Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent , covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships. These may take the form of prefixes, suffixes or replacements.
2-585: The Nayak , or Naik is a historic honorific title conferred on military captains and governors of feudal states in the Middle Ages. Today it is also a surname. Nayaks are mostly Hindu and few Sikhs , who follow Hinduism and Sikhism respectively. Today, the surname Nayak is used by various castes and ethnic groups across India. Mostly they belong from forward class and mainly follows Sikhism and Hinduism . Indian honorifics Honorifics with native/indigenous Hindu-Buddhist origin. With
4-814: The expansion of Indosphere cultural influence of Greater India , through transmission of Hinduism in Southeast Asia and the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism leading to Indianization of Southeast Asia with non-Indian southeast Asian native Indianized kingdoms adopting Sanskritization of their languages and titles as well as ongoing historic expansion of Indian diaspora has resulted in many overseas places having Indianised names (e.g. Sanskritised naming of people , Sanskritised naming of places , Sankritised institutional mottos, Sanskritised educational institute names), architecture , martial arts , music and dance , clothing , and cuisine . Please help expand
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