Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships. These may take the form of prefixes, suffixes or replacements.

Native honorifics

Honorifics with native/indigenous Hindu-Buddhist origin.

Hindu-Sikh honorifics

List of titles

Secular profession-specific honorifics

Influence on other cultures

With the expansion of Indosphere cultural influence of Greater India, through transmission of Hinduism in Southeast Asia and the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism leading to Indianization of Southeast Asia with non-Indian southeast Asian native Indianized kingdoms adopting Sanskritization of their languages and titles as well as ongoing historic expansion of Indian diaspora has resulted in many overseas places having Indianised names (e.g. Sanskritised naming of people, Sanskritised naming of places, Sankritised institutional mottos, Sanskritised educational institute names), architecture, martial arts, music and dance, clothing, and cuisine. Please help expand the following partial list of Indian influenced honorifics:

Maratha honorifics

Associated with the Maratha Kingdom or general Marathi-speaking population.

Sikh honorific

Nepali (Gorkhali) honorifics

Associated with the Khas Kings of Nepal, esp. the Shah dynasty of the Kingdom of Gorkha.

Middle East honorifics