Thread by @gauravsabnis

"What does Sabnis mean"

"Anglicization of Sabnavis."

"Why did it have to be anglicized?"

"Ancestors worked for Holkars so dealt with Brits a lot. Like how Scindia was easier to say than Shinde."

"Wait, Scindia are Shinde?"

"Yes!"

"Shinde!?"

I'm amazed how many don't know!

Also Dubey, Chaubey etc. Some Brit sahib went, croikey, Dwee-way-dee, that's a mouthful! I'm just gonna call you... Dubey, you Chaubey, that's much easier, don't you agree Lieutenant Archibald Thingletonberry-Postlethwaite?

Quite right, sir!

Do CBSE textbooks refer to Mahadji from the 18th century as Scindia or Shinde? Growing up in Maharashtra at least, it was written as Shinde. And Marathi newspapers like Sakal still make it a point of writing it as Shinde.

No, Thackeray is just spelling change by Bal's dad because he was a fan of William Makepeace Thackeray. It's still pronounced Thakre. Scindia is a different pronunciation. As is Sabnis.

https://twitter.com/Arby_K/status/1451492153557876736?t=04JUHtWrDrjU8BMoyglNrg&s=19

What makes the Scindia case unusual is that AFAIK, they are the only, if not very few, Shinde's to go by Scindia. They were the only house of the maratha confederacy to change their name. Holkar, Gaekwad, Bhosales etc kept theirs.

So like all other Shinde's go by Shinde.

The Gwalior royals, given the proximity to Rajputana, probably found it easier to take on a name that was also more rajput-sounding. Plus grandpa used to tell me how the rajput princes were the "cool kids" in Raj times and Maratha princes were the dorks.

People also seem to think it is Vasundhara Raje Scindia like she has two surnames. "Raje" is Maratha confederacy speak for what game of thrones would call a royal female "your grace" or "her grace". Her mom the OG royal sanghi used to spell it Vijayaraje, one word.

I always make it a point to say Vasundhara or Vijaya. Raje and all within your house, okay. Monarchy is gone.

Vijaya Scindia was the kind of sanghi that these shef types aspire to be. After babri razing, which she cheered on, she said she could now die happy because her dream had come true. A truly truly vile woman.

Jyotiraditya bringing his family fully home to the BJP was inevitable. Madhav Scindia was technically in the Congress but was the Tharoor of his day. Frequently making you wonder

This but with threads

We learn how to say Siobhan and Saoirse but Shinde (shin-they) is too complicated for them.