Mango, the Indian husband explains the origin of some Bengali surnames (including his) to his Italian wife, Basil.
The real origin story of these common Bengali surnames can be found in the names themselves i.e. each of these names Banerjee, Mukherjee, Chatterjee and Ganguly are anglicized versions of Bandhopadhyay, Mukhopadhyay, Chattopadhyay and Gangopadhyay respectively. In the old days, each of these names were denoted to the teaching/priest community (upadhayaya = teacher in Sanskrit). The surnames were assigned according to the village or the place these teachers originally belonged to. Bandhopadhyayas were the teachers from the village called Bandhoghat, Chatterjees from Chottogram, Mukherjees from Mukhati and Gangulys, well teachers who taught at the riverside of the river Ganges.

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