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This page is terrible

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These don't even list the honorifics used in Hindi like polite/formal and impolite/informal form of sentences. Penpaperpencil (Talk) 18:16, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Very prominent honorifics in Indian religious history

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  • "Mahatma" Gandhi
  • Sankara "Bhagavatpada"
  • Kabir "Sahib"
  • "Bhagavan" "Sri" Ramana "Maharshi"
  • "Sri" Aurobindo
  • Bhaktivedanta Swami "Prabhupada"
  • Caitanya "Mahaprabhu"
  • Swami"ji" Vivekananda
  • "Sri Sri" Ramakrishna
  • Vardhamana "Mahavira"
  • Shyamacharan Lahiri "Mahasaya"
  • Sivananda "Maharaj"
  • "Soamiji Maharaj" Shivdayal Singh

Self-applied honorifics

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  • "Jehangir"
  • "Shah Jehan"
  • "Alamgir"
  • "His Royal Highness" "Sadgurudev" Hans "Ji" "Maharaj"
  • "Guru Maharaj Ji" Prem Rawat
  • "Maharishi" Mahesh Yogi
  • "Bhagwan" Rajneesh, "Osho"
  • "Swami" Sathya Sai "Baba"
  • Tamalakrsna Goswami "Srila Gurudev"
  • Kirtanananda Swami "Bhaktipada"
  • Satsvarupa Das Gosvami "Gurupada"
  • Siddhaswarupananda "Paramahamsa"

Needs Expansion

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Some languages are not even covered, and not many many Honorifics are not shown, immediate insight suggested.

Wrongly de-Indian-izes one religious group

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Oddly segregates Muslim honorifics into a non-"Native" list (discounting nearly a thousand years of Muslim influence on the culture of India) while labeling all non-Muslim honorifics as "Native" (though the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans were also once foreigners to the native Dravidians when they and their language invaded from the North). 174.251.242.106 (talk) 06:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and it's also inaccurate. For example, the honorific Khan originates in Central Asia, not the Middle East. Can this be changes to Muslim honorifics, like there is a Sikh honorifics section? Clodia Metelli (talk) 20:19, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]