Barisha  is a place of utmost historical importance. Being, the abode of the great Sabarna Roy Choudhury family, Barisha gained its importance both as a centre of history, education and religious culture.

Situated in the south of Kolkata and a distance of only 10 kilometers from Esplanade, Barisha is now under the Kolkata Corporation and is spread over four wards -123,124,125 and 126. The area starts from Viveckananda Women's College in the north and is spread to Thakurpukur in the south.

The area of Barisha is now thickly populated and comprises of people from all religion, caste, creed and works of life. The Sabarna Roy Choudhury family at Barisha now consists of about 2500 members and thus is the single biggest family living here. Also they are the biggest single family in Kolkata with about 5000 members.

The origin of the name is not yet confirmed but like other places it also have different stories. Hope the research team of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury Paribar Parishad will certainly try to find the truth.

When Laksmikanta Ganguly got the Jaigirdari of huge area of lands in 1608 from Man Singha, the place of Barisha came under his dominion. He started a Durga puja here in 1610, which is at present the oldest durga puja of Bengal. Also in total, Six Durga pujas are being held in the family ( another one at Birati) at present. The descendants of Laksmikanta later on started living here and carried on developmental works.

The family established other pujas like Chandi puja, Jagatdhatri puja etc. and also founded a large number of temples like the Radhakanto temple, Annapurna temple, Twelve Shiva temples etc. 

Barisha can boast of its educational heritage. Two Colleges, about six High Schools both for boys and girls and a number of small and big English medium schools make the place a centre for educational culture. Surprisingly the Barisha Girls High School was founded by the Sabarna family about 90 years back which easily portrays the nature of their work. Almost all other old schools including the well known Barisha High School was established by them. The place also can be proud of two big libraries.

Well known people now choose to live here. The names include former India Cricket captain Saurav Ganguly, singer Dipali Nag, actor Arun Banerjee, lady football coach Anita Sarkar, Journalist Anirban Chatterjee etc..Barisha was the abode of also the great poet Mohitlal Mazumdar.

Thus Barisha is a place where history, architecture, culture and religion all were nourished side by side. So if you come to visit Kolkata, you must come to Barisha once. We the people of Barisha will always welcome you.

To know more about Barisha please visit the official Sabarna Roy Choudhury family website.