Ghosh

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Ghosh ({{langx|bn|ঘোষ}}) is a native Bengali surname that is found among the Bengali Hindu community of India and Bangladesh. A popular alternative spelling is Ghose.

Ghoshes originally belong to Kayastha caste in Bengal. According to GK Ghosh, some Bengali surnames like Ghosh were adopted from Buddhist tradition.{{Cite book |last=Ghosh |first=G. K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z6eBAAAAMAAJ |title=Legends of Origin of the Castes and Tribes of Eastern India |date=2000 |publisher=Firma KLM |isbn=978-81-7102-046-1 |pages=111 |language=en}} Ghoshes are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Soukalin gotra, along with Boses, Mitras, and Bangaja (Eastern Bengal) Guhas.{{cite book |title=Krishna consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC |pages=35–36 |access-date=2011-10-31}}

Ghosh surname is in vogue among the Sadgop and Goala/Gowala communities in Bengal.{{cite book |title=Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal |author=John R. McLane |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-5215-2654-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH6ijJnUPmcC&dq=ghosh+sadgop&pg=PA157 |page=157}}{{cite book|title=Oh Calcutta|date=1993|publisher=University of Virginia|edition=Volume 22|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwRDAAAAYAAJ&q=sadgope+milkman}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMvjAAAAMAAJ |title=Folk-lore |date=1975 |publisher=Indian Publications |pages=172 |language=en}}