Bakshi
Bakshi may refer to:
Indian title
Bakshi is a historical title used in India, deriving from Persian word for "paymaster", and originating as the title of an official responsible for distributing wages in Muslim armies.[1]
- Bakshi Badri Nath Chhibber, a police officer of British India and independent India
- Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964.
- Bakshi Tirath Ram Vaid, a soldier of British India.
Indian surname
Derived from the historical title, "Bakshi" came to be used as a surname among Sikhs and Hindus of the Punjab region in India.[1]
- Amit S. Bakshi, Indian hockey player
- Anand Bakshi, Indian songwriter
- Chandrakant Bakshi, Indian author
- G. D. Bakshi, Major General of Indian Army
- Kanwal Singh Bakshi, New Zealand member of parliament
- Padumlal Punnalal Bakshi, Indian Hindi-language writer
- Praveen Bakshi, Lieutenant general of Indian army
- Ramprasad Bakshi (b.1894), Gujrati writer
- Rohit Bakshi (actor), Indian actor
- Rohit Bakshi (neurologist), American academic
- Sachindra Bakshi, Indian freedom fighter participated in kakori train robbery
- Tirath Singh Bakshi Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG Police) during the British Raj
- Zorawar Chand Bakshi (b. 1921) Indian general
Jewish surname
Bakshi is also a Jewish surname, from the Turkish word for garden.
- Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
- Ralph Bakshi, American animator and film director
Fictional characters
- Byomkesh Bakshi, A fictional Indian-Bengali detective created by author Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.
See also
References
- Patrick Hanks; Richard Coates; Peter McClure, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9.
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