Setting up of Branolia Chemical Works was inspired by the call for Swadeshi by Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray in Bengal. The call for Swadeshi exhorted Indians to take up manufacturing and usage of Indian made products, as a means for ousting British rule in India.
Inspired by the credo of Swadeshi , two brothers Shri Dhirendra Chandra Majumdar and Shri Pran Kumar Majumdar founded the Branolia Chemical Works in 1922 along with another sister concern Jugabarta Press. A small herbal medicine manufacturing unit was set up at Sealdah, Calcutta.