Here's the link again to the Website with Indian Sanskrit based names that are Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain. This site was of limited usefulness to my discussion of the Anglicisation, Creolisation and fracture of names, if only because many of them I have already dealt with in the previous email using the Bengali page. But the website is a good one for the meanings of some common personal names. However, I did extract some personal boys names for the discussion dealing with the way in which personal names became Surnames and also with the Anglicisation/Creolisation issue. The examples below demonstrate another variation of the Anglicisation/Creolisation issue, but with the contraction of names. As before I will give the name followed by the version that would be found in Guyana. Ganaraj - Gunraj or Ganraj; Hansaraj - Hansraj; Hemaraj - Hemraj; Jaganarayan - Jagnarine; Jaganath - Jagnauth; Jayapal - Jaipaul. The website is also good for a few pointers it makes about Indian origin names which it might be useful to remember for clues as to the origins of ancestors whose names may not be spelt in a typical Indian way. And this has to do with names that begin with "Q", "X", "W" or "V". Names that begin with "Q" the authors of the website point out , was the way that the Portuguese spelt Indian names that began with the K sound on the island of Goa. (The Portuguese held the Island of Goa until December 19th, 1961, when India invaded and took it over). So Kisan became Quissan. The same can be said for names that begin with the "X". The authors tell us, the Portuguese on Goa until 1961 used an "X" for names beginning with the Sh sound. So Shantaram was written as Xantaram. Lastly, in the case of Indian names with "V' or "W" the authors point out that names that begin with a "V" are some-times written with a "W" but "V" is mostly written rather than "W". However which is used is also open to personal choice. They website authors also remind us that Indian origin names do not begin with "Z", but names of Arabic origins do. Indian origin names use "J' or "Jh" which are softer versions of "Z". So all this is useful information that may give a clue as to where some-one or their ancestors probably came from. http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~naik/indnames.html