Sengupta
Sengupta is a surname found among Bengali people of India and Bangladesh. They belong to the Baidya Brahmin caste, a branch of the Saraswat Brahmin clan.[1]
"Gupta" (or "Gupto") is appended as a title (a practice hardly 250 years old), but during religious and marital rites, they use the original surname "Sen Sharma". Most of the Senguptas are mainly from two gotras : Dhanvantari (Rishi Angirasa lineage) and Shaktri (Rishi Vasistha lineage). Dhanvantari Sens are descendants of Pandit Budhsen (or his descendant Raja Shriharsha Sen) whereas Shaktris are descendants of Pandit Shaktidhar Sen. These two were Vedic scholars and Ayurvedic practitioners in Kannauj (U.P) and were invited to King Adishur's court in Bengal along with two other Ayurvedic Scholars Pandit Kavidas (ancestor of Moudgalya gotra Dasguptas) and Pandit Sumati Gupta (Kashyap gotra Guptas' ancestor) in 10th century. Senguptas of Vaishwanar (Related to Ballal Sena family), Krishnatreya, Mudgal, Atreya gotra are also found rarely.
Since ages the Sen Vaidyas are very strong bonded among themselves and known to take pride in their ancestry. Thus to distinguish themselves from people of other caste also carrying the same surname Sen they started to append Gupta (From 'Goptri', a royal title) or kept using Sharma (Their original surname) with Sen. But there are exceptions also, like the Nobel-laureate Amartya Sen's family and many more, who are Vaidyas but do not append 'Gupta' or the Caste-title Sharma.[2] There is a community among Baidya’s that immigrated to Bengal during Peswa Raghoji I Bhonsle. Over a period of time they got assimilated with Bengali culture and started practicing Ayurveda.
Notable people with surname Sengupta
- Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976), renowned Bengali author
- Apoorva Sengupta (born 1939), former Indian cricketer
- Arjun Kumar Sengupta (born 1937), Indian politician and Member of the Parliament of India
- Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973), Indian novelist
- Barun Sengupta (1934–2008), Bengali journalist and founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
- Biswatosh Sengupta (born 1944), Indian academic from Kolkata
- Deep Sengupta (born 1988), chess player from Jharkhand, India, currently residing in Kolkata
- Gurunath Sengupta (1848–1914), Sanskrit scholar from the Jessore District of Bangladesh
- Indraneil Sengupta, Indian model and actor, born in Assam
- Jatindranath Sengupta (1887–1954), Bengali poet and writer
- Jishu Sengupta, popularly known as Jisshu, is a Bengali film actor
- Mallika Sengupta (born 1960), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata
- N. C. Sen Gupta, the eleventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 19 May to 19 August 1975
- N. Sengupta, Indian cricketer who played for Assam
- Narendra Nath Sen Gupta (1889–1944), Harvard-educated Indian psychologist, philosopher, and professor
- Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, legal scholar and a Bengali novelist in Calcutta, India
- Nellie Sengupta (1886–1973), Englishwoman who fought for Indian Independence
- Nikhil Baran Sengupta, art director of Oriya films
- Niranjan Sen Gupta, Bengali Indian revolutionary
- Nitish Sengupta (born 1933), Revenue Secretary of the Government of India
- Partho Sen-Gupta, independent film director and screenwriter of Indian origin
- Paulami Sengupta, the editor of three magazines in India: Anandamela, Unish Kuri and Career
- Poile Sengupta (born 1948), one of the foremost Indian writers in English
- Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876–1962), historian of astronomy in ancient India
- Rituparna Sengupta (born 1971), Indian actress in Bengali and Hindi films
- Rudraprasad Sengupta (born 1935), Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic
- Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961), Bengali playwright and theatre producer and director
- Stephanie Sengupta, American producer and writer
- Sudipta Sengupta, professor in structural geology in Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
- Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 1972 to 1977
- Suranjit Sengupta (born 1945), senior Bangladesh Awami League politician in Bangladesh
- Upal Sengupta, lead vocalist of Bengali band Chandrabinoo
- Ushoshi Sengupta, Indian beauty pageant contestant and winner of Miss India Universe 2010
References
- ↑ "The Saraswats of India". Saraswatdirectory.com. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
- ↑ [http://www.dli.ernet.in/.../metainfo.cgi?&...Kuldarpanam%20%20Vol... "Kuladapanam"].
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