Bengali cuisine is known for its varied use of flavours, as well as the spread of its confectioneries and desserts.
Rasagolla is a South Asian syrupy dessert popular in the Indian subcontinent and regions with South Asian diaspora. It is made from ball-shaped dumplings of chhena (an Indian cottage cheese) and semolina dough, cooked in light syrup made of sugar. This is done until the syrup permeates the dumplings.
Nobin Chandra Das (1845–1925) was a Bengali confectioner, entrepreneur, businessman and Bengali cultural icon of the second half of 19th century and early 20th century. Widely known as the creator of the iconic Bengali sweetmeat “Rosogolla”, a popular limerick of 19th-century Bengal labeled him as the “Columbus of Rossogolla” or simply the “Father of Rosogolla”. In the 1860s, the man who contributed most to this evolution of Bengali confectionery was Nobin Chandra Das of Bagbazar in north Kolkata, (then known as Sutanotty) India. Also known as ‘Nobin Moira’ of Bagbazar, he set up his sweet shop in 1866; currently located on Rabindra Sarani (then known as Chitpur Road in Sutanuti), Bagbazar.
Nobin Chandra Das left his confectionery business to his only son Krishna Chandra Das. Krishna pioneered an exploratory spirit in the family confectionery business, enabling it to grow as a leading Indian confectioner. Krishna Chandra, having an immense liking for scientific innovations and machinery, initially started a mechanical and scientific workshop at Bagbazar. Krishna Chandra’s major contribution was the introduction of the canned Rossogolla and the creation of “Rossomalai” in the year 1930, which became perennial favorites. To market his innovations, Krishna Chandra opened a new confectionery shop at Jorasanko (in 1930) with his youngest enthusiastic son Sarada Charan Das. From there he popularized the canned Rossogolla, which was the first and only canned dessert manufactured in India at that time. This was the inception of the “K.C. Das” confectionery company, which was later enhanced and legally reestablished as K.C. Das Private Limited[17] under the Companies’ Act of 1946 by Krishna Chandra’s son and successor Sarada Charan Das.
In 2017, the GI Registry granted Geographical indication status to Banglar Rasogolla.
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