Indian honorifics
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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
A Maratha Durbar showing the Chief (Raja) and the nobles (Sardars, Jagirdars, Sarpatil, Istamuradars & Mankaris) of the state.
Pandit
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A pandit is an individual with specialised knowledge or a teacher of any field of knowledge in Sanskrit or Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma, or Hindu philosophy; in colonial-era lit
Indian honorifics
…Nayak Pandit Patil, Maratha title given to "Head of Village" & "Kshatriya Noble Family…
A flyer advertising Sakharam Ganesh Pandit in Kilbourn, Wisconsin c.1910
1816 painting of Colin Mackenzie and three pandits
A young pandit holding the lamp of fire