Indian honorifics

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 prefixes, suffixes or replacements.

With the expansion of Indosphere cultural influence of Greater India,[3] through transmission of Hinduism in Southeast Asia[4][5][6] and the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism[7][8] leading to Indianization of Southeast Asia with non-Indian southeast Asian native Indianized kingdoms[9] adopting Sanskritization[10] 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.

[11] Please help expand the following partial list of Indian influenced honorifics: Associated with the Maratha Kingdom or general Marathi-speaking population.

Associated with the Khas Kings of Nepal, esp.

A Maratha Durbar showing the Chief ( Raja ) and the nobles ( Sardars , Jagirdars , Sarpatil , Istamuradars & Mankaris ) of the state .
Hinduism expansion in Asia, from its heartland in Indian Subcontinent, to the rest of Asia, especially Southeast Asia, started circa 1st century marked with the establishment of early Hindu settlements and polities in Southeast Asia.