Start with one of Kolkata’s trades
Jute
The mill belt along the Hooghly, the products, the process and the export trade.
Designers
The couture houses, the Bengal crafts behind them, the studio areas and how a commission works.
Gold & Jewellery
Bowbazar, the Bengali karigar, and the houses that sell what the workshops make.
Burrabazar
Fourteen wholesale trades across eight streets, and how buying there actually works.
College Street
Boi Para, the Bengali publishing houses, the printing trade and the Coffee House.
Food
Rosogolla, sandesh, nolen gur, kathi rolls, phuchka and the houses behind them.
Howrah Engineering
Foundries, machine shops and the small-unit cluster across the river.
IT & Services
Salt Lake Sector V, New Town Rajarhat, the services delivered there and the companies that run them.
Named Companies
Every named company on the site, with an About and an Explore button each.
Kolkata’s trades in figures
- The jute mill belt runs along both banks of the Hooghly, with the association, the Jute Corporation of India and the export trade all headquartered in the city
- Sabyasachi, Anamika Khanna, Kiran Uttam Ghosh, Dev r Nil, Abhishek Dutta and Kallol Datta all work out of this city
- Salt Lake Sector V and New Town Rajarhat together host around 300,000 IT professionals
- Bengal’s handloom clusters — jamdani, baluchari, tant, Murshidabad silk — sit within reach of every studio
- More than a hundred jewellery stores sit within a kilometre of Bowbazar
- College Street runs over a mile and covers close to a million square feet of books
- Bengal holds a geographical indication for the rosogolla, with a set of certified shops selling under it
Start with the jute belt
Start with Burrabazar
Start with the food
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