Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe

♬ Peete Peete Kabhi Yun Jaam

For years, I was under the impression that EMI – and its subsidiaries Angle, HMV and Odeon – had a monopoly on the music industry in India. That was at least until the Eighties when Polydor and Super Cassettes appeared on the scene. But that was what was going on in Bombay – now Mumbia.

Over in Calcutta – now Kolkata – there were a handful of small independent labels like Adlip, Ashoka, Bharati, Disco, EPEE Gramo, Gathani, Hindusthan, Inreco, Kohinoor, Mayur, Senola and Voice. Most of them only released a small number of singles.

All I have been able to find about Jagannath Dhar is that he released four singles for EPEE Gramo and one for Bharati – all Hindi film tunes. If you have any further information, please leave it in the comment section below.

Catalog number EPS. 193 on EPEE Gramo (Private) Limited of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. No release date listed.