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{{Infobox surname
|name = Saha (Shaha)
|pronunciation = Saha
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|meaning = Businessperson, merchant
|region = [[Bangladesh]], [[West Bengal]], [[Assam]], [[Tripura]]
|origin = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|variant = [[#Variations|numerous]]
|footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html |url-status=dead |title=1990 Census Name Files |date=30 March 2005 |website=United States Census Bureau |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050330030604/http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html |archive-date=30 March 2005 |access-date=8 October 2018}}</ref>
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'''Saha''' ({{lang-bn|সাহা}}) is a [[Bengali Hindu]] surname mostly residing in the Indian states of [[West Bengal]], [[Assam]], and [[Tripura]], as well as in [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saha |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Saha |website=Banglapedia |access-date=2020-07-08}}</ref> Several meanings of Saha include 'merchant', 'honest' and 'good'. The word Saha is derived from Sanskrit "Sadhu".<ref>[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1035121/] [https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b48f95607dba348fff8232]</ref>

[[File:Meghnad_Saha_with_his_assistant.jpg|thumb|[[Meghnad Saha]] of [[Bengal Presidency]]]]

In the Pala domain a number of inscriptions from the Pala period mentioning communities of merchants have been found, some of which use the title Sadhu for a merchant family.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/24692277 Merchant groups in early medieval Bengal: with special reference to the Rajbhita stone inscription of the time of Mahīpāla I, Year 33, Ryosuke Furui, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Vol. 76, No. 3 (2013), pp. 391-412]</ref><ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/radha/p_a022.htm TWO MEDIAEVAL INSCRIPTIONS, Priyatosh Banerjee, Journal of the Asiatic Society, Letters, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1953]</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[Anamika Saha]] – Indian actress in Bengali films
*[[Arati Saha]] – Indian swimmer
*[[Arun Saha]] – Bangladeshi actor
*[[Ashim Saha]] – Bangladeshi poet
*[[Asit Kumar Saha]] – National level wrestler
*[[Bidya Sinha Saha Mim]] - Bangladeshi actress
*[[Biplob Saha]] - Bangladeshi fashion designer
*[[Chandrima Shaha]] – Indian biologist
*[[Chittaranjan Saha]] - Bangladeshi educator
*[[Debattama Saha]] - Indian Television Actress
*[[Debojit Saha]] – Indian singer
*[[Emon Saha]] - Bangladeshi music composer
*[[Ena Saha]] – Indian film actress and model
*[[Gopinath Saha]] – Bengali activist for Indian independence
*[[Mahadev Saha]] – Bangladeshi poet
*[[Meghnad Saha]] – Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars
*[[Mousumi Saha]] – Indian actress in Bengali films and television
*[[Pijush Saha]] - Indian film director
*[[Proloy Saha]] – Indian footballer
*[[Ranadaprasad Saha]] – Bangladeshi businessman and philanthropist
*[[Samir Kumar Saha]] - Bangladeshi microbiologist
*[[Saraswati Saha]] - Indian sprinter
*[[Satya Saha]] - Bangladeshi composer and film director
*[[Senjuti Saha]] - Bangladeshi scientist
*[[Shithi Saha]] - Bangaldeshi singer
*[[Surjit Saha]] – Indian television actor and model
*[[Swapan Saha]] – Indian film director in Bengali movies
*[[Viki Saha]] - Indian cricketer
*[[Wriddhiman Saha]] – Indian cricketer

==See also==
*[[Shah (surname)]] in Western India
*[[Saha ionization equation]] - relating the densities of atoms, ions, and electrons in a plasma.
*[[Saha Airlines]] - an Iranian airline based in Tehran that operates scheduled domestic flights.
*[[Saha, Ambala]] - town and tehsil in Ambala district of Haryana state of India.

==References==
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