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168: 648: 66: 25: 221: 626:" (a variant of cottage cheese), from the old Sanskrit word "Chinna" due to its crumpled texture and sparse binding capacity. It was Nobin Chandra's accomplishment that he was able to create a perfectly homogeneous spherical sweet that was both spongy and succulent with a unique and distinctive taste through a novel method of processing the " 709:
along with a close friend. Being respectable and prosperous sugar merchants, Nobin's family did not take kindly to his decision to become a sweetmeat seller due to the social constraints of the times. They disparagingly referred to him as the "moira" (a profession not held in high esteem in the 19th
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of Bengal. They were distant relatives of Nobin Chandra's mother, and their shop was located on Chitpur road in Bagbazar, Kolkata. However, it turned out to be a futile engagement as Nobin Chandra was reportedly humiliated by the Indras. Hence he left the job and, aged 18, started his sweet-shop at
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business failed as he fell out with his friend. Moreover, In those days, sweetmeat shops depended largely on credit sales, and Nobin Chandra had no resources to offer credit to his customers. In 1866, Nobin Chandra ventured into a new business endeavor, opening another shop on Chitpur Road. This
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today. His other creations include "Abaar Khaabo", "Dedo Sondesh" and "Baikuntha Bhog"(both of which use "Kacha Pak" as the base ingredient), the well-known "Kastura Pak" which serves as the refined base ingredient for
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derived from natural fruit extracts. This was a coarse and granular variety with no binding capacity and could not be made to shape into a firm and defined form. Dutch and Portuguese colonists introduced into India
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The rasagulla which we eat now is not the exact recipe of Orissa but in the year 1868 Nobin Das modified the recipe as he wanted to extend the life of the sweet which was originally highly perishable.
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Nobin Chandra was born in 1845. In 1864, driven by poverty and with little provision to complete his education, he initially started working for the Indra family, confectioners from Shantipur in the
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in the late 18th century. While a form of cottage cheese may have been extant in Indian culture for millennia, the "chhena" manufactured in those days was made by using
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but Rosogolla and Rossogolla, legally establishing Banglar Rasogolla. Besides that, the names Banglar Rasogolla, Rosogolla, Rossogolla or Roshogolla are from
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location was directly across the street from the confectionery shop in Bagbazar where his career had begun. Most sweetmeats made at the time were either "
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confectioner, entrepreneur, businessman and cultural icon in the second half of 19th and early 20th century. Widely known as the creator of the iconic
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confectioners of the time. In the 1860s, the man who contributed most to this evolution of Bengali confectionery was Nobin Chandra Das of
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started in the second half of the 19th century. This era also had its impact on the world of confectionery with fresh inspiration from
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status to Banglar Rasogolla. In the entire proceedings before the Intellectual Property India there is not a single mentioning of
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is from Hindi origin, as such intellectual property right awarded to Banglar Rasogolla differentiates it from Pahala rasgulla,
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for his family and friends. This unorthodox ‘word of mouth’ proved a very useful tool of publicity, and "Nobin Moira's"
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It was sometime in the year 1868 when he could create a perfectly formed sweetmeat out of fragmented clumps of
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One particular incident may have started rossogolla's popularity in the market. One morning a
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and society was his innovative confectionery which created completely new sweetmeats for the
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came to a halt at Nobin's shop. A wealthy businessman of 19th century Kolkata,
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to become popular in the absence of advertising and media as we know it today.
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palate. His creations constitute an important and lasting component of
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While there are multiple claims based on oral tradition about "
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In 1868, Nobin Chandra modified the original recipe of "
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at the time of its rise to prominence as the capital of
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However, despite synthesizing the superior variety of "
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