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Ganguly may refer to: * Ganguly (surname), including a list of people with the name ** Ganguly family, Indian film family, including Ashok and Kishore Kumar Places * Gangolli, Kundapura taluk of Udupi, India * Gangolihat Gangolihat is a town in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, India. It is the headquarters of an eponymous tehsil ~ one of the 12 revenue subdivisions of the Pithorarh district. It is said that here Adi Shankaracharya did penance to please A ...

Ganguly (surname)
Ganguly (), also known as Ganguli, Ganguly, Gangulee, Gangoly or Gangopadhyay is a native Bengali surname that is used by Kulin Brahmin group of the Bengali Brahmin caste. The traditional Bengali version of this surname is ''Gangopadhyay(a)'' or ''Gônggopaddhae''. History The Gangulys belong to the Kulin Brahmin class and are also classified as Rarhi class of Bengali Brahmin caste. According to texts, King Adisura invited five Brahmins to settle in the region from Kanauj and designated them higher in social status. Multiple accounts of this legend exist; historians generally consider it to be nothing more than myth or folklore, lacking historical authenticity. The tradition continues by saying that these incomers settled and each became the founder of a clan. The five Brahmin clans, which later became known as Mukherjees, Chatterjees, Banerjees, Gangulys and Bhattacharjees, were each designated as ''Kulina'' ("superior") in order to differentiate them from the more establis ...
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Ganguly Family
The Ganguly family is an Indian show business family active in Hindi cinema (Bollywood). It originates from the Ganguly brothers: Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar. In a film industry dominated by familial connections the Ganguly brothers served as an important bridge between various Bollywood film clans. Background The Ganguly family are a family of film personalities active in the Hindi film industry. The family comprises the descendants of three brothers - Ashok Kumar Ganguly, Anoop Kumar Ganguly and Abhas 'Kishore' Kumar Ganguly - and their sister Sati Rani Mukherjee. The history of the Ganguly family begins with Kunjalal Ganguly, an advocate by profession coming from a long line of lawyers from Bikrampur, Dhaka district, Eastern Bengal region (now Bangladesh) and who had settled in Khandwa, and his wife Gouri Rani Devi, the grand-daughter of Raja Shibchandra Banerjee and sister of classical singer Dhananjay Banerjee. The celebrated brothers and their si ...
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Gangolli
Gangolli (also Ganguli) is a village in Kundapur Taluk of Udupi district in Karnataka state. It is situated at the estuary of the Panchagangavalli River. It is located on a peninsula on the west coast of Karnataka. It is bordered by the river to the east and by the Arabian Sea to the west. The town was originally spelt as "Ganguli", but is now more commonly spelled as "Gangolli". The postal seal however still uses the old spelling. Location Gangolli is situated at the mouth of an estuary where 5 rivers, Souparnika River, Varahi River, Kedaka River, Chakra River, and Kubja River, together called "Panchagangavali" meet. The local Kannada versions of those river names are Kollooru hole, Haladi hole, Rajadi hole, Vandse hole and Hemmadi hole. History During the turmoil in the Vijayanagar Empire following its defeat at the Battle of Tallikota in 1565, Gangolli came under the rule of the Nayakas of Keladi from Keladi who until then were vassals/chieftains of Vijayanagara but ...
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