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'''Basu''' (variants: ''[[Bose (surname)|Bose]], Boshu, Bosu, Bosh'') is an [[India]]n [[Bengali name|surname]], primarily found among [[Bengali people|Bengali]] upper caste [[Bengali Hindus|Hindus]]. It stems from Sanskrit वासु vāsu (a name of Vishṇu meaning 'dwelling in all beings').<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.momjunction.com/articles/bengali-surnames-caste-last-names-meanings_00573410/#:~:text=The%20surname%20Bose%2FBasu%20is,radiance%E2%80%9D%20or%20%E2%80%9Cgem.%E2%80%9D|title = 50 Popular Bengali Surnames or Last Names with Meanings|date = 12 February 2020}}</ref>

== History ==
Basus belong to the [[Bengali Kayastha|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 [[Kshatriya]]s and mostly [[Brahmins]].<ref name="AlHind">{{cite book | author=Andre Wink| title=Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCVyhH5VDjAC| accessdate=3 September 2011| year=1991| publisher=Brill Academic Publishers| isbn=978-90-04-09509-0| page=269}}</ref> Basus are considered as [[Kulin Kayastha]]s of Gautam [[gotra]], along with [[Ghosh]]es and [[Mitra (surname)|Mitras]].<ref name="Hopkins1989pp35-36">{{cite book | title=Krishna Consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC |pages=35–36 |accessdate=2011-10-31}}</ref>

== 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).
* [[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|West Bengal]].
* [[Jyotirmoy Basu]], (1920-1982), Indian politician for CPM party .
* [[Kaushik Basu]], (b. 1952), Indian economist
* [[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)
* [[Neil Basu]] (b. 1968), senior British police officer.
* [[Nagendranath Basu]] (1866-1938), encyclopedia compiler, archaeologist, and historian
* [[Nandita Basu]], Indian-born American environmental engineer
* [[Pam Basu]] (1958{{ndash}}1992), victim of carjacking and murder
* [[Rajnarayan Basu]], (1826-1899), writer and intellectual of the [[Bengal Renaissance]]
* [[Samaresh Basu]], writer; winner of the 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award
* [[Samit Basu]], (b. 1979), Indian author
* [[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
* [[Shweta Basu Prasad]], Indian film actress
* [[Siddhartha Basu]], Indian television producer-director and quiz show host
* [[Sreyashi Jhumki Basu]], (1977-2008) American science educator
* [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], (1897-?), Indian nationalist leader .

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Surnames]]
[[Category:Bengali Hindu surnames]]
[[Category:Indian surnames]]
[[Category:Kayastha]]

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