About Us

Beyond the Barbed Wires, the Journey From Dream to Reality

It all began from a step. A tiny, rather nervous footstep, maybe tinged with a little bit of excitement for the unknown, and a lot of hope- when, in post-independence 1949, a youth from the small village of Inam Sapulli in the then Opaar Bangla stepped into the bustling lanes of Kolkata. A youth, who was unknowingly destined to change the world of paper in eastern India-Sri Narayan Chandra Saha, our beloved founder, the root of our universe. 


Having excelled in his matriculation exam from Bangladesh, he arrived at Kolkata with dreams of higher education- however, amidst the difficulties of setting up a life in a new country, the goal of studying further remained a distant dream. From a little, rented room in Shobhabazar, in need of sustaining a livelihood, he took a job under a Bengali merchant named Judhishthir Dawn, who owned a company that’d make “Jabeda Khata” (daily calculation books).

From Scratch to Stardust

Starting from a meagre salary of only Rs 60 per month, began a journey that’d rewrite the story of the east Indian paper industry in the coming decades. Sri Narayan learnt the very art of making notebooks, slowly, bit by bit, and of the various nuances related to it. 

Amidst it all, the yearning for staying close to education kept burning bright in his heart- so, as he would say later on, he took the step from where he could achieve his dream of studying through facilitating educational necessities for the next generations. After gaining an experience of years as an artisan himself, along with his maternal cousin, Shri Manoranjan Saha, in 1960 he established “Traders’ Syndicate”, that would eventually go on to become Oxford Paper Products Pvt. Ltd. 

Begun with a capital of only Rs 11,000 and only one staff, it wasn’t long before this initiative of the two brothers reached heights of success, under virtues of persistent honesty and hard work- gradually making Oxford the fore runner in the paper product manufacturing industry of eastern and north eastern India. 

In 1994, from Traders’ Syndicate, the company’s name was permanently changed to “Oxford Paper Products Private Limited” 

From a Name to a Brand, and then a Legacy 

Over decades of hard work, persistence and a vision for innovation, Sri Narayan Chandra Saha spread his dream to his sons, and the business grew.  An avid traveller himself, our founder, fondly famous as “Borobabu” amongst all in the paper industry, planted the seeds of our brand through all over Eastern and North Eastern India. Pieces from Oxford Paper Products Pvt Ltd. began finding homes throughout Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, North Bengal, spreading till Bhutan, and all around West Bengal, Odisha, spreading upto Andhra Pradesh.


Notably, with the changing needs and trends of time, our products have catered to people from all ages, generations and walks of life, and today we take pride in a wide array of almost 400 kinds of paper products, ranging through all fields of usage in everyday life.


The company celebrated its golden jubilee in 2010, and while we’re at our journey to our sixty fifth year, we’re greatly humbled by the love our brand has received over decades and generations. 


While we lost our founder in 2013, we’ve been driven to follow the path carved by him, further enriched by the leadership of his able sons, Sri Nilkamal Saha and Sri Sankar Saha. Joined by the third generation now, we humbly resolve in asserting for now and for years to come that his dream, his brainchild “Oxford” shall continue to thrive on the gateway of hard work and honesty, supported by a great team who make Oxford more a family, a legacy than a brand.