Guha (surname)

Guha is an Indian surname found among Bengali Hindus. It is also another name for the Hindu deity Kartikeya .

Guhas mostly belong to Kayastha caste in Bengal. The Bengali Kayasthas evolved as a caste from a category of officials, between the 5th/6th century AD and 11th/12th century AD, its component elements being putative Kshatriyas and mostly Brahmins.[1] Guhas (and Guhathakurtas) are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Kashyapa gotra, along with Boses, Ghoshes and Mitras.[2]

Notable people
  • Anita Guha (1932–2007), Indian Bengali actress
  • Biraja Sankar Guha (1894-1951), Indian physical anthropologist
  • Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936), Indian Bengali writer
  • Chinmoy Guha (born 1958), Indian author and academician
  • Isa Guha (born 1985), British cricketer
  • Ramachandra Guha[3] (born 1958), Indian Historian
  • Ramanathan V. Guha (born 1965), Indian computer scientist
  • Ranajit Guha (born 1923), Indian historian
  • Subrata Guha (1946-2003), Indian cricketer
  • Sujoy K. Guha (born 1940), Indian biomedical engineer
  • Prof B C Guha, Indian scientist - founder of Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University; regarded as the father of modern biochemistry in India.
  • Phulrenu Guha - Well known Bengali social activist and political personality, wife of famous scientist Dr. B C Guha, founder of Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University

Notable others

Anton-Andreas Guha - German journalist and author.

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gollark: I support... somewhat government-regulated mostly-free markets for allocation of resources, and free enterprise/the ability to set up your own company and produce things, roughly.
gollark: I think you're using a weird definition.
gollark: I'm hoping much of the underpaid labour can be replaced with automation in the future, too.
gollark: Not really? If I could somehow make people not want it and skip any of the ethical issues related to that it'd be nice? But they do, and the system satisfies those values.

See also

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. In this case, "Guha" is a patronymic and not a surname.
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