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.^[1]

• 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.^[2][3]

Odisha

In Odisha Bakshi (Odia: ବକ୍ସି) surname mainly used by Zamindar Karanas.^[4]

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.^[1]

• 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]}

• 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