[ANSTHRLD] nonregisterable cultures

[Chandranath]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:16:39PM -0000, doug bell wrote:
> I doubt any of the Tibetan names wandered south
> into India with the Buddists.  Northward spread
> is much more likely given the landscape of Asia.

I agree entirely.  I have seen no evidence of this whatsoever.

> Besides if such names did make it into Indian
> culture how would we find them.  Your name was
> difficult enough to find hard data for and it
> is fairly simple for the culture.

Tell me about it; however, I recommend the following book that I obtained
(thank you, Emma!) since then for good hard research (though still a little
lacking sometimes in distinction between historical and modern data):

_The Book of Indian Names_, Raha Ram Mehrotra (editor), 1994,
  Rupa & Co., ISBN 81-7167-149-7

Basically it's a collection of papers on naming practices in various
India subcultures.  Pretty slick.

Chandra

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