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. *

Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1907–1972) was an Indian politician belonging to the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, who served as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964. Bakshi was a member of the National Conference from i ...

, Prime Minister of

Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent * Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory * Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...

from 1953 to 1964. * Bakshi Tirath Ram Vaid, a soldier of

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

Indian surname

Derived from the historical title, "Bakshi" came to be used as a surname among Hindus and Sikhs of the Punjab region in India. * Amit S. Bakshi, 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 Ramprasad Premshankar Bakshi (27 June 1894 – 22 March 1989) was a Gujarati writer, scholar, translator and editor from India. He was a student of Anandshankar Dhruv and Narsinhrao Divetia, and was appointed the president of Gujarati Sahitya Pari ...

(b.1894), Gujrati 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 (b. 1921) Indian general

Jewish surname

Bakshi is also a Jewish surname, from the Turkish word for garden. * Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

* Ralph Bakshi, American animator and film director

Other surname

Aleksandre Bakshi Aleksandre Bakshi (born 23 July 1997) is a Georgian tennis player. Bakshi has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 816 achieved on 1 November 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 556 achieved on 9 May 2022 ...

, Georgian tennis player

Fictional characters

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

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