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> You are cherry-picking examples from my list to prove a point.

I am pointing out that the generalizations you made don't even hold in the small examples that you came up with.

> I resolutely assert that Sanskrit-derived first and last names are markers of upper-caste ancestry.

and

> there are people of lower-caste with Sanskrit-derived names

These both can't be true.

> Dravidian/tribal names

I don't understand this bizzare conflation of Dravidian with tribal. What does tribal even mean in this context?



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