07-06-2007, 07:39 AM
There are several Marathi Brahmins with the surname Tope. I understand from a person with this surname that they include Tatya Tope hail from a single village in Maharashtra. This person mentioned that they all have a common origin with Tatya though he was unable to make a direction connection. He speculated that the surname may have come from their role in the artillery and originally it was something like Yeolakar.