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The Marwari Business Families of Calcutta
Families a published source places in Calcutta, listed alphabetically. Seed content — AI-drafted prose, to be replaced by the maintainer. Citations are real.
Six Marwari business families are recorded by published sources as establishing themselves in Calcutta: the Birlas, Ganeriwalas, Goenkas, Poddars, Sarafs and Singhanias.
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The cited academic source records that the Birlas started as brokers in the Calcutta office of Tarachand Ghanshyamdas.
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The cited source records a branch of the family migrating to Calcutta from Ratangarh.
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Business Standard records that once the Goenkas bought land in Alipore, the rest of the Marwari community followed them south.
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Founders of Tarachand Ghanshyamdas of Ramgarh, which the cited source calls the largest of the great Marwari firms in India between 1860 and 1914.
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Forbes India calls Nathuram Saraf one of the first Marwaris to migrate to Kolkata, and credits him with the basa system that housed those who came after.
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Founders of Sevaram Ramrikhadas, one of the great firms the cited source credits with enabling the migration; the same source records the family's clan deities being moved to a family temple in Calcutta.