ABSTRACT
The entry discusses anthroponomastics, the study of names given to people and communities in Northeast India. It highlights the variety of naming traditions in the region and the choices and changes people have made since the arrival of colonial modernity. Names and name choices, whether of communities or of individuals are not merely nomenclatures by which they are identified, but reflect deeper political, socio-cultural changes and ambitions. In the region, names have not been static and neither have people’s preferences, whether autonyms or exonyms.
