Bose (surname)

Bose or Basu or Bosu or Boshu or Bosh is a surname found amongst Bengali Hindus. In Bengali script, the surname is written as বসু, which is pronounced Boshu. It stems from Sanskrit वासु vāsu (a name of Vishṇu 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

Notable others

  • Sterling Bose (1906–1959), American jazz trumpeter and cornetist

von Bose is an unrelated German surname

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

  1. Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. 2013.
  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.
  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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