The Garodias are part of the Agarwal Marwari community and are now found throughout India, but especially in industrial centers such as New Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta.
Some of the first Garodia were Shri Ramkishandasji Garodia and Shri Ramchandraji Garodia, who arrived in Mumbai around 1870. They started the business of making salt and they prospered. Shri Ramkishandasji hard earned money, building dharmshalas, goshalas, donating acres of land to the gochar (land for cows) in his native Sujangarh. The charitable and religious work of Shri Ramkishandasji was then continued by his son Shri Rampratapji and other relatives. Their children continue to carry the tradition. Shri Ramchandraji installed a Virgin in the village.
Among the Garodias, Shiv Prasad Garodia who arrived from Ratannagar, Churu District of Rajastan, settled in Calcutta in the year 1900. He managed to make a mark of his textile business and later his grandson, Narayan Prasad Garodia, promoted the largest textile factory in northern India in Faridabad in the 1950s.
Among the Garodia, also "Dilsukh Rai Garodia" based in Siliguri, West Bengal.
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