Bhattacharyya

Bhattacharya, Bhattacharyya and Bhattacharjee (all pronounced bhôṭṭacarjô in Bengali and bhôttasarzô in Assamese) are three common spellings of a prominent aristocratic title among the Bengali Brahmins and Assamese Brahmins.

Etymology

Bhattacharya (IAST: Bhaṭṭācārya) was a noble title or upādhi conferred upon those Bengali Brahmins who were involved in sacred rituals by Indian kings and emperors in ancient and medieval times. In modern times, however, the Bhattacharyas are found almost in every quarter of the society. Commonly used as a surname, the word is a combination of the Sanskrit titles Bhaṭṭa ("Vedic priest") and Ācārya ("teacher, preceptor"). Bhaṭṭa is itself a title common in many parts of India. Together with Mukherjees, Banerjees, Bhattacharjees and Gangulys, Chatterjees form the Kulin Brahmins, the highest tier of the Bengali caste system. Almost all Brahmins in Southern Bengal trace their origins from the Kanyakubja region. They are Bandyopadhyay , Chattopadhyay , Mukhopadhyay , Gangopadhyay , Bhattacharya , Mishra , Bagchi etc.

Notable people

Notable people with the name include:

A. Bhattacharya, Indian statistician who worked at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1930s and early 40s
Abhi Bhattacharya (1921–1993), Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema
Abhijeet Bhattacharya (born 1958), Indian celebrity, Bollywood playback singer and composer
Abhinash Bhattacharya, leader in revolutionary movement for Indian independence
Aditya Bhattacharya (born 1965), Indian film director and screenwriter, Raakh
Amitabh Bhattacharya, Indian lyricist and playback singer who works in Bollywood
Anupam Bhattacharya, Indian actor
Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian politician, Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly and President, West Bengal Youth Congress
Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian footballer
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India
Atanu Bhattacharya, Indian football goalkeeper coach
B. B. Bhattacharya, Indian economist and educationist
Basu Bhattacharya (1934–1997), Hindi film director
Bibhu Bhattacharya (1944–2011), Bengali Indian male actor
Bidhayak Bhattacharya (1907–1986), Indian playwright, litterateur and journalist
Bijon Bhattacharya (1917–1978), Indian theatre and film personality from Bengal
Bikash Bhattacharya, Indian politician
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924–1997), Indian writer of modern Assamese Literature
Biswajit Bhattacharya, head coach of George Telegraph SC in the Calcutta Football League
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (born 1944), Indian politician, member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India, Chief Minister of West Bengal (2000–2011)
Chandan Kumar Bhattacharya, bilingual (Bengali and English) writer, poet, composer and mail artist
Chandril Bhattacharya, popular singer
Charu Chandra Bhattacharya (1883–1961), prominent science teacher and writer of various scientific articles mainly for children in Bangla
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, political artist of the mid-20th century
Debashish Bhattacharya (born 1963), Indian classical musician who plays the lap slide guitar
Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001), Bengali radio producer, record producer, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, photographer
Dhananjay Bhattacharya, son of Surendranath Bhattacharya - Bengal singer
Dipankar Bhattacharya, Indian politician
Amitabha Bhattacharya, Indian professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and an author of digital communication
Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya (died 1831), Indian journalist, teacher and reformer
Gautam Bhattacharya, Indian sports journalist, sports editor of the Ananda Bazar Patrika
Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya (1895–1981), Indian entomologist and naturalist
Haridas Bhattacharya (1891–1956), Bengali Indian philosopher and educationist
Hiren Bhattacharyya, poet in Assamese language
Jaya Bhattacharya, Indian television actress
Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, pandit, one of a group of Hindu nationalists who held a benevolent view of the traditional role of caste in Indian society
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (1769–1821), Indian poet of the late 18th century
Kanailal Bhattacharya, educationist, former minister of Commerce and Indrustries and food department, West Bengal
Kanailal Bhattacharya, Indian nationalist
Kankan Bhattacharyya, one of the scientists of modern non-linear laser spectroscopy
Kedarnath Bhattacharya, first elected vice-chairman of Howrah Municipal Corporation
Kumar Sanu/Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 1957), Indian singer
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya (1875–1949), philosopher at Calcutta University
Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE (born 1940), Indian-born British engineer, educator and government advisor
Lilabati Bhattacharjee, mineralogist and former Director (Mineral Physics), Geological Survey of India
Lokenath Bhattacharya (1927–2001), prolific Bangla writer who chose to remain in isolation
Madhuri Bhattacharya, Indian actress and former model who has appeared in Kannada and Bollywood films
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya CIE (1836–1906), Indian scholar of Sanskrit, principal of the Sanskrit College for over 18 years
Monoranjan Bhattacharya, Indian football international player and a club level coach and manager
Nabarun Bhattacharya (born 1948), Indian Bengali writer
Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya (born 1888), Commissioner of the Berhampore Municipality from 1932 to 1948
Nalinidhar Bhattacharya (born 1921), poet and literary critic from Assam
Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya (1887 – 1954), an Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist, known as M. N. Roy
Nivedita Bhattacharya, Indian actress
P. C. Bhattacharya, the seventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 March 1962 to 30 June 1967
Panchanan Bhattacharya (1853–1919), chief disciple of Yogiraj Sri Shama Churun Lahiri Mahasaya
Pannalal Bhattacharya, Bengal singer
Rinki Bhattacharya (born 1942), Indian writer, columnist and documentary filmmaker
Ritwik Bhattacharya, junior squash player
Sameer Bhattacharya, guitarist for Texas rock band Flyleaf
Sanjiv Bhattacharya, British journalist, based in the US
Santosh Bhattacharyya (1924–2011), Bengali Indian scholar, Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
Santosh Chandra Bhattacharyya, teacher of Dhaka University and an intellectual martyr in the Bangladesh Liberation War
Sharmila Bhattacharya, the head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
Shoumo Bhattacharya, Indian medical doctor and academic
Siva Brata Bhattacherjee (1921–2003), Professor of Physics and crystallographer, University of Calcutta
Soumya Bhattacharya (born 1969), Indian journalist and author
Subrata Bhattacharya, Indian football Defender who played for India in the 1984 Asian Cup
Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950–2015), Indian novelist
Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947), Bengali poet and playwright
Suma Bhattacharya, Indian model and film actress
Tarun Bhattacharya, Indian classical musician who plays the santoor, a type of hammered dulcimer
Utpal Bhattacharya, finance professor at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business
Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, chief architect and city planner of Jaipur

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