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Gandhi (pronunciation ⓘ; Hindi: गाँधी) is an Indian surname. Gandhi may also refer to: Family of Mahatma Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948 ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Indian origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,077 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gandhi exhorted Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadi in support of the independence movement. [119] In addition to boycotting British products, Gandhi urged the people to boycott British institutions and law courts, to resign from government employment, and to forsake British titles and honours. Gandhi thus ...
Not only did I want my non-Indian husband to properly pronounce the baby’s name, but I even anticipated the way a teacher would read it out loud in front of the whole class on the first day of ...
The Gandhi family is the family of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi; Mahatma meaning "high souled" or "venerable" in Sanskrit; [1] the particular term 'Mahatma' was accorded Mohandas Gandhi for the first time while he was still in South Africa, and not commonly heard as titular for any other civil figure even of similarly ...
Most of the Malayalis write name as Given name – Father's name – Father's father's name/house name/village name – Surname/caste title. For instance, Shreelakshmi Dhanapalan Sadhu Kunjpilla; where Shreelakshmi is first name, Dhanapalan is middle name/father's name, Sadhu is grandfather's name, and Kujnpilla is surname/caste title.
Ghandy is an Indian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anuradha Ghandy (1954–2008), Indian communist, writer, and revolutionary leader; Jeahangir Ghandy, Indian businessperson; Kekoo Gandhy (1920–2012), Indian art gallery owner, founded Gallery Chemould in Mumbai, 1963; Kobad Ghandy (born 1951), Indian communist and Maoist leader
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).