Basu (variants: ''
Bose, Boshu, Bosu, Bosh'') is an Indian
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
, primarily found among
Bengali Hindus. It stems from Sanskrit वासु vāsu (a name of Vishṇu meaning 'dwelling in all beings').
History
Basus belong to the
Kayastha caste in Bengal. They evolved as a caste from a category of officials or scribes, between the 5th/6th century CE and 11th/12th century CE, its component elements being putative
Kshatriyas and mostly
Brahmins, according to
André Wink.
Basus are considered as
Kulin Kayasthas of Gautam
gotra
In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage. It broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor or patriline. Generally, the gotra fo ...
, along with
Ghoshes and
Mitras.
Notable people
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Amrita Basu
Amrita Basu is an American academic and political scientist. She currently is a professor at Amherst College where she holds affiliations in the departments of Political Science, Sexuality, Women's, & Gender Studies, Asian Languages & Civilization ...
, (b. 1953) American scholar
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Amar Bose, (1929 – 2013) Founder and chairman of
Bose Corporation which make
Bose home audio products.
Indian American
Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...
entrepreneur and academic. Professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Bani Basu
Bani Basu (born 11 March 1939 bn, বাণী বসু) is a prolific Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic, poet, translator and professor.
Life
She received her formal education from the well-known Lady Brabourne College, Scottish Chu ...
, (b. 1939), Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic, and poet
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Benoy Basu, (1908-1930), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter
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Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress and model
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Buddhadeb Bosu, (1908–1974), Bengali writer
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Chandranath Basu, (1844-1910), Bengali conservative litterateur
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Debabrata Basu
Debabrata Basu (5 July 1924 – 24 March 2001) was an Indian statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Basu invented simple examples that displayed some difficulties of likelihood-based statistics and ...
, (1924 - 2001) Indian statistician who proved
Basu's theorem
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Durga Das Basu, (1910 - 1997), Indian jurist and lawyer who wrote the ''Commentary on the Constitution of India'' and ''Casebook on the Indian Constitutional Law''
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Jagadish Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
(;, ; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a biologist, physicist, Botany, botanist and an early writer of science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contr ...
, (1858 - 1937), Biologist, physicist, botanist and an early writer of science fiction. One of the fathers of radio science, inventor of crescograph, founder of Bose Institute.
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Jyoti Basu, (1914-2010), founding member of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) . Barrister, longest serving chief minister of
West Bengal.
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Jyotirmoy Basu, (1920-1982), Indian politician for CPM party .
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Kaushik Basu, (b. 1952), Indian economist
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Khudiram Bose, (1889-1908), Indian Freedom Fighter
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Kunal Basu, author of the novel ''Racists''
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Maladhar Basu
Maladhar Basu ( bn, মালাধর বসু; c. 15th century) was a Bengali poet. He wrote ''Sri Krishna Vijaya'' (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, ''Triumph of Lord Krishna''), the earliest Bengali narrative poem that can be assign ...
, a poet of the Hossain-Shahi period in Bengal history, writer of Sri Krishna Vijaya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, Triumph of Lord Krishna)
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Neil Basu
Anil Kanti "Neil" Basu (born 1968) is a senior British police officer. Basu is currently a Non-Executive Director of the College of Policing, leading the strategic command course which prepares police officers and staff for promotion to the mos ...
(b. 1968), senior British police officer.
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Nagendranath Basu (1866-1938), encyclopedia compiler, archaeologist, and historian
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Nandalal Bose
Nandalal Bose (3 December 1882 – 16 April 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism.
A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for his "Indian style" of painting. He became the principa ...
, seminal painter and sculptor
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Nandita Basu, Indian-born American environmental engineer
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Pam Basu (19581992), victim of carjacking and murder
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Rajnarayan Basu, (1826-1899), writer and intellectual of the
Bengal Renaissance
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Rash Behari Bose, (1886 – 1945), Indian revolutionary leader, founded the
First Indian National Army
The First Indian National Army (First INA) was the Indian National Army as it existed between February and December 1942. It was formed with Japanese aid and support after the Fall of Singapore and consisted of approximately 12,000 of the 40,0 ...
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Samaresh Basu, writer; winner of the 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award
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Samit Basu, (b. 1979), Indian author
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Satyendra Nath Bose, (1894 – 1974), Indian mathematician and physicist. Best known for his work on
quantum mechanics,
Bose–Einstein statistics and
Bose–Einstein condensate. Elementary particles
Bosons were named after him.
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Satyendranath Bosu
Satyendra Nath Bosu (aka. Satyendranath Bose or Satyen Bose; 30 July 1882 – 21 November 1908) was an Indian nationalist of the Anushilan Samiti. Bosu, while held in Alipore Jail hospital as an under-trial in the Alipore Bomb Case,shot dead ...
, (1882-1908), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter
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Sekhar Basu, (1952-2020), Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, Awarded the
Padma Shri in 2014
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Siddhartha Basu, Indian television producer-director and quiz show host
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Sreyashi Jhumki Basu
Sreyashi Jhumki Basu (1977–2008) was a professor of Science Education at New York University who is best known for her work to encourage urban minority students to succeed through the study of science.
Background
Basu attended Stanford Un ...
, (1977-2008) American science educator
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Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose ( ; 23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945
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, (1897-?), Indian freedom fighter. Commander in chief of the Azad Hind Fauj.
See also
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Jyoti Basu (disambiguation)
References
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Surnames
Bengali Hindu surnames
Indian surnames
Kayastha