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

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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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[Oxford_2016-1] 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.