Bose (surname)

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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

↑ 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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[1] Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. 2013.

[AlHind-2] 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.

[Hopkins1989pp35-36-3] 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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