Varshney

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Varshney (वार्ष्णेय) is an Indian surname and a community.{{cite book |author=Bulbul Sharma |title=Muslims in Indian Cities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixrT-ldIWZMC&pg=PT96 |year=2013 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India |isbn=978-93-5029-555-7 |page=96 }}{{cite book |author=Sebastian Schwecke |title=New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uXfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 |year=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-84657-1 |page=117 }} Alternative names for the group include Barahseni{{cite book |first=Paul R. |last=Brass |title=The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XGZ0kKmJx0C&pg=PT55 |year=2011 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0-295-80060-8 |page=55 }} and Bara-Saini.[https://archive.org/stream/glossaryoftribes03rose#page/n137/mode/2up A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West], Volume 2 By H.A. Rose, p.61 They belong to Bania caste and were traditionally traders and substantial landowners.{{Cite book |last=Schwecke |first=Sebastian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uXfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 |title=New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-84657-1 |pages=117 |language=en}}William Crook, [https://archive.org/stream/tribesandcastes02croogoog#page/n404/mode/2up Tribes and Castes of North Western Provinces and Oudh], Volume I, pages 177–8

== Notable people ==

• Alka Nupur Varshney (born 1957), Kathak dancer and former actress
• Ashutosh Varshney (born 1957), American political scientist
• Ishwar Das Varshnei (died 1948), called "father of the glass industry" in India
• Rajeev Kumar Varshney (born 1973), Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics at ICRISAT
• Umesh Varshney (born 1957), molecular biologist
• Y. P. Varshni (born 1932), physicist

;Fictional characters

• Anil Varshney in the 2012 novel The Krishna KeySanghi, Ashwin. The Krishna Key, chapter 46. Westland Publishers 2012.
• Rahul Varshney and Kala Varshney in the 2014 film Ugly