Comment by    It is NOT acceptable at all that Rasgulla or Roshogolla was created at Odisha The primary ingredient of Rossogolla is Chhana or cottage cheese The Indians first learnt the art of making chhana from the FrenchPortuguese who stayed in a colony at Chandannagore in Hoogli District West Bengal during the British Raj In fact this art of curdling milk into Chhana was considered a taboo by the Hindus and no Chhana products were allowed inside temples or offerred for any holy ritual Consequently it is not possible that Rossogolla was created in Odisha centuries back when the art of making Chhana was first learnt not before the later half of th Century or the first half of th Century Moreover it cannot be offerred at Puri temple as Chhana was considered taboo as milk which was considered very holy had to be curdled to make Chhana It is only in  that the Rossogolla was first created in Bagbazar North Kolkata in West Bengal  FACT The Hindu female deity Lakshmi is served rasagollas on the last day of the annual Rath Jatra festival at Puri This is a  year old tradition called NILADRI BIJAY  FACT The word cheese is derived from Latin Caseus that comes from Sanskrit Kaasi indicating that chhena was made in India in ancient times  FACT Even in the rest of Bengal outside Kolkata it is the larger browner Oriya version of rasagolla that is prepared The K C DasGanguram chewy sponge rasagolla is confined only to Kolkata  FACT The only Portuguese cheese in Kolkata is the Bandel cheese which is very salty and smoked It is available in New Market and AngloIndians usually buy it It is totally different from sweet chhena dishes  FACT Even the Bengali dish Sondesh predates the arrival of the Portuguese  FACT All true Portuguese origin dishes  Bibenca Vindaloo Vin de Alho in portuguese Kaju Caju in Portuguese Batata Batata in Portuguese have Portuguese sounding names But chhena does not sound like Queijo in Portuguese  FACT The Portuguese arrived in Baleshwar Orissa at the same time as Bengal  FACT Even KT Achaya merely hypothesized Portuguese origin and was wrong It took a chauvinist Bengali writer Chitrita Banerjee to stake a formal Bengali claim to the rasagolla Her book is so narrowly focussed on Bengali readership that she freely uses Bengali terms everywhere making it difficult for nonBengalis to even read  FACT Even if the Portuguese were to have introduced chhena to India which is wrong the timeline is enough for the Puri temple cooks to have picked it up and incorporated it into the temple cuisine  FACT Rasagolla has been cooked in Salepur for one and a half centuries  FACT Milk curdling from whey was done way back in th century India See P Arundhatis book The Royal Life in Manasollasa Sundeep Prakashan   FACT Rasagolla is made from wheycurdled milk Even if KT Achaya was correct the Portuguese would simply have shown Bengalis how to curdle milk from acid It has no bearing on the history of rasagolla  FACT The K C Das site also claims that Nobin Das wanted to patent rasgulla Except that there was no patent law in India those days The first ever legislation to protect intellectual property law had just been introduced in India It was Act VI of  on Protection of Inventions It granted exclusive privileges to the inventor The legislation was designed only to safeguard British colonial interests The first real patent law enacted in India was the Indian Patents and Designs Act  Even this law was to safeguard British colonial interests and not designed to protect Indian inventors This led to the Indian Patents Act of  the first patent law designed to protect the likes of Indian inventors such as Nobin Das which was over a century since he masqueraded as the creator of the rasgulla