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, Chakraborty
- Chettiar (suffix denoting a man's wealth)
- Chowdhury
- Chempakaraman
- Deshmukh
- Dvija
- Gain / Gayen
- Gossain
- Guru
- Jagadguru
- Jagirdar
- Kothari
- Kumari
- Kumar, Kunwar
- Mahamandaleshwar
- Mahant
- Maharaj, Maharaja, Maharajadhiraj
- Mahātmā
- Maharani
- Maharishi, Maharshi
- Mahayogi, Mahayogini
- Mankari[1]
- Mantrik
- Melshanthi
- Muni
- Nayak
- Pandit
- Paramahamsa
- Paramguru
- Prabhu
- Pujari
- Raj
- Raja, Rai, Rana, Rao, Rawal, Rawat
- Rajarshi
- Rajguru
- Rajkumar, Maharajkumar
- Rajkumari, Maharajkumari
- Rani
- Rishi
- Rishi Mudgal
- Sādhaka
- Sadhu
- Sain/Saeen
- Samanta (vassal)
- Samrat (emperor)
- Sannyasin
- Sardar
- Satguru, Sadguru
- Sawai
- Sethi, Sheth (suffix denoting a man's wealth)
- Shankaracharya
- Shaunaka
- Shishya
- Sri (also Shri, Shree)
- Shrimati
- Swami
- Thakur
- Thiru or Thirumathi
- Yogi, Yogini
- Yuvraj
Secular profession-specific honorifics
Influence on other cultures
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 ranks and titles
Maratha Honorifics
Associated with the Maratha Kingdom or general Marathi-speaking population.
- Chhatrapati
- Maharaj
- Maharani
- Peshwa
- Peshwin
- More Maratha titles
Sikh honorifics
- Sardar
- Sardarni
- Gianni
- Sikh titles
Middle East honorifics
- Amir
- Badshah
- Bahadur
- Beg
- Begum
- Darogha
- Dastur / Dastoor
- Ghazi
- Hazrat
- Khan or Khatoon for females
- Khaqan
- Mahaldar
- Mansabdar
- Mir
- Mirza
- Sahib
- Shah and Shahanshah
- Shahzada
- Sultan
- Syed
- Taluqdar
- Ustad
See also
- Honorary titles of Indian leaders
- Currently official honors:
- Past or unofficial honors:
References
- ↑ Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Institute of Economic Growth(1982). ISBN 81-208-0527-5
- ↑ Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of Hawaii Press(1985). ISBN 978-0-8248-0843-3
- ↑ Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, Metropolitan museum, New York: exhibition catalogues{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Metropolitan Museum of Art(2014). ISBN 9781588395245
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- ↑ History of Ancient India Kapur, Kamlesh
- ↑ History of India and Greater India. La Lettre du Collège de France({Template:Year).
- ↑ The Indianized States of Southeast Asia{{#if:Coedès|, Coedès}. University of Hawaii Press(1968). ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1
- ↑ [{{{url}}} 25 tahun kerjasama Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi dan Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient]. Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi / EFEO.
- ↑ As in Heaven, So on Earth: The Politics of Visnu Siva and Harihara Images in Preangkorian Khmer Civilisation.
- ↑ A history of India{{#if:Kulke|, Kulke}. Routledge(2004). ISBN 0203391268