title: Pasi (surname)
text: # Pasi (surname)
  
  The name Pasi (Hindi: पासी) is composed of two words Pa (grip) and asi (sword), implying thereby one who hold a sword in his hand or in other words a soldier. Another etymology is that the name comes from the Sanskrit pashika, "one who uses a noose." The Pasi are said to have used nooses for climbing trees.
  
  In Italian, it stems from the word pace, meaning peace. It is also a Finnish forename, a form of Basil.
  
  Pasi is a surname used by the Pasi community and people from Punjab. Notable individuals with this surname are listed below.
  
  * Geeta Pasi, an American diplomat.
  * Maharaja Bijli Pasi, a king from the Pasi community. He ruled during the Muslim period from a site located near Lucknow.
  * Balraj Pasi, an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Nainital constituency of Uttar Pradesh.
  * Subhash Pasi, a member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh
  * Suresh Pasi, Indian Politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India.
  * Madari Pasi, a leader of the militant peasant movement Eka Movement.
  * Uda Devi Pasi, claimed to have been a fighter at Sikandar Bagh in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  * Masuriya Din Pasi (born 2 October 1911) was an Indian politician, a fight against Criminal Tribes Act for independence who served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh
  * Riccardo Pasi, Italian footballer.
  * Giacomo Pasi, Italian bishop.
  