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Current region Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago and other parts of Trinidad and Tobago, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America Place of origin Mahadeva Dubey, Somra, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Members Pundit Raghunath Capildeo, Soogee Capildeo, Rudranath Capildeo, Simbhoonath Capildeo, Surendranath Capildeo, Vahni Capildeo, Droapatie Capildeo, V. S. Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, and Neil Bissoondath Connected members Seepersad Naipaul and Nadira Naipaul Connected families Gobin family, Naipaul family, Bissoondath family, Maraj family Estate Anand Bhavan (आनंद भवन; Mansion of Bliss) aka Lion House Main Road Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago | ||
The Capildeo family is an Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian family of politicians and writers. The most notable members are 2001 Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul and mathematician and politician Rudranath Capildeo. The ancestral home of the Capildeo family is known as Anand Bhavan ("The Lion House") and is in Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago. No one today knows how the name Kapil transformed into Capildeo. It is possible that Kapil added dev, meaning God, from his village's name of Mahadeva Dubey to his name. Translation from Hindustani to English was not well developed in the 19th century and words were spelt differently then from the way they are now. Thus, Kapil was changed to Capil and dev to deo, giving Kapil's descendants the surname of Capildeo.
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Tatiana Loveday Capildeo and Montague Cato Capildeo