Talk:Das (surname)

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[edit] More das's than just in Bengal belt (Orrissa, Bengal, Bangladesh, Assam)

Vasundhara Das, the singer, is a Tamil Brahmin (she at least says so in the interviews) she has nothing to do with das's from the north or east.

Also Das is supposed to be a surname which came from the Dutch to AMerica in 1920's. http://genforum.genealogy.com/das/messages/4.html

btw, i've been told in bengali the two different spellings of das (দাস , দাশ) belong to different castes)? Any info on that?

122.169.13.157 (talk) 16:20, 21 December 2007 (UTC)devayon

The Das family in your post referring to the Dutch/American connection is not necessarily related to the "Das" surname in India that are mentioned in this article. I myself have the surname and reside in The Netherlands but I am of Indian origin. By the way, there is indeed a word in Dutch called "das" and it refers to either of tie (as in neck tie) or a badger like animal.-Deepraj | Talk 17:44, 21 December 2007 (UTC)