Varshney Explained

Varshney (वार्ष्णेय) is an Indian surname and a community.^{[1] [2]} Alternative names for the group include Barahseni^[3] and Bara-Saini.^[4] They belong to Bania caste and were traditionally traders and substantial landowners.^{[5] [6]}

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 Key^[7]
• Rahul Varshney and Kala Varshney in the 2014 film Ugly

Notes and References

1. Book: Bulbul Sharma . Muslims in Indian Cities . 2013 . HarperCollins Publishers India . 978-93-5029-555-7 . 96 .
2. Book: Sebastian Schwecke . New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party . 2012 . Routledge . 978-1-136-84657-1 . 117 .
3. Book: Brass, Paul R. . The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India . 2011 . University of Washington Press . 978-0-295-80060-8 . 55 .
4. https://archive.org/stream/glossaryoftribes03rose#page/n137/mode/2up A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West
5. Book: Schwecke, Sebastian . New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party . 2012 . . 978-1-136-84657-1 . 117 . en.
6. William Crook, Tribes and Castes of North Western Provinces and Oudh, Volume I, pages 177–8
7. Sanghi, Ashwin. The Krishna Key, chapter 46. Westland Publishers 2012.