Shrimati
- Swami
- Ustad
- Thakur
See also
References
- ↑ T.N. Madan (1982). Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont (1st ed.). Institute of Economic Growth. p. 129. ISBN 81-208-0527-5.
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