MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Swadesh mean?
Swadesh combines sva, one's own, with desh, country or place. The whole word is used for a person's homeland and underlies the cultural vocabulary of swadeshi.
Pronunciation
IAST: svadeśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
स्वदेश
Letter-by-letter: svadeśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Swadesh in Indian usage
6,505 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (80.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,259 records (19.4%).
- Recorded as male: 5,246 records (80.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 353 |
| 1960s | 824 |
| 1970s | 1,421 |
| 1980s | 2,109 |
| 1990s | 1,482 |
| Other decades | 316 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,328 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,021 |
| Rajasthan | 295 |
| Haryana | 208 |
| Bihar | 201 |
| Jharkhand | 195 |
| Uttarakhand | 153 |
| Other states | 104 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, svadeśa, p. 1275,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.