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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Yes Kishi, I have met many people from the West Indies and Guyana with names like the ones you mention. And while they are easily recognizable as being Indian in origin, usually when I see some of those I immediately think "West Indies". I suspect that that those particular variations must have had to do with the particular history of how the people ended up in those former British Colonies and how they (or others) decided on what the last name would be. It reminds me of the discussion we had earlier about the last name "Khan" in India. And did you forget Naipaul? What do you think of him by the way (I know he is from Trinidad rather than from Jamaica).[/quote]
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rahel

How to recognise an indian by their surname?
replied on: 6/22/2003 7:48:55 PM

Yes Kishi, I have met many people from the West Indies and Guyana with names like the ones you mention. And while they are easily recognizable as being Indian in origin, usually when I see some of those I immediately think "West Indies". I suspect that that those particular variations must have had to do with the particular history of how the people ended up in those former British Colonies and how they (or others) decided on what the last name would be. It reminds me of the discussion we had earlier about the last name "Khan" in India.

And did you forget Naipaul? What do you think of him by the way (I know he is from Trinidad rather than from Jamaica).

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