people from vangal village have the culture of keeping 'vangal' as surname/family name. it clearly shows their endearment towards their heritage/culture. it is in practice from all the people (no religious restrictions). it was also very interesting to see the village with number of housing estates for community based groups until 18-19th century. later it was changed as the native people started to migrate around the globe for education, business and also settled in various places of india (chennai, mumbai, bangalore, kolkata etc.), singapore, usa, uk etc.