Aggarwals - History Culture Meeting Sharing

Someone posed this question to me yesterday.  After some research, I verified that although many Guptas are indeed ''Aggarwals'', not all people with the last name Gupta is.  Of course, every Aggarwal belongs to a Gotra -- many Guptas have an Aggarwal Gotra, but some do not.

The icon of non-violence, messenger of Peace, Emperor Agrasen was the eldest son of King Ballabh of Pratapnagar.  King Ballabh was a Suryavamshi ( lineage from the Sun).  According to the Mahalakshmi Vrath, the age then was the last stages of Dvaapar Yug.  The birth of Maharaj Agrasen took place about 5185 years ago according to the ...

We have established this latest portal (this is the third iteration -- we've been around for a long time in terms of the Internet) with the entire Aggarwal community in mind.  Each user can participate in the blogs, forums, and galleries.  It also serves the purpose of allowing private groups to be created for sub-communities that might ...

There are around 4 million Aggarwals in the world today. The name Aggarwal is derived from Agroha (Sanskrit Agrotaka), the original center of the Aggarwals, which is near Hisar in Haryana. From the Hisar region, Aggarwal descendants have migrated mostly to Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, and Western Uttar Pradesh, but they can also be found in other ...