Birla family

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Birla family
Ethnicity	Marwari Maheshwari
Current region	Operating out of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, India
Notable members	Ghanshyam Das Birla Basant Kumar Birla Aditya Vikram Birla Chandra Kant Birla Kumaramangalam Birla Yashovardhan Birla Sudarshan Kumar Birla Siddharth Birla

The Birla family is a family of repute and standing in the industrial and social history of India. Shiv Narain Birla, a member of the Marwari Maheshwari community from Pilani in the westerly state of Rajasthan, traded in cotton and laid the foundation of the family's future business success by establishing a trading house in Bombay around 1857. He moved to Bombay around 1857 to establish a trading house. His son, Baldeo Das Birla moved to Calcutta in 1861 to set up his own business.

Baldeo Das was succeeded by four sons - Jugal Kishore, Rameshwar Das, Ghanshyam Das and Braj Mohan.

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