Guha (Bengali: গুহ, romanized: Guho) is a Bengali Kayastha surname found among the Bengali Hindus in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and the neighbouring country Bangladesh. 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[2]) are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Kashyapa gotra, along with Boses, Ghoshes and Mitras.[3]
People with the name edit
- Anita Guha (1932–2007), Indian Bengali actress
- Anton-Andreas Guha (1937–2010), German journalist and author
- Ajit Kumar Guha (1914–69), Bangladeshi educationalist
- Biraja Sankar Guha (1894–1951), Indian physical anthropologist
- Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936), Indian Bengali writer
- Chinmoy Guha (born 1958), Indian author and academic
- Chitralekha Guho, Bangladeshi actress and won Bangladesh National Film Award for best supporting role
- Isa Guha (born 1985), English cricketer and commentator
- Jatindra Charan Guho (1892–1972), or Gobar Guha , Indian wrestler
- Phulrenu Guha (born 1911), Indian activist, educationist and politician
- Ramachandra Guha (born 1958), Indian historian
- Ramanathan V. Guha (born 1965), Indian computer scientist
- Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), Indian historian
- Subrata Guha (1946–2003), Indian cricketer
- Sujoy K. Guha (born 1940), Indian biomedical engineer
- Uttam Guho, winner of Bangladesh National Film Award for best art director
See also edit
- Guhathakurta, a surname
The dictionary definition of Guha at Wiktionary
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.shram.org/uploadFiles/20171208110232.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ 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.
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