Basu
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Basu is a common Indian
surname
specifically for Bengali
Hindu
Kayastha
s.
The home state of the Basu family is West Bengal
. A theory is the founder of the clan was Dasharath Basu who migrated from Kannauj
to Bengal
in the 10th century. The Anglicized form of the name is Bose
.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
specifically for Bengali
Bengali people
The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...
Hindu
Hindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
Kayastha
Kayastha
Kayastha or Kayasth or Kayeth is a caste or community of Hindus originating in India. Kayastha means "scribe" in Sanskrit, and has traditionally denoted members of the writer caste....
s.
The home state of the Basu family is West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
. A theory is the founder of the clan was Dasharath Basu who migrated from Kannauj
Kannauj
Kannauj , also spelt Kanauj, is a city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city's name is traditionally derived from the term Kanyakubja . Kannauj is an ancient city, in earlier times the capital...
to Bengal
Bengal
Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...
in the 10th century. The Anglicized form of the name is Bose
Bose (surname)
Bose or Basu or Boshu is an Indian family name and surname found amongst Bengali Hindus.Boses belong to the Kayastha clan, a sub-caste of Kshatriyas that originated from Kannauj, the capital of India during much of the classical period, and emerged in eastern India during the 11th century AD...
.
Basu's
Some famous Basus are:- Syeyashi Jhumki Basu, science educator
- Satyendra Nath BoseSatyendra Nath BoseSatyendra Nath Bose FRS was an Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation...
, physicist - Jagdish Chandra BoseJagdish Chandra BoseAcharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, FRS was a Bengali polymath: a physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction...
, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, science fiction writer, and father of radio science - Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the most prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement and is a legendary figure in India today.
- Amrita BasuAmrita BasuAmrita Basu is an American academic. She specialises in South Asian politics who has a particular interest in women's movements and other social movements...
, (b. 1953) American scholar - Bani BasuBani BasuBani Basu is a Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet. She was educated at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta....
, (b.1939), Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet - Benoy BasuBenoy BasuBenoy Krishna Basu or Benoy Basu or Benoy Bose was an Bengali Indian revolutionary.-Early life:Basu was born on 11 September 1908, in the village Rohitbhog in the Munshiganj District, now in Bangladesh...
, (1908-1930), Bengali Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter - Debabrata BasuDebabrata BasuDebabrata Basu was a mathematical statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Basu invented simple examples that displayed some difficulties of likelihood-based statistics and frequentist statistics; Basu's paradoxes were especially important in the...
, (1924 - 2001) Indian statistician - Jyoti BasuJyoti BasuJyoti Basu was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him the longest-serving Chief Minister of any Indian state. Basu was a member of the CPI Politburo from the time of the...
, (1914-2010), Founding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)Communist Party of India (Marxist)The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of... - Kaushik BasuKaushik BasuKaushik Basu is an Indian economist who is currently the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and is also the C...
, (b. 1952), Indian economist - Kunal BasuKunal BasuKunal Basu is an Indian author of English fiction who has written three novels – The Opium Clerk , The Miniaturist , and Racists...
, author of the novel RacistsRacistsRacists is a 2006 novel by Kunal Basu about a scientific experiment in the mid-19th century in which a white girl and a black boy are raised together as savages on a small uninhabited island off the coast of Africa... - Rajnarayan BasuRajnarayan BasuRajnarayan Basu was a writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance. He was born in Boral in 24 Parganas and studied at the Hare School and Hindu College, both premier institutions in Kolkata, Bengal at the time. A monotheist at heart, Rajnarayan Basu converted to Brahmoism at the age of...
, (1826-1899), writer and intellectual of the Bengal RenaissanceBengal RenaissanceThe Bengal Renaissance refers to a social reform movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the region of Bengal in Undivided India during the period of British rule... - Samit BasuSamit BasuSamit Basu is the author of five novels: The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of The GameWorld Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy published by Penguin Books, India, Terror on the Titanic a YA novel published by Scholastic India, and Turbulence, a...
, (b. 1979), Indian author - Siddhartha BasuSiddhartha BasuSiddhartha Basu is an Indian television producer-director and quiz show host, most known as producer-director of shows like, Kaun Banega Crorepati , and Dus Ka Dum . He is Chairman and Managing Director of Big Synergy Media Ltd., established in 1989 as Synergy Media Ltd., which produces these shows...
, Indian TV producer - Bipasha BasuBipasha BasuBipasha Basu is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films. A former model, she was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996.-Early life:...
, BollywoodBollywoodBollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
actress - Benoy Krishna Basu, freedom fighter
- Amar Gopal Bose, chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. Listed on the 2007 Forbes 400 with a net worth of $1.8 billion
- Bijoy Basu (Mallick), Pioneer of Body Building in West Bengal - Founder & Owner of Mallick's Health home & Famous Kirtaan Singer