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{{short description|Brahmin surname from the Indian subcontinent}} | {{short description|Brahmin surname from the Indian subcontinent}} | ||
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}} | {{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}} | ||
'''Banerjee''' or '''Bandyopadhyay''' is a surname of [[Bengali Brahmins|Brahmins]] originating from the [[Bengal]] region of the [[Indian subcontinent]] | '''Banerjee''' or '''Bandyopadhyay''' is a surname of [[Bengali Brahmins|Brahmins]] originating from the [[Bengal]] region of the [[Indian subcontinent]]. | ||
==Lineage and ancestry== | ==Lineage and ancestry== | ||
Banerjees are from the ancient [[Shandilya]] [[Gotra]], which means all Banerjees are descended from [[Kannauj]] from the ancient sage [[Shandilya (Rishi)|Shandilya]] as per the Puranas.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ghurye |first1=Govind Sadashiv |title=Caste and Race in India |date=1969 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7154-205-5 |page=257 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkjsvf6_vsC&pg=PA254 |accessdate=16 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Together with [[Mukherjee]]s, [[Chatterjee]]s, [[Bhattacharjee]]s and [[Ganguly (surname)|Ganguly]]s, Banerjees form the [[Kulin Brahmins]].<ref name="Bromley">{{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 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 |pages=35–36 |accessdate=28 February 2022}}</ref> | |||
Banerjees are from the ancient [[ | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
{{quotation|"Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first element of which, Ban-, is taken from Bandyopadhyay The final element -jee is derived from jha (greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya | {{quotation|"Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first element of which, Ban-, is taken from Bandyopadhyay The final element -jee is derived from jha (greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya 'teacher'); thus, Banerjee 'teacher who is head and only performs the main work aarti or,Vandana. A Sanskrit version of this name, Vandyopadhyaya, was coined from the elements vandya 'venerable' + upadhyaya 'teacher'. "|Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-508137-4}}|source=<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |title=Dictionary of American Family Names |date=8 May 2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 |page=94 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Dictionary_of_American_Family_Names/FJoDDAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>}} | ||
== Notable people == | == Notable people == | ||
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* [[Ambica Banerjee]] | * [[Ambica Banerjee]] | ||
* [[Audrish Banerjee]] | * [[Audrish Banerjee]] | ||
* [[Bhanu Banerjee]], actor and freedom activist | * [[Bhanu Banerjee]], actor and freedom activist | ||
* [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]] | * [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]] | ||
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* [[San Banarje]], film director, producer, photographer | * [[San Banarje]], film director, producer, photographer | ||
* [[Sanjay Banerjee]], Indian engineer | * [[Sanjay Banerjee]], Indian engineer | ||
* [[Shakuntala Banerjee]] (born 1973), German journalist | |||
* [[Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay]] | * [[Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay]] | ||
* [[Sarnath Banerjee]] | * [[Sarnath Banerjee]] | ||