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The original poster's claim we're discussing here said:
"A lot of South "Hindus" are already converted and keep their Hindu name for caste benefits..."
I agree with that only in part. A lot of people have been saved here, definitely more rife in the south, this legendary Christian quest to harvest souls in India
A lot of them, a handful known to me even, seem to have kept their old surnames for some reason. It could be because of caste reasons, I really can't say for certain.
You can never tell a Christian from their first name here, they mostly, or in a lot of cases keep the traditional Indian Hindi one but they're George or Mascarenas or Godinho etc for surnames.
but then you have a Jagan Mohan Reddy, for example, who is a Christian.
There's also lots of casteism and internal Xtian hate flung toward their own lot, there's dissenters, non believers, elitists (purane converts)
also, things vary state to state, Keralite ones are different from goan ones, who are different from Mizoram and Manipur ones so there's that too.
Impossible to explain, these dynamics.. unless you've experienced them from close range for sustained durations. Too much diversity, but it's not a weakness.
It's hard, even for Indians to wrap their heads around how things might work in another part of the country, the inner workings of a whole community that is different from them.
Jai !
Thanks for the informative post, I learnt a lot.