Who invented Rasagulla?
Till today the word Rasagulla reminded me of the beautiful land where wonderfull people like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda etc are associated. But its going to change from today on the people of Odisha are the inventors of this wonderful sweet.It has been a traditional Oriya dish for centuries. Its the modesty of people from Odisha they don't take credit of inventing this wonderful dish.
The actual rasagulla cannot survive for more than a day. It was modified to alter its lifespan by a bengali named Nobin Chandra Das in 1800's. Later Mr. K.C. Das started canning them and made them accessible all over India. But the origin of actual rasagulla remains Odisha.
The Indian space agency, ISRO is developing dehydrated rasgullas for Indian astronauts in its planned manned mission in 2016.
For more details check out the below link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasgulla
LIES, DAMN LIES & NOBIN DAS!
ReplyDeleteAccording to the K. C. Das website itself, friends of this supposed culinary Einstein advised him to patent his famous creation, the rasgulla.
According the website: "Contrary to the advice of his friends and admirers to take out patents, he taught the intricacies of Rossogolla-making to numerous sweetmeat makers."
Except that there was no patent law in India those days! The first ever legislation to protect intellectual property law had just been introduced in India! It was Act VI of 1856 on Protection of Inventions. It granted "exclusive privileges" to the inventor. The legislation was designed only to safeguard British colonial interests. Not surprisingly, the first petition was filed by an Englishman - a certain civil engineer by the name of George Alfred DePenning for his invention, "An Efficient Punkah Pulling Machine". DePenning went on to file the second and fourth petitions in India.
The first real patent law enacted in India was the Indian Patents and Designs Act 1911. However even this law was to safeguard British colonial interests and not meant to protect Indian inventors. This led to the Indian Patents Act of 1970: the first patent law designed to protect the likes of Indian inventors such as Nobin Das, which was over a century after the K. C. Das website's claim that Nobin Das was asked to patent the rasgulla.
To claim that way back in 1858, Nobin Das & Co. thought about patenting the rasgulla, something that was clearly IMPOSSIBLE in those days, proves that the entire story is a load of PURE, UNADULTERATED BULLCRAP!
The website: http://www.kcdas.co.in/history.php
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