Dasgupta's

Dasgupta

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Dasgupta (pronounced [ˈd̪aʃɡupt̪o]) is a common Bengali surname in West Bengal, India. They are members of the Baidya caste (a high classBrahmin caste) - the physician community of ancient India. They were disallowed from priestly duties since they were in medical profession[citation needed].

Dasgupta/Sengupta/Duttagupta (and other Baidya surnames) are 'titles' (often given by Kings and Zamindars) - the corresponding 'caste' name is 'DasSharma or SenSharma' (used during weddings etc).

According to mythology, they are descendants of the god of ayurveda, Lord Dhanavantari.

Some famous Dasguptas include:

• Pramod Dasgupta, also known as Comrade PDG (1910 - 1982), founding Polit Bureau member of Communist Party of India (Marxist), stalwart communist protagonist and leader of popular socialist struggles in India
• Asim Dasgupta, also known as Dr. Asim Kumar Dasgupta West Bengal Finance and Excise Minister
• Partha Dasgupta, economist
• Chidananda Dasgupta (born 1921), filmmaker, film critic and historian
• Manindra Gupta also known as Manindra Lal Dasgupta (born 1030), 'Rabindra-Purashkar' awardee (highest honorary literary award given in the Indian state of West Bengal) famous poet, writer, historian of literature, essayist and autobiographer in Bengali literature
• Buddhadev Das Gupta (born 1933), is an Indian classical maestro who plays the sarod
• Buddhadev Dasgupta, (born 1944) Indian film maker
• Surendranath Dasgupta, Sanskrit scholar and philosopher
• Swapan Dasgupta, Indian journalist
• Biplab Dasgupta, Marxist economist
• Deep Dasgupta, cricketer
• Rana Dasgupta, British-Indian writer
• Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, singer
• Gurudas Dasgupta (born 1936), senior trade union leader, Communist Party of India, and Member of Parliament
• Indrani Dasgupta,Indian Model
• Roma Dasgupta (Suchitra Sen after marriage), Indian actress
• Uma Dasgupta (played Durga in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali)

Sengupta's

Sengupta

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Sengupta may refer to:

• Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976), a renowned Bengali author
• Kaushik Sengupta (born 1980), The best Sengupta ever born
• Payel Sengupta (born 1988), Wife of The best Sengupta ever born
• Apoorva Sengupta (born 1939), a former Indian cricketer
• Arjun Kumar Sengupta (born 1937), an Indian politician and Member of the Parliament of India
• Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973), an Indian novelist
• Barkha Bisht Sengupta (born 1979), an Indian television actress
• Barun Sengupta (1934–2008), a Bengali journalist and founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
• Biswatosh Sengupta (born 1944), an Indian academic from Kolkata
• Deep Sengupta (born 1988), a chess player from Jharkhand, India, currently residing in Kolkata
• Gurunath Sengupta (1848–1914), a Sanskrit scholar from the Jessore District of Bangladesh
• Indraneil Sengupta, an Indian model and actor, born in Assam
• Jatindranath Sengupta (1887–1954), a Bengali poet and writer
• Jishu Sengupta, popularly known as Jisshu, is a Bengali film actor
• Mallika Sengupta (born 1960), a 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, an Indian cricketer who played for Assam
• Narendra Nath Sen Gupta (1889–1944), a Harvard-educated Indian psychologist, philosopher, and professor
• Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, a legal scholar and a Bengali novelist in Calcutta, India
• Nellie Sengupta (1886–1973), an Englishwoman who fought for Indian Independence
• Niranjan Sen Gupta, a Bengali Indian revolutionary
• Nitish Sengupta (born 1933), Revenue Secretary of the Government of India
• Partho Sen-Gupta, an 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
• Rituparna Sengupta (born 1971), an Indian actress in Bengali and Hindi films
• Rudraprasad Sengupta (born 1935), a Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic
• Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961), a Bengali playwright and theatre producer and director
• Stephanie Sengupta, an American producer and writer
• Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 1972 to 1977
• Suranjit Sengupta (born 1945), a senior Bangladesh Awami League politician in Bangladesh
• Ushoshi Sengupta, an Indian beauty pageant contestant and winner of Miss India Universe 2010