Sahni
Sahni or Sawhney or Sahney is a Hindu or Sikh surname from India.
Sahni belongs to Khukhrain group of the Khatri sub-caste
The Khukhrain are a group of eight specific clans of the Khatri sub-caste. The names of the eight clans are Anand, Sahni/Sawhney/Sahney, Sethi, Bhasin, Kohli, Sabharwal, Chadha and Suri.
People
Notable people with this surname include:
- Ajai Sahni, an author and expert on counter-terrorism
- Baljit Sahni (born 1987), an Indian football player
- Shankar Sahney Born 1966 . Singer Composer
- Balraj Sahni (1913–1973), a Hindi film actor
- Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003), a Hindi writer, playwright, and actor
- Birbal Sahni, FRS (1891–1949), an Indian paleobotanist
- Harpreet Sawhney, American engineer
- Jaideep Sahni (born 1974), an Indian screenwriter, songwriter, and film producer
- Mahendra Sahni, an Indian politician
- Parikshit Sahni, an Indian film and television actor
- Pritam Singh Sahni, also known by his pen name Kasad, a renowned Punjabi poet
- Sartaj Sahni, a US-based computer scientist
- S K Sahni, a retired Indian Army lieutenant-general
- Nitin Sawhney British Indian musician and composer
- Mohanbir Sawhney Professor at Kellogg School of Management famous for his Let's Get Vertical theory.
See also
- Sahni, Punjab, a village near Lakhpur, India
References
[[Category: caste related to Mahali
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