Basu Explained

Basu (bn|বসু), also Bose (anglicized), Boshu, Bosu, or Bosh, is a Bengali surname of primarily Bengali Kayastha community originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.^[1] The name stems from Vāsu, which means 'Bright one'.^{[2] [3]}

Basus are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Gautam gotra, along with Ghoshes, Mitras and Bangaja (Eastern Bengal) Guhas.^{[4] [5]}

Notable people

• Amrita Basu, (b. 1953) American scholar
• Amar Bose, (1929 – 2013) Founder and chairman of Bose Corporation which make Bose home audio products. Indian American entrepreneur and academic. Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
• Anurag Basu film director
• Bani Basu, (b. 1939), Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic, and poet
• Benoy Basu, (1908-1930), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter
• Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress and model
• Buddhadeb Bosu, (1908–1974), Bengali writer
• Chandranath Basu, (1844-1910), Bengali conservative litterateur
• Debabrata Basu, (1924 - 2001) Indian statistician who proved Basu's theorem
• 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
• Jagadish Chandra Bose, (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, (1914-2010), founding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) . Barrister, longest serving chief minister of West Bengal.
• Jyotirmoy Basu, (1920-1982), Indian politician for CPM party .
• Kaushik Basu, (b. 1952), Indian economist
• Khudiram Bose, (1889-1908), Indian Freedom Fighter
• 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, seminal painter and sculptor
• Pam Basu (19581992), victim of carjacking and murder
• Rajnarayan Basu, (1826-1899), writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance
• 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, (b. 1979), Indian author
• Sankar Basu, electrical engineer
• 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.
• Satyendranath Bosu, (1882-1908), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter
• Sekhar Basu, (1952-2020), Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Awarded the Padma Shri in 2014
• Siddhartha Basu, Indian television producer-director and quiz show host
• Sreyashi Jhumki Basu, (1977-2008) American science educator
• Subhas Chandra Bose, (1897-1945), Indian nationalist leader

See also

• Jyoti Basu (disambiguation)

Notes and References

1. Book: Basu, Lokeshwar . Amader Padobir Itihas . Ananda . 1981 . Kolkata . 29 . Bengali.
2. Book: Dictionary of American Family Names. 2013. Oxford University Press.
3. Book: Hardwick, Charles . Traditions, Ssuperstitions, and Folk-Lore . 2020-07-24 . BoD – Books on Demand . 978-3-7523-3244-5 . 279 . en.
4. Book: Hopkins, Thomas J. . Krishna consciousness in the West . David G. . Bromley . Larry D. . Shinn . The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West . Bucknell University Press . 1989 . 978-0-8387-5144-2 . 35–36 . 2011-10-31.
5. Web site: 2017-11-23 . Kayasthas of Bengal Economic and Political Weekly . 2024-11-27 . www.epw.in . en.