India, Aug. 15 -- There are some brands that have endured the passage of time. Founded in the British India, they have seen the transition that the country underwent over more than seven decades. These weathered not just the protectionism of the early years but the winds of liberalisation that blew away many of the less stable brands.

On the 73rd Independence Day, we list out 10 such brands and products of Indian origin that have stayed and grown with us.

Khadi

Who knew a mere movement in the 1920s, lead by the ideology of freedom, aimed at boycotting foreign cloth, would create something which would be looked at as a statement piece seventy years after its invention? When Gandhi encouraged people to boycott foreign British-made clothe...