Many Marwari traders from Rajasthan settled in Calcutta. Drawing on Timberg’s history of the community, the researcher Nakatani writes: “The first Marwaris helped others to enter behind them.” They gave newcomers jobs and “opened a living place run on a cooperative basis for newcomers to stay in.”
As a commercial community, Nakatani adds, they “had relatively easy access to credit, information, and manpower from their organization.”