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** Actually worse.

* Indians in fiction named [[wikipedia:Mahatma|"Mahatma"]]. It's not a first name, it's a kind of honorific. Probably, the cause of this is [[wikipedia:Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]].

* In the late 1980s sitcom [[wikipedia:Head of the Class|"Head of the Class"]], an Indian-American character is named "Jawaharlal Choudhury." Not only do the given name and the family name unlikely to be paired in a real Indian person because they come from two different ethnicities, but also "Jawaharlal" is obviously taken from the name of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Also, naming fashions change from generation to generation in India; thus, to an Indian, someone named Jawaharlal should have been born in the late 19th century, not someone who is a teenager in 1986.

* [http://ignisart.com/camdenhouse/canon/sign-12.htm Mahomet Singh] in the Sherlock Holmes novel ''The Sign of The Four''. The Penguin Books annotation calls this a solecism, and blandly remarks that "the two names would not be found together." This annotation should be accompanied by bells, whistles, flashing lights, and a [[wikipedia:Maroon (rocket)|maroon.]] Especially a maroon.