Gayen

Gayen, Gain
Pronunciation	গায়েন (Ga-en)
Origin
Meaning	Bard
Region of origin	Bengal

Gayen, sometimes anglicised as Gain, is a Bengali surname found in the Indian subcontinent, mainly in West Bengal and Bangladesh.^[1] In Bengali, the title Gayen (গায়েন) referred to anyone involved in the medieval bardic tradition, i.e. composition of poetry and music.^[2]

Notable people

Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978), Cambridge mathematician and founder of Vidyasagar University
Swapan K. Gayen, Bengali-American physicist, researcher at City University of New York
Kaberi Gain (born 1970), author and social activist, researcher at University of Edinburgh
Chhanda Gayen (1979–2014), first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
Prasun Gain (born 1977), Indian actor
Margaret Gayen (born 1994), Indian-Australian long jumper

In popular culture

Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen, a classic Bengali film by Satyajit Ray

References

^ Mookerjee, S. (September 1959). "Bengalee surnames" (PDF). Annals of Library and Information Studies. 6 (3): 6.
^ Sen Gupta, Shankar (1965). Folklorists of Bengal (Volume 1 ed.). Calcutta, India: Indian Publications.

External links

The Gayen Estate - Description of the Gayen Zamindari Estate in Dhanyakuria, West Bengal

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