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.<ref name="Oxford_2016">{{cite book |editor1=Patrick Hanks |editor2=Richard Coates |editor3=Peter McClure |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AyDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 |year=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-252747-9 |page=123 }}</ref>

* Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964. * Bakshi Tirath Ram Vaid, a soldier of British India.

==Indian surname==

===Kashmir=== '''Bakshi''' is a surname used by Kashmiri Pandits native to the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India.<ref>{{cite book |date=August 20, 2014 |last=Agrawal |first=Premendra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2E36BgAAQBAJ&dq=mattu+surname&pg=PT47 |access-date=April 5, 2023 |title=Accursed & Jihadi Neighbour |publisher=Commercial Services |page=86 |isbn=9788193051207 |quote=Meaning of surnames found on the Kashmiri Pandit tree: Bakaya, Sapru, '''Bakshi''', Munshi, Wazir, Chalkbast, Bhan, Langar or Langroo, Wattal, Bazaz, Taimini, Mattu, Chak, Zalpuri, Khar, Hazari, Zutshi, Razdan, Tikhu, Kathju, sopori, Thussoo, Haksar, Raina, Waloo or Wali, Wantu/Wanchu, Gamkhwar, Kakh, Mushran, Sharga, Handoo, Gurtu, Kitchlu, and Ganjoo. |language=en-IN }}</ref><ref name="Bansi Pandit">{{cite book |author=Pandit, Bansi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsoC6GWr47QC&dq=bhat+butt+name+kashmir&pg=PA99 |title=Explore Kashmiri Pandits |publisher=Dharma Publications |isbn=9780963479860 |accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref>

===Odisha=== In Odisha '''Bakshi''' ({{langx|or|ବକ୍ସି}}) surname mainly used by Zamindar Karanas.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Orissa (India) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DS5uAAAAMAAJ&q=bakshi |title=Orissa District Gazetteers: Sundargarh |date=1966 |publisher=Superintendent, Orissa Government Press |language=en}}</ref>

===Punjab=== Derived from the historical title, "Bakshi" came to be used as a surname among Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs, used by the Brahmin and Jatt castes respectively, in the Punjab region in India.<ref name="Oxford_2016"/>

* Amit Singh Bakshi (1925–2024), Indian hockey player * Anand Bakshi, Indian songwriter * Chandrakant Bakshi, Indian author * G. D. Bakshi, Major General of Indian Army * Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, New Zealand member of parliament * Padumlal Punnalal Bakshi, Indian Hindi-language writer * Praveen Bakshi, Lieutenant general of Indian army * Ramprasad Bakshi (1894–1989), Gujarati 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 (1921–2018) Indian general

== Jewish surname == Bakshi is also a Jewish surname, from the Turkish word for garden.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

* Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel * Ralph Bakshi, American animator and film director

==Other surname== * Aleksandre Bakshi, Georgian tennis player

==Fictional characters==

*Brad Bakshi, one of the main characters in Mythic Quest. *Byomkesh Bakshi, a fictional Indian-Bengali detective created by author Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. *Hrundi V. Bakshi, the main character in the 1968 film ''The Party''.

== See also == * Bakhshi * Bakshy (sometime spelled bakshi) a shamanic music by Turkish people from Northern Iran and Turkish countries * Baksi (surname)

==References== {{Reflist}}

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