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.

Native honorifics

Honorifics with native/indigenous Hindu-Buddhist origin.

Hindu-Buddhist honorifics

List of titles

Abhyasi
Acharya
Aasaan
Ayya
Baba
Babu
Bhagavan
Bhagat
Bhai
Chhatrapati
Chakravarti (Sanskrit term), Chakraborty
Chettiar (suffix denoting a man's wealth)
Chowdhury
Deshmukh
Dvija
Gain / Gayen
Gossain
Guru
Jagadguru
Jagirdar
Kothari (temple)
Kumari
Kumar (title), Kunwar (title)
Mahamandaleshwar
Mahant
Maharaj, Maharaja, Maharajadhiraj
Mahātmā
Maharani
Maharishi, Maharshi
Mahayogi, Mahayogini
Mankari^[1]
Mantrik
Melshanthi
Muni (Saint)
patel
Patil
Pandit
Paramahamsa
Paramguru
Pujari
Raj
Raja, Rai (title), Rana (title), Rao (title), Rawal, Rawat (title)
Rajarshi
Rajguru
Rajkumar, Maharajkumar
Rajkumari, Maharajkumari
Rani
Rishi
Rishi Mudgal
Sādhaka
Sadhu
Samanta (vassal)
Samrat (emperor)
Sannyasin
Sardar
Satguru, Sadguru
Sawai (title)
Sethi, Sheth (suffix denoting a man's wealth)
Shankaracharya
Shaunaka
Shishya
Sri (also Shri, Shree)
Shrimati
Swami
Thakur
Thiru or Thirumathi
Yogi, Yogini
Yuvraj

Community-specific honorifics

Maratha titles

Secular profession-specific honorifics

Lambardar
Patwari
Pandit
Zamindar
Ghatwal
Mulraiyat
Pradhan
Jagirdar
Mustajir
Zaildar
Talukdar

Influence on other cultures

Greater India, Indosphere and expansion of Hinduism in Southeast Asia.

With the expansion of Indosphere cultural influence of Greater India,^[2] through transmission of Hinduism in Southeast Asia^[3]^[4]^[5] and the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism^[6]^[7] leading to Indianization of Southeast Asia with non-Indian southeast Asian native Indianized kingdoms^[8] adopting Sanskritization^[9] 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.^[10]

Please help expand the following partial list of Indian influenced honorifics:

Burmese honorifics and Burmese Buddhist titles
Cambodia honorifics
Cham honorifics
Filipino styles and honorifics
Indonesian honorifics
Khmer honorifics
Lao honorifics
Malay styles and titles
Sinhala honorifics
Thai royal and noble titles

Sikh honorifics

Sikh titles

Muslim or foreign origin honorifics

Bahadur
Begum
Darogha
Dastur / Dastoor
Hazrat
Khan or Khatoon for females
Mahaldar
Mansabdar
Mir
Mirza
Sahib
Syed
Taluqdar
Ustad

References

Citations

↑ 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=1_qMH9PY9fQC&pg=PA129.
↑ Kenneth R. Hal (1985). Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8248-0843-3. https://books.google.com/?id=ncqGAAAAIAAJ&q=funan+mountain+kings&dq=funan+mountain+kings.
↑ Guy, John (2014). Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, Metropolitan museum, New York: exhibition catalogues. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781588395245. https://books.google.com/books?id=vO_-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11.
↑ "The spread of Hinduism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific". https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hinduism/The-spread-of-Hinduism-in-Southeast-Asia-and-the-Pacific.
↑ History of Ancient India Kapur, Kamlesh
↑ Fussman, Gérard (2008–2009). "History of India and Greater India". La Lettre du Collège de France (4): 24–25. doi:10.4000/lettre-cdf.756. https://lettre-cdf.revues.org/756. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
↑ Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella. ed. The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
↑ Manguin, Pierre-Yves (2002), "From Funan to Sriwijaya: Cultural continuities and discontinuities in the Early Historical maritime states of Southeast Asia", 25 tahun kerjasama Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi dan Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, Jakarta: Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi / EFEO, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NJBwAAAAMAAJ
↑ Lavy, Paul (2003), "As in Heaven, So on Earth: The Politics of Visnu Siva and Harihara Images in Preangkorian Khmer Civilisation", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34 (1): 21–39, doi:10.1017/S002246340300002X, https://www.academia.edu/2635407, retrieved 23 December 2015
↑ Kulke, Hermann (2004). A history of India. Rothermund, Dietmar, 1933– (4th ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN 0203391268. OCLC 57054139.

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[1] 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=1_qMH9PY9fQC&pg=PA129.

[Hal1985-2] Kenneth R. Hal (1985). Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8248-0843-3. https://books.google.com/?id=ncqGAAAAIAAJ&q=funan+mountain+kings&dq=funan+mountain+kings.

[3] Guy, John (2014). Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, Metropolitan museum, New York: exhibition catalogues. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781588395245. https://books.google.com/books?id=vO_-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11.

[4] "The spread of Hinduism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific". https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hinduism/The-spread-of-Hinduism-in-Southeast-Asia-and-the-Pacific.

[5] History of Ancient India Kapur, Kamlesh

[college-6] Fussman, Gérard (2008–2009). "History of India and Greater India". La Lettre du Collège de France (4): 24–25. doi:10.4000/lettre-cdf.756. https://lettre-cdf.revues.org/756. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

[Coedes-7] Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella. ed. The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.

[8] Manguin, Pierre-Yves (2002), "From Funan to Sriwijaya: Cultural continuities and discontinuities in the Early Historical maritime states of Southeast Asia", 25 tahun kerjasama Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi dan Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, Jakarta: Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi / EFEO, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NJBwAAAAMAAJ

[academia_edu-9] Lavy, Paul (2003), "As in Heaven, So on Earth: The Politics of Visnu Siva and Harihara Images in Preangkorian Khmer Civilisation", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34 (1): 21–39, doi:10.1017/S002246340300002X, https://www.academia.edu/2635407, retrieved 23 December 2015

[10] Kulke, Hermann (2004). A history of India. Rothermund, Dietmar, 1933– (4th ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN 0203391268. OCLC 57054139.

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