GANGURAMS

Our journey Started over a Century old ago, a tiny Sweetmeat Shop existed on a land owned by Raja Kamala Prasad Mukherjee. Late Ganguram Chaurasia came from a remote village in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in the 1880's. He was a skilled Halwai and could make mouthwatering Sweets. He took up a job in the shop owned by the Mr. Raja and used to supply Sweets to the Rajbari. However, when the Government decided to evict the shop in order to construct a road, the Raja, pleased with his service, allotted him a small plot of land near Maniktola north Kolkata, where our forefather set up a small sweetmeat shop in 1885. Since then Bengal Renaissance of the 19th century brought about remarkable changes in the culture & education in this region and Ganguram's has become an integral part of Bengali culture. We have a long list of illustrious clients whom we served such as Pandit Jawharlal Nehru, Satyajit Ray, Morarji Desai, Pandit Ravishankar, Bhimsen Joshi, similarly few foreign..

Primary location: Bengal India