Basak or Bosak ( bn, বসাক) is a Bengali Hindu

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that is found among the

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Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

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Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

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as well as in

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this surname is written as Basak while in some districts of Bihar as Basak or Bosak. The name is also spelt Bysack or Basacks by different families.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 58.5% of all known Basaks were residents of India and 30.1% were residents of

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Notable individuals

Subimal Basak Subimal Basak, ( bn, সুবিমল বসাক) is an Indian fiction writer. He is a member of the Hungry generation, with Samir Roychoudhury, Falguni Roy, Shakti Chattopadhyay and the movement's creator Malay Roy Choudhury. The Hungry G ...

Gour Das Bysack Gour Das Bysack (sometimes parts of his name have been transliterated as Gaur, Dass, Dos, Bysac) was a Bengali writer prominent in the late 19th century. He was known for his friendship with Michael Madhusudan Dutta. He died before 1901. Biogra ...

Netai Chand Bysack Netai Bysack (21 March 1921 – 5 December 2005) was an Indian cyclist. He competed in four events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He also represented India in the 1948 Olympics and the 1951 Asian Games The 1951 Asian Games ( hi, 1951 ए� ...

Arun Kumar Basak Arun Kumar Basak (born October 17, 1941) is a Bangladeshi physicist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics, University of Rajshahi. Early life and education Basak was born in Radhanagor of Pabna town, Bengal Presidency, British I ...

* Jharna Basak *

Soumen Basak Soumen Basak is an Indian immunologist and virologist at the National Institute of Immunology (NII). A former fellow of the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance, he is known for his studies on the NF-kappaB signaling system. Career Soumen earne ...

* Birendra Basak * Biren Kumar Basak *

Shyamal Bashak Shyamal Krishna Bashak ( bn, শ্যামল কৃষ্ণ বসাক) (born January 1, 1967) is a Bangladeshi artist, and served as senior artist cum audio-visual officer of the National Museum of Science and Technology in Bangladesh for ...

References

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