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Capildeo family
Parent familyDubey
Current region
EtymologyFrom Capil Deo Dubey; Capil Deo
Place of originMahadeva Dubey Village, Gorakhpur district, North-Western Provinces, British India (present-day Mahadeva Dubey Village, Maharajganj district, Gorakhpur division, Uttar Pradesh, India)
FounderPundit Capildeo Dubey
Titles
Members
Connected membersSeepersad Naipaul and Nadira Naipaul
Connected familiesGobin family, Naipaul family, Permanand family, Bissoondath family, Maraj family, Tewari family, Goswami family
TraditionsSanātanī Hinduism
Estate(s)Anand Bhavan (आनंद भवन; Mansion of Bliss) a.k.a. The Lion House, Main Road Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago
Websitehttp://www.thelionhouse.com/

The Capildeo family (pronounced [kəpiləd̪eːoː]) is an Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian family of Hindu pundits, politicians, and writers. The most notable members are 2001 Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul and mathematician and politician Rudranath Capildeo. The ancestral home of the Capildeo family is known as Anand Bhavan ("The Lion House")[1] and is in Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago. No-one today knows how the name Kapil transformed into Capildeo. It is possible that Kapil added dev, meaning God, from his village's name of Mahadeva Dubey to his name. Transliteration from Hindi to English was not well developed in the 19th century and words were spelt differently then from the way they are now. Thus, Kapil was changed to Capil and dev to deo, giving Kapil's descendants the surname of Capildeo.

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The genealogical tree of the Capildeo Family.
Capildeo genealogy tree

References

  1. ^ The Lion House
  2. ^ "Sita Laetsch Obituary (1936 - 2019) - Berkeley, CA - San Francisco Chronicle". Legacy.com.
  3. ^ "Remembering Sita Laetsch: Carefree, bohemian and sunny, a pillar of her family and local volunteer". 13 February 2019.
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