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With India following in China's footsteps as an economic powerhouse, many Singaporeans have been relocating there, mostly to Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi. In 2005, the Indian High Commission issued 60,000 business and travel visas to Singaporeans. [2] A large number of Singaporeans based in Chennai consists mainly of businessmen. [3]
Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
Indian Singaporean are grouped according to their respective ethnolinguistic backgrounds in the Indian subcontinent or 'dialect group'. Most Indians in Singapore have ancestral links to Southern India and Sri Lanka, with substantial groups from Northern India and Western India accounting for most of the remainder.
In India, surnames are placed as last names or before first names, which often denote: village of origin, caste, clan, office of authority their ancestors held, or trades of their ancestors. The use of surnames is a relatively new convention, introduced during British colonisation.
Sagar is a very common first name in India for boys and also a surname (last name) used by various communities. ... (1967–1995), Singaporean convicted murderer and ...
Pages in category "Singaporean people of Indian descent" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. ... This page was last edited on 13 February ...
This is a list of Singaporeans, ... sorted by surnames/family names. ... This page was last edited on 28 April 2024, ...
Chandran Nair - Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO; Edwin Thumboo; Janadas Devan - Singaporean journalist; M. Balakrishnan - Singaporean author, popularly known by his pen name Ma Ilangkannan; first Tamil writer to receive the South East Asian Writers Award in 1982; V. R. Gopala Pillai