Indians in Hawaii – by Dipankar Sengupta
admin | January 29, 2010
Indians in Hawai’i
By Dipankar Sengupta
“Does it ever occur to you why the names of all Hawaiian queens end in lani, for example Kapiolani, Liliokalani?”
“No.”
“Because the Hawaiians pronounced the letter ‘r’ as ‘l’; there are many such examples.
Hawaiians must have had some Indian connections.”
I got the hint. Rani in Hindi means “queen” but I was [...]
