Bose, Basu, Bosu, Boshu or Bosh (Bengali: বসু, romanized: Bôsu, Bengali pronunciation: [boʃu]) is a surname found amongst upper caste Bengali Hindus. It stems from Sanskrit वासु (Vāsu, a name of Viṣṇu meaning ‘dwelling in all beings’).[1]
History
Boses belong to Kayastha caste in Bengal. The Bengali Kayasthas evolved between the 5th/6th century AD and 11th/12th century AD, its component elements being putative Kshatriyas and mostly Brahmin.[2] Boses are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Gautam gotra, along with Ghoshes, Mitras and Guhas.[3]
Notables of Indian or Bengali descent
- Abala Bose (1865–1951), Indian social worker
- Amar Bose (1929–2013), MIT professor, founder and chairman of the Bose Corporation
- Ankiti Bose (born 1992), Indian entrepreneur who works on the digitisation of the textile and apparel industry
- Ashish Bose (1930-2014), Demographer who coined BIMARU
- Benoy Basu (1908–1930), Indian revolutionary
- Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974), Bengali writer
- Girish Chandra Bose (1853–1939), Indian educator and botanist
- Jyoti Basu (1914–2010), Indian politician of the Communist Party (Marxist), 6th chief minister of West Bengal
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1935), Bengali physicist, science fiction writer, and student of radio science
- Kamal Bose (1915–1995), Indian cinematographer, winner of five Filmfare Awards
- Khudiram Bose (1889–1908), Indian freedom fighter
- Mankumari Basu (1863–1943), Bengali poet
- Mihir Bose (born 1947), Indian-born British journalist, former BBC's sports editor
- N. S. Chandra Bose (1932–2010), medical doctor and politician
- Nandalal Bose (1883–1966), Indian painter
- Pooja Bose Indian Television Actress
- Rahul Bose (born 1967), Indian actor
- Rajsekhar Bose (1880–1960), Bengali writer, chemist and lexicographer
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987), Indian mathematician and statistician
- Rash Behari Bose (1886–1945), Indian freedom fighter
- Kaushik Basu (born 1952), Professor of Economics at Cornell and Chief Economist at World Bank
- Sarat Chandra Bose (1889–1950), Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (brother of Subhas Chandra Bose)
- Soumya Sankar Bose (born 1990), Indian Artist and Photographer
- Sarmila Bose (born 1959), Indian journalist and researcher
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974), Indian physicist, known for the Bose–Einstein collaborations
- Sachindra Prasad Bose (died 1941), designer of the Calcutta Flag
- Shree Bose (born 1994), American scientist, winner of the inaugural Google Science Fair
- Sudhindra Bose (1883–1946), pioneer in teaching Asian politics and civilization in the United States
- Swadesh Bose (1928–2009), Bangladeshi economist
- Sugata Bose (born 1956), Harvard professor, Member of Parliament and grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945), fighter of the Indian independence movement and eminent personality of the Indian National Army
- Uma Bose (1921–1942), 'The Nightingale of Bengal', musical prodigy
- Vivian Bose (1891–1983), judge of the Supreme Court of India and one of the founders of scouting in India
Notable others
- Sterling Bose (1906–1959), American jazz trumpeter and cornetist
von Bose is an unrelated German surname
- Julius von Bose (1809–1894), Prussian Army general
- Countess Louise von Bose (1813–1883), German philanthropist
- Herbert von Bose (1893–1934), German civil servant
- Jobst-Hilmar von Bose (1897–1949), German soldier
- Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953), German composer
Bosé is an unrelated European surname
- Lucia Bosè (Italian spelling, born Lucia Borloni) or Lucía Bosé (Spanish spelling) (1931–2020), Italian actress
- Miguel Bosé (born 1956), Spanish singer and son of Lucia Bosè
References
- ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. 2013.
- ↑ Andre Wink (1991). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 269. ISBN 978-90-04-09509-0. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ↑ Hopkins, Thomas J. (1989). "The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West". In Bromley, David G.; Shinn, Larry D. (eds.). Krishna consciousness in the West. Bucknell University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8387-5144-2. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
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