Family
Ganeriwala family
From Nawalgarh, and named for the village of Ganeri
One of six Marwari business families the cited source records as produced by Nawalgarh. A second source traces the family's ancestral god to the village of Ganeri and its migration to Calcutta from Ratangarh.
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Why this is listed
“Chirawa and Nawalgarh (today towns in modern-day Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan) have for some reason historically produced the largest concentration of prominent Marwari business families. The Dalmias, for example, are from Chirawa itself, while the Birlas are from Pilani, a distance of 17 kilometres. Nawalgarh, which produced the Goenkas, Khaitans, Poddars, Kedias, Ganeriwalas and Murarkas, is only 60 kilometres away. The Singhanias, Bajajs, Mittals, Ruias and Sarafs hail from other nearby towns and villages.”
Marwaris' unique talent for business comes from one quality. It's called 'baniya buddhi'
“Many Marwari families living in Calcutta still perform a ceremony to mark the first haircut of a boy in Rajasthan. The ceremony, however, is not performed in the boy’s ancestral house but in the temple of the family’s clan goddess (kuldevi) or ancestral god. For example, a boy of the Ganeriwala family aged just one year had his first-haircut ceremony in August 2010. His great grandfather had migrated to Calcutta from Ratangarh, where his family has a haveli, but his ancestors are said to have originated in a village called Ganeri.”