Surname Talk

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Sandeep says about the surname Razdan Jessica- There WAS a time in history when it is said there were only 11 families left in Kashmir - mostly due to overzealous and forcible conversion to Islam. Some of them converted back and as you can see many kashmiri names are based on some action or object associated with a person. The proliferation was natural.
Comment was made 15 years ago
ROMESH KHOSA says about the surname khosa I am khosa by surname.we belong to SAMNEGOTAM gotra.khosa bascally belong to kashmir.IN kashmiri it is nickname given to a person who does not have facial hair[beard].some people say that our orginal surname is RAINA/RAZDAN.WE were about 200 families spread across valley before mass migration due to militancy in 1990.
Comment was made 15 years ago
Anil Ambardar says about the surname Ambardar I want to know about the surname AMBARDAR.
Comment was made 15 years ago
Rajinder Jatoo says about the surname Jattu JATOO'S are basically Razdan. It just happened that children would burn their " Kangri on TILA ASHTAMI" in their compound hence became " Jatantoon" and with the passage of time became Jatoos.
Comment was made 15 years ago
Amrit Nath Thulal says about the surname Atal Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh of Jaipur, has given this title to his Prime Minister Moti Lal Thulal (1821-1893) to honor him around 1850.
Comment was made 15 years ago
Isha Tikku says about the surname Tikku Im a Tikku and im proud to be a kashmiri. i just find all d kashmiri surnames hilarious! people make so much fun of my surname callin me tikki,tikka n all sorts lol
Comment was made 15 years ago
Arav Punjabi says about the surname PUNJABI the actual surname of punjabi's were mih.when our ancestors went out of station(out of kashmir)then other people(other than kashmiri pandits) would say that they are going to punjab(i don't know why they would say they are going to punjab).they often go out of station and like this other people would say us punjabi sahab.then our surname became punjabi.
Comment was made 15 years ago
Susheel Zalpuri says about the surname Zalpuri we are Zalpuri's ,used to be in Habbakadal,my grandfather Sh Prem Nath Zalpuri was a teacher,but my father and we shifted to Himachal in 1952..we love Kashmir and are proud to spread word of love and harmony thru out.
Comment was made 15 years ago
DELEEP KUMAR MATTOO says about the surname Mattoo 'We are refugees not migrants. Give us that identity. If the prime minister can ask the Sri Lankan government to give the Tamils in the island country IDP status, then why not us? We were thrown out of our own homes just because we called ourselves Indians,' Magazine told IANS.
Comment was made 15 years ago
Jessica Bhan says about the surname Razdan I had been told that there were 11 pandit families of kashmir and am suprised to see so many surnames.I am confused.
Comment was made 15 years ago