Dasgupta
Dasgupta (pronounced [ˈdaʃɡupto]) is a common Bengali last name or surname in West Bengal and Bangladesh. The surname is found among the members of the Baidya caste.
Baidya is a Bengali Hindu caste community who have generally claimed Brahmin status,[1] but some have been associated with the Ambashtha caste or sub-caste.[2] In the pre-colonial era of Bengal, Baidyas were regarded as the highest Hindu castes along with Brahmins and Kayasthas.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 62.2% of all known bearers of the surname Dasgupta were residents of India and 28.9% were residents of Bangladesh. In India, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states and union territories:[3]
- 1. West Bengal (1: 2,387)
- 2. Tripura (1: 6,243)
- 3. Arunachal Pradesh (1: 15,711)
- 4. Delhi (1: 16,187)
- 5. Daman and Diu (1: 18,685)
- 6. Assam (1: 21,393)
Notable people
A
- Aloke Dasgupta, sitar player
- Alokeranjan Dasgupta, Bengali poet
- Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, Indian economist
- Asim Dasgupta (also known as Dr. Asim Kumar Dasgupta), West Bengal Ex Finance and Excise Minister.
B
- Basudeb Dasgupta, Bengali novelist and short-story writer
- Benu Dasgupta, cricketer
- Bijon Dasgupta, Art Director
- Biplab Dasgupta, Marxist economist
- Birsa Dasgupta, film director
- Buddhadev Dasgupta (born 1933), an Indian classical maestro who plays the sarod
- Buddhadev Dasgupta, (born 1944) Indian film-maker
C
- Chandan Dasgupta, Indian theoretical physicist
- Chidananda Dasgupta (born 1921), filmmaker, film critic and historian
D
- Deep Dasgupta, cricketer
G
- Gurudas Dasgupta (born 1936), senior trade-union leader, Communist Party of India, and Member of Parliament
H
- Hem Chandra Dasgupta, geologist
I
- Indraadip Dasgupta, music composer
- Indrani Dasgupta, Indian Supermodel.
J
- Jahar Dasgupta, painter
- Jishu Dasgupta, Bengali actor
- Jnanendra Das Gupta, Indo-Swedish chemist
K
- Kankar Shubra Dasgupta, scientist and academic
- Kamal Dasgupta, Bengali music director
- Khagendra Nath Dasgupta, Independence activist
- Kurchi Dasgupta, painter and writer
M
- Mahananda Dasgupta, experimental physicist
N
- Nairanjana Dasgupta, statistician
- Nilanjana Dasgupta, social psychologist
P
- Partha Dasgupta, economist
- Poonam Dasgupta, actress
- Prabuddha Dasgupta, photographer
- Probal Dasgupta, linguist
- Prokar Dasgupta, urologist
- Purnendu Dasgupta, Indian-American academic
R
- Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, scholar
- Rana Dasgupta, British-Indian writer
- Renuka Dasgupta, Bengali singer
- Roma Dasgupta (Suchitra Sen before marriage), Indian actress
S
- Samit Dasgupta, mathematician
- Sayantani DasGupta, Indian-American physician
- Shamik Dasgupta, comic book writer
- Shamita Das Dasgupta, social activist
- Shashibhusan Dasgupta, Bengali scholar in philosophy, languages and literature
- Somnath Dasgupta, academic and geologist
- Sudhangshu Dasgupta, CPI(M) politician
- Sudhin Dasgupta, Bengali music director
- Surendranath Dasgupta, Sanskrit scholar and philosopher
- Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, singer
- Swapan Dasgupta, Indian journalist
T
- Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, Indian physicist
- Tamojit Dasgupta, Singer, Composer
U
- Uma Dasgupta, Indian Actress
Y
- Yash Dasgupta, actor and model
See also
References
- ^ Bose, Nirmal Kumar (1994). Structure of Hindu Society. Orient BlackSwan. p. 163. ISBN 978-8-12500-855-2.
- ^ Leslie, Charles M. (1976). Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study. University of California Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-52003-511-9.
- ^ Dasgupta Surname Distribution
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