Category talk:West Bengal

I have always been puzzled by the anglicization of certain Indian names. The internet provides no clue as to their origins. The names are primarily Bengali Hindu surnames, and they are anglicized as follows:

Mukhopadhyay becomes Mukherjee Chattopadhyay becomes Chatterjee Bandopadhyay becomes Banerjee Gangopadhyay becomes Ganguly

I suspect this has something to do with Raj officialdom when India was a colony. Would anyone be able to shed some light? --Peripatetic 22:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)