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KUMBAKONAM GOPALAN RAMESH
• Thu Feb 29 1996 - 02:15:24 PST
Hello everyone,
My name is Ramesh. I am 25 years old and am doing my final year in chemical
engineering at the National University of Singapore. I am Iyengar and belong
to Uruppatur Nallan Chakravarty gothram. Many a times I wanted to know about the significance of gothram in our Iyengar tradition. I have this question:
Has gothram anything to do with ancestry? Unfortunately, our ancestors didn't keep either diaries or family trees which can help trace family lines. I happen to know that the great man Rajagopalachari or known to everyone as Rajaji belong t
o the same gothram as me! Does anybody know more about the gothram? Maany thanks!
K.G.Ramesh
Eng20413@leonis.nus.sg
