Evidence record · personal name

Meaning and use are separate questions.

Lexical evidence: Behind the Name connects manas with Indra.

Documented use: Documented professional credits.

A published interpretation

Behind the Name connects Maninder with Sanskrit manas, associated with mind or spirit, and Indra. The entry records ਮਨਿੰਦਰ in Gurmukhi.[4]

An anthropology qualification record

A Panjab University CV names Dr. Maninder Kaur in the Department of Anthropology at Chandigarh. Its degree table records a B.Sc. in 1992, an Anthropology master’s degree in 1994 and a doctorate in 2003 at that university. The document uses Assistant Professor as the designation. Those qualification dates identify stages in the particular academic record; they are not dates when the name entered Punjabi usage. The selected first page does not date its own publication. Its designation therefore supplies an institutional credit without establishing a current appointment or a later promotion sequence.[1]

A December 2012 appointment resolution

Minutes of Panjab University’s Syndicate meeting on 15 December 2012 provide a differently dated record. Item 2(xii) considered selection-committee minutes of 10 December and resolved that Dr. Maninder Kaur be appointed Assistant Professor in Anthropology on one year’s probation. This is a formal decision attached to a meeting date and department. The resolution does not itself confirm the date of joining or completion of probation. Its value here is the precise administrative credit, rather than an inferred continuous employment history.[2]

Maninder Singh Dhillon’s remote-sensing CV

The University of Würzburg’s Earth Observation Research Cluster publishes a profile headed Maninder Singh Dhillon, Dr. Its research fields include agricultural remote sensing and crop-yield modelling. The CV records work at the Punjab Remote Sensing Center in Ludhiana from December 2015 to September 2016, followed by an Earth Observation and Geoanalysis master’s programme at Würzburg and later doctoral work there. The master’s programme is labelled EAGLE. These institutional and disciplinary details identify the particular published name. The profile’s dates belong to its career entries, while the page itself is undated. Its list of research interests is not evidence for scientific results or a personal explanation of the name Maninder.[3]

Sources & notes

Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.

  1. Maninder Kaur. Curriculum Vitae ↗institutional self-CV · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: PDF 1, name, department and degree table. Accessed 2026-11-02.First page checked; undated appointment wording is a historical snapshot.Return to An anthropology qualification record, paragraph 1 ↑
  2. Panjab University. Minutes of the meeting of the Syndicate held on Saturday, 15th December 2012 at 2.00 p.m., in the Syndicate Room, Panjab University, Chandigarh. ↗official university minutes · Source date: 2012-12-15 meeting; publication date unestablished · Locator: Printed/PDF 11, item 2(xii); cover on PDF 1. Accessed 2026-11-02.Cover and item checked; an appointment resolution, not joining confirmation.Return to A December 2012 appointment resolution, paragraph 1 ↑
  3. University of Würzburg. Maninder Singh Dhillon, Dr. ↗institutional profile and CV · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: Name heading; Research and Curriculum Vitae through the Ludhiana entry. Accessed 2026-11-02.Selected profile checked; dated CV entries do not verify current employment.Return to Maninder Singh Dhillon’s remote-sensing CV, paragraph 1 ↑
  4. Behind the Name. Meaning, origin and history of the name Maninder ↗name reference · Source date: Updated 2024-04-23 · Locator: Maninder entry: Gurmukhi script field and manas/Indra interpretation in Meaning & History. Accessed 2026-11-04.Entry checked, including its 23 April 2024 update. The interpretation is attributed to the reference and does not establish an individual’s naming intention.Return to A published interpretation, paragraph 1 ↑
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