Basu (), also Bose (

anglicized Anglicisation or anglicization is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into or influenced by the culture of England. It can be sociocultural, in which a non-English place adopts the English language ...

), Boshu, Bosu, or Bosh, is a Bengali surname of primarily

Bengali Kayastha Bengali Kayastha is a Bengali Hindu caste that originated from the Bengal region of Indian subcontinent, and is one of the main subgroups of the Kayastha community. The historical caste occupation of Kayasthas throughout India has been that of ...

community originating from the

Bengal Bengal ( ) is a Historical geography, historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the Eastern South Asia, eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Benga ...

region of the

Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divided between Bangladesh, India, and Pakista ...

. The name stems from Vāsu (), which means 'Bright one'. Basus are considered as

Kulin Kayastha Kulin Kayastha () is a sub-caste of the Bengali Kayastha caste in Bengal region of Indian subcontinent. They are also known as the Kulina Kayasthas. The Kayasthas are regarded in Bengal, along with the Brahmins and Baidyas, as being the "highes ...

s 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 gotr ...

, along with Ghoshes, Mitras and Bangaja (Eastern Bengal) Guhas.

Notable people

* Amrita Basu, (b. 1953) American scholar *

Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the found ...

, (1929 – 2013) Founder and chairman of

Bose Corporation Bose Corporation () is an American manufacturing company that predominantly sells audio equipment. The company was established by Amar Bose in 1964 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is best known for its Home audio, home audio syste ...

which make Bose home audio products.

Indian American Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from India. The terms Asian Indian and East Indian are used to avoid confusion with Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans in the United States, who ar ...

entrepreneur and academic. Professor at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT). *

Anurag Basu Anurag Basu (born 8 May 1970) is an Indian director, screenwriter, actor and producer in Hindi cinema. He is best known for films that tackle bold themes of passion, envy, and adultery. After initial setbacks, he achieved his breakthrough with ...

film director * Bani Basu, (b. 1939), Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic, and poet *

Benoy Basu Benoy Krishna Basu ( ''Binôe Boshu''), Benoy Basu, or Benoy Bose (11 September 1908 – 13 December 1930) was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who launched an attack on the Secretariat Building; the Writers' Building at ...

, (1908-1930), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter *

Bipasha Basu Bipasha Basu (born 7 January 1979) is an Indian actress. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she List of awards and nominations received by Bipasha Basu, has received a Filmfare Awards, Filmfare Award. In the 2000s and 2010s, she was ...

, Bollywood actress and model *

Buddhadeb Bosu Buddhadeva Bose (;2 September 1908 – 14 August 1974), also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays ...

, (1908–1974), Bengali writer *

Chandranath Basu Chandranath Basu (1844–1910) was an Indian litterateur. A staunch Hindu, Chandranath coined the term Hindutva and has been regarded as a doyen of economic and Indian nationalism in Bengal. Early life and education Chandranath was born on 31 Au ...

, (1844-1910), Bengali conservative litterateur *

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 an ...

, (1924 - 2001) Indian statistician who proved

Basu's theorem In statistics, Basu's theorem states that any boundedly complete and sufficient statistic is independent of any ancillary statistic. This is a 1955 result of Debabrata Basu. It is often used in statistics as a tool to prove independence of two s ...

Durga Das Basu Durga Das Basu (1910–1997) was an Indian jurist and lawyer. He wrote the ''Commentary on the Constitution of India'' and ''Casebook on the Indian Constitutional Law''. The former is one of the most important textbooks in social sciences and l ...

, (1910 - 1997), Indian jurist and lawyer who wrote the ''Commentary on the Constitution of India'' and ''Casebook on the Indian Constitutional Law'' *

Jagadish Chandra Bose Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (; ; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions ...

, (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. *

Jyoti Basu Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest ...

, (1914-2010), founding member of the

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a Communism in India, communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electora ...

. Barrister, longest serving chief minister of

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

. *

Jyotirmoy Basu Jyotirmoy Basu (18 December 1920 – 12 January 1982) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from the Diamond Harbour constituency of West Bengal in 1967, 1971, 1977 and 1980 as a memb ...

, (1920-1982), Indian politician for CPM party . *

Kaushik Basu Kaushik Basu (born 9 January 1952) is an Indian economist who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016 and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 2009 to 2012. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studie ...

, (b. 1952), Indian economist * Khudiram Bose, (1889-1908), Indian Freedom Fighter *

Kumudini Basu Kumudini Basu (, 1873–1942) was a Bengali writer, social reformer, freedom fighter and women's rights activist in British India. Family Basu was born in 1873 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, and was the eldest daughter of the Indian nati ...

(1873–1942), Bengali writer, social reformer and women's rights activist in

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

. * Kunal Basu, author of the novel ''Racists'' * Maladhar Basu, a poet of the Hossain-Shahi period in Bengal history, writer of Sri Krishna Vijaya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, Triumph of Lord Krishna) * Mankumari Basu (1863–1943), Bengali poet * Neil Basu (b. 1968), senior British police officer. * Nagendranath Basu (1866-1938), encyclopedia compiler, archaeologist, and historian * Nandita Basu, Indian-born American environmental engineer *

Nandalal Bose Nandalal Bose (3 December 1882 – 16 April 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism, Contextual Modernism. A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for his ...

, seminal painter and sculptor * Pam Basu (19581992), victim of carjacking and murder * Rajnarayan Basu, (1826-1899), writer and intellectual of the

Bengal Renaissance The Bengal Renaissance (), also known as the Bengali Renaissance, was a cultural, social, intellectual, and artistic movement that took place in the Bengal region of the British Raj, from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Histo ...

* Rajshekhar Basu (1880–1960), Bengali writer, chemist and lexicographer * Rash Behari Basu (1886-1945), Indian Revolutionary Leader * Samaresh Basu, writer; winner of the 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award *

Samit Basu Samit Basu (born 14 December 1979) is an Indian novelist and filmmaker whose body of work includes science fiction, fantasy and superhero novels, children's books, graphic novels, short stories, and a Netflix film. His most recently publishe ...

, (b. 1979), Indian author *

Sankar Basu Sankar Basu is an American electrical engineer and a permanent program director at the National Science Foundation, where he manages programs in electronic design automation, micro and nano-electronic system, cyber-physical systems, as well as n ...

, electrical engineer *

Satyendra Nath Bose Satyendra Nath Bose (; 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statist ...

, (1894 – 1974), Indian mathematician and physicist. Best known for his work on

quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics is the fundamental physical Scientific theory, theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light; its unusual characteristics typically occur at and below the scale of atoms. Reprinted, Addison-Wesley, 1989, It is ...

Bose–Einstein statistics In quantum statistics, Bose–Einstein statistics (B–E statistics) describes one of two possible ways in which a collection of non-interacting identical particles may occupy a set of available discrete energy states at thermodynamic equilibri ...

and

Bose–Einstein condensate In condensed matter physics, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at very low Density, densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero#Relation with Bose–Einste ...

. Elementary particles

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were named after him. * Satyendranath Bosu, (1882-1908), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter *

Sekhar Basu Dr. Sekhar Basu (20 September 1952 – 24 September 2020) was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). He also served a ...

, (1952-2020), Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Awarded the

Padma Shri The Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī'', lit. 'Lotus Honour'), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. In ...

in 2014 *

Siddhartha Basu Siddhartha Basu is an Indian television producer-director and quiz show host. He is best known for hosting shows such as Quiz Time', ''Mastermind India'' and ''University Challenge'', and as producer-director of shows such as ''Kaun Banega Cr ...

, Indian television producer-director and quiz show host *

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 *

Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian independence movement, Indian nationalist whose defiance of British raj, British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with ...

, (1897-1945), Indian nationalist leader

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{{Reflist Surnames Bengali Hindu surnames Surnames of Indian origin Kayastha

Notable people

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