Haksar
Haksar is a Kashmiri Pandit surname. They are native to the Kashmir Valley within the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and they have a long tradition of Indian administrative service based on fluency in a link language - Persian under the Mughuls and English under the British. In light of this fact, the Haksar family historically became a prominent administrative family in other parts of India, namely in Indore and Gwalior.
Notable people
- Sir Kailash Narain Haksar, Indian minister
- P. N. Haksar, Indian minister
- Ajit Narain Haksar, Indian businessman
- A. N. D. Haksar, Indian diplomat and prominent translator of Sanskrit classics
- Rajan Haksar, Indian actor
- Nandita Haksar, Indian human rights activist, advocate, and writer