KANAILAL & SONS - Sarods, Sitars

Company founder Kanailal Bhowmick comes from what is now Bangladesh and originally began his career as a carpenter. He later went to Calcutta, learned to make instruments and founded his own business in 1940 in Howrah, the neighboring town of Calcutta on the opposite bank of the Ganges. Kanailal's son Subhas Bhowmick learned the craft from his father and today runs the workshop, assisted by his brothers Mintu and Ashutosh. Kanailal & Sons has gained a good reputation for high-quality sarods and sitars in music circles, especially since the turn of the millennium.

Kanailal & Sons is not directly related to the legendary sitar, surbahar and rudra vina maker Kanailal & Brother, which closed in 1995 due to a lack of successors.